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>> oswald has been shot at point blank range, fired into his stomach. >> police are working on the assumption that oswald's murder was to shut him up. >> element of a simple intelligence agency killed john kennedy. >> the story has been suppressed, witnesses have been killed. >> we have a right to know who killed our president and why he died. ♪

in dallas, preparations were already under way for extraordinary police protection when the president should arrive. >> do you anticipate any trouble on the president's arrival? >> because of what has happened here previously, we would be foolish not to anticipate some trouble. i don't -- really i don't anticipate any violence. >> here comes air force number one, the president's plane now touching down. there's mrs. kennedy and the crowd yells, and the president of the united states.

i can see his sun tan all the way from here. >> looking at how things actually went, it wasn't just a trip to dallas, it was a political trip, preparing for the 1964 elections. >> shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. conley, governor conley on your left. >> it was whether kennedy could use his charisma and his influence to get all the squabbling democrats in texas to come together before the election the next year. >> and here comes the president now. in fact he's not in his limousine, he's departed the limousine and he is reaching across the fence shaking hands. >> in those days, everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and i saw a hand reach through the chain link fence and break off one of the red roses. >> thousands of children now swarming, trying to get over the fence. the dallas police trying to keep them back. this is great for the people and

makes the egg shells even thinner for the secret service, whose job it is to guard the man. >> the trip had gone terrifically well in texas. pretty hard to write a script for it going any better. >> thousands will be on hand for that motorcade now, which will be downtown dallas. >> a number of my classmates were gone. they were at the parade. my father had been invited to have lunch with kennedy at the trade center. there was a mood, a climate of excitement. >> the speech of president kennedy at the dallas trade mart will be broadcast by 570 radio. stay tuned for the speech on 570 radio. ♪ ♪

♪ >> this bulletin just into the news. three shots were fired at the motorcade of president kennedy in downtown dallas. >> police radios are carrying that the president has been hit. >> parkland hospital has been advised to stand by for a severe gunshot wound. >> this is walter cronkite in our newsroom. there has been an attempt on the life of president kennedy. >> just turn the mic on. i can't hear you, johnny. what do you want? do you want me to move back a little bit?

is it all right now? is this all right? ladies and gentlemen, i'd like to introduce you the chief cameraman and news director of wfaa television. bert, would you tell them exactly what you know as of this point. >> jay, i was standing at the trade mart awaiting his arrival there. all of a sudden the -- we saw them approaching. they didn't slow down. as a matter of fact, they were going 70, 80 miles an hour past us. then i jumped in a police car and went to parkland. >> these two men come running in. one of them had a large appeared to be machine gun and they was hollering for stretchers and cots and everything. they brought him in first. >> what happened after this? >> then the presidnt come in and they took him -- both of them back. >> albert thomas, democrat of texas, is standings outside the corridor of the emergency room. said he's been told the

president was still alive, but in very critical condition. >> the president has not arrived here. a group of secret service men and other officials have gathered where the president normally would enter and discussing heatedly with one another some subject or other. of course we have no idea what. >> now here's an announcement from the platform. mr. eric johnson with an announcement. >> it is true that our president, governor conley, the motorcade have been shot. we are tell you as much as we know as soon as we know anything. r career guidance system. it's kind of like gps, you know, for your career. it walks you through different degree possibilities and even lets you explore local job market conditions,

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a gentlemen just walked in our studio that i'm meeting for the first time as well as you. this is wfaa tv in dallas, texas. may i have your name, sir. >> my name is abraham zapruda. >> zapruda? >> yes, sir. >> tell us your story, sir? >> i got out a half hour earlier to get in a good spot to take some pictures. >> 5-year-old boy and myself were by ourselves there on there grass there on palmer street. and i asked joe to wave and joe waved and i waved and -- >> it's all right, sir. go ahead. >> he was waving back. he was -- the shot rang out and he slumped down in the seat. >> all of a sudden, this next one popped and governor connally grabbed his stomach and kind of laid over to the side. and another one -- it was all just so fast -- and president

kennedy reached up and looked like he grabbed his ear and blood just started gushing out. >> did you see the person who fired the -- >> no, i didn't see any person fire the weapon. >> you only heard it? >> i only heard it and looked up and saw a man running up this hill. >> if it's a conspiracy, not only the president was hit, the governor was hit, who knows if the next shot would have been for lyndon johnson. johnson's car pulls into the emergency bay at parkland hospital. four agents reach in and grab johnson and pull him out and start to run him down one corridor looking for a safe place. >> mr. johnson's whereabouts are being kept secret for security reasons. if anybody knows where mr. johnson is, it is not us at this moment. >> there was a signal moment in our cultural history. suddenly it occurred to us that the right thing to do is to turn on television. >> the reports continue to come in, but in a confused and

fragmentary fashion. >> president kennedy has been given a blood transfusion at parkland hospital in an effort to save his life. >> it was odd. there were no commercials, just a continuous experience. >> two priests have entered the emergency room at parkland hospital where he rests after the assassination attempt which now was about a half hour ago. >> what are your feelings right now, ma'am? >> i'm absolutely shocked. stunned. we have the same birthday and i'm just crazy about him. >> who would want to shoot the president? what did he do? he's been doing so much for the country and someone goes ahead and shoots him? >> a flash from dallas. two priests who were with president kennedy say he is dead of bullet wounds. this is the latest information we have from dallas. i will repeat with the greatest regret two priests who were with

president kennedy say he has died of bullet wounds. >> malcolm field, the assistant press secretary, was filling in for the regular press secretary and then he had to draw himself up to give the most fateful announcement that a press secretary might have ever had to give. >> all the cameras were rolling and i remember he put his fingers like this on the desk and pressed very hard to stop his hands trembling. >> john f. kennedy died at approximately 1:00 central standard time today here in dallas. he died of a gunshot wound in the brain. >> where is he now? >> i have no other details regarding the assassination of

the president. >> the people standing here are stunned just as all of us are beyond belief, that the president of the united states is dead. >> all over the world, people are going to remember all their lives what they were doing when they first heard that president kennedy had been killed. >> the crowds are standing around in silence and sorrow in the rain. and the strange thing is, you don't even notice it's raining. and if you do notice, you don't care. >> i just can't believe it. i feel like someone in my own family died, is dead. i just can't believe it. >> ma'am? >> i can't -- >> like a daze. you don't know what's going on. why? why did it happen? who would have done such a thing

is the question? >> in the first minutes and hours chaos and confusion was radiating out from the scene itself. it was very pervasive. >> secret service agents thought the gunfire was from an automatic weapon fired possibly from a grassy knoll. >> i saw police run up this grassy -- i thought they are chasing a gunman. i ran with them. >> the report is that the attempted assassins, we now hear it is a man and a woman. >> i got to the top, looked around, a policeman went over the fence. i went over the fence, too. there was nothing there. >> the television news man said he looked up after the shot was fired and saw a rifle being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. >> there was originally thought the shots came from in here and now it's believed that the shots came from this building here. >> police officers running back towards the texas depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the

president. >> the center of downtown dallas is in a virtual state of siege. they are combing the floors of the texas book deposit oar building in an effort to find the suspected assassin. >> in the building on the sixth floor we found an area near a window that had partially been blocked off by boxes of books, and also the three spent shells that had apparently been fired from a rifle. >> lieutenant j.c. dade came out of the building with a british 303 rifle. >> it was a 7.65 mauser. >> a high powered army or japanese rifle of .25 caliber. >> a 30.30 rifle. >> much of the first things you hear are going to be wrong. and to some degree, you are constantly trying to separate out what seem to be a fact. >> in dallas, a dallas policeman

just a short while ago was shot and killed while chasing a suspect. >> j.d. tippit, a good experienced police officer was shot three times in the chest in the oak cliff section of dallas. then the manager of a shoe store saw the suspect walk into the texas theater. >> someone has been arrested in one of the downtown theaters. they don't know if it was the man who shot the policeman or the person who actually shot president kennedy. >> police suddenly jumped this man and started to drag him out of the theater. hustled him out to the car. as the crowd started to maul the police officers and grabbed this man trying to run with him. they shouted murder and the officers hustled him into the car and ran away just as fast as they could. as we mentioned a short while ago, a number of arrests have been made in dallas in the wake of president kennedy's death. we have scenes of one of those arrests in the downtown area. this was just after a dallas policeman was shot in the vicinity of a downtown movie

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been questioned. that's lee oswald. >> the president is shot and a police officer is shot, then someone named lee harvey oswald is arrested. oswald may be a suspect in the assassination. who is he? >> lee oswald of dallas, a former marine who spent some time in russia who at one time had applied for soviet citizenship. >> the description that we have of the suspect that we had in oak cliff was similar to the description we had and the man we were looking for as the assassin, but at that time we had not been able to connect the two in any way. >> down there in this third floor cord doer, a crowd of cameramen, reporters wait for a possible appearance of the man accused of killing president kennedy and a dallas police officer. >> there will be a great deal of confusion, mr. oswald is put through the door. i don't know if you saw him.

oswald lives at 1026 meckley. he is an employee of a book binding firm in the building in which the police and secret servicemen believe the president was shot today. >> mrs. kennedy accompanied the body in an ambulance from the hospital to the airport where it will be flown back to washington. >> they run everyone out of the emergency room at the hospital there on the first floor there. they come out and told us that we would have to help remove the remains into a casket. >> lyndon johnson had ordered that the body be brought immediately to air force one so there was a little tug-of-war. it almost shook the crucifix off the top of the coffin as they were trying to get that coffin out of the hospital. >> took him out and put him into the hearse and one of the secret

servicemen, well, about two or three of them, got into the hearse and drove off and mr. o'kneel and -- o'neill and the rest of us just left standing there. >> vice president johnson is expected to be sworn in as president aboard an airliner before flying back to the nation's capital. >> not everyone realized johnson was the president because he in fact had taken the oath in january '61, the same oath the president takes. >> johnson wanted to show the american people that the government was functioning without interruption. also, perhaps, he wanted to show that his predecessor's family bore him no ill will for the assassination. >> lyndon baynes johnson is flying back to washington to take the reins of government at which time president johnson will have to take into his hands the reins of the most powerful nation in the world.

>> we think november 22nd, 1963, as a date when a president was killed. but it was also a day when the president was created. >> is there any doubt in your mind, chief, that oswalt is the man that killed the president? >> i think this is the man that killed the president, yes, sir. >> is there any evidence that anyone else may have been linked with oswald in this shooting? >> at this time we don't believe so. >> i don't know what this is all about. >> sir? >> did you kill the president? >> did you shoot the president? >> i work in that building. >> were you in the building at the time? >> naturally if i work in that building, yes, sir. >> back up, ma'am. >> did you shoot the president? >> no, they're taking me in because of the fact that i lived in the soviet union. i'm just a patsy. >> did you shoot the president?

>> this is room 317, homicide bureau here at the dallas police station. as you see, they are bringing the weapon allegedly used in the assassination of president john f. kennedy this afternoon at 12:30 here in dallas. >> 6.5 made in italy in 1940. >> police have traced a rifle purchased in chicago by mail order to oswald. he bought it under the alias, a. heidel. a handwriting expert has established that the handwriting on the purchase order was in fact made by oswald. at the price of $12.78, the life of the president of the united states apparently was bought. >> in the wake of the kennedy assassination, the dallas police on the one hand were committing all of their resources to try to solve a crime. >> move in the doorway, get him in the doorway. >> on the other hand, they were ill equipped to handle this tsunami of reporters.

>> well, i was questioned by a judge. however, i protested at that time that i was not allowed legal representation. >> in bringing oswald out, they were of course doing something that you would never see happen today, but they were trying to cooperate with the press, with the understanding that there would not be questions shouted at him. >> did you kill the president? >> no, i have not been charged with that. in fact, nobody has said that to me yet. the first thing i heard about it was when the newspaper reporters in the hall asked me that question. >> you have been charged. >> sir? >> you have been charged? >> nobody said what? >> okay. >> what did you do in russia? >> how did you hurt your eye? >> a policeman hit me. >> at 1:35 this morning, a

complaint was read. it charged that quote, lee harvey oswald did voluntarily and with malice aforethought kill john f. kennedy by shooting him with a gun, end quote. following the reading of the complaint, oswald said, that's ridiculous. >> within hours of the assassination, it was very obvious to virtually everyone in the dallas law enforcement that oswald had killed kennedy. >> chief, can you tell us in summary what directly links oswald to the killing of the president? >> well, the fact that he was on the floor where the shots were fired from immediately before the shots were fired. the fact he was seen carrying a package to the building, the fact that -- >> what was in there. >> yesterday morning. >> after the shooting in dealey plaza, oswald was the only employee at the book depository that fled the building.

45 minutes later he kills the officer j.d. tippitt. then he resisted arrest and pulled a gun on the arresting officer. >> doors just opened. >> during 12 hours of interrogation by the dallas police department over the weekend, he told one provable lie after another. >> did you buy that rifle? >> that's the facts you people have been given but i deny the charges. >> within a day or so thereafter when they discovered what a complete nut this guy was, they were satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt that oswald had acted alone. >> only one thing i can tell you without going into the evidence that this case is cinched. this man killed the president. there are no question in my mind about it. >> we plan to transfer this man, not tonight, he will be here by no later than 10:00 in the morning. why, it will -- that will be early enough for you.

>> chief, do you have any concern for the safety of your prisoner in view of the high feeling among the people of dallas over the assassination of the president? >> new york city b-- no, but precautions will be taken, of course, but i don't think that the people will try to take the the people will try to take the prisoner away from us.

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all right. let's move. >> lee oswald is to be taken soon to the county jail. >> that's true. >> and you are going to take him there how, sir? >> we are going to use an armored motor vehicle to take him. >> dallas police meant to transfer lee into the regular prison during the night to avoid the press, and then someone must have overruled them so that lee could be photographed by the press during the transfer. >> standing by waiting the transfer of oswald from city jail to county jail, and for that report, here is abc's bill lord at the city jail. bill, what is the situation? >> i'm presently in the basement of the dallas municipal building and it's like an armed camp.

police officials are frankly worried. they don't want anything to happen to oswald. >> through this corridor of newsmen, photographers and policemen that oswald will be brought to a vehicle for the transfer to the dallas county jail, a distance of about 15 blocks, which is ironically just across from the scene where president kennedy was assassinated on friday. >> anticipation has built up here in downtown dallas in front of the county jail. they are waiting for a glimpse of lee oswald. >> there he is. here he comes. >> the prisoner. >> let me have it. i want it. >> being led out by captain fritz. >> there is the person. there is lee oswald.

he's been shot! he's been shot! lee oswald has been shot. there is a man with a gun. it's absolute panic. absolute panic in the basement of the dallas police headquarters. detectives have their guns drawn. there is no question about it. oswald has been shot at point blank range fired into his stomach. >> he is shot. he is shot. oswald -- >> is it oswald. >> the man that shot the man? or do you know? >> that is the man that shot the man. >> immediately after the shooting, our only witnesses that we could talk to were other reporters. >> where did he go, pierre? >> he was here. they just put their gun there. i saw the flash on the black sweater. >> did you see the gun to his stomach? >> i saw him in the group of men right here. >> was he masquerading as one of us or what? >> i thought he was a detective. he had a hat.

>> the situation is now that lee harvey oswald has been shot. the man that saw the shot fired said it was fired by a man wearing a black hat, a brown coat, a man that everyone down here thought was a secret service agent. we can hear sirens outside and an ambulance apparently is moving down now into the basement. here comes the ambulance. and oswald will be removed now. the ambulance is being pulled up in front of us here. here comes oswald, he's -- he is ashen and unconscious at this time, now being moved in. he is not moving. he's in the ambulance now. attendants, police are quickly climbing in. the ambulance is leaving dallas police headquarters. where will he be taken? >> i'm assuming parkland hospital. >> parkland hospital.

the irony of ironies, the place where president john f. kennedy died. >> i believe the man -- >> don't take the microphone. keep your head up. let's start again. what is your reaction to the shooting of oswald? >> well, i think it's a deplorable situation. the man is entitled to a fair trial. >> they should give him a fair trial. because killing him just like that ain't nothing because that ain't going to bring president kennedy back to life. and after you get him a trial you should let him out on the street and let the people kill him. >> they should not only shoot him but cut him up in pieces. >> put him every one hour in a fire and set it up for one day and then the next day start again. >> thank you. >> the man that i believe i didn't see it. i think it's the man. >> you got him? what's he look like? >> i can't give you a description now.

he is known locally. >> immediately after the ambulance left, somehow i begun to suspect that maybe the shooter was someone who was known to the police. >> do you know this subject? do you know him? have you seen him before? >> yes, i do. >> is he from dallas? >> yes. >> he is? >> i couldn't tell you. >> do you know what kind of business he happens to be in? >> bob, i wouldn't want to say. >> right. >> dallas city hall is normally a public building, but today it was really under armed guard. >> we -- is this a confirmed report as to who did the shooting? >> as far as i know. i just got it from robertson. >> vic robertson from city hall reports that jack ruby, the owner of the carousel, which is a bar in dallas, did the shooting. >> my statement will be very

brief. oswald expired at 1:07 p.m. >> he died? >> he died at 1:07 p.m. we have arrested the man. the man will be charged with murder. >> who is he? >> the man -- the suspect's name is jack rubenstein, i believe. he goes by the name of jack ruby. >> here at associated press, a still picture of the moment, the splint second as the shot was fired. this is the man dallas police have identified as jack rubenstein, and this is of course lee harvey oswald. you see the gun in the hand of ruby and just about to be fired. >> i know my own feelings were and i think they were widely shared by many, if not most americans, this can't be

coincidental. the assassin is assassinated at the police station. what in the hell is going on? >> just learned from city hall from a very authoritative source that police are working on the assumption that there indeed is a connection between jack ruby and lee oswald, and that in some manner of speaking, oswald's murder was to shut him up. >> captain fritz just told me that ruby has said that he did it, that it was his gun, and that he had built up a tremendous grievance over the death of the president. >> jack ruby's small mind, he thought that he was going to become a big, big hero. he killed the guy who killed the president. >> i commend what he did. i think he ought to win the congressional medal of honor for it and a lot of other good american citizens think he did exactly the right thing in shooting down this communist. >> word also in just now from

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our nation is bereaved. the whole world is poorer because of his loss. but we can all be better americans because john fitzgerald kennedy has passed our way. because he has been our chosen leader at a time in history when his character, his vision and his quiet courage have enabled him to chart a course for us, a safe course for us through the

shoals of treacherous seas that encompass the world. and now that he is relieved of the almost superhuman burden we imposed on him, may he rest in peace. dallas today had even more to mourn. it held funeral services for one of its own, who was a victim of friday's tragedy. officer j.d. tippit. >> it was a funeral of a very different sort today in nearby fort worth. this was the dreary funeral of lee harvey oswald, the alleged murder of president kennedy. the pathetic group of mourners

included oswald's mother, marguerite, his wife marina, his brother robert, and oswald's two children, one of them a babe in arms. the six pallbearers you see here are newsmen. there were not enough relatives or friends on hand to serve as pallbearers. >> now there is a new flag of the president of the united states flying in the white house. in president kennedy's old oval office, mrs. evelyn lincoln, his secretary and her aides have removed every scrap, every vestige of the signs of the personal touches of president kennedy. >> we know from history that one test of societies is how do they hands the transfer of power at the top? lyndon johnson, whatever you thought of him, a lot of people disliked him greatly, some hated him would be the president of the united states.

i think it shouted about the strength of the country and that >> the president of the united states. [ applause ] >> my fellow americans, all i have i would have given gladly not to be standing here today. >> johnson knows he has to show the country that the ship of state is sailing on under a new captain. at the same time, he can't appear to be too anxious to assume power and he has to keep the kennedy people onboard with

him. so that speech means everything. >> no words are strong enough to express our determination to continue the forward thrust of america that he began. >> the people cannot believe that a lone avenger made his way into a major police station and killed without difficulty the celebrated and most infamous criminal in the united states. >> one of the most important things that happened after oswald's murder was that we were forever denied the why. people at the time believed he did it. the question was why. >> there are questions

containing the coming up about the possibility of an international plot. >> still that the russians might be behind it or kilgore might be behind it. johnson sees it as a real danger that you want to put the rumors to rest. >> investigations into the facts over the last four days may not be limited to the state of texas or the fbi. some congressmen have already suggested a congressional investigation. >> killing a president wasn't a federal crime at the time, so you had the federal government intervening in what was still a local murder. there was certainly a concern of competing investigations. there was the dallas criminal investigation. there was a state of texas court of inquiry, and committees on both sides of congress while of course the fbi had been given the job to conduct a full scale investigation. >> johnson realizes something has to be done. he realizes that he has to appoint a body that the public

will respect to look into this. >> i've got to have a top, blue ribbon presidential commission to investigate this assassination. i want to ask russell and chief justice warren as chairman. >> if there was one public government official in the united states universely respected for his integrity it was the chief justice of the supreme court, earl warren. if there is one person in congress that everyone respects it's richard russell of georgia. he has to get them both on the commission. there is, however, a problem. russell is a segregationist through and through and despises warren for the decisions that he's made on the court. >> johnson thought, if they can agree on a verdict, then it ought to be satisfying 90% of american public opinion. >> 2191. >> i want you to think about the connection with it.

i couldn't sit with chief justice warren. i don't like that man. >> you can serve with anybody for the good of america and air going to do it. i can't arrest you and i'm not going to put the fbi on you but you damn sure are going to serve. i'll tell you that. >> lyndon johnson was known for the greatest salesman one-on-one who ever lived. so he meets first with warren and says, if i asked you to put on your uniform and fight for america, you'd do it. i'm asking you to fight for america in a different way. then johnson has to get richard russell. >> mr. president, please. >> no. it's already done. it's been announced. >> you mean you've given -- >> yes, sir. i gave the announcement. it's already in the papers and you're on it. >> well, i think you did wrong getting warren and i know you did wrong getting me but i'll do the best -- >> i think that's what you'll do. that's the kind of american both of you are.

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produced by nbc news which is solely responsible for its content. >> the warren commission appointed friday night will investigate and make a report on the murder. as yet it has said nothing about how it will proceed or when. in the meantime, again, the fbi is investigating every lead it can find and will turn its report over to president johnson probably this week. >> it was the fbi's hope that

its report would be, if not the final word, the semifinal word, in that the commission's job would be to read it and then essentially endorse the findings of the report. >> the members of the warren commission, earl warren, john sherman cooper, jegerry ford, he boggs, richard russell, and john j. mccloy, realized at their initial meeting that they had to do an independent investigation. they didn't want to be a stamp for the fbi or the secret service. >> there are three issues that the commission had to grapple with. did oswald commit the physical act of the murder? and even if he did the physical act, did he have forces behind him and then, of course, what's ruby's involvement in this? >> you had various branches of the investigation traveling,

interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, bringing it back to the commission. >> let's see. the time of day was about -- we're not very far but two hours from it. >> there were questions, how would they deal with the different stories about the shooters from the grassy knoll and shooters from different directions? the lawyers from the commission took 395 depositions. there were 94 witnesses that appeared before the commission. >> lyndon johnson wants to report out so it doesn't interfere with the election in november. >> warren left for dallas because he had spent his early career as a courtroom prosecutor. he understood a crime scene. he wanted to stand in that window and see whether this was a shot that a marksman could make. while he was there warren felt he should talk to ruby. there were all these suggestions ruby had killed oswald to silence him so i think warren wanted to hear from ruby, himself. >> the warren commission realized they were going to have to invest a lot more time than

was anticipated. maybe two to three-month operation to the conception that it'll probably take six months. >> the hour glass of time was running out on them. >> can you say if you still think it was one man? >> i think we'd better not get into that area, you know. the report will cover all of that in great detail. >> labored ten months then brought forth a document close to 10,000 pages. president johnson received that report today. >> what the public understood and what i understood is these were very honorable men. they thought that the commission had done a good job, and they would come up with an answer. >> when the warren commission report came out, i believed it. we were still in a time when you tended to believe what officials told you.

>> it is now 15 seconds after 6:30 p.m. eastern daylight time, sunday, september 27th. as of this moment, the report of the president's commission is public record. for the next half hour, we will search it for answers. first must come the answers to the two great, overriding questions. who killed john f. kennedy? the commission answers lee harvey oswald. was oswald acting alone, or was he a member of a conspiracy? the commission answers, he acted alone. >> we knew most people were not going to read all of the warren commission report, so cbs news went to air with an understandable form for the public at large what the warren commission found. >> there was nothing to support the speculation that oswald was an agent, employee, or informant of the fbi, cia, or any other governmental agency. >> oswald owned the murder rifle. the mail order purchase slip for

that rifle was in his handwriting. oswald's palm print was found on a surface of the gun. >> the media had all concluded that this was the most exhaustive investigation, case closed. oswald did it alone. >> the commission concludes that three shots were fired. all of them from this sixth floor window in the texas school book depository. the cumulative evidence of eyewitness firearms and ballistics experts and medical authorities demonstrated that the shots were fired from above and behind president kennedy and governor connally. >> when the warren commission came out with their report, the majority of americans accepted the findings of the warren commission. >> the bullet entered here, came out just below the president's adam's apple. the commission believes that the same bullet then entered the right shoulder of governor connally, passed out through his chest, continued through his right wrist and on into his left thigh.

>> the report has been generally accepted throughout the country. i think it reflects the tlur g thoroughness with which they went into it and i think dispeld many of the rumors that surrounded this very tragic event. >> i am well satisfied. it has been very well covered entirely. it leaves no doubt in my mind. >> the end we find confronting each other the liar, the misfit, the defector on the one hand and seven distinguished americans on the other. and yet exactly here we must be careful that we do not say too much. oswald was never tried for any crime and perhaps therefore there will forever be questions of substance and detail raised by amateur detectives, professional skeptics, and serious students as well. we are the jury, all of us, in america and throughout the world. >> the reaction to the report

initially was very positive, but that didn't last very long. >> this book is the number one best seller on the nonfiction list in the country, "rush to judgment" by mark lane. it's gained a vast number of readers in the recent ground as well of skepticism about the findings of the warren report. >> we did not envision the breadth and the scope of the criticism. >> the author has some highly provocative and controversial things to say, so please greet mr. mark lane. >> no matter how illustrious the members were, we were not going to be reassured by a commission. >> we're already having a little disagreement here while the commercials were on. >> what were you saying, david? >> well, i think i disagree almost totally with mark lane on several counts. i don't know where to begin. >> let me show you something just in case we have a chance. that is a picture of jack ruby. this was taken five minutes after the assassination in front of the texas school book depository building. the commission said ruby was not there. this is a picture showing how

the commission published it. he wasn't there when they published the picture. they cropped him out. >> chief justice warren and that commission of notable americans -- >> tell me some facts instead of your deep faith in the chief justice. >> you are accusing them of deliberate malfeasance. >> you are part of the media which prevented the american people from finding out until now. >> you are alarming the american people. >> i say they should be alarmed. >> the public had been kept in the dark for so long about this but had an undying thirst only quenched by getting facts. >> we have a right to know who killed our president and why he died. >> the critics of the warren commission have three different points of view. one, we were simply incompetent. two, we were thoroughly corrupt, and then there are those who say both of the above. i want someone to tell me that to my face. and back when i wasn't eating right, she got me drinking boost. it's got a great taste, and it helps give me the nutrition i was missing. helping me stay more like me. [ female announcer ] boost complete nutritional drink

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alone. now he's just one among a growing band of doubters. their books and articles are on the news stands, in the supermarkets. now according to a recent poll, only one in three americans remains convinced that the warren report has the whole story. >> when you have a great number of people devoting their lives to looking at every word, every comma, they can create a lot of mischief. >> i believe very firmly that ruby and oswald knew each other and, certainly, tippet and ruby knew each other. >> before we proceed with that kind of questioning, let me ask you, what kind of conspiracy do you think, was it a communist, left wing, right wing conspiracy? >> i am convinced that there were two riflemen. >> the warren commission was set up as you know at the request and urging of the communist party. >> it's obvious that he was working for somebody else at that moment and that somebody

else could not be anyone else than fidel castro. >> there is no possibility of oswald having been in the sixth floor window of the texas school book depository. >> might have been the servant of the castro communist school of violence. >> there was an entire world of assassination buffs. some raised valid questions. >> could a bullet which had done as much come out looking like this? >> it is another one of the very many highly improbables we are asked to accept by the warren commission if we are to accept the validity of their full report. >> some had completely mad theories. >> cody was killed by a karate chop to the throat in september i believe of 1964. >> but everyone i believed had a right to give their views. >> you have apparently succeeded in persuading the majority of the american people that we cannot trust the most august conceivable panel to do a

responsible job. >> you talk about faith in these institutions, faith in the fbi as if it's a religious experience to read the warren report. i think to the contrary we're suppose today have faith in our own ability to look at the facts and reach our own conclusions. >> the decreasing trust by americans in their government all started with the kennedy assassination. >> in 1966 there was this cultural revolution in the united states. i mean, we were deeply enmeshed in vietnam. there was a lot of protests, riots, and there's a sense that things have seriously gone wrong. we've gone off the rails since november '63 and the warren report is a very important part of that loss of confidence in the government. >> i don't think that all the facts were brought up. i think something was held back. >> i think there were more involved in it than just oswald. >> i don't know how in the world they could ever reach a conclusion that one person

assassinated him. this is ridiculous. i saw the whole thing on television. i just happened to be home at that time, and i don't think that oswald -- i think that he was working for the cia, myself. >> why doesn't america believe the warren report? >> because of the conspiracy theorists, who have put this case under a high powered microscope, splitting hairs and then proceeding to split the split hairs. the kennedy case is now the most complex murder case, by far, in world history. nothing even remotely comes close. >> we are left with the series of real and critical questions about the assassination, questions which have not been answered to the satisfaction of the people of the united states. >> the president kennedy was killed. he was not killed by one man. he was shot from a number of different directions by different guns. the story has been suppressed. witnesses have been killed. and this is your country. >> we aren't trying to hide a

thing from you or from mr. epstein or mr. lane or the world. we are laying it all out. that's right here in the notes of testimony. and if we have transposed in error a possibly into a probably then we are delighted to have you point it out to us, but you can do so only because we've laid it on the line. >> the warren report said that lee harvey oswald shot the president from his window in the texas school book depository. three years after kennedy's assassination the major question is still a simple one. did the warren commission, with all that time and all these resources, get its answers right? tonight we'll go over those arguments one by one area by area. as the assassination was taking place, a dallas businessman called abraham zapruda stood behind that low, concrete wall looking down at elm street. >> as the president is coming down from houston street making

his turn, it was about halfway down there i heard a shot. i heard another shot or two. i couldn't say whether one or two. i saw his head practically open up, all blood and everything. and i kept on shooting. >> the warren commission would use the film and each frame to reconstruct each moment of the assassination. >> part of the reason why i think the film captured the american imagination is because it pushes us to think about something more complex. and each person who looks at it, people see different things. >> where did the shots come from? if the shots did not all come from the book depository window, then there was most likely some form of conspiracy. >> i think that the massive head wound where the president's head was literally blown apart, came from a quartering angle on the grassy knoll. he is struck and then it doesn't go directly back this way but back and over this way, which would be consistent with the

shaft in that direction and newton's law of motion. >> seven men on a railroad bridge right here said when the shots were fired they looked toward the wooden fence and each of the seven said he saw puffs of white smoke come from here. >> and underneath that green tree and you can see a little puff of smoke. it looked like a puff of steam or a cigarette smoke. >> when you stop to think about it, did he see anyone with a gun on the grassy knoll? no expended cartridges were found there. not one bullet other than those fired from oswald's rifle has ever been found and linked to the assassination. >> now, there were two doctors and one priest who claim that -- who said flatly that there were entrance wounds in the president's neck. >> if the wound in the president's throat was an entrance wound, then, clearly, this would be proof that the bullet came from the front. >> mark lane has suggested that this wasn't an exit wound by the

president's tie but an entry wound. that kennedy was hit in the throat from the front. >> the doctor at parkland didn't want to talk about the president's injuries, but the press more or less forced him to. and the wound in the president's throat was pretty clean. he thought it was an entrance wound. >> what about this wound that you observed in the front of the president's neck? >> actually, i didn't really give it much thought and i realize that perhaps it would have been better had i done so. >> there was a wound in the back of the neck that had not been seen by the parkland doctors because they never turned the body over. >> you did not turn the president over. >> no. there was very little reason to. it made very little difference to me since my immediate concern was with attempted resuscitation. >> you can explain this ad infinitum and people will only remember that a doctor at parkland said he had been shot, you know, from possibly the

front. so it's, you know, kind of trying to put the genie back in the bottle. >> a bullet hit the president from the back. the bullet hit him from the front. the bullet which killed him came from the right front. unless the laws of physics were not working that day, the reaction of the president tells us where the shot came from. >> some critics say by the very fact that in the picture you can clearly see the explosion of the bullet on the front side of the president, that that certainly indicates the bullet came from the front. >> well, i don't believe any physicist has ever said that. quite contrary, it does indicate the bullet was coming from behind. it's a minor explosion where pieces of material go generally in the direction of the bullet. >> if you look at the individual frames of the zapruder film, at 312, frame 312, the president's head is over. at frame 313, 1/18 second later,

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a cbs news inquiry the warren report continues. the time span between shots. a point upon which the critics have seized. could oswald have fired three shots in 5.6 seconds?

>> there was a lot of attention being given to the zapruder film and when exactly the president was hit first and then hit second. >> cbs news had a tower and target track constructed to match exactly the heights and distances in deeley plaza. >> if there wasn't enough time, then you would have a second shooter. >> oswald was not an expert shot. making the shots was not that tough at all. cbs did it. the guys in the military hit it. >> three shots he got off in 2.6 seconds. >> the zapruder film became the lens through which the assassination was seen. if it didn't happen on the zapruder film, it didn't happen. zapruder started his camera after the limousine was about 70 feet into deeley plaza. well, oswald had the president in his sites for many seconds before that, and this gets into

the whole question, how much time did oswald have to shoot the president? >> there are so many interesting questions and problems that come from the film. we believe so much in the image. we believe so much in the sort of ultimate truth of film and of images and they become our memory. >> is it impossible that the bullet would have gone through president kennedy, gone through governor connally and not suffered any more damage than is shown in this photograph? >> i would hesitate really to say that it absolutely 100% is impossible, but it is highly improbable. >> could a single bullet have wounded both president kennedy and governor connally? the single bullet theory has become perhaps the most controversial of the report. >> if the warren commission couldn't prove that one shot had hit both men it meant there were two shooters. ipso facto there's a conspiracy. >> the conspiracy theorists claim that the second shot was a magic bullet.

>> they argue that a bullet would have had to make a right turn and then a left turn in mid air. the reality is that connally was not seated directly in front of kennedy. >> if you figure out the line where the men sat and if you look down as i did and the others did who conducted the on site test and had the automobile placed in the position it is perfectly possible i submit to you that the bullet from president kennedy's throat would have to strike either the automobile which it did not or someone else in the automobile. >> to believe it didn't hit governor connally would be a real magical bullet, one that disappeared in thin air. >> the dallas county courthouse for more developments on the jack ruby verdict. >> jack ruby has just been found guilty of murder with malice and has been given the maximum sentence, death in the electric chair, after the jury

deliberated two hours and 25 minutes. just what do you think of this verdict? i believe jack ruby was a paid killer to close the mouth of my s son, lee harvey oswald. >> the question whether jack ruby knew lee harvey oswald before or was in cahoots to kill him was one of the most important questions. because ruby knew people in criminal activities there was a lot of investigation about a potential conspiracy. >> ruby would have been one of the most unlikely and worst hit men the mob could ever give. >> on november the 24th, 1963, lee harvey oswald was supposed to have been transferred at 10:00. at 10:00. the evidence is undisputed that jack ruby was at home asleep. then he got dressed and drove downtown. >> the receipt shows that ruby was sending a money order to one of his strippers from a western union office across from the courthouse at 11:17 a.m.

>> we know at 11:20, three minutes later, a block away, jack ruby killed lee harvey oswald. the evidence showed that he heads down there anywhere from five to 15 seconds -- five to 15 seconds. if this is a hired assassin, who is supposed to have some advanced information, he is the world's best timer. >> what type of man is he? >> jack is a very emotional type person and as i was saying a while ago, he's the type man would probably give you the shirt off his back one moment and turn around and do something as nutty as this the next. >> never used the term angry. it's not in my vocabulary. >> he was known for a quick temper and later as it turned out he was hooked on two kinds of speed. at the time of the shooting. >> he had been here at the

police station during the past two days talking with news men and distributing his card. >> jack ruby was a police and media groupie. ruby thought he was our friend. >> so i'm in this very same room friday night when we had the defendant up here. if some of you will recall, he asked a question from out here. he was standing right back here and i didn't know whoa was. i thought he was a member of the press. he told me as we walked out of here that he is a night club operator. >> ruby's act was that of a vigilante but he wanted nothing more to be known, people to flock to his night club to shake the hand of the man who killed the man who killed the president. >> i might add if ruby silenced oswald for the mob, who was supposed to silence jack ruby? he died of normal causes over three years later. now, one would think that the conspiracy community would fold its tent and go home, but they

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the most recent, most spectacular development in the oswald case involves the cia. it involves, too, the spectacular district attorney of new orleans, the man they call the jolly green giant. >> do you believe that lee harvey oswald did not shoot president kennedy? >> i don't want to get involved in the speculation of individuals but i will say that there's no question about the fact that there was a plot and there were a number of individuals involved. >> in 1967, he announced, i've solved the case. i found the real assassin. >> we will make arrests based on that and we will make charges based on that and we will obtain convictions based on that. >> now, you wouldn't have paid much attention to this, except he was district attorney of new orleans. >> i spent hour after hour with jim garrison. he has presented his case to me

detail by detail. >> the mark lanes and the conspiracy theorists all flocked initially to garrison. >> and i can report that a powerful domestic force, a force that is still part of the american structure, planned and initiated those acts that resulted in the assassination of president kennedy. >> they all thought, here's a guy who's finally going to bring the case that we've been, you know, arguing about for years. >> if i seem quite confident it is because our office is in its fifth year and has never lost a murder case. >> the press initially built garrison up, because everybody believes no district attorney in his right mind would do this unless he had something. >> arrested this evening at the district attorney's office was clay shaw, age 54, of 1313 north

bean street, new orleans, louisiana. mr. shaw will be charged with participation in a conspiracy to murder john f. kennedy. >> the charges filed against me have no foundation in fact or in law. i have not been apprised of the basis of these fantastic charges and assume that in due course i'll be furnished with this information and will be afforded an opportunity to prove my innocence. >> clay shaw was a very well respected businessman in new orleans. he had been a distinguished soldier during world war ii. >> i knew clay shaw, and the concept of clay shaw as being part of an assassination conspiracy was just too weird to be believed. >> clay shaw was also a homosexual and closeted and i think that played a part. >> this decision to arrest clay shaw, i believe, was intended to get the national media back to town. as soon as he arrested clay shaw, they all came back. >> and then they realized the

truth that there isn't anything there. >> garrison has based his case on the certainty that he can prove clay shaw is clay or clin bertrand. the name was first introduced by a lawyer named dean andrews who told the warren commission a person by that name telephoned him suggesting he provide legal defense for lee oswald. >> dean had described clem bertrand as having gay tendencies and representing gays as a lawyer, therefore, garrison believed clem bertrand must be clay shaw. that was the extent of garrison's investigation. >> you have enough evidence now to go to trial? >> well, if i answer that i shouldn't be district attorney. >> the case he has built against clay shaw is based on testimony that did not pass a lie detector test that garrison ordered, and garrison knew it. >> you are saying positively that the person you knew as clay

bertrand is not the person you've seen as clay shaw? >> scout's honor, he is not. >> garrison started bribing witnesses, intimidating witnesses. >> he said i'd be made to serve this whole nine-year sentence or i could be cut loose right away. >> hypnotising witnesses. >> we decided to give him objectifying machinery to make sure he was telling the truth. >> leon. does leon have a last name? >> oswald. >> would you say these methods were illegal? >> i would say very illegal and unethical. >> and he had everyone and their grandmother involved in the assassination. one time it was oil millionaires. then it was the minutemen. then it was a homosexual killing. >> yes, sir. >> do you feel that homosexuality or coercion to homosexuality was a factor in the planning or assassination of john f. kennedy? >> no comment. >> at one point he had 16 asassins in deeley plaza.

with that many asassins i don't know how kennedy made to the autopsy table. >> garrison announced he discovered a code. garrison says jack ruby's unlisted telephone number appears in address books belonging to shaw and oswald. >> you take the p and o and use the telephone dial p gives you seven o gives you six. >> he just changed the digits around, added digits, added letters. >> you reconstruct the numbers and then you subtract 1300 and that gives you ruby's unlisted telephone number. >> mr. garrison, if the p.o. didn't exist until late '65 how could it then be jack ruby's phone number? >> well that's a problem for you to think over because you obviously missed the point. >> when anyone would expose garrison he would then say they're cia agents, part of the conspiracy. >> who is suppressing all of this information on whose order? >> i'll tell you who's suppressing it. the federal government is suppressing it. >> who in the federal government? >> the administration. the administration of your government is suppressing it because they know that the central intelligence agency --

>> on whose order? >> on the order of the president of the united states. >> mr. garrison has come up with no credible evidence to support any of his theories. >> i think this is unfortunate that the media of this country has become so hysterical for fear of what it might see that it spaends goends a good deal o time and energy attacking the one good investigation. >> the result of the four months of the investigation have been to damage reputations, spread fear and suspicion and, worst of all, exploit the nation's sorrow and doubts about president kennedy's death. >> i can't make any more comments about the case except to say anybody that thinks it is just a theory is going to be awfully surprised when it comes to trial. >> roll one sound on film clay shaw trial. >> clay shaw came to court in good spirits today. with his long-awaited trial under way shaw seems almost relieved that his case is finally being heard. shaw sits quietly in this courthouse chain smoking

cigarettes. he does not react when the state talks about things like conspiracy. >> the trial went on for six weeks. it's important to note that not one witness produced by garrison survived cross examination. they were all proven to be unreliable at best. >> the most shameful thing you've ever seen. everyone knew in the courtroom that clay shaw couldn't possibly have been more innocent. >> in a unanimous verdict by a 12-man jury, shaw was found not guilty of charges that he conspired to kill the late president john kennedy. >> why did you do it? >> after the not guilty verdict, editorials around the country, it's one of the darkest chapters in american jurisprudence history. it's just a crime. >> from what i saw and heard, i didn't think he had proven clay shaw's guilt beyond a reasonable

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information concerning the cause of the death of your president has been withheld from you. >> to show you how uncredible the conspiracy theorists are over the last oo years at one time or another they have accused 32 groups, 82 asassins, and 214 people of being involved in the assassination. >> could oswald really have done

this? >> as a reporter, the greatest story for us would have been to find out somebody other than oswald did it. and we tried hard to do that, but at every turn with the kennedy assassination things pointed to oswald as not only a shooter but the shooter and the only shooter. >> at its core, this is a very simple case. >> i don't know what this is all about. >> if a person is innocent of a crime, chances are there is not going to be any evidence pointed toward guilt. why? because he is innocent. but with oswald the physical evidence, the direct and circumstantial evidence, scientific evidence, everything points toward his guilt. we'll never know why lee harvey oswald killed kennedy because he's dead. but there are certain things we do know. >> at the age of 13, a probation officer said he remembered oswald as a truant, troubled boy in need of psychiatric help,

without which he might turn violent. >> after starting in high school, he promptly joined the marines. oswald's marine career ended in 1959 when he was dishonor ashay discharged. a month later he was in moscow where he announced his decision to renounce his american citizenship. >> are you a marxist? >> i would say i am a marxist. that is correct. that does not mean however i am a communist. >> he desperately wants to become a soviet citizen, renounce his american citizenship. they turn him down. what does he do? he slashes his wrists, tries to commit suicide. >> lee harvey oswald had these dreams or delusions that he had been harboring for a long time of an act that would lift him from his obscurity. >> a squad mate of his in the marines said oswald wanted to do something that 10,000 years from now people would be talking about. >> it looked to me like a

stupid, irrational act. the opportunity presented itself to him and he probably wanted to make a mark on society by proving that he could. >> people that think oswald was sort of a patsy and such an ineffectual, innocent person forgot that when oswald was stomped by a police car and the policeman gets out unarmed to talk to him oswald shoots him four times in the middle of the body. that plus his previous attempt on general walker. >> interestingly, on saturday morning, in the dallas morning news, it said that there may be a connection between these guy who was just arrested for killing a police officer and president kennedy and this effort to assassinate general walker back in april. >> oswald used to attend a small discussion group, and he began to rail against this right wing general edwin walker who was

calling for the invasion of cuba. >> general walker was about as right wing as you got in the early '60s, and oswald saw walker as an american adolph hitler. >> oswald said someone should kill walker. he then ordered a rifle with a sniper scope and he planned very meticulously his assassination of general walker. he took photographs from different angles. he figured out how to get his rifle there and how to escape. >> on march 31st, a sunday, he asked marina to come out and take his photograph. >> all in black, pistol, rifle in his hand, holding a few radical newspapers and marina writes on the back, hunter of fascists and dates it, april 6th, 1963. >> and then he went on the night of the 10th of april, took up

his place and shot at general walker. >> he come in the house 11:30. he was so pale, nervous. i said, what happened to him? he said, he told, i tried to shot general walker. >> describe for us what happened last night. >> rifle shot was fired into the house through the west window. hit the wall across the room and went over the desk at which i was sitting. >> he was very disappointed to find out he missed by less than an inch. >> shows his ability to plan who his target was and that oswald was capable of violence. >> i think that was kind of the rosetta stone, that if you understood the walker shooting you understood that lee was like a cooked rifle and he could go

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it is true that the answers to some questions leave us. the theory that a single bullet struck down both the president and the governor for example has too much of the long arm of coincidence about it for us to be entirely comfortable. >> it doesn't satisfy our sense of narrative or justice that a small person of no distinction can be of such historical consequence as to kill the president of the united states. >> but would we be more

comfortable believing a shot was fired by a second assassin who materialized out of thin air for the purpose, fired a shot, and then vanished again into thin air leaving behind no trace of himself, his rifle, his bullet, or any other sign of existence? >> there are two groups of people. there's one group that will look at an extraordinary coincidence, cataclysmic circumstance, and say, yes, that's the way the world works. there's another group of people for whom that's quite unsettling. >> they don't want to believe that something so random could have occurred. can you believe that you would step off a curb some day and be killed by an oncoming car? nobody believes in that kind of possibility but it happens. is life that fortuitous? that uncertain? >> and for them, oddly, the notion of the conspiracy is more comforting than the absence of it, because if there's a

conspiracy, at least there's a plan. >> i think the five bullets fired from at least two different directions are the result of a conspiracy. >> kennedy's killing touches off a belief in the idea, you can't trust government. >> there has been a loss of morale, a loss of confidence among the american people toward their own government and the men who serve it and that is perhaps more wounding than the assassination itself. >> they lost so much faith in government that they actually think that the government is an accessory after the fact to the president's murder. can't get too much worse than that. >> the assassination changed the trajectory of the '60s. america was a different place on the day before john f. kennedy was killed. so when you look at america as a whole in the 20th century, you

look at america in the '60s, you really say, that day was a dividing point. >> i guess in the average man's life there are two or three emotional experiences that he doesn't forget because they're burned into his heart and his brain. and no matter what happens to me, i remember november the 22nd as long as i live. and it's impossible for me now to this day and i'm sure ten years from now to go out to the dias without looking at the sixth floor of the school book depository building and impossible to drive by the texas hotel today and not think of that morning when president kennedy spoke there. it will always be with us. >> kennedy, alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, the two bushs,

people, bill clinton, they don't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric and they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy.

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