>> no matter what happens to me, i remember november 22nd as long as i live. >> there has been an attempt on the life of president kennedy. >> they are combing the floors of the texas building. >> oswald has been shot. at point blank range. >> police are working on the sum that is oswald's murder was to

shut him up. >> central intelligence agency killed john kennedy. >> the story has been suppressed. witnesses have been killed. we have a rig to knht to know w 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 expect any trouble on the president's arrival? >> what has happened here previously, we would be foolish i think not to anticipate some trouble. i don't really don't anticipate any violence. >> here comes air force number one. the president's plane now touching down. >> mr. kennedy and the crowd yells and the president of the united states. >> looking at how things actually went, it wasn't just a trip to dallas. it was a political trip

preparing for the 1964 elections. >> and here come the president now. in fact, he's not in his limo seen. he departed the limousine and 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 swarming trying to get over the fence. the dallas police trying to keep them back. this is great for the people and make the eggshells thinner for the secret service. >> the trip had gone terrifically well in texas. pretty hard to write a script for going any better. >> thousands are 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. it was a mood, a climate of

excitement. >> the speech of president kennedy at the dallas trade will be broadcast by 570 radio. stay tuned for the dallas speech at the trade mark on 570 radio. ♪ this bulletin in. shots were fired at the president's mote y motorcade. >> the president has been hit.

>> stand by for severe gunshot wound. >> this is walter cronkite in our newsroom and -- there has been an attempt on the life of president kennedy. >> turn the mike on. do you want me to move back a little bit? is this all right? ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce to you the chief cameraman and assistant news director. this is burt ship. we brought the people pretty much up today. will you tell them exactly what you know as of this point? >> i was standing at the trade mark waiting for 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.

and then i jumped in a police car and went to park land. two men come running in. one had a large machine gun. and they were asking for stretchers and cots and everything. >> what happened after this? >> well then the president came in behind him and they took him out. >> albert thomas, democrat of texas, is standing outside the corridor of the emergency room, said he's been told the president was still alive. but in very critical condition. >> two priests who were with president kennedy say he is dead. from bullet wounds. this is the latest information we have from dallas. i will repeat that the greatest regret, two priests who were with president kennedy say he has died of bullet wounds.

>> malcolm k iflt ldef, 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. 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 1:00 central standard time today here in dallas. he died from gunshot wounds in the brain. i have no other details regarding the assassination of the president.

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i just can't believe it. i feel like someone in my own family had died. i just can't believe it. >> ma'am? >> i can't. >> 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 it self. it was very pervasive. >> secret service agents thought the gunfire from an automatic weapon fired from a grassy knoll. >> police ran up this grassy surface. i thought they're chasing a gunman, i ran with them. i got to the top, looked around, a policemen went over the fence.

i went over the fence, too. there was nothing there. >> the television newsman said he looked up just after the shot was fired and saw a rival being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. >> it was originally thought the shots came from him here and now it's believed the shots came from this building here. >> the people saw him running back towards the depository building. they're going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. >> center of downtown dallas is in a state of siege. they're combing the floors of the texas depository 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 possibly been block off by boxes of books and also the three spent shells that had apparently been fired from a rifle. >> lieutenant j.c. day just came

out of that building where with a british .303 rival. >> it was a 6.65 mouser. >> the .3030 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 seemed to be a fact. >> in dallas, a dallas policeman a short while ago was shot and killed while chasing a suspect. >> j.d. tippett, 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 in to the texas theater. >> someone has been arrested in one of the downtown theaters. they don't know fit was the man who shot the policeman or the person who actually shot president kennedy. >> this is paa picture of him.

he probably does not look exactly like this now after he's been questioned. that's lee oswald. >> the president was shot. and a police officer is shot. then someone named lee harvey oswald is arrested. oswald may be a suspect in the atass nation. who is he? >> lee oz warld of dallas, a former marine who spent some time in russia who had applied for soviet againship. >> we have the suspect in oak cliff was singular 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. >> there will be a great deal of confusion, mr. oswald is put through the door. i don't know if you saw him. oswald? he is an employee of a book binding firm in the building

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. >> lyndon johnson 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 of the top of the coffin. they were trying to get that coffin out of the hospital. vice president johnson is expected to be sworn in as president to board an airline brer flyier before flying back to the nation's capital. >> johnson wanted to show the american people that government was functioning without interruption. and out of also, perhaps, he wanted to show that his predecessor's family bore him no ill will for the assassination.

lyndon johnson is flying back to washington to take the reigns of government at which time president johnson will have to take into his hands the rains of the most powerful nation in the world. >> is there any doubt in your mind, chief that, oswald is the man who killed the president? >> i think this is the man who killed the president, yes, sir. >> is there any evidence that anyone else may have been linked with oswald to this shooting? >> at this time, we don't believe so. >> i don't know what this is all about. >> sir? >> i work in that building. >> were nut building? >> naturally, if i work in that building, yes, sir. >> back up, man. >> did you shoot the president? >> no, they're taking me because i lived in the soviet union.

>> this is room 317 at the dallas police station. as you see, they are bringing the weapon that allegely used in the assassination of president john f. kennedy this afternoon at 12:30 here in dallas. >> 6.a, made in italy in 1940. >> in the cake of twake of the assassination, they were committing all of the resources to trying to solve the crime. in the end, they were not equipped to handle this tsunami of reporters. >> i was questioned by a judge. >> 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. >> nobody has said that to me yet. first thing i heard about was when the newspaper reporters in the hall asked me that question. >> a policeman hit me. >> at 1:35 this morning, a complaint was read and charged that "lee harvey oswald did voluntarily and with malice aforethought kill john f. kennedy by shooting him with a gun." following the reading of the complaint, oswald said taz

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chief, can you tell us what directs oswald to the killing of the president? >> he was on the floor immediately before the shots were fired and the fact he was seen carrying a package to the building, the fact that -- >> what was in that package? >> yesterday morning. >> during 12 hours of interrogation by the dallas employment over the weekend, he told one provable lie after another. >> did you find that rifle? >> yes, as fast as you've been given, but i emphatically deny

these charges. >> within a day or so they're after, when they discovered what a complete nut this guy was. they were satisfied beyond all reasonable doubt. one thing i can tell you without going into evidence is that this man killed the president. there is no question in my mind about it. >> we planned to transfer this man not tonight. a van will be here by no later than 10:00 in the morning. >> chief, do you have any concern of the safety of your prisoner? >> no, but causes will be taken, of course. but i don't think the people will try to take the prisoner away from us. >> we were standing by awaiting the transfer of oswald to city

jail to county jail and a fallback record, here is bill lord at the city jail. bill, what is the situation? >> i'm presently in the basement of the dallas building and it is like an armed camp. police officials are worried. they don't want anything to happen to oswald. >> here he comes. let me have him. >> there he is. >> he's been shot! he's been shot! lee oswald has been shot. there is a man with a gun. absolute panic. there is no question about it. oswald has been shot at point

blank range, retired into his stomach. >> he is shot. oswald is shot. >> immediately after the shooting, the only witness quoez talk to were other reporters. >> why did he go? >> he was ear. he just put the gun there. i saw the flash. there was a group of men here. >> the situation now is that lee harvey oswald has been shot. the han who saw the shot fired said he 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. an ambulance apparently is

moving down now into the basement. here come the ambulance. oswald will be removed now. the ambulance is pulling up in front of us. here comes oswald. he is ashen and unconscious at this time now being moved in. he's not moving. he's in the ambulance now. attendants, police are quickly trying to get him in. the ambulance is leaving dallas police headquarters. where will he be taken? >> i'm assuming parkland hospital. >> the irony of ironies, the place where president john f. kennedy died. >> dallas city hall is normally a public building but today it was under armed guard.

we -- is this a confirmed report as to who did the shooting? 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. at 1:07 p.m. we have arrested the man, the man will be charged with murder. >> who is he? the suspect's name is jack rubenstein, i believe. he goes by the name of jack ruby. >> and here at associated press, still a picture of the moment

the split second as the shot was fired. this is the man dallas police have identified as jack rubenstein and this, of course, is lee horarvey oswald. you seat gun in the hand of ruby and just about to be fired. >> i know what my feelings were and i think they were widely shared. this can't be coincidental. the assassin gets assassinated in the police station. what the hell is going on? >> just learned from city hall from a very authoritative source that police are working on the assumption that therein deed is a connection between jack ruby and lee oswald. and that in some manner of speaking, oswald's murder was to shut him up. wore also in just now from dallas that homicide chief captain will fritz has now said

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our nation is grieving. the whole world is poor 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 port for us through the shores and the seas that encompass the world. and now that he is relieved of the almost super human burden may he rest in peace. >> my fellow americans, all i have i would given gladly not to be standing here today. >> johnson knows that the ship is sailing under a new continent

but at the same time he can't 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 trust of america that he began. >> investigations into all the facts of these last four days may not be limited to the state of texas or the fbi. some congressmen already have suggested a congressional 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. >> the warren commission appointed friday night will investigate and make a report

ott murder as yet it has said nothing about how it will proceed or when. >> the time of day was about -- we're not very far from there. >> the lawyers and the commission took 39 adepositions and there were 94 witnesses that appeared before the commission. >> do you still think it was one man? >> i think we better not get into that area, you know? the report will cover all of that in great detail. >> it is now 15 seconds after 6:30 p.m. eastern daylight time, sunday september 22th. 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 unequivocally lee harvey oswald.

was he acting alone or was he a member of a conspiracy? the commission answers, he acted alone. >> the media had all concluded that this was the most exhaustive investigation, case closed. oz warld did it alone. >> the commission concludes that three shots were fired. all of them from this sixth floor window in the texas schoolbook depository. >> 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. it gained a vast number of readers in the groundswell of skepticism about the findings of the warren report. >> tell me something about some facts. >> you're accusing them of deliberate mall fees an. >> you're part of the media which presented the american people from happening. >> you are laralarming the peop. >> the public was kept in the

dark for so long about this but had an undying thirst which could only be quenched by getting facts. >> we have a right to know who killed our president and why he died. we can't get that from reading the warren report. >> lane was almost alone. now he is just one among a growing band of doubters. the books and articles are on the news stands, they're in the supermarkets. now according to a recent poll, only one in three americans remains convinced that the warren report has the whole story. >> because of the conspiracy theorists who have put this case under a high powered microscope, splitting hairs and then proceeding to split the plit hairs, the kennedy case is now the most complex murder case by far in the world history. nothing even remotely comes close. >> the warren report said that lee harvey oswald shot the president from his window in the texas schoolbook depository.

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 and stood behind that low concrete wall looking down at elm street. >> as he's making the turn, it is half way down there. i had a shot. and then we heard another shot or two. it was one or two. >> 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 wounds where the president's head was bologlown apart came f

an angle in the grassy knoll. he struck and his head doesn't go back this way. but it goes back' over this which way which is consistent for that shot. >> unless the law of psychics were not working that day, the reaction of the president tells us where that shot came from. >> some critics say you can clearly see the explosion of the bullet on the front side of the president that that certainly indicates that it would obtain from the front. >> i don't believe any physicist has ever said that. quite contrary, it does indicate the bull will he was coming from behind. it's a minor explosion. pieces of material go generally in the direction of the bullet. >> if you look at the individual frames of the film and at 3:12, frame 312, the president's head is okay. at frame 313, one 18th of a second later, the president is struck in the head.

and what direction is the president's head pushed, not backwards, but slightly forward. indicating the shot from the rear are lee harvey oswald was. >> i would hesitate to say it's absolutely 100% impossible. but it is highly improbable. >> could a single bullet wounded president kennedy and connolly? the single bullet theory is the most controversial aspect of the report. >> if the warren commission couldn't prove that one shot hit both men, that means there were two shooters. if so, there is a conspiracy. >> he claimed the sec shot was a bullet. they argue that a bullet would have had to make a left turn and right turn in mid air. the reality is connolly was not seated directly in front of kennedy. >> if you figure out the align.

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blif thi believe that jack s a paid killer to close the mouth of my son lee harvey oswald. >> there are 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 hitmen that mob could ever get. >> on november 24th, 1963, harvey oswald was supposed to be trabs ferd at 10:00. at 10:00, the evidence is undisputed that jack ruby was at home asleep. >> he was sending in money order to one of the strippers from a western unor office from across from the courthouse at 11:17 a.m. >> we know that it had 11:20,

three minutes later, a block away, jack ruby killed lee harvey oswald. the evidence showed that he was down there anywhere from five to 15 seconds. five to 15 seconds. if this is a hired assassin who is supposed to have advanced information, he is the world's best hire. >> jack ruby was a police and media groupie. ruby thought he was our friend. ruby's act was out of vigilante. he wanted nothing more to be known, you know, people to flock to his nightclub to shake the hand with the man who killed the man who killed the president. >> do you believe that lee harvey as wald did not shoot president kennedy? >> i don't want to get involved in the speculations of individuals, but i will say that there is 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'll make an arrest based on that and we will make charges based on that and obtain convictions based on that. >> you wouldn't have paid much attention to this except he was district attorney of new orleans. >> arrested this evening in the district attorney's office was clay shaw, age 54, 1313 darby street, new orleans, louisiana. mr. shaw will be charged with participation in a conspiracy to murder john f. kennedy. >> he was a very well respected businessman in new orleans. he had been distinguished soldier during world war ii. he was also a homosexual and closeted and i think that played a part and then i think they realized the truth that there

isn't anything there. >> the case he built against clay shaw is based on testimony that did not pass a lie detector test that garrison ordered. garrison knew it. >> garrison started bribing witnesses, intimidating witnesses. >> he said he could serve his whole nine year sentence or cut loose right away. >> hypotheticnotizing witnesses. >> we decided to give him machinery to make sure he was telling the truth. >> leon. >> does leon have a last name? >> oswald. >> you said the methods were illegal? >> that was a very legal and unethical. >> he had everyone in their grandmother involved in the assassination. at one time us oil millionaires then the minute men, then it was a homosexual killing. >> yes, sir? >> do you feel that homosexuality was a factor in the planning or the assassination of john f. kennedy? >> no comment. >> at one point he had 16

assassins in dealy plaza. with that many assassins, i don't know how kennedy made it to the autopsy table. >> he announced he discovered a code. garrison says jack ruby's unlisted telephone number appears in address books belonging to shaw and oswald. >> if you take the p and o and use the telephone dial, he just changed the digits around, added letters and digits. >> who is suppressing this information? >> the federal government is suppressing. >> who in the federal government? >> the administration. the administration of your government is suppressing it because they know that the central intelligence agency and -- >> and who's order? >> on the order of the president of the united states. >> clay shaw came to court in good spirits today with his long awaited trial under way, shaw seems almost relieved had a his case is finally being heard. >> the trial went on for six

weeks. it's important to note that not one witness produce by garrison survived cross-examination. >> and unanimous verdict by 12 man jury, shaw was found not guilty of charges he conspired to kill the late president john kennedy. >> why did you do it? >> i would summit up by saying that any society which allows a man like jock kennedy to have a top of his head torn off and then protects the assassins and on instructs any inquiry into attempt to find the truth is not a great society. hey. i'm ted and this is rudy. say "hi" rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] i'd do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. that's why i'm so excited about these new milk-bone brushing chews. whoa, i'm not the only one. it's a brilliant new way to take care of his teeth.

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information concerning the cause of death of your president has been withheld from you. >> 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.

all that power and majesty wiped out by one little skinny character. a small person of no distinction can be of historical consequences to kill a president, i would say. >> what is more comfortable, believing that a shot was fired by a second assassin who materialized out of thin air for

the purpose, fired a shot and then vanished again leaving behind no trace of himself his rifle, his bullet, or any other sign of existence? >> there were two groups of people. there's one group that would look at an extraordinary coincidence and say, yes, that's the way the world works. there is another group of people for whom that is quite unsettling. >> they don't want to believe that something so random could have occurred. >> can you believe that you could step off a curb some day and be killed by a on coming 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 is a conspiracy, at least there is a plan. >> 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. you can't get too much worse than that. >> if in place on the day before john f. kennedy was killed, so when you look at the mesh as a whole in the 20th century, you look at america in the '6 o's, you really say that day was a dividing line. >> 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 will remember november 22nd as long as i live. and it's impossible for me now to this this day and i'm sure ten years from now to not look at the sixth floor and it's impossible for me to drive by

the texas hotel today and not think of that morning when president kennedy spoke to us. it will always be with us. >> ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. >> 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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