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his comfort zone. ♪ i ain't going to work on maggie's farm no more ♪ >> it's not just about dylan going electric, but it's also about the fusion of an emerging tradition in popular music that was really political, with rock 'n' roll which had largely not been overtly political. >> there's nothing like the feeling of your audience not being with you and walking out on you. people took it personally. >> you know, who needs him anymore? he's a part of your establishment and forget him. >> they're all my friends. >> they felt betrayed, like you're supposed to be our woody guthrie and you sold out. ♪ how does it feel ♪ how does it feel
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♪ to be on your own ♪ with no direction home >> not only did he take it, but he managed to just chokehold them all and make them see his vision. ♪ like a rolling stone ♪ >> other musicians started bringing poetry and politics and soul-searching to popular music. ♪ men shall know and men shall see ♪ ♪ we all are brothers and we all are free ♪ >> it was obvious to me and the hollies that we had a responsibility as artists to reflect our world around us, and we utilized our music to be able to reach people. >> pop musicians in today's generation are in a fantastic position. they could rule the world, man. >> well, i don't argue -- >> they could rule the world, so why don't we do more of it? we can stop world wars before
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they ever started. >> i disagree. i don't believe -- >> you know who starts world wars? >> i for one -- >> you know who start world wars? people that are over 40. >> really, really -- >> that conversation was unstoppable. you couldn't shut it down. ♪ he's oh so good and he's oh so fine ♪ ♪ and he's oh so healthy in his body and his mind ♪ ♪ he's a well respected man about town ♪ ♪ doing the best things so conservatively ♪ >> i think ray davies from the kinks and pete townshend from the who were the two social commentators. ♪ people try to put us down talking about my generation ♪ ♪ just because we get around, talking about my generation ♪ ♪ things they do look awful cold talking about my generation ♪ ♪ hope i die before i get old ♪ talking about my generation ♪ it's my generation, baby, why don't you all fade away ♪
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♪ talking about my generation ♪ you don't try to dig what we all say ♪ ♪ talking about my generation ♪ not trying to cause a big sensation ♪ >> every political move, nation to nation, is really to try and break down these barriers between people. ♪ my generation ♪ >> all of them were obsessively listening to one another. and what became the game was, who can take rock 'n' roll someplace more interesting? ♪ ♪ if i needed someone to love ♪ you're the one that i'd be thinking of ♪ ♪ if i needed someone >> you know, records had been two or three of your singles, some covers of some other
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artist's song, and just a bunch of filler. "rubber soul" basically started the idea of the record as a complete statement. that's really a game-changer. ♪ in my life i love you more ♪ >> i think that brian and the beach boys felt that he didn't fit into this new british invasion thing that was happening. ♪ round round get around ♪ i get around ♪ get around ♪ oohh ♪ round, round, round, round ♪ i get around >> when the beach boys heard "rubber soul," brian wilson was inspired to try to create something as pure and beautiful and this album of everything was great. >> i remember going over to brian's house, and i looked into the living room and i saw that everything had been taken out except the piano.
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it's getting late. ♪ nice, nice. ♪ >> in the mid-'60s, you see brian wilson retreating into the studio, and he's concentrating on writing and producing these amazing songs. ♪ i may not always love you, but long as there are stars above you ♪ >> the recording studio had been a rigid place where there were engineers literally in like suits and ties and lab coats. when all of a sudden, there were these crazy young geniuses who reinvented the studio as an instrument to be played with. ♪ god only knows what i'd be without you ♪ >> technology is evolving for how to record, and brian wilson was absolutely on the cutting edge of that. ♪ wouldn't it be nice if we were older ♪
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♪ and we wouldn't have to wait so long ♪ >> music in the '60s was like any great art movement. the greatest practitioners of it pushed one another to be better. >> the mic on the piano is quite low. >> in the studio, the beatles' natural creativity was sort of brimming over, and george martin was a brilliant collaborator and champion of that. >> run back the tape, please, would you? >> you can slow down or speed up the tape. you can put in backwards stuff. you can put in electronic sounds that you couldn't possibly reproduce live. >> something happens on air, i couldn't tell you what because we have a special man who sits here and goes like this, and the guitar turns into a piano or something, you know. and then you may say, why don't you use a piano? because the piano sounds like a guitar. ♪ we're sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band ♪ >> there were f.m. radio stations that did nothing but play "sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band" over and over for the first three or four days that it came out because that's
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all anybody wanted to listen to. ♪ lucy in the sky with diamonds ♪ >> "sergeant pepper's" became the thing. you dropped the needle on it, you'd hear a little crackle, and then you'd be taken away on this journey. ♪ i read the news today, oh, boy ♪ >> "sergeant pepper" was our opera. it sounded unlike anything we were used to. ♪ >> in the '60s, lyrics are generally infantile, and it's noise, not music. but the "sergeant pepper" album was a brilliant album, signifying a break from the old ways of being entertained. it really caught the moment. ♪ >> pop music is crucial to today's art, and it's crucial
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that it should remain art, and it is crucial that it should progress as art. ♪ ♪ pleased to meet you all now ♪ hope you guess my name >> the british invasion changed pretty much everything. >> it was not just a sound or a band or a phenomenon, but it was the beginning of the most powerful decade in popular music. ♪ religion was being forced ♪ down in monterey >> rock 'n' roll music was very important in the growth of the society. we were able to speak our minds. we did shake up the world. >> there's no desire in any of our heads to sort of take over the world, you know. there is, however, a desire to get power in order to use it for good. ♪ ♪ love, love, love
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>> how many people that you started loving in 1964 do you still love? the beatles and the british invasion may be the greatest love story, in a cultural sense, that's ever been. ♪ all you need is love all together now! ♪ all you need is love everybody! ♪ all you need is love, love, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ ♪ love is all you need ♪ love is all you need ♪ oh, yeah
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♪ she loves you yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ love is all you need >> in average man's life there are two or three emotional experiences burned into his heart and his brain. and no matter what happens to me i'll 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 book depository building to find assassin. >> did you shoot the president? >> i'm just a patsy. >> oswald has been fired at point blank range, fired into his stomach. >> police are working on the assumption that oswald's murder was to shut him up.
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♪ in dallas, preparations were already underway 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, i think, 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 is mrs. 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.
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>> and here comes the president now. in fact he's not in his limousine. he has departed the limousine and he is reaching across the fence, shaking hands. >> those days, everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and 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 was 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 in 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.
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>> the speech of president kennedy at the dallas trade mart will be broadcast by radio. stay tuned for the dallas speech at the trade mart. on 570 radio. ♪ ♪ find me a boss man one that will treat me right ♪ ♪ work hard in the daytime rest easy at night ♪ ♪ big boss man won't you hear me when i call ♪ ♪ yeah big boss man won't you hear me when i call ♪ ♪ well you ain't so big you just tall and that's all ♪ >> this bulletin just into the news terminal. in dallas, three shots were fired at the motorcade of president kennedy today in downtown dallas. >> police radios are carrying that the president has been hit. >> parkland hospital has been advised to stand by for a severe
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gunshot wound. >> this is walter cronkite, in our newsroom. and -- 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? you want me to move back a little bit. is it all right now? is this all right? ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce to you the chief cameraman. and assistant news director. this is bert shipp, bert, we have brought the people pretty much up to date. would you tell them exactly what you know as of this point? >> well, i was standing at the trade mart, waiting for his arrival there. all of a sudden 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 into a police car and went to parkland.
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>> these two men come in and one of them had a large machine gun and was hollering for the stretchers and cots and everything. and they brought the governor in first. >> what happened next? >> then the president came in behind him and they took both of them back -- >> 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. >> 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. >> the assistant press secretary was filling in for the regular
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press secretary an he had to draw himself up to give the most fateful announcement that any press secretary might have ever had to give. >> all the cameras were rolling and i remember he put his finger os the desk like this and pressed very hard to stop his fingers trembling. >> john f. kennedy died approximately 1:00 central standard time today here in dallas. he died of a gunshot wound in the brain. i have no other details regarding the assassination of the president.
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>> the secret service agents thought the gunfire came from an automatic weapon fired possibly from a grassy knoll. >> i saw some police run up the -- i thought they're chasing a gunman. i ran with them. i got to the top, looked around. a policeman went over the fence so i went over the fence too. there was nothing there. >> a television newsman said he looked up just after the shot was fired and saw a rifle being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. >> it was originally thought that the shots came from in here. and now it is believed the shots came from this building here. >> the police officers are running back to the texas school book depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. >> in the federal downtown building, they are combing the area in an effort to find the suspected assassin. >> in the building on the sixth
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floor we found an area near an area that had been partially blocked off by boxes of books and also the three spent shells that had apparently been fired from a rifle. >> crime lab lieutenant jayce day just came out of that building with a british .303 rifle. >> it was a 7.65 mauser. >> a high-powered army or japanese rifle. >> a .3030 rifle. >> much of the first things you hear are going to be wrong and to some degree you were constantly trying to separate out what seemed 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 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
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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. this is a picture of him. he probably does not look exactly like this now after he has been questioned. that's lee oswald. >> the president was shot. and a police officer is shot. and 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 had of the suspect 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. >> now, apparently a great deal of confusion. mr. oswald is put through the
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door. i don't know if you saw him, oswald lives at 1026 north meckley. he is an employee of a book-binding firm in the building which the police and secret service men 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 body be brought immediately to air force one. so there was a little tug of war. they almost shook the crucifix off the top of the coffin as they were trying to get that coffin out of the hospital. >> vice president johnson is expected to be sworn in as president aboard an airliner before flying back to the nation's capital. >> johnson wanted to show the
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american people that the government was functioning without interruption. and 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 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. >> is there any doubt in your mind chief that oswald is the man that killed the president? >> i think this is the man that killed the president, yes, sir. >> is there any evidence any one 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. >> did you kill the president? >> no, sir, i didn't. >> how did you get the black eye? >> sir? >> did you shoot the president? >> i work in that building.
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>> were you in that building at the time? >> naturally if i work in that building, yes, sir. >> back up, man. >> did you shoot the president? >> i'm just a patsy. >> 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. >> in the wake of the kennedy assassination, the dallas police on the one hand were committing all of their resources to try and 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
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judge. however, i protested at that time 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 to 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? >> oswald. >> how did you hurt your eye? >> a policeman hit me. >> at 1:35 this morning, a complaint was read. it charged that quote, lee
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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. calling all sunscreen haters. you're gonna love this. new coppertone sport clear. not thick, not hot, not messy, just clear, cool, protected. coppertone sport clear. proven to protect. be right back. with moderate to severe crohn's disease, i was there, just not always where i needed to be. is she alright? i hope so. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira is for people who still have symptoms
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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 -- >> when was he carrying that package? >> yesterday morning. >> during 12 hours of interrogation, 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 emphatically deny these 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. >> there's only one thing i can tell you without going into the evidence that this case is cinched, that this man killed the president. there is no question in my mind about it. >> we plan to transfer this man, not tonight.
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the van will be here by no later than 10:00 in the morning. why, it will -- that will be early enough for him. >> chief, do you have any concern for the safety of your prisoner in due of the high feeling among the people of dallas over the assassination of the president? >> no, but cautions will be taken, of course. but i don't think the people will try to take the prisoner away from us. here is bill lord at the city jail. >> 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. >> here he comes. >> now the prisoner. let me have it.
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i want it. >> being led out by captain fritz. there is the person. there is lee. he has been shot. he has been shot. lee oswald has been shot. there is a man with a gun. absolute panic. here in the basement of the dallas police headquarters no question about it as wold has been shot he's been shot. he's been shot. lee oswald has been shot. there is a man with a gun. it's absolute panic. >> 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 the gun there. i saw the flash on the black sweater. >> right in the belly? >> did you see the gun to his stomach? >> i saw right here.
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he was in a group of men right here. >> masquerading as one of us or what? >> i thought it was one of the detective. you know, he had a hat. >> the situation is now that lee harold oswald has been shot. the man who 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 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
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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 john f. kennedy died. >> 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. >> vic robertson from city hall reports that jack ruby, the the owner of the carousel which is about a bar in dallas, did
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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. >> and 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 of course is 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 in the police station.
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what in the hell is going on? >> just learned from city hall from an 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. >> word also in just now from dallas that homicide chief captain will fritz has now said that the case of president kennedy's assassination is now closed with the death of oswald. it may not, however, be the opinion of the u.s. secret service or the federal bureau of investigation. ♪ ♪ big dreams start with small steps... ...but dedication can get you there. so just start small... start saving.
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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
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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, may he rest in peace. >> 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 the new captain. but at the same time, he can't appear to be too anxious to assume power and he has to keep the kennedy people on board with him. so that speech means everything. >> no words are strong enough to
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express our determination to continue the forward thrust of america that he began. [ applause ] >> 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 this. >> 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. >> let's see. the time of day was about -- well we're not very far, two hours from it. >> the lawyers from the commission took 395 depositions.
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and there were 94 witnesses that appeared before the commission. >> 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. >> it is now 15 seconds after >> it is now 15 seconds after 6:30 p.m. eastern daylight time, sunday, september the 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 answered unequivocally lee harvey oswald. was oswald 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.
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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 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 groundswell of skepticism about the findings of the warren report. >> you are part of the media which prevented the american people from finding out what happened. >> you are alarming the american people! >> i say the american public should be alarmed. >> the public had been 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. and we can't get that from reading the warren report. at the start, lane was almost alone.
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now he's just one among a growing band of doubters. their books and articles are on the newsstands, 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 theories, 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. >> 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
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place, a dallas businessman called abraham zapruder stood behind that low concrete wall looking down at elm street. >> as the president was coming down from houston street and making his turn, it was about halfway down there, i heard a shot. and i heard another shot or two. i couldn't say whether it was one or two. and i saw his head practically open up, all blood and everything. >> 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, it struck and his head doesn't go directly back this way but it goes back and over this way, which would be consistent with the shot from that direction and newton's law of motion. >> unless the laws of physics were not working that day, the
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reaction of the president tells us where that 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 that 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's okay. at frame 313, 1/18th 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 a shot from the rear where lee harvey oswald was. >> i would hesitate really to say that it is absolutely 100%
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impossible. but it is highly improbable. >> could a single bullet have wounded both president kennedy and governor connally? the single bullet theory has perhaps become the most controversial aspect of the report. >> if one bullet couldn't shoot men, it meant there were two shooters and there was 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 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 alignment of where the men sat, and if you look down as i did it is perfectly plain, i submit to you, that the bullet that exited from president kennedy's throat, which it did not, or someone else in the automobile. >> to believe that it didn't hit
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>> i believe that jack ruby was a paid killer to close the mouth of my son, lee harvey oswald. >> 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 that the mob could ever get. >> on november the 24th, 1963, lee harvey oswald is supposed to have been transferred at 10:00. at 10:00, the evidence is undisputed that jack ruby was at home asleep. >> 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 that at 11:20, three minutes later, a block away, jack ruby killed lee harvey oswald. the evidence showed that he was down there anywhere from 5 to 15 seconds. 5 to 15 seconds.
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