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the governor of texas, john connolly, was also hit.le lining the streets screamed and lied down on the sidewalk and on the street. the motorcade immediately speeded up. and took the president straight from the parkland memorial hoffs from which you're speaking now, bob, and the president was carried in bleeding. have you any information on how many times and where the president was struck? bob does not know how many times nor where the president was struck, all he knows is the president was seriously wounded and that's the latest information they have. >> think about what you're going to say -- >> three shots, another reporter at the scene says he heard four. turning to the texas governor, can you tell us how many times -- one further question, can you tell us anything about the man seen with the gun in the window? the -- they say he was a white man. >> put the phone -- >> there were a lot of negro people around. but the man in the window was white. was it a rifle? the policeman told bob -- he heard -- it was a high-powered rifle. but
the governor of texas, john connolly, was also hit.le lining the streets screamed and lied down on the sidewalk and on the street. the motorcade immediately speeded up. and took the president straight from the parkland memorial hoffs from which you're speaking now, bob, and the president was carried in bleeding. have you any information on how many times and where the president was struck? bob does not know how many times nor where the president was struck, all he knows is the president was...
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connolly firmly believed that he had been hit by the second shot. after he had heard the first shot, and that he was not hit by the same shot that first hit kennedy. however, remnants of only two bullet withs were found in the presidential vehicle. close examination of the film gave us one way to help determine roughly when kennedy was first hit and when connolly was hit. if the interval between the first and the second shots covered a span of less than 2.25 seconds, the time estimated to be necessary for the assassin to fire two shots, it might suggest that a second rifle was involved. david melon worked hard in these early days to prove that a second gunman had participated in the assassination. he requested the secret service to ask the three physicians who attended to connolly's three wounds to retruck the position of the -- reconstruct the position of the governor as it must have been to receive the wounds that he did receive. he received a set of drawings portraying the reconstructed position of connolly from five different viewpoints. melon t
connolly firmly believed that he had been hit by the second shot. after he had heard the first shot, and that he was not hit by the same shot that first hit kennedy. however, remnants of only two bullet withs were found in the presidential vehicle. close examination of the film gave us one way to help determine roughly when kennedy was first hit and when connolly was hit. if the interval between the first and the second shots covered a span of less than 2.25 seconds, the time estimated to be...
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these are quotes from governor john connolly who's also wounded. there are additional reports that the governor's aide asked the governor if there was anything he could do, he said just take care of nellie for me, that's governor connolly's wife. she was uninjured. and mrs. kennedy was not injured. as robert mcneil reported, the last rites of the roman catholic church has been administered to the president. this is in no way means he will lose his life. here is an item. both women, meaning mrs. kennedy and mrs. connolly disappeared into the emergency section of parkland hospital to await news of their husbands. outside of the emergency room in a hallway, anxious members of the white house staff gathered including the military aide to the president, and brigadier president godfrey mchew, the air force aide. the president's secretary, the press secretary to mrs. keptdy and other members of the staff were shown to a special waiting room not far from the emergency room area where the president was lying. frank mcgee has reported on direct word. outside
these are quotes from governor john connolly who's also wounded. there are additional reports that the governor's aide asked the governor if there was anything he could do, he said just take care of nellie for me, that's governor connolly's wife. she was uninjured. and mrs. kennedy was not injured. as robert mcneil reported, the last rites of the roman catholic church has been administered to the president. this is in no way means he will lose his life. here is an item. both women, meaning mrs....
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connolly firmly believed that he had been hit by the second shot.after he had heard the first shot, and that he was not hit by the same shot that first hit kennedy. however, remnants of only two bullet withs were found in the presidential vehicle. close examination of the film gave us one way to help determine roughly when kennedy was first hit and when connolly was hit. if the interval between the first and the second shots covered a span of less than 2.25 seconds, the time estimated to be necessary for the assassin to fire two shots, it might suggest that a second rifle was involved. david melon worked hard in these early days to prove that a second gunman had participated in the assassination. he requested the secret service to ask the three physicians who attended to connolly's three wounds to retruck the position of the -- reconstruct the position of the governor as it must have been to receive the wounds that he did receive. he received a set of drawings portraying the reconstructed position of connolly from five different viewpoints. melon th
connolly firmly believed that he had been hit by the second shot.after he had heard the first shot, and that he was not hit by the same shot that first hit kennedy. however, remnants of only two bullet withs were found in the presidential vehicle. close examination of the film gave us one way to help determine roughly when kennedy was first hit and when connolly was hit. if the interval between the first and the second shots covered a span of less than 2.25 seconds, the time estimated to be...
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connolly firmly believe he had been hit by the second shot after he heard the first shot and that he was not hit by this same shot that first hit kennedy however, remnants of only two bullets were found in the presidential vehicle. close examination of the film gave us one way to help determine roughly when kennedy was for state and when connally was it. between that first and second shot covered a span of less than two and a half seconds, the time estimates to be necessary to fire two shots, i might suggest a second rifle was involved. proving a second gunman had participated. the position of the governor. receiving a set of drawings portraying there rig count position of connolly from five different viewpoints. he then gave these drawings to the fbi asking the bureau to compare these drawings with the zapruder dome and advise when, according to the zapruder film connally could not have been hit. the fbi advised the governor was not only in the position reconstructed by his doctors at any time after frame 240. the commission's lawyers working on the problem agreed with this determin
connolly firmly believe he had been hit by the second shot after he heard the first shot and that he was not hit by this same shot that first hit kennedy however, remnants of only two bullets were found in the presidential vehicle. close examination of the film gave us one way to help determine roughly when kennedy was for state and when connally was it. between that first and second shot covered a span of less than two and a half seconds, the time estimates to be necessary to fire two shots, i...
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c-span: who--who is this man from williams & connolly? >> guest: that is aubrey daniels iii. c-span: why is he famous in--in our history? >> guest: he was the prosecutor of lieutenant calley, the-the person who led the attack on--massacre--at my lai. c-span: who did he represent in all this? >> guest: he represented adm, and he... c-span: who's this fellow right here? >> guest: that is richard beatty, who is the chairman of simpson thacher, who represented the special committee. c-span: where are they located? >> guest: they are located in new york, and... c-span: so you had the board's special committee represented by richard beatty, and the company represented by aubrey daniel iii... >> guest: that's the best way i ever heard it described. but ultimately, it's like, 'who is the company?' i was very--one of the stranger questions was, 'who does aub--who does williams & connolly actually represent?' and i--and i always had trouble with that, because it... c-span: stockholders? >> guest: well, it--no, because if simpson thacher is representing the special committee--i mean, it
c-span: who--who is this man from williams & connolly? >> guest: that is aubrey daniels iii. c-span: why is he famous in--in our history? >> guest: he was the prosecutor of lieutenant calley, the-the person who led the attack on--massacre--at my lai. c-span: who did he represent in all this? >> guest: he represented adm, and he... c-span: who's this fellow right here? >> guest: that is richard beatty, who is the chairman of simpson thacher, who represented the...
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. >> the discrepancies were first noticed by a staff member at congressman gerry connolly's office. >> we think there could be as many as 3,000 ballots that are not accounted for. >> reporter: 3,000 ballots could swing the outcome of the close attorney general's race which now has republican mark obenshain leading over democrat mark herring by only about 700 votes. >> basically due to human error which is what happens sometimes. there's potentially a few thousand votes at stake, so it could impact the election. >> reporter: connolly's staffer knew when people go to the trouble of asking for an absentee ballot, they almost always send it in. the return rate is usually close to 90%, but in the 8th congressional district only 50% of the absentee ballots were counted. in fairfax, peggy fox, wusa9. >>> fans love their sports stars, but do you love them enough to elect one as the mayor out of the blue? that was part of the story line in boston this week when reports circulated red sox slugger david ortiz had come in third in the voting in tuesday's mayoral election, but today the city annou
. >> the discrepancies were first noticed by a staff member at congressman gerry connolly's office. >> we think there could be as many as 3,000 ballots that are not accounted for. >> reporter: 3,000 ballots could swing the outcome of the close attorney general's race which now has republican mark obenshain leading over democrat mark herring by only about 700 votes. >> basically due to human error which is what happens sometimes. there's potentially a few thousand votes...
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at both kennedy and connolly.nly one making this assertion. his wife nelly who is sitting next to him in the car backed him up. she even helped re-enact -- helped connolly re-enact the scene for the photographer, standing in for jfk in the shot. he told life, they talk about the one bullet or two bullet theory, but as far as i'm concerned, there is no theory. there is my absolute knowledge. this sense of knowing, just knowing something is wrong with the official story of the kennedy assassination was then and still is prevalent among the american public. gallup poll conducted in the week after the assassination and the murder of the prime suspect, lee harvey oswald, found 29% believe that he acted on his own, while 52% believed there was some other group or element also responsible. so widespread dowd ceded a veritable industry of conspiracy theorists, amateur and professional. poured over the 26 volumes of the warren report, one made an index. and in new orleans, the elected district attorney jim garrison took up
at both kennedy and connolly.nly one making this assertion. his wife nelly who is sitting next to him in the car backed him up. she even helped re-enact -- helped connolly re-enact the scene for the photographer, standing in for jfk in the shot. he told life, they talk about the one bullet or two bullet theory, but as far as i'm concerned, there is no theory. there is my absolute knowledge. this sense of knowing, just knowing something is wrong with the official story of the kennedy...
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host: the late john connolly reflecting in 1991. this is a picture not often seen, a book that was put together on john f. kennedy. this is a motorcade and the flags welcoming john f. kennedy. one of the often asked questions is, how could the secret service have let this happen? today you would never see a president in an open air motorcade. guest: it's a defining moment, the death of the president. it is so irrational. it is so unbelievable and unreasonable that this happened, that this lone gunmen could do this, that it inevitably leads to all sorts of conspiracy theories and stories and questions and second-guessing. it's human nature. it is to be expected. history will always have these question marks. that goes with the territory. host: one of the most widely viewed films is the printer film. does that answer questions or leave more questions unanswered as you look at this film and what happened on that day? guest: the warren commission looked at it over and over and over. i think it is the single best corroboration of the cir
host: the late john connolly reflecting in 1991. this is a picture not often seen, a book that was put together on john f. kennedy. this is a motorcade and the flags welcoming john f. kennedy. one of the often asked questions is, how could the secret service have let this happen? today you would never see a president in an open air motorcade. guest: it's a defining moment, the death of the president. it is so irrational. it is so unbelievable and unreasonable that this happened, that this lone...
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congressman john yarmuth, gerry connolly, great to have you with us. thank you.r to answer tonight's question. share your thoughts with us on twitter @ed show and on facebook. and we always want to know what you think. love your comments. coming up, a teen activist fighting for your right to know what the hell you're eating. kind of important. we're talking about gmos and food labeling with a remarkable young woman taking on the corporate food giants. >>> plus, joe biden's prank call. the veep phones in some comic relief on throwback thursday. stay with us. when we made our commitment to the gulf, bp had two big goals: help the gulf recover and learn from what happened so we could be a better, safer energy company. i can tell you - safety is at the heart of everything we do. we've added cutting-edge technology, like a new deepwater well cap and a state-of-the-art monitoring center, where experts watch over all drilling activity twenty-four-seven. and we're sharing what we've learned, so we can all produce energy more safely. our commitment has never been stronger
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congressman john yarmuth, gerry connolly, great to have you with us. thank you.r to answer tonight's question. share your thoughts with us on twitter @ed show and on facebook. and we always want to know what you think. love your comments. coming up, a teen activist fighting for your right to know what the hell you're eating. kind of important. we're talking about gmos and food labeling with a remarkable young woman taking on the corporate food giants. >>> plus, joe biden's prank call. the veep phones in some comic relief on throwback thursday. stay with us. female narrator: sleep train challenged sleep train challenged its manufacturers to offer even lower prices. but the mattress price wars end monday. now, it's posturepedic versus beautyrest with big savings of up to $400 off. serta icomfort and tempur-pedic go head-to-head with three years' interest-free financing, plus free same-day delivery, setup, and removal of your old set. when brands compete, you save. mattress price wars end monday at sleep train. ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪
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it's 79-79 and the grizzlies kick out the ball to connolly.emphis went on to lead the rest of the way. the first loss at home for the war yores this year. 11 straight to the grizzlies. >>> baseball has its first big blockbuster trade of the winter, involving two of the best teams in the american league. prior to the 2012 season, the detroit tigers signed prince fielder to a 9 year $214 million contract. fielder and that contract are now the property of the texas rangers. fielder hit 25 home runs with 106 rbi's for the tigers last season. detroit will pay for a portion of the remaining 7 years on his contract. in exchange for fielder, the tigers get ian kinsler. kinsler is a three time all- star. the rangers and tigers have represented the american league in three of the last four world series. >>> identity of the starting quarterback has been i need to address a christmas night bedtime. specifically - the "no toys in bed" rule. we simply ask, let the gifts do their jobs. please...don't get in the gifts way. join shop your way at kmart get in.
it's 79-79 and the grizzlies kick out the ball to connolly.emphis went on to lead the rest of the way. the first loss at home for the war yores this year. 11 straight to the grizzlies. >>> baseball has its first big blockbuster trade of the winter, involving two of the best teams in the american league. prior to the 2012 season, the detroit tigers signed prince fielder to a 9 year $214 million contract. fielder and that contract are now the property of the texas rangers. fielder hit 25...
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it's 79-79 and the grizzlies kick out the ball to connolly. memphis went on to lead the rest of the way. the first loss at home for the war yores this year. 11 straight to the grizzlies. >>> baseball has its first big blockbuster trade of the winter, involving two of the best teams in the american league. prior to the 2012 season, the detroit tigers signed prince fielder to a 9 year $214 million contract. fielder and that contract are now the property of the texas rangers. fielder hit 25 home runs with 106 rbi's for the tigers last season. detroit will pay for a portion of the remaining 7 years on his contract. in exchange for fielder, the tigers get ian kinsler. kinsler is a three time all- star. the rangers and tigers have represented the american league in three of the last four world series. >>> identity of the starting quarterback has been a fluid situation for the oakland raiders. when we come back, the latest twist as the raiders prepare for their game sunday against tennessee. yeah, but i mean, how did you know? i researched. no, i-i t
it's 79-79 and the grizzlies kick out the ball to connolly. memphis went on to lead the rest of the way. the first loss at home for the war yores this year. 11 straight to the grizzlies. >>> baseball has its first big blockbuster trade of the winter, involving two of the best teams in the american league. prior to the 2012 season, the detroit tigers signed prince fielder to a 9 year $214 million contract. fielder and that contract are now the property of the texas rangers. fielder hit...
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at 2:00, john connolly made that point that it was positive that he would not accept. this is the way that history is made. had lyndon johnson not accepted, he of course would not be president of united states today. no one could ever have believed or dreamed that a president so young would not conclude his term of office and that death would interrupt. there is little else to report here in washington, just the general reactions. a bulletin has just come in from dallas. a sniper armed with a high- powered rifle murdered president kennedy today. kennedy posta,r lyndon johnson has taken the oath of office as the 37th president of the united states. it is president lyndon johnson , 55 years old, the new president of united states. now back to new york. details on the swearing in of lyndon johnson. the oath was administered in dallas at 1:38 central standard time, roughly an hour and 20 minutes ago, by a federal district judge him a sarah t. hughes. president johnson took the oath of board up residential plane at love field in dallas as he prepared to fly to washington to
at 2:00, john connolly made that point that it was positive that he would not accept. this is the way that history is made. had lyndon johnson not accepted, he of course would not be president of united states today. no one could ever have believed or dreamed that a president so young would not conclude his term of office and that death would interrupt. there is little else to report here in washington, just the general reactions. a bulletin has just come in from dallas. a sniper armed with a...
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. >> reporter: the discrepancies were first noticed by a staff member at congressman gerry connolly's office. >> we think there could be as many as 3,000 ballots that are not accounted for in the eighth congressional district. >> reporter: 3,000 ballots could swing the outcome of the close attorney general's race which has republican mark obenshain leading over democrat mark herring by 700 votes. >> basically human error which is what happens sometimes, but there's potentially a few thousand votes at stake. so it could impact the election because the election is so close. >> reporter: here's what connolly's staffer noticed. he knew when people go to the trouble of asking for an absentee ballot, they almost always fill it out and send it in. the return rate is usually close to 90%, but in the 8th congressional district only 50% of the absentee ballots were counted. >> it appears that there was a tape from a machine that was not counted and included in the results that night. we are trying to make sure that's the only tape and that that tape doesn't reflect any double counting. >> this
. >> reporter: the discrepancies were first noticed by a staff member at congressman gerry connolly's office. >> we think there could be as many as 3,000 ballots that are not accounted for in the eighth congressional district. >> reporter: 3,000 ballots could swing the outcome of the close attorney general's race which has republican mark obenshain leading over democrat mark herring by 700 votes. >> basically human error which is what happens sometimes, but there's...
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. >> traveling with the kennedys are texas governor john connolly and his wife nellie. >> as soon as the president finished the receiving line, he headed for the crowd to shake hands. >> they shake hands because the whole idea of being there in texas was to demonstrate his popularity, his appeal. >> 11:50 a.m. the motorcade leaves love field for lunch at the trademark. as the clock tiks away on kennedy's life, professional and amateur photographers like abraham zapruder film his last moments. >> as they go down the min street in dallas, the crowd very large, exuberant, friendly. people in open window, some on balance cones and on rooftops toward the end of main street. we had to turn right on houston. the crowds dropped off considerably. >> i remember seeing the motorcade turn right on houston street and go that short block. >> bill and gail newman are the closest eye witnesses, they're on the grassy knoll. >> i turned around to the president and i said, mr. president, you can't say dallas doesn't love you just as we were approaching the book depository. >> we noticed this building a
. >> traveling with the kennedys are texas governor john connolly and his wife nellie. >> as soon as the president finished the receiving line, he headed for the crowd to shake hands. >> they shake hands because the whole idea of being there in texas was to demonstrate his popularity, his appeal. >> 11:50 a.m. the motorcade leaves love field for lunch at the trademark. as the clock tiks away on kennedy's life, professional and amateur photographers like abraham zapruder...
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connolly. governor knowly on you ever left. >> it was whether president kennedy could use 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 from the limousine and shaking hands across the fence. >> in those days, everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and i au 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 police trying to keep them back. >> this is great for the people and makes the eggshells even thiper for the secret service's job to guard the pan. >> the trip had gone well in texas. pretty hard to write a script for it going any better. >> thousands will be on hand for the motorcade now which will be downtown dallas. >> a number of my classmates were gone, they were at the parade. my father had been in
connolly. governor knowly on you ever left. >> it was whether president kennedy could use 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 from the limousine and shaking hands across the fence. >> in those days, everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and i au a hand reach through the...
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. >>> phoebe connolly doesn't care what you call this crime. that's not what's important to her. to her in northwest washington. a neighborhood called columbia heights. she was on her bike. she joins me tonight. >> phoebe, walk us through what happened to you. >> on friday, november 15th, i was biking home, and i was biking up 11th street in columbia heights. and as i was making my way i noticed a group of teenagers biking up the hill ahead of me. by the time i got close to the top of the hill, they had stopped. and i continued biking. and the separated themselves into two groups. there was about five kids on the right-hand side and three kids on the left. as i approached the group i had to bike through them. and i said, excuse me, as i was biking through. and just as i was passing through the group, one of the kids of the group biked off and cut me off, cut my path of direction off and turned his bike so that he was going down the hill as i was going up it. and as we passed, he reached out and punched me in the face and said, whoopow as he hit me in the face. and the whole group
. >>> phoebe connolly doesn't care what you call this crime. that's not what's important to her. to her in northwest washington. a neighborhood called columbia heights. she was on her bike. she joins me tonight. >> phoebe, walk us through what happened to you. >> on friday, november 15th, i was biking home, and i was biking up 11th street in columbia heights. and as i was making my way i noticed a group of teenagers biking up the hill ahead of me. by the time i got close to...
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and he was trying to put the party back together. >> host: connolly was his protÉge and best friend.>> guest: essentially kennedy's presidency is only really understood well in the electoral context that you and i understand well. kennedy had been elected by a smidgen. some say he was not elected all but 118,000 votes at least on the official record. texas, a tiny number of votes. tens of thousands in a large texas electric. electorate. kennedy during his whole term worried about that re-election. it didn't matter that things looked good. he remembered how close he had been. he needed texas and that is why he was there. >> host: i want to go back because we didn't get enough time to talk about your discovery about the flawed recording so i want to get back to that. entire basis as i recall of the house investigation was that there was a microphone that was stuck open of a dallas police officer recording the events there and this recording was saved but lost in history for a time. they claim that it was four shots and because of the time oswald fired it was impossible that a .55 secon
and he was trying to put the party back together. >> host: connolly was his protÉge and best friend.>> guest: essentially kennedy's presidency is only really understood well in the electoral context that you and i understand well. kennedy had been elected by a smidgen. some say he was not elected all but 118,000 votes at least on the official record. texas, a tiny number of votes. tens of thousands in a large texas electric. electorate. kennedy during his whole term worried about...
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congressman gerry connolly from virginia, thanks for joining me. joining me now, josh barrow with business insider. i want to pick up a point that the congressman just made. he's talking abouts the message discipline of terry mcauliffe. this was terry mcauliffe talking about the tea party and his opposition this week. >> we are proud to be democrats, folks. >> but we are also proud that we are in the mainstream of virginia. the tea party is going to spend their time trying to make this election about personal attacks on me instead of policy differences. they know that this election, if it is about the issues that matter to virginians, they can't win. >> so what strikes me about that is traditionally you look at virginia as a state for democrats to win in virginia. the model we're all sort of used to, you've got to get the gun guys, got to be culturally conservative, show them you're tough on death penalty, tim kaine went through this whole thing in 2005. and the message of the mcauliffe campaign has really been, no, it's ken cuccinelli who's out of
congressman gerry connolly from virginia, thanks for joining me. joining me now, josh barrow with business insider. i want to pick up a point that the congressman just made. he's talking abouts the message discipline of terry mcauliffe. this was terry mcauliffe talking about the tea party and his opposition this week. >> we are proud to be democrats, folks. >> but we are also proud that we are in the mainstream of virginia. the tea party is going to spend their time trying to make...
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connolly was removed from office in 1921 when joseph dixon became governor, and connolly was actually tried in court for misappropriation of state funds but he was found not guilty. but the theater continue to be used as a reward for the men. one thing that i learned about prison populations is that sometimes the men destroy the things that are most useful to them and most productive. and the prison was burned by an arsonist in about 1972. so the interior reflex that burned-out shell, and, unfortunately, the men destroyed the one reward that they actually had. >> this is a 1912 the cellblock, and 1969 there was a riot that occurred when several prisoners confronted the authorities and after one employee was killed. it was a three-day standoff. a guy by the name of lee smart and jerry miles holed up in the power of your. the national guard was called in, and the national guard fired off to world war ii bazooka's. one of them hit the window. you can see the damage. the other one went far wide of its mark and went over the tower and into the neighborhood beyond. fortunately no one was ki
connolly was removed from office in 1921 when joseph dixon became governor, and connolly was actually tried in court for misappropriation of state funds but he was found not guilty. but the theater continue to be used as a reward for the men. one thing that i learned about prison populations is that sometimes the men destroy the things that are most useful to them and most productive. and the prison was burned by an arsonist in about 1972. so the interior reflex that burned-out shell, and,...
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lyndon johnson was kind of in the middle and he was trying to put the party back together. >> host: connolly was his protÉge and self -- friend. >> guest: kennedy's presidency is only understood well in the electoral context that you would understand well and that i understand well. kennedy had an elected by a smidgen and some say he wasn't elected at all but 118,000 votes on the official record. texas, tiny number of votes. tens of thousands in the large texas electorate. look, kennedy during his whole term worried about the re-election. it didn't matter that things looked good. he remembered how close it had been. he needed texas and that is why he was there. >> host: i didn't give you enough time to talk about your discovery about the fraud recording. i wanted to get back to that because the entire races as i recall of the house investigation in 1979 was that it was a microphone that was stuck open of a dallas police officer recording the events there and that this recording was saved but lost in history for a time and they claim that it was four shots and because of the time that oswald
lyndon johnson was kind of in the middle and he was trying to put the party back together. >> host: connolly was his protÉge and self -- friend. >> guest: kennedy's presidency is only understood well in the electoral context that you would understand well and that i understand well. kennedy had an elected by a smidgen and some say he wasn't elected at all but 118,000 votes on the official record. texas, tiny number of votes. tens of thousands in the large texas electorate. look,...
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joe biden stumped for mcauliffe with mark warner and congressman, gerry connolly. they said voters needed to send a message to the tea party. >> because it's the first major race between the forces and faces of the new republican tea party. a tea party whose social is out done only by its hostility, to science and technology, innovation and scholarship. >> keep pushing to get out the vote, warning that light voter turnout could help the tea party. >> it's been a great last couple of days. we focus on getting the vote out. it's all about getting the vote out. obviously, you feel the excitement, the intensity, we knocked on 1.8 million doors. >> polls open tomorrow from 6:00 in the morning until 7:00 at night. >>> and there are no statewide races in other places, but there are local ones in maryland this year. for the first time in 24 years, college park voters are choose ago new mayor. andrew fellows is being challenged this time around by robert. he ran uncontested over the last two dozen years. >>> i'm scott broom in takoma park, maryland, where a 16-year- old has
joe biden stumped for mcauliffe with mark warner and congressman, gerry connolly. they said voters needed to send a message to the tea party. >> because it's the first major race between the forces and faces of the new republican tea party. a tea party whose social is out done only by its hostility, to science and technology, innovation and scholarship. >> keep pushing to get out the vote, warning that light voter turnout could help the tea party. >> it's been a great last...
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connolly. . . mr. connolly: i thank my colleague. i assure him it bonet be -- it won't be lengthy. when i first heard that barry sullivan was retiring, my reaction was, say it ain't so.
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together with members of the journalists families the president paul connolly was at the french capital's main airport was seashells ago to meet the plane carrying the coffins bushes and coupon code that battle but what to post my cat sister radio station. our fight and they were covering a story in monday's troubled northern city of can tell when they were kidnapped. well the forties with time it wrong that day on the outskirts of the sixty one strikeouts the editorial direction up to the socket he speaks now this happens. i guess. it was a terribly sad moment with emotions running high because gentle ocean and island is to be doing a job so would that help civilization. the minders have no soul. these journalists do not fit extremely well. no tennis deserves this at the same time. this will only be enforced to believe that we need to continue to fight everyday to go to these war torn places. otherwise by parents detail. like its editorial director speaking that before because james on trade is reporting their child ago he tells us more top of this morning's events the plane and that tha
together with members of the journalists families the president paul connolly was at the french capital's main airport was seashells ago to meet the plane carrying the coffins bushes and coupon code that battle but what to post my cat sister radio station. our fight and they were covering a story in monday's troubled northern city of can tell when they were kidnapped. well the forties with time it wrong that day on the outskirts of the sixty one strikeouts the editorial direction up to the...
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agreed to strengthen financial and high tech cooperation to develop new growth engines for their own connolly's buy or sell agreed to remove tariff barriers and other hurdles to try and expand bilateral investments and i spoke about the korean peninsula trust christ as proposed by sol with eyesight is important for the korean peninsula and full regional and international peace and security. what we're going to die across to allow correspondent in india short of a job because the hindu is counting down to the bourne shell this festival but to two months' that it hopes the complex mission will demonstrate an advanced technologies for space travel sigh well it's across town to issue with us and that she is there waiting for sydney daily chore though this is certainly at the moment it isn't that worth to be in vietnam trying to join others other countries who have been able to send across in the same direction. but what is the significance although the thousand year is consent and when is this robot about to go up. ok i just update everyone that the talking past and don't talk to karen mok soccer t
agreed to strengthen financial and high tech cooperation to develop new growth engines for their own connolly's buy or sell agreed to remove tariff barriers and other hurdles to try and expand bilateral investments and i spoke about the korean peninsula trust christ as proposed by sol with eyesight is important for the korean peninsula and full regional and international peace and security. what we're going to die across to allow correspondent in india short of a job because the hindu is...
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think the force of the bullet would have thrown him forward just like the same bullet threw john connolly, our governor, down into the seat and history would have been completely different. >> you can see the entire interview on a special edition of 48 hours tomorrow night at 9:00 here on kpix5. >>> tonight we'd like to take a moment tapa our respects to a bay area journalists. his name was raul ramirez. he died at his home in berkeley this morning of cancer of the esophagus. he was executive director of news and public affairs at kqed radio. he also worked at the oakland tribune and san francisco examiner. he taught at san francisco state university and at cal and was a vocal advocate for diversity in journalism. raul ramirez was 67. their hands on >>> situation in the philippines is so desperate tonight that survivors are doing anything that it takes to get their hands on food. some shaky video for you there shows hundreds of people looting a barge that the typhoon sent crashing onto land. they're taking sacks of rice off that boat. >>> well, a big thank you to everyone who donated to o
think the force of the bullet would have thrown him forward just like the same bullet threw john connolly, our governor, down into the seat and history would have been completely different. >> you can see the entire interview on a special edition of 48 hours tomorrow night at 9:00 here on kpix5. >>> tonight we'd like to take a moment tapa our respects to a bay area journalists. his name was raul ramirez. he died at his home in berkeley this morning of cancer of the esophagus. he...
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connolly. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me begin on a bipartisan note. mr. chairman, you and i helped write, joining together the act requiring reform of i.t. acquisition, federal i.t. acquisition. mr. van roekel, you seem to have been equivocal maybe at our last meeting in january. but i want to reid to you a statement by the president of the united states. he said just recently one of the lessons learned from this whole process in the website is that probably the biggest gap between the private sector and the federal government is when it comes to i.t. how we procure it, how we purchase it. this has been true on a whole range of projects. a reasonable inference from that statement could be drawn that perhaps we do need some more legislation, some new legislation to free up some of the morinubd rolled roles. >> would the gentleman yield? of course. i couldn't agree with you more that in fact one of the lessons i hope all of us take out of this hearing today is that we have two people from the private sector who know that they would never do a process like t
connolly. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me begin on a bipartisan note. mr. chairman, you and i helped write, joining together the act requiring reform of i.t. acquisition, federal i.t. acquisition. mr. van roekel, you seem to have been equivocal maybe at our last meeting in january. but i want to reid to you a statement by the president of the united states. he said just recently one of the lessons learned from this whole process in the website is that probably the biggest gap between...
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ricocheted fragments of the bullets and subsequently they found some grains from a bullet in governor connolly's rest which years later was proven to be the same bullet that went through the president and entered the governor. >> this question no one can definitively answer, had kidnapped and killed that day, how do you think history would have been changed, particularly the civil rights movement and what other changes in history do we think would have happened had kennedy lived his full term are full to terms? >> i defer tax mr. k-9. >> i will try to answer that because it is all speculation. i do not think that mr. kennedy, even though he had done some things that were really exciting in the country, i don't think he would have had the power to get the legislation through the lyndon baines johnson did have been used to do that. how that might have affected the nation, it would have had another ten years without the civil rights legislation. i'm not sure what kind of chaos could have happened. >> is a very good answer. the bin many books written by nestorians there were qualified to address tha
ricocheted fragments of the bullets and subsequently they found some grains from a bullet in governor connolly's rest which years later was proven to be the same bullet that went through the president and entered the governor. >> this question no one can definitively answer, had kidnapped and killed that day, how do you think history would have been changed, particularly the civil rights movement and what other changes in history do we think would have happened had kennedy lived his full...
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wasgovernor, he -- connolly shot in the head and -- in the arm and wrist. we don't know what make of the rifle was or who had it. a young man was picked up at the scene and is being questioned. we don't know who he is. that is all we have at the moment. vice president lyndon johnson will now be sworn in as president of the united states and will serve out the remainder term. kennedy's which runs until january 20, 1964. beyond that, we do not know. frank? bill? you there? do you have any more from texas or elsewhere? resident kennedy was assassinated today in a burst of gunfire in downtown dallas. john conolly was shut down with him. to thesident was rushed hospital and taken into an emergency room. in urging call went out for nurses and for blood. the president was 44 years old. he was shot once in the head. governor connally was shot in the wrist. police have found the rifle. the president was conscious as he arrived to the hospital. a priest was called and administered his last rites. the car. johnson was in behind the kennedys and the connelly's. he is t
wasgovernor, he -- connolly shot in the head and -- in the arm and wrist. we don't know what make of the rifle was or who had it. a young man was picked up at the scene and is being questioned. we don't know who he is. that is all we have at the moment. vice president lyndon johnson will now be sworn in as president of the united states and will serve out the remainder term. kennedy's which runs until january 20, 1964. beyond that, we do not know. frank? bill? you there? do you have any more...
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on october 27, 1947, the connolly birthday new york and stevedores flinch the caskets from her hold and specially designed swings, to buy it to you. these debt and those that followed began a great diaspora across the republic for burial in their hometown cemeteries in national cemeteries. that is how the dead came home. but what about their belongings? what about the things they carried? even before the dead came home, these things have been coming home in it large warehouse in kansas city, the u.s. army expects piero had begun as a modest quarter measure enterprise with only a half dozen employees in february, 1942. that expanded to more than a dozen workers. by august of 1945, they were handling 60,000 shipments a month, each laden with the effects of american dead from six continents. hour after hour, day after day, shipping containers were unloaded from the rail freight cars that pulled off to the side next to the warehouse on hard the avenue. they were pulled onto receiving dock and hoisted by elevator to the debt goes 10th floor and hear, inspect or spot through the crates to ext
on october 27, 1947, the connolly birthday new york and stevedores flinch the caskets from her hold and specially designed swings, to buy it to you. these debt and those that followed began a great diaspora across the republic for burial in their hometown cemeteries in national cemeteries. that is how the dead came home. but what about their belongings? what about the things they carried? even before the dead came home, these things have been coming home in it large warehouse in kansas city,...
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[applause] mark connolly. [applause] larry sylvan. [applause] let's give them all a big round of applause. i also want to thank this opportunity to take all the staff members of the democratic party. let's give them another round of applause for all the work they have done. [applause] i'd like to thanks the sponsors of tonight's dinner. dr. jeffrey clark. [applause] the democratic governor's association. [applause] i'd like to make a special thank you to the new hampshire firefighters. let's give them a round of applause. [applause] you might want to reach under your seat, because a lucky few of you have a new hampshire firefighters first in the nation primary t-shirt taped to the bottom of your seat. i hope so, at least. does anyone have one? [applause] i'd like to think the dinner cochair, susan all mean. the american federation of teachers. jimmy brewster. larry drake and joan jacob. the international union of painters and allied trade. the national air traffic controllers association. the national association of letter carriers. d
[applause] mark connolly. [applause] larry sylvan. [applause] let's give them all a big round of applause. i also want to thank this opportunity to take all the staff members of the democratic party. let's give them another round of applause for all the work they have done. [applause] i'd like to thanks the sponsors of tonight's dinner. dr. jeffrey clark. [applause] the democratic governor's association. [applause] i'd like to make a special thank you to the new hampshire firefighters. let's...
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johnson really relied on connolly.onnolly was very close to him they thought a lot alike in many ways. at delicate times in johnson's life he wanted connolly to do thi things for him that he wouldn't really trust anybody else. >> back to the list of people who were critical of you. bobby baker, is he still alive? >> various jobs but he was secretary to the senator. >> he would have been in this room? >> i'm sure he would have. >> have you ever seen any public criticism from him? >> i don't see every word that's written about me. i'm aware that many of the johnson assistants don't like my books at all. >> how long did roberts work for him as his secretary? >> that's another person, i'm not familiar with anything she said. >> secretary for how long? >> i don't know. >> is she still alive? >> yok so. >> and you have never talked to her? >> no. >> bill moyer? >> briian, some of them are -- they are taught under all different rules of whether they talk to me or not. but bill, i actually, i don't think i have ever tried to t
johnson really relied on connolly.onnolly was very close to him they thought a lot alike in many ways. at delicate times in johnson's life he wanted connolly to do thi things for him that he wouldn't really trust anybody else. >> back to the list of people who were critical of you. bobby baker, is he still alive? >> various jobs but he was secretary to the senator. >> he would have been in this room? >> i'm sure he would have. >> have you ever seen any public...
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and yip also worked with bobby connolly as a choreographer in the early '30s on his shows, who was alsowizard of oz." so he had a cast here with arlen who were, you know, sort of yip's men. you know what i mean? so, when yip went to arthur freed, the producer, who was too busy to work on this musical, and mervin leroy had nothing to do with it, practically, because he had never done a musical before, so it became a vacuum in which the lyricist entered, because he was all ready to do so. yip was always an active, you know, organizer. and so, the first thing he suggested was that they integrate the music with the story, which at that time in hollywood they usually didn't do. they'd stop the story, and you'd sing a song. they'd stop the story and sing a song. that you integrate this -- arthur freed accepted the idea immediately. yip then wrote -- yip and harold then wrote the songs for the 45 minutes within a 110-minute film. the munchkin sequence and into the emerald city and on their way to the wicked witch, when all the songs stopped, because they wouldn't let them do anymore. ok? you'l
and yip also worked with bobby connolly as a choreographer in the early '30s on his shows, who was alsowizard of oz." so he had a cast here with arlen who were, you know, sort of yip's men. you know what i mean? so, when yip went to arthur freed, the producer, who was too busy to work on this musical, and mervin leroy had nothing to do with it, practically, because he had never done a musical before, so it became a vacuum in which the lyricist entered, because he was all ready to do so....
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mark connolly. senator jackie delete. senator donna souci. and larry stillman.et's give them all a big round of applause. [applause] also i want to take this opportunity to thank all of the staff of the new hampshire democratic artie. i know the senator did, but let's give them another round of applause for all the work they have done. [applause] i would like to thank the sponsors of tonight's dinner. majority makers. i really want to thank. sarah martha park and dr. jeffrey clark. [applause] ahmad to bury. the democratic governors association. bruce cherished. i would like to make a special thank you to the new hampshire firefighters. let's give them a round of applause. now, you might want to reach under your seat, because a lucky few of you have a new hampshire firefighters first of the nation primary t-shirt taped to the bottom of your seat. i hope, anyways. did anyone get one? again, i'd like to thank the dinner cochairs, representative susan all need. american federation of teachers. cole, larryer, john drake and joan jacob.. hassan enbridge communications
mark connolly. senator jackie delete. senator donna souci. and larry stillman.et's give them all a big round of applause. [applause] also i want to take this opportunity to thank all of the staff of the new hampshire democratic artie. i know the senator did, but let's give them another round of applause for all the work they have done. [applause] i would like to thank the sponsors of tonight's dinner. majority makers. i really want to thank. sarah martha park and dr. jeffrey clark. [applause]...
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connolly. . . mr. connolly: i thank my colleague. i assure him it bonet be -- it won't be lengthy. when i first heard that barry sullivan was retiring, my reaction was, say it ain't so. i've been in this body for five years and one of the first people i met in orientation was barry sullivan. and as a son of boston, myself, as an irish catholic myself, as somebody whose family vacations where cod periodically, barry also vacations, i felt i was at home. i felt that there was a human face to this institution. who cared about it passionately, who had ties to tip o'neill and joe mogley, two great heros in my family's household in bostonment and i think barry has provided incredible service to the people's body, to this house, and has tried to ease stress, has tried to make our lives more comfortable. i cannot imagine what we're all going to do when our pager goes off and we don't hear that boston sta catow, you know, there will be four votes. this is the last series of the day. and that's barry sullivan. and if you come from new england, those are comforting tones. barry has contribute
connolly. . . mr. connolly: i thank my colleague. i assure him it bonet be -- it won't be lengthy. when i first heard that barry sullivan was retiring, my reaction was, say it ain't so. i've been in this body for five years and one of the first people i met in orientation was barry sullivan. and as a son of boston, myself, as an irish catholic myself, as somebody whose family vacations where cod periodically, barry also vacations, i felt i was at home. i felt that there was a human face to this...
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running behind connolly. phil: legarrette blount hesitates in the hole. oh, there's nobody there. the blocking, nobody getting off the blocks. you have to keep playing. jim: ike taylor hurt. this is a new england team that four times this season had not even managed 300 yards total offense that carry by blount puts them over 600 today. 606 yards for the patriots, including 432 by brady, third highest of his career. ridley over 100. you see the patriots go into a bye now. phil: every schedule looks tough when you put it up there. it's the nfl. at carolina, denver, of course. at houston. cleveland, they're no easy out. at miami. jim: this marks the, if you will, game nine for new england, start of the second half of the season. in the last three years when you take their ninth through 16th games, they've been 23-1, the patriots. they talked about in our meetings with them, you know, it's going to start to get cold around here, gets to be patriot kind of weather, patriot time of the year. first and goal here. nocking on the door on 50. blount. wants to carry a couple with him. how ab
running behind connolly. phil: legarrette blount hesitates in the hole. oh, there's nobody there. the blocking, nobody getting off the blocks. you have to keep playing. jim: ike taylor hurt. this is a new england team that four times this season had not even managed 300 yards total offense that carry by blount puts them over 600 today. 606 yards for the patriots, including 432 by brady, third highest of his career. ridley over 100. you see the patriots go into a bye now. phil: every schedule...
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wound was where the so-called magic bullet exited kennedy's body before striking texas governor john connollyuld have been an entrance wound or an exit wound. and i don't know if anything will ever come up. it's been 50 years and nothing has surfaced yet that would indicate that there was a second shooter. certainly that possibility existing. but right now i would accept the warren commission report. >> it's a fairytale. it didn't happen. no bullet went through both men >> reporter: to conspiracy theorists like robert groden, the single bullet theory is one of many problems with the official story. >> so the x there in the middle of the road? you put that down there? >> yes. i put that down there 19 years ago. >> reporter: groden grew up in new york and moved to dallas almost 20 years ago, proving the kennedy assassination conspiracy is his life's mission. you can find him on the grassy knoll every weekend, arguing his case. >> do people come out here and say, man, you're just crazy? >> nobody says that. >> nobody? >> nobody. there's i guess amalgamation between the mob and the elements in th
wound was where the so-called magic bullet exited kennedy's body before striking texas governor john connollyuld have been an entrance wound or an exit wound. and i don't know if anything will ever come up. it's been 50 years and nothing has surfaced yet that would indicate that there was a second shooter. certainly that possibility existing. but right now i would accept the warren commission report. >> it's a fairytale. it didn't happen. no bullet went through both men >> reporter:...
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wound was where the so-called magic bullet exited his body before strikinging texas governor john connollyn an entrance or exit wound. i don't know if anything will ever come up. nothing has surfaced yet that would indicate that there was a second shooter. certainly that possibility exists. but right now, i would accept the warren commission report. >> it's a fairy tale. it didn't happen. no bullet went through both men. >> to conspiracy thoerts like robert grodin, the single bullet story is one of the problems with the official story. >> so you. you the that down there, the x in the middle of the road? >> yeah, i put that down there 19 years ago. >> he grew up in new york and moved to dallas almost 20 years ago, proving the kennedy assassination conspiracy is his life's mission. you can find him on the grassy knoll every weekend arguing his case into do people come out here and say, man, you're just crazy? >> >> nobody says that. >> nobody. >> nobody. i believe i guess there reinforce an amalgamation and elements within the cia. >> so the cia and the mob working together is the theory tha
wound was where the so-called magic bullet exited his body before strikinging texas governor john connollyn an entrance or exit wound. i don't know if anything will ever come up. nothing has surfaced yet that would indicate that there was a second shooter. certainly that possibility exists. but right now, i would accept the warren commission report. >> it's a fairy tale. it didn't happen. no bullet went through both men. >> to conspiracy thoerts like robert grodin, the single bullet...
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but many drivers don't realize these snake-like curves near connolly springs, north carolina, can beficult to navigate. even deadly. fire and rescue crews race to the scene of a tanker truck that has spun out of control and slammed into a bridge. as they get closer and closer, a thick billowing cloud of black smoke looms ominously on the horizon. >> we've had a lot of wrecks, single vehicle and multi car crashes including tractor-trailers and small passenger vehicles. this is one of the most dangerous areas of interstate 40 in north carolina. >> traffic comes to a standstill. some motorists even resort to driving the wrong way in the emergency lane in order to exit the freeway from an on ramp. when firefighters and first responders arrive, they're face-to-face with a 50-foot-high fireball that has engulfed the bridge. >> basically the whole underside of interstate 40, the bridge and things was covered up with flames. in my 30-year career i've had now, i've never seen anything of that magnitude of flames. >> large plumes could be seen from miles away. flame length 68 feet. and a large
but many drivers don't realize these snake-like curves near connolly springs, north carolina, can beficult to navigate. even deadly. fire and rescue crews race to the scene of a tanker truck that has spun out of control and slammed into a bridge. as they get closer and closer, a thick billowing cloud of black smoke looms ominously on the horizon. >> we've had a lot of wrecks, single vehicle and multi car crashes including tractor-trailers and small passenger vehicles. this is one of the...