why were they in dealey plaza at the top of the grassy knoll? this would add some hard evidence to the belief that perhaps other people were involved and perhaps there was a second shooter behind a picket fence. i am convinced though that if there were a second shooter behind a picket fence he didn't either fire or missed entirely. the bullet trajectories truly go to the window on the sixth floor where someone fired and i believe the overwhelming evidence suggests leslie harvey oswald. there was a shotgun and lots of different things. he clearly thought that mail order rifle. think about this, the president of the united states was killed with a 19-dollar rifle. >> host: i did a little research. it was considered to be a fairly good rifle. the conspiracy theorist to try to suggest that it was just a very bad rifle but actually it was considered to be above average as far as accuracy. >> guest: the scope was off. if he had practiced with a gun he could've made that calculation is said. it was possible the scope was knocked out of kilter. the othe

it's actually located on the grassy knoll on street side there.he final part of the speech that will jfk was on his way to deliver at the dallas trade mart on that day. >> kennedy was the nation's 35th president. this week has given us all an opportunity really to revisit history to revisit the legacy of john f. kennedy. what would the u.s. have been like had this assassination not happened? these important pieces of legislation, the voting rights act, civil rights act. >> he was moving toward detente with the china. >> so many things would have potentially been different either way. it's been an opportunity for all of us here in the u.s. and around the world to revisit this morn moment. >> a lot of interest around the world indeed. thanks for your company here on "around the world." we're going to land it off to wolf blitzer for now though. wolf blitzer for now though. thank you. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm wolf blitzer in washington. i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. it was 50 years ago during

why worry they at the top of the grassy knoll? this would add some evidence, some hard evidence to the belief that perhaps other people were involved and perhaps there was second shooter kind of picket fence. if there were a second shooter behind a picket fence, he either didn't fire or he missed entirely because the bullet trajectories clearly go to the window on the sixth floor or someone fired and i think the overwhelming amount of evidence suggests it's lee harvey oswald. they found shotguns and boxes and lots of greater things. he clearly bought the mail-order rifle. the present of the united states was killed with a 19-dollar rifle. >> host: i did a little research and actually considered to be a fairly good rifle. the conspiracy theorists have tried to suggest that it was just you know a very bad rifle but actually it was considered to be above average as far as accuracy. >> host: >> guest: the scope was off. people questioned whether oswald could've done it could've done it but if you practice with a gun he could've made t

on the grassy knoll every weekend, you will find conspiracy theorists who come here. up till this day, many theorists would ob their own moments of silence on this day, but they're not around here today. they're being cordoned off outside the security perimeter set up around the plaza. polls show a majority of

and won't see the conspiracy theorists who skill preach on the grassy knoll. one of the shots fired struck the curve at his feet and debris flew up and cut his face, according to this man. >> do you feel slighted? >> no. i was the guest speaker at that time on the 40th anniversary.

why did the policemen run up the grassy knoll? presumably they heard something and that plays into some of the conspiracy theories. >> and i wanted to play a little bit of your report. i think frank mcgee was anchoring on nbc news when you dialed in, when you did get to the phone. let's hear that. >> we do not know exactly where he was struck nor how many times. >> but he was carried into the hospital. >> but he was carried into the hospital. >> unconscious and bleeding. >> unconscious and bleeding. and last rights of the church have just been administered. >> that's all for the moment, frank. >> and bob tells me that's all for the moment. >> frank mcgee sitting there with the great, late chent huntley, clearly not knowing everything was being repeated. >> at one point, huntley was shown holding a microphone to the telephone receiver. that didn't work. mcgee said, why don't you say a sentence and i'll repeat it. >> jim lair, you sat next to jack ruby at the press conference. tell me about that moment in history. >> this was around

. >> 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 at the corner of elm and houston as we drove down houston street. >> oswald had a clear shot from his sniper's perch on the sixth floor, but he doesn't take it. >> the windows were open. that's nothing unusual. made the left turn on to elm. >> we saw the car turn towards us. >> i was scanning the area from the grassy area. >> we'd gone to i suspect 250 feet when i heard what i thought was a rifle shot. >> i heard this explosion of noise over my right shoulder. i immediately started to scan toward that. i saw the president grab his throat. and lean violently to his left. so i jumped and ran towards the presidential car. >> i was turning to look over my shoulder. i was hit. i was knocked over. >> i was wondering what kind of idiot would be throwing firecrackers. >> james tague is standing in the underpass. >> then the crack, crack

shooter on a grassy knoll its the basis for conspiracy theories about the assassination.ey oswald did not act alone. >> she would say that. she did not believe heave act a alone. i believe my grandmother. i believe she heard four to six shots. overwhelmed by public ridicule, jeanne hill faded away for many years. what is the take away for you the granddaughter of this woman who witnessed this horrific day in american history? >> the takeaway is this person who had no power was willing to stand up for what she saw. and believed and experienced and in spite of whatever anybody from the government was going to tell her. and she was going to stick to the story. and she was going to keep saying the truth. because, the truth was important. >> first unconfirmed reports say the president was hit in the head. >> when the president arrived at parkland hospital, a neurosurgeon, dr. robert grossman was on call. >> he thought that they were just making, but when he came in. it was too big of a bullet. >> reporter: or maybe something else. >> the bullet. i think it was made by huge tec

now grassy knoll in dallas became an icon for conspiracy theories. it's a history trifecta this morning where you can find 11 presidents. good morning from washington. tuesday, novrp 19th, 2013. the only place actually we think now you'll hear from 12 different presidents on television in today's one-hour show. document them all. >>> the dow broke 16000 for the first time monday as it clo, had there but probably will this week. five years after economic collapse, a recovery of the haves and the have-nots. the dow finished the day at 15,976 after flirting with that 16,000 mark throughout the day. the s&p topped 1,800 before slipping slightly back to close under that mark. the record-setting closes, though, have prompted this tweet from former white house senior adviser david plouffe. dow jones industrial average 16,000 plus by november 18th, 2013. that terrible socialist, barack obama. but that was obviously a shot at big business and the idea that the president is not business friendly. that said, wall street's boom, which has not been fully shared,

of the instinctive reaction of the crowd in dallas when the shots rang out was to run up this grassy knollf the idea of the conspiracy, is that people there must have heard something coming from on top of this hill, from behind the hill. >> that's the only thing i can contribute. i ran up the grassy knoll because i saw policemen running up there and i thought they were chasing a gunman. some of the conspiracy theories turn on a shot having been fired from the overpass there. though nobody has come up with hard evidence of that. and i've never seen -- i hadn't made a study of conspiracy theories, but i have never seen any hard evidence that convinces me that either oswald was not the shooter or that there was a conspiracy around him. i would be very interested to see it. i know the industry thrives. actually there are some polls that put the figure of americans who believe in the conspiracy higher than the government does. the history channel did a survey recently and it came out at 78%. i think another peace of this is just the emotional radiance that the kennedys achieved in the minds of

found a fourth shot from the grassy knoll. we all know the grassy knoll. i went to the grassy knoll for the first time, and is just fantastic trip. take your kids. the best part is i really saw -- i guilty the grassy noel, and of cores i'm taking pictures of the grassy noel and then -- knoll and a minute later i'm leaving the grassy knoll and there's familiar live with cute little begin girls and they're taking pictures, and i love judging other people. right? because it's so much easier to judge than to judge yourself. and i'm like, you people are taking pictures at a murder scene. and then i'm like deleting eave picture of myself on my phone. the rope that the grassy knoll is believed to be where the fourth shot was fired -- here's what you need to know -- it not because anyone saw anything. it's because of an audio railroading, and this guy, these two men, this so-called audio experts, white and ashkanazi, right? no one in virginia gets that joke. in miami that joke kills. in miami they're like -- i got it. i'm with you, meltzer. i like it in virginia,

for robert groden and conspiracy theorist who's still flock to the grassy knoll five decades later, this still isn't enough. >> people come because they know something is wrong themselves wanted to come and find out and see for themselves themselves come and look around. they see the sixth floor, they see the angle, they know shots came from the front. they say it couldn't have happened that way. >> reporter: a lot of these conspiracy theorists say the official reports cannot be believed, that there was information missing. if you think that after 50 years we will stop hearing about conspiracy theories, that will not happen. in fact, the cia has given over sealed documents that are being held at the national archives in washington, d.c. and the plan is to release those documents in 2017. so by no means have we heard the end of this story. >> by no means. thank you very much. i have to say i really like how ed showed the bullet as it goes through, it goes through wood and how it shows a bullet would behave. incredible when you think about it experimentally. it actually supported the warre

i am convinced. >> the grassy knoll, as i recall, texas live oak trees there. there was a fence there. >> that clear area across the road from the six, would you have a clear side of vision of where the best man all whenever they call the other shooter might have been? >> would have been able certainly, the reason no one got a good look if someone was there was because naturally all eyes were focused on the president and first lady. so it was impossible for people to see directly. there were not looking directly. it was not the shooter on the overpass. it was not the shooter from the dallas texas building. so from the sewer. >> the secret service agent. >> the theories about the secret service shooting kennedy are absurd. they are as absurd as george h. w. bush was outside the school book depository. there are actually websites or pages on website speed ridiculous. i do all of these -- there was a conspiracy to decapitate the lankan government. no doubt about it. all quickly apprehended and tried and convicted. sloppy, but justice was served. with garfield mcan

and anyway, i looked and there were people running up a grassy slope, or the grassy knoll as it camebe known, including policemen. and there are people lying on the grass covering their children with their bodies and i thought they'd seen some gunman, they're chasing him so i ran up the grassy knoll behind them and i thought "i better call nbc, shots fired." >> woodruff: the first building he saw was the texas book depository where a young man in shirt sleeves directed macneil to a telephone inside. >> it was not known if the shots were aimed at the president. repeat, it is not known if the shots were aimed at the president. this is robert macneil, nbc news in dallas, texas. >> woodruff: after reporting a short nbc radio spot, macneil had to figure out a way to get to the hospital. >> i stopped a car that came along, it was a young man delivering cake boxes or something. i said "the president's been shot, i'll give you five bucks if you drive me to parkland hospital." five bucks was five bucks then. i kept saying "never mind the red light, never mind the police." >> reporter: outside

why were they at the top of the grassy knoll? this would add some hard evidence to the belief that perhaps other people were involved and that perhaps there was a second shooter behind the picket fence. i am convinced if there were a second shooter behind the picket fence, he either didn't fight your war he missed and entirely because the bullet trajectory clearly goes to the window on the sixth floor where someone fired and i believe the overwhelming amount of evidence of lee harvey oswald. they were on the shotgun and boxes and lots of other things. he clearly thought that rifle. think about this. the president of the united states was killed with a 19-dollar rifle. i did a little research and actually considered to be a fairly good rifle, the conspiracy theorists suggest that it was a very bad rifle but it was actually considered to be above average. the scope was off and people question whether oswald could have done it but if he practiced, he could have made that calculation in his head. it's possible that it was. when peopl

>> there were questions how would they deal with the different stories about shooters from the grassy knoll directions. >> the lawyers from the commission took 395 depositions. and there were 94 witnesses that appeared before the commission. lyndon johnson wants to report out so it doesn't interfere with the election in november. >> warren left for dallas because he was a man who had spent his early career as a courtroom prosecutor. he understood a crime scene. window and see if this was a shot that a marksman could make. while he was there, warren felt he should talk to ruby. there were all these suggests ruby had killed oswald to silence him. so he wanted to hear from ruby himself. >> the warren commission realized they were going to have to invest a lot more time than was anticipated. this may be a two to three-month operation to the conception that it will probably take six months. >> the hour glass of time was running out on them. >> can you say if you still think it was one man? >> i think we'd better not get into that area, you know. the report will cover all of that in great detail.

part of that speech, very hopeful and forward-looking, now inscribed in a stone plaque on that grassy knoll. you can see they are breaking down now but about 5,000 people here for the ceremony. the weather complicating things a bit but a very solemn ceremony as this city tried to pay tribute to the president and essentially tried to, if you will, burnish its own reputation and move past some of the pain that people here say not only in the days after the assassination but for years and decades after the assassination. jake? >> chief national correspondent john king. thank you so much. i wasn't alive the day jfk was assassinated and based on a little something i like to call math, i bet a lot of you were not, either. the atlantic's the wire has calculated that only about a third of the u.s. population was on this planet the day he died, but for two veteran journalists, that day launched their careers in many ways and forever changed their lives. bob schieffer was a young reporter at the ft. worth-star telegram. now he's an emmy winning correspondent and host of cbs' "face the nation." jim le

apparently there was more than one left secret service credentials on the grassy knoll. there was just one problem. the secret service in the warren commission and everyone else who has looked at it has identified it as every single secret service officer at that time. no one was in dealey plaza. all of the officers are taught to go with their protect us. they went to parkland hospital with the president and the vice president soon to be president johnson. who were these people with the secret service credentials that no one can identify? i don't have an answer but i have explained in the book and i have stuck to the facts and people can make up their own mind. >> now our u.s. trade representative michael follmer and gives an update on u.s. trade negotiations. he was interviewed at "the wall street journal" ceo council meeting. >> good morning everyone. i appreciate you joining us ambassador. there is lots to talk about to massive trade agreements being negotiated in asia and europe. first i would like to start out, is it fair to say in a time of political paralysis the

. >> secret service agents thought the gun fire from an automatic weapon fired possibly from a grassy knoll some police run up this grassy slope. i thought they're chasing a gunman. i ran with them. >> the report is that the attempted assassins we now hear was a man and a woman. >> i got to the top, looked around, and policeman went over the fence so i went over the fence, too. there was nothing there. >> a television news man 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. now it's believed that the shots came from this building here. >> police officers running back toward the texas school book depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. >> central downtown dallas is in a virtual state of siege. they are combing the floors of the texas book depository building in an effort to find the suspected assassin. >> in the building on the sixth floor we found an area near a window that had been p

apparently there was more than one less secret service credentials up on the grassy knoll. there was just one problem. the secret service and the warren commission and everyone else who is looked at it has identified the vocation of every single secret service officer at that time. no one was in dealey plaza. all of the secret service officers are taught to go with these. they went to parkland hospital with the president and the vice president, soon to be president johnson. who were these people craig with secret service credentials that no one can identify? i don't have an answer but i have explained it in the look. i have stuck to the facts. people can make up their own minds. >> without the importance of confidence and the united states senator but being a woman and how important it is to foster that in future women leaders or even moms. >> absolutely and i encourage young women to be involved and to step up front frank lee and i always say two graduating classes, i could never imagine i would have been running for the united states senate when i was in your position eit

> secret service agents thought the gunfire was from an automatic weapon fired possibly from a grassy knolln up this grassy -- i thought they are chasing a gunman. i ran with them. >> the attempted assassins, we heard it is a man and woman. >> i got to the top, looked around, a policeman went over the fence. i went over the fence, too. there was nothing there. >> the television news man said he looked up after the shot was fired and saw a rifle being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. >> there was originally thought the shots came from in here and now it's believed that the shots came from this building here. >> police officers running back towards the texas depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. >> the center of downtown dallas is in a virtual state of siege. they are combing the floors to find the suspected assassin. >> in the building on the sixth floor we found an area near a window that had partially been blocked off by boxes of books, and also the three spent shells that had apparently been fire

> secret service agents thought the gunfire was from an automatic weapon fired possibly from a grassy knollce run up this grassy slip. i thought they're chasing a gunman. i ran with them. >> the report that the attempted assassins we now hear was a man and a woman. >> 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 that 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's believed that the shots came from this building here. >> police officers running back towards the texas school book depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. >> in federal downtown dallas is in a virtual state of siege. they are combing the floors of the texas book depository building in an effort to find the suspected assassin. >> in the building on the sixth floor we found an area near a window that had partially

just on the other side where the press are gathered is the infamous grassy knoll where people believe second shooter. it is interesting that dallas is going to mark the 50th anniversary. they have ever done a ceremony this big before. in a way they have tried to push it away to distance themselves from the pain and reputation it brought here, but now dallas is ready to move on. messages of love across dallas in 65 locations, an attempt to escape the shadow of one of america's darkest days and the killing of a president. more than 20,000 people in total asked to contribute to redefine the world view of a place. >> the connection between the kennedy assassination and dallas will never be erased. we intend to change that narrative a little bit so that in the scope of talking about that, the world knows that within dallas there were thousands and thousands and thousands of people who believe that love and cam passion thrive here. >> reporter: now they are trying to make the plaza look more like 1963 with restored street lamps even the infamous grassy knoll has had a makeover. for so long

bill and gail newman brought their small children to the grassy knoll just to catch a glimpse of the president and first lady. as he got closer, i could see that something was wrong. president kennedy was looking into the crowd a puzzled look on his face. >> clint hill was a secret service agent assigned to mrs. kennedy. >> when i got her into the back seat, the president's body fell into her lap. she only made a couple comments. one was, i'm holding his brains in my hands. the other one was that joe jack, jack what have they done to you, jack, i love you. >> 50 dwreeyears later. paying homage on this cold, rainy november afternoon. >> his words changed lives. his words changed history. rarely has a commander in chief addressed the nation with such command of language. >> dealey plaza and the grassy knoll once again filled with people with the old texas school book depository in the background where 24-year-old lee harvey oswald set up his sniper post in an upper floor window. >> i believe the new frontier did not in that day in our texas frontier. i hope that president kennedy would

wound where the president's head was literally blown apart came from a quartering angle on the grassy knolland 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. >> seven men on a railroad bridge right here said that when the shots were fired they looked toward the wooden fence and each of the seven said he saw puffs of white smoke come from here. >> the grass knoll underneath that green tree, and you can see a little puff of smoke. it looked like a puff of steam or cigarette smoke. >> when you stopped to think about it, no one saw anyone with a gun, rifle on the grassy knoll. no expended cartridges from a weapon were found there. not one bullet other than those fired from oswald's rifle has ever been found and linked to the assassination. >> now, there were two doctors and one priest who claimed -- who said flatly that there were entrance wounds in the president's neck. >> if the wound in the president's throat was an entrance wound, then clearly this would be proof that the

. >> to my knowledge, yes, it's the photograph that shows an unique look across the grassy knoll.u look closely in the photograph you see shadows of figures and the one that generated the most debate and is reproduced in all of the conspiracy books related to the assassination. >> reporter: television stations went into continuous coverage of the aftermath of kennedy's death. >> the intersection of these two types of photography were a lot of people took photographs from their television sets to remember the moment as they witnessed it on television. >> reporter: including the shooting of his presumed assassin lee harvey oswald. >> put them in scrapbooks and saved the magazines and newspapers and there was a very personal relationship to this event, people trying to understand and assimilate the news into their own lives. >> reporter: captured images that had meaning for those who took them and piece together history. al jazeera, new york. >> many historians say it was photography that helped shape the image of jfk and camelot. a boy is indicted for killing his teacher and there a

point to the sixth floor window, stand on the grassy knoll imagining what that day was like.john f. kennedy and first lady jacqueline kennedy driving by, smiling. they look down from the school book depository building, imagining what lee harvey oswald saw the moment gun fire exploded, the piercing echos through the plaza. >> the flash apparently official, president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. >> does it amaze me that people come to the plaza 24/7 scratching their heads and pointing? not at all. the kennedy assassination story is modern folklore now. people just aren't satisfied with the official story that one man did all that damage. not only to a person but to a country and to the world. >> reporter: the official story, of course, is that lee harvey oswald acted alone. >> could every survived this first wound? >> reporter: ronald jones was one of the emergency room doctors who tried to save president kennedy and vividly remembers the day oikt moments in the packed operating room of the hospital. >> we knew we were working on the president. we were anxi

why did i run up the grassy knoll?'s the first thing you said that i'm sitting here going all right, why did you do it? >> i did it because i saw policemen running up there. i later assumed that police ran up there because they thought they heard something. some of the experience theories are a shot having been fired from the overpass there. that is the only contribution i can make to all of that evidence or purported evidence that there were shots from the book depository. >> obviously i'm aware of how it goes in this modern era. tell us where you were. how far back -- sometimes we can be a half mile behind the president. how far behind were you? >> seven cars behind. there were two press busses and i was at the front side in the press box. a about bit elevate and we can see over the heads of the cars. >> you had a camera crew shooting or no? >> no. it had gone to the merchandise mart where kennedy was to speak. the other had been with me earlier this morning. we had such good shots of the business of jackie delaying

and won't see the conspiracy theorists who skill preach on the grassy knoll.ne of the shots fired struck the curve at his feet and debris flew up and cut his face, according to this man. >> do you feel slighted? >> no. i was the guest speaker at that time on the 40th anniversary. but none of us witnesses are even invited to the 50th. they don't want us. they've made that clear. >> reporter: another victim often forgotten from the tragic days is dallas police officer j.d. tip elt. his family will hold a vigil at the exact spot where he shot oswald. a new moment will be unveiled inscribed with a passage from the speech he was supposed to give that afternoon. it reads, we in this country, in this generation are the watchmen on the walls of world freedom, we ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility. >> and you join us live from the city of dallas. you're just down the street from where i used to live. i used to drive by dealey plaza daily. it is sol am. what exactly are they doing right now and how is this going to play out today? >> r

>> there were questions how would they deal with the different stories about shooters from the grassy knolltions. >> the lawyers from the commission took 395 depositions. and there were 94 witnesses that appeared before the commission. lyndon johnson wants to report out so it doesn't interfere with the election in november. n lef because he was a man who had spent his early career as a courtroom prosecutor. >> the hour glass of time was running out on them. >> can you say if you still think it was one man? >> i think we'd better not get into that area, you know. the report will cover all of that in great detail. >> this committee labored ten months, then brought forth a document close to 1,000 pages. president johnson received that report today. >> what the public understood and what i understood is these were very honorable men. they thought the commission had done a good job, and they would come up with an answer. >> when the warren commission report came out, i believed it. we were still in a time when you tended to believe what officials told you. >> it is now 15 seconds after 6:30 p.m.

. >> i was at the grassy knoll with the film crew and we filmed their reaction to people who came toook at the few flowers and notes that were left, the beginnings of the shrine. a elderly man came along with transistor radio and sat down beside us. watcht moment, the black highland park regiment band asked the microphones in washington and the sound of the bagpipes suddenly did something to me and i was smothered with tears. i was actually sobbing there. >> thank you for joining us with those recollections. >> this is a pleasure. >> numbering the death of a president. scotland yard detectives investigating the case of two women who were held captive for 30 years have uncovered a disturbing picture of emotional control. the police say that the women have been abused, including being beaten. the alleged captors are also being investigated for immigration offenses. in pakistan, two bomb explosions in a busy neighborhood in the city of karachi. five people were killed in the blast, where many shia muslims live and others have been wounded. police say the bombs were placed on motorcycles

>> there were questions how would they deal with the different stories about shooters from the grassy knoll and shooters from different directions. >> the lawyers from the commission took 395 depositions. and there were 94 witnesses that appeared before the commission. lyndon johnson wants the report out so it doesn't interfere with the election in november. >> warren left for dallas because he was a man who had spent his early career as a courtroom prosecutor. he understood a crime scene. he wanted to stand in that window and see if this was a shot that a marksman could make. while he was there, warren felt he should talk to ruby. there were all these suggestions ruby had killed oswald to silence him. so he wanted to hear from ruby himself. >> the warren commission realized they were going to have to invest a lot more time than was anticipated. >> the warren commission realized they were going to have to invest a lot more time than was anticipated. this may be a two to three-month operation to the conception that it will probably take six months. >> the hour glass of time was running out o

pointing to the window, at the grassy knoll, imagining what that day was look. president and mrs.the parade, the moment gunfire exploded, the piercing echoes through deely plaza. >> the flash apparently official. president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. september al standard time. >> does it amaze me that people come to deely plaza 24/7 scratching their head and pointing and walking around? no, not at all. the kennedy assassination story is modern folklore now. people just aren't satisfied with the the official story that one man did all that damage, not only to a person but to a country and to the world. >> reporter: the official story, of course, is that lee harvey oswald acted alone. >> could he have survived this first wound? >> reporter: ronald jones was one of the emergency room doctors who tried to save president kennedy and vividly remembers the chaotic moments in the packed operating room of parkland hospital. >> we knew we were working on the president. we were anxious. we were excited. we were doing what we would do in the care of a normal trauma patient. and yet, here was t

it's the photograph that shows a unique look across the grassy knoll. if you look closely in the photograph, you see shadowy figures, and it's the one that has generated the most debate, and is reproduced in all of the conspiracy books, related to the assassination. >> reporter: television stations went into continuous coverage of the aftermath of kennedy's death. >> the intersection of these two heightened photograph were from people's home television sets as they witnessed it on television. >> reporter: his assassin, also caught on television, moments that made their way into family albums. >> they put them into scrapbooks and saved them in newspapers, so there was a very personal relationship to this event. people trying to understand and simulate the news into their own lives. >> reporter: captured images that had meaning for those who took them and now pieced together history. aljazeera, new york. >> and i'm meteorologist, dave warren, and what you're looking at, it's happening now. there could be slippery roadways as we get cold air in texas and o

it's the only known photograph of the moment the president was struck that also captured the gras grassy knoll>> when the motorcade started to pass, she realized that she had pt taken the one photograph she promised her son. >> allen is the writer and film maker behind this "silent witness speaks" that documents her story. >> when i asked her what did you see when you looked through the view finder, she thought there was a gust of wind. his hair lifted up. she had no idea that what she was photographing was the assassination of the president of the united states. >> jackie hollers, my god, he's been shot. >> we heard that so plain. then just seconds later, he had slumped over on jackie and she started to climb out of the car. by that time -- >> this interview was filmed earlier this year where the 81-year-old originally took the iconic picture. the film is now displayed at an exhibit in new york city. it's called, jfk, a bystanders view of history. >> to me, photography was the way to manage that grief and trauma. a way to try to get a handle on what really happened. >> brian wallace, the chie

> secret service agents thought the gunfire was from an automatic weapon fired possibly from a grassy knollrun up this grassy -- i thought they are chasing a gunman. i ran with them. >> the report is that the attempted assassins, we now hear it was a man and a woman. >> i got to the top, looked around, a policeman went over the fence. i went over the fence, too. there was nothing there. >> the television news man said he looked up after the shot was fired and saw a rifle being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. >> there was originally thought the shots came from in here and now it's believed that the shots came from this building here. >> police officers running back towards the texas depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. >> the center of downtown dallas is in a virtual state of siege. they are combing the floors of the textbook depository building in an attempt to find the suspected assassin. >> in the building on the sixth floor we found an area near a window that had partially been blocked off by

. >> the grassy knoll is full of a mob scene a bit, but awful a lot of colorful characters includingho came in from long beach, california, covered in beautiful tattoos of president kennedy. and the first lady jackie kennedy. something he was quite proud of. he said that it was important to him to carry them on his arms. because he also had them on his front. >> i went from oswald kennedy to i'm afraid oswald didn't kill kennedy. to please god don't let it be the cia killed kennedy. to the cia did kill kennedy to oswald killed kennedy . >> so you've come full circumstance snl. >> the place will become very quiet and a solemn ceremony will begin to unfold as they remember the 50th anniversary of the killing of president kennedy here in dallas. back to you. >> wendy will anchor our coverage from dallas tomorrow beginning at 6:00 in the morning here on news 4. >> coming up, the i-team going undercover to tell show you how people are getting a free ride on metro. and why breaking the rules could come with a criminal record. >> stealing metal and getting a profit. before anyone noticed. >