. >> secret service agents thought the gun fire was from the grassy knoll. >> i thought they were chasing gunman. i went with them. a policeman went over the fence so i went over the fence, too. there was nothing there. >> a television newsman said he looked up just as the shot was fired and saw a rifle being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. >> it was originally thought the shots came in here, now it's believed the shots came from this building here. >> police officers are running back to the depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. >> the center of downtown slas is -- dallas is in a virtual state of siege. they are combing the floors to find the assassin. >> in an area on the sixth floor, we found an area that had partially been blocked off by boxes of books and the three spent shells that had apparently been fired from a rifle. >> lieutenant dade just came out of that building with a rifle. >> a high powered rifle of high caliber. >> a 30-30 rifle. >> much of the first things you hear are going to

. >> newly released jfk documents, so far, though, no sign of ted cruz' father on the grassy knoll. >d trump is still looking for the documents that show barack obama and hillary clinton on that grassy knoll. >> maybe. george everyone, it's friday, october 27th. it's almost dunn funny, donny deutsche is with us, that

people then thinking it's the grassy knoll all over again. enter ted williams, former d.c. homicide investigator. you know, ted, you always remind me it's natural under the pressure and under all of the scrutiny, you know, nerves can be frayed. but then to assume that people are deliberately hiding stuff. first of all you have to wonder to what end. secondly, you know, who gets the better of that. what do you think of all of this, clearly the sheriff responding to all of these concocted stories that there was a sort of grassy knoll plot going on. what do you think? >> well, neil, what i think is that the sheriff is under a great deal of strain, rightfully so, in this investigation. but sadly, and i don't think the sheriff by the way is incompetent. but on the other hand, the sheriff in this instance had to have been his own worst enemy. because first of all, he asked for the public to help. when you ask for the public to help, you've got to give them information that they can go out and help you with and not misinformation. and i think the sheriff is the first to the say th

people said they heard -- they saw somebody in the grassy knoll that was shooting and the movement ofrivera mentioned all gave misinformation that there were two shooters. if there were two shooters, conspiracy. >> uh-huh. >> in the final analysis of the house select committee and assassinations, even though the forensic panel said -- documented that there were only two bullets from oswald that struck the president, there was testimony from acoustic experts that they could tell from the sound that there was another bullet fired from the grassy knoll that mised the president. -- that missed the president. and on that basis, the committee came out and agreed it was a conspiracy, but within a year or two later, a lot of the fbi and other scientists showed that that acoustic evidence was wrong. julie: wow. any ground breaking information you think is going to come out of these files? >> i think mostly it will be embarrassing information for some of the agencies involved. i don't think there's going to be any change in the fact that oswald did it alone. julie: all right. >> which was not w

aside from the business of a few people hearing echoes or claiming they heard shots around the grassy knoll the doctors who treated the president at parkland hospital in dallas give a very confused press conference after the a sad after after the shooting they they said that they found what looked to them like an entrance wound in president kennedy's neck but they never turned the president over and they didn't realize it was really an exit wound and that just added to a lot of the the confusion surrounding the case then you have the history of oswald himself who lived for a few years in the soviet union before he before he returned the united states and carried out the assassination and then you have the story of jack ruby who killed oswald in the basement of dallas police headquarters a couple of days after the assassination if you add all that up i think it's almost inevitable that the people are going to think that there was more than one person involved and beyond your book it's written isn't say about the actual reporting of what happened on that day and one journalist in particular w

on the grassy knoll, or lurking somewhere in the shadowy background?f a century later those types of conspiracy theories burn just as bright as the eternal flame at jfk's grave. before we get into all that -- ♪ let's set the scene here. we're talking about camelot. >> although the president is running behind schedule, he pauses momentarily to shake a few hands. >> reporter: a handsome young president and his glamorous wife jackie kennedy, just 34 years old in that pink suit and pillbox hat in dallas. a generation of americans remember exactly where they were when walter cronkite delivered the tragic news. >> from dallas, texas, the flash apparently official, president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time. 2:00 eastern standard time. some 38 minutes ago. >> people who have experienced the tragedy of 9/11 who were alive then understand what a terrible shock it was to the country. the assassination of john kennedy in 1963 was as great a shock or greater. it affected every american in a way that was immediate. >> shoot kennedy coming up houston,

fired from his perch at the book depository but the question, was there a second gunman on this grassy knoll. also fueling decades of speculation, jack ruby's shocking murder of oswald on live tv. and questions about the role of the russian, the cubans, the mafia, even the >> what we will find out is possibly what the fbi and the cia knew about oswald and didn't disclose to the warren commission, the original investigating body but never told the public over the years. >> reporter: experts say they could show the cia had critical information that oswald was in mexico city and potentially dangerous seven weeks before the assassination and failed to tell anyone including the fbi when he returned. something that could be quite embarrassing for the cia. president trump has until thursday to decide if he will keep some documents classified. kenneth moton, abc news, dallas. >> our thanks to kenneth in dallas. >>> a vietnam veteran who saved as many as 70 lives during a secret mission will be presented with the medal of honor today. retired army captain gary rose was the only medic dropped into the

the question that has been at the center of the conspiracy, was there a second gunman on this grassy knoll? also fueling decades of speculation, texas nightclub owner jack ruby's shocking murder of oswald on live tv. and questions about the role of the russians, the cubans, the mafia, even the cia. >> what we will find out is possibly what the fbi and the cia knew about oswald, and didn't disclose to the warren commission, the original investigating body, or never told the public over the years. >> reporter: congressman joseph p. kennedy tonight saying he was looking for more than just a tweet from the president. >> it would've been nice if there was some communication between this administration, and members of our family. >> kenneth joins us live. what are experts telling you about what they think the documents may show oswald was doing in the weeks leading up to the shooting? >> reporter: they say it could show that the cia had critical information that oswald was potentially dangerous seven weeks before the assassination. it's something that would be quite embarrassing for the cia. pre

point to umbrella man, opening and closing umbrella on grassy knoll or beautiful day.oison dart at president. >> umbrella man came forward to testify to congress. there never was credible evidence tying him to conspiracy to kill the president. >> reporter: many don't see how $20 mail order rifle could bring down most powerful man in the world. must have been a more grandiose scheme, perhaps involving former cuban leader fidel castro who was often connected to kennedy's assassination. oswald's trip to mexico city weeks before the assassination long raised eyebrows. while there previously released government documents reveal he met with cuban and soviet spies. >> it appears he made the statement in the embassy i want to kill president kennedy. i'm going to. >> reporter: and cia and mob, angry at kennedy for crackdown on organized crime. theories abound on their involvement and president kennedy's vice president, lyndon johnson, could he have ordered a hit on his boss? some say yes. remember it was johnson who set up warren commission to put end to the chatter he was resp

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. >> newly released jfk documents, so far, though, no sign of ted cruz' father on the grassy knoll. >> i suspect, though, donald trump is still looking for the documents that show barack obama and hillary clinton on that grassy knoll. >> maybe. george everyone, it's friday, october 27th. it's almost dunn funny, donny deutsche is with us, that helps, heidi przybyl la, white house reporter. columnist and associate out of the walk post eugene robinson is with us. >> so gene, what, i got to ask you, you're a big nationals fan. since we talked about baseball dave, joe jiardi, the guy never should have been fired from the new york yankees. seriously? >> yeah. >> they got the hottest team if baseball and they fire him. it's inexplicable. i saw tom boswell, by the way, how do you look your coffee? because there are 6 million residents that would like to deliver it to you every morning. >> exactly. i'm one of them. i invite joe to come down. we will cook him a nice concern at our house, look the nationals are number one, the nationals should not have fired dust my baker. you win, 95, 97 games.

we're going to be dissecting this footage the way people have been dissecting the footage from the grassy knolls for different reasons. we're going to want to learn how in the future we can address something like this. because like on 9/12 of 2001 we woke up realizing that our old tactics and old protections won't work anymore and these type of films will help us learn how to address something like this in the future because i'm -- i'm sorry to tell you that once somebody does it once, somebody else is going to try it. >> yeah, i wanted to ask you about that. what about the copy cat factor here? law enforcement officials yesterday were saying every time they hear us in the media say the largest mass shooting in modern american history they cringe because there are sick minds with access to very dangerous weapons. >> we can't stop telling the truth on tv because some crazy person might be inspired by it. the truth is this. that the people who are the socio paths, these homicidal maniacs who want to kill, they want to go out at the top. they want to be the biggest killer and that's sad, but it can

was there a second gunman on the grassy knoll? these documents may contain some answers.id jack ruby, a texas nightclub owner, kill oswald days after the assassination on live television? >> why? why? >> reporter: was he acting alone? what they're unlikely to do -- >> i, john fitzgerald kennedy, do solemnly swear -- >> reporter: -- is to change the legacy of the presidency. yet, joseph p. kennedy iii is sad about the president's decision to release these documents now. >> it would have been nice if there was some communication between this administration and members of our family. i understand the historical value of those documents. i don't dispute that. they also happen to be quite personal, as well. >> reporter: apparently, president kennedy did not consult with the kennedy family before making his tweet. and trump left open the possibility that some of these documents may end up staying under wraps. in some ways, it's no surprise that 45th president, who has feuded with the intelligence agencies and the fbi director, should release these files about the 35th president

there's nothing about a second shooter on the grassy knoll. it's going to fill in our understanding of the history of the case. anybody who thinks it's going to turn the case on its head and show there are three or four shooters at daley plaza, that's not the case. >> you have said to me previously that the truth about the kennedy assassination is that the c.i.a. and the mob did increed come together to kill a head of state. but it wasn't president kennedy. >> you know, it's one of my favorite things, you have to popular conspiracy theory, the c.i.a. and the mob together killed kennedy. the c.i.a. and the mob were in league to kill the head of state. it wasn't kennedy, it was castro. they tried seven different times, they couldn't even wound him and somehow beare to believe that the very same keystone cops who couldn't kill somebody they really wanted out of power, the mob wanted their casinos back in cuba. 90 miles from the united states shoreline, they couldn't get rid of castro. but somehow these same guys who are pulled off the perfect cri

neil: you know, there are those that say, we heard shots coming from other directions, so-called grassy knoll theory and all that. way too early to go through the thousands of pages of documents and photographs and whatever else is there. but we still haven't gotten any indication of that to this day, have we? >> no. in terms of the basic questions behind the kennedy assassination, we're really no closer to a final resolution than we were before this batch was released. >> neil: thanks. h.w. brands, thanks very much. i have a feeling you'll be busy this weekend. i think you're a speed reader. meantime, we have buck sexton on all of this. what can we glean from the cia and other entities urging the president to go slow on releasing everything right now? has to be a reason for that, right? >> yeah, he's federal agencies are aware of the fact that it's going to fan the flames of a lot of conspiracy theories that they're not releasing all the information here. it's over 50 years old. they have also been quite clear at least openly so far about why it is ney wouldn't release all the documents. tha

hundreds of thousands of people stopped by this spot every year to see the grassy knoll where we're standinge, which is the motorcade route and the orange building in the back ground, the old texas book repository where the fatal shot came from. again, that depends on what you talk to. one man says that he hopes the newly-released materials provide additional evidence that lee harvey oswald did not act alone, substantiating the conspiracy theories. another woman said visits the spot where history changed forever has long been on her bucket list and the teaming could not be more perfect. >> my whole lie, i wanted to come here. abbey road, coming here today is just amazing. the biggest thing that could happen to us here. >> a lot of people have been confused, asking us if the documents will be released at this location. it's not. it's being down through the national archives, over 3,800 documents in total expect to be released at some point today. it could shed some new light or provide us with some additional evidence in terms of the investigation on what went down right here on that cold nov

the redaction's likely have nothing to do with theories about a second popsicle shooter on the grassy knollation by russia and cuba, but the documents could give some clarity on lee harvey oswald's trip to mexico two months before the assassination. during that 6-date visit, oswald went to the cuban and soviet embassies and met with a soviet agent in the kgb department of sabotage and assassination. now, we should note that 8 minutes ago to come in 2,891 jfk documents posted online. we are now scouring those. the cia says it will eventually release all of its records, and the president says that he will consider releasing more in 180 days, though it is very unclear what the cia and fbi will accomplish in six months that they did not accomplish over the past 25 years. >> martha: >> martha: grade poi. trace, thank you. here now with more, larry sabato, the author of "the kennedy half-century." larry, good to see you tonight. a lot of excitement among those who have wanted to see these documents, and obviously some consternation about what has been withheld. >> it has been a long day. we have

wonder when donald trump in one of his more inventive moves placed ted cruz his father on the grassy knollt day in the late stages of the presidential primary campaign. makes you wonder, it seemed a little crazy at the time and i you look at the facts. we all know ted cruz was born in alberta, was his father operating on the instructions of the canadian government? we have some canadian deep sleeper operation going on here. >> tucker: one of my personal favorite moments. we are out of time unfortunately. more conspiracies. that was great i had some severe fatigue, some funny rashes. finally, listening to my wife, i went to a doctor and then i became diagnosed with hodgkin's lymphoma. that diagnosis was tough. i'm a concrete mason. i own my own company. i went from being a guy that could pick up anything i wanted, to having to ask for help. i'm a person that likes to take control. at that point in my life, i said there's nothing i can do. i have to rely on physician's information, physician's recommendations. i had to put my trust in somebody. and i found cancer treatment centers of america

wonder when donald trump in one of his more inventive moves placed ted cruz his father on the grassy knollthe presidential primary campaign. makes you wonder, it seemed a little crazy at the time and i you look at the facts. we all know ted cruz was born in alberta, was his father operating on the instructions of the canadian government? we have some canadian deep sleeper operation going on here. >> tucker: one of my personal favorite moments. we are out of time unfortunately. more conspiracies. that was great. >> thanks a lot, talker. >> tucker: up we will wrap up with the discourse on fitness from cnn's poet laureate chris cuomo. your body was made for better things than rheumatiod arthritis. before you and your rheumatologist move to another treatment, ask if xeljanz xr is right for you. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. it can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infecti

because if you believe in a conspiracy, second gunman on the grassy knoll, you will see things.e things to back up your point of view. so there will be an interesting debate that is not as serious as the ones we're having right now. it is going to be more on what happened and a lot more theories and positive conversation between americans. >> do you really think that? one of the things i thought, and again, i don't know what is in there that might be possibly dangerous for our national security. what i do know is that exactly what you say is going to happen will happen. that there will be a lot of people out there who are going to even pile on with more conspiracy theories. i think it is going to continue a dialogue potentially in this country not very healthy for us. >> i think so. but transparency in this instance is always the best. i think we need these documents, they need to be out there. scholars are being self-interested and we need the material. >> what is the one thing you're hoping is in the treasure-trove of documents? >> i want to get a better sochbs t sense of the

you wonder when donald trump in one of his more inventive moves placed ted cruz's father on the grassy knoll the late stages of the presidential primary campaign. makes you wonder, it seemed a little crazy at the time and i you look at the facts. we all know ted cruz was born in alberta, was his father operating on the instructions of the canadian government?a, we have some canadian deep sleeper operation going on here? >> tucker: one of my personal favorite moments. we are out of time unfortunately. more conspiracies. that was great. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: up we will wrap up with the discourse on fitness from cnn's poet laureate chris cuomo. (honking) (beeping) we're on to you, diabetes. time's up, insufficient prenatal care. and administrative paperwork, your days of drowning people are numbered. same goes for you, budget overruns. and rising costs, wipe that smile off your face. we're coming for you too. at optum, we're partnering across the health system to tackle its biggest challenges. at optum, we're partnering across the health system our recent online sales success seem

after the generation that was endlessly fascinated with the one or two gunmen theories and the grassy knollvives on. >> it is amazing how this historical moment has generated so much fiction also. you look at the fictionalized depiction of one of the conspiracy theories, about how lee harvey oswald may have coordinated with others, according to the conspiracy theory.cia and fbi, mark, could make a push to the president the next 72 hours and say, block these documents based on a national security interest. why might that be happening? it is not necessarily because they wouldn't want certain information getting out there, but sources and methods plays into this, too. >> our intelligence agencies are always going to be conservative about these things. one of the things they reveal are how our intelligence agencies do business. people don't want, in these agencies, don't want the international community to know how they conduct their business. that's one thing. again, i can't imagine there are any major secrets to be kept at this point. >> yeah. >> bear in mind, too, these documents can be reda

maintained they don't think they'll lead to any new truths about what happened in front of the grassy knollntial timeline or the conclusions that we've reached over many, many years that lee harvey oswald was the assassin in dealey plaza. >> reporter: remaining documents that are still secret and confidential could be released over the next six months. rick: will carr in los angeles, thanks very much. >> there were many people, i was one of those, that hope that, you know, he would rise to the occasion as president and aspire to lead our nation instead of dividing it. and, you know, it's obvious his political model and governing model is to divide. and he has not risen to the occasion, it's very evident to me. i've had personal meetings, personal dinners, personal phone calls when the staff has asked me to call over and intercede on something that was not going to happen -- that was going to happen that was not good for our country. molly: ooh, the battle between senator bob corker and president trump is not over yet. now the republican from tennessee apparently not ruling out a run for pre

depository, but the question at the center of the conspiracy, was there a second gunman on this grassy knollexas nightclub owner jack ruby's shocking murder of oswald on live tv. questions about the role of the cubans, the russians, the mafia, and even the cia. >> we'll find out what the fbi and cia knew about oswald and conditions disclose to the warren commission or the public over the years. >> reporter: joseph b. kennedy saying he was looking for more than just a tweet from the president. >> it would have been nice if there was some communication between this administration and the members of our family. >> reporter: experts say these documents could show that they had critical information that oswald was in mexico city before the assassination. something that could be quite embarrassing for the cia. president trump has until thursday to decide whether to keep some documents classified. kenneth moten, abc news, dallas. >>> when we come back, new details about the super bowl halftime show. >>> and the zombies are back. "the skinny" is next. next. whitens my teeth or one... paste that ...t

>> reporter: robin, there are so many conspiracy theories from the second gunman in the grassy knollthe involvement of the mafia and cuban government and one about a black umbrella with poisonous darts in dallas. the experts we spoke to don't think any of the documents are coming out and we're expecting tens of thousand, hundreds of thousands to be released will fuel those theories or add to them. the national archives has been very, very careful in their language not to get anyone too excited. robin, get this. there are more than 5 million documents that make up that entire assassination record. >> 5 million. 5 million you said, tom. >> reporter: yeah. >> all but 1% have been reviewed by historians at some time or another but to have them widely available will get a lot of excitement going. >> it will. >> may after some of these conspiracy theories we'll see. >>> now to a possible plot at a georgia high school where two teens are accused of planning a deadly attack. police say they wound weapons and a diary full of threats. steve osunsami has more. >> reporter: this is tough this mo

into his ife, from, anybody know anything about gunfire would say that the shot didn't come from grassy knollhis right. thing, it's been proven oswald could not have hot all the shots fired that day and that is one thing, but declaring thing is a cover-up, the government made it look like he did do it, mess up and the facteports oswald was in russia and going d and said he was to disclose all secrets he knew bout the military and the government let him back in the united states and his wife without any kind of reasoning or that, that just wouldn't happen. i believe oswald did work for and he had extensive records by the f.b.i., so on and my comment.at is thank you. guest: there is a lot there. oswald the idea that asn't the gunman in dealy plaza, the scientific, technical tudy over the years, using techniques not available in the 1960s at time of the oswald was n, shows almost certainly the gunman in he plaza, probably the sole gunman. murder of a dallas police officer by the name of j.d. many, many witnesses see that happen, eyewitnesses to the murder of tippit by lee harvey oswald. why woul

congressmen involved in previous inquiries so there is no proof, for example, of a second shooter, the grassy knoll role, perhaps, of the cia and fbi, not so much in the assassination, but what did they know about lee harvey oswald beforehand ? but what did they know about lee harvey oswald beforehand? this trip to mexico city in the weeks before, who did he meet, who did he see? was the cu ban embassy who did he meet, who did he see? was the cuban embassy bugged? were there records of what the cia knew 0swald had said to the cubans, for example? also afterwards, the cover—up. not a cover—up in terms of conspiracy, but perhaps in terms of covering up incompetence, the fact 0swald had been tracked by the intelligence service and the potential criticism they could have faced for not having prevented the assassination. bear in mind, 0swald was a former marine, he wasn't a crank in terms of a threat to the president's life, because he could shoot straight. and fast. the difficulty is anybody with a conspiracy theory will still keep the theory going because they've been going for decades. it's a nationa