we the jury find the defendant lee harvey oswald. >> because lee harvey oswald was killed by jack ruby before he could be tried before the murder, deep skepticism persists about the official version of history. the best effort to put this mystery to rest is in this impressive, more than 1600 page book reclaiming history by the author of helter skelter, the man who convicted charles manson joins us. vince, welcome to the program. why don't 59% of the american people believe oswald and oswald alone killed kennedy? >> the propaganda minister of hitler's third right, which i'm not comparing them with, but he said if you push something at someone long enough eventually they will start buying it if they're not exposed to any contrary view. it finally hit pay dirt, penetrated their consciousness and kwiconvinced the majority t he was some patsy framed by an elaborate group of co-c co-conspirato co-conspirators, the mob. it's all nonsense. tonight in the limited time we have why i feel oswald is guilty and no conspiracy. >> have at it. tell us why. >> in my book i said for 53 separate examples

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explain what happened in dallas must explain lee harvey oswald, you know, and lee harvey oswald is a mystery, wrapped up in an enigma, hidden behind a riddle. he is not, i put it in simple words, an easy man to explain. >> narrator: and easy explanations died 50 years ago, when oswald in his turn fell to an assassin's bullet. (gunshot) >> he's been shot! lee oswald has been shot! >> he is shot! oswald... it is oswald! >> narrator: as a boy, the bronx zoo was a haven for lee oswald. he seemed to prefer the company of animals to people. he had not set foot in school for nearly two months when he was picked up at the zoo for truancy and taken to juvenile court. lee thought he had better ways to use his time than go to school. he spent his days at the public library and museums, and endless hours learning the new york city subway system. >> i remember him vividly. he was a skinny, unprepossessing kid. he was not a mentally disturbed kid. as a matter of fact, his iq was better than average. he was just emotionally frozen. he was a kid who had never developed a really trusting relationship

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kennedy, who is lee harvey oswald, why is jackie wearing a suit with blood. on and on for four days. everybody kind of tuned in. there's a line by bob dylan said people don't live or die people just net. most people live in the-lined lives when kennedy was killed, they weren't floating any more it was like realtime adrenaline for the whole country. >> schieffer: you know, those of us who were here and covered this story, i think a part that is not really understood today is that beyond this tragedy that we saw unfolding on television, we'd never seen anything like this before. hanging overall this it was like we all felt on 9/11 we didn't know what it meant. we didn't know if this was the beginning of world war iii, a year away from the human missile crisis. it was just this profound, i can't understand this. why is this happening. and i think in a sense that america was never quite the same of a it was after that day. your book focuses on kennedy's last 100 days, why do you think that period was so important? >> because finally in that period he was addressi

a poll taken after the assassination found 52% of the public thought lee harvey oswald had not acted ne. today 61% think oswald had full conspiracy. that's down from a high of 81% who thought so in the 90s after oliver stone's film j.f.k. true, the tragedy has all the makings of a conspiracy. oswald was a former u.s. marine with a medal for marksmanship. he earlier defect today the soviet union. he lived in russia for several years and married a soviet woman. when he return today the united states he became involved in cuba's conflicts, notably pro castro. two months before the assassination oswald went to mexico where he visited. they concluded oswald acted alone. at the time the commissioners were unaware of the plan of the u.s. cia to oust fidel castro including assassination. during the years theories implied that the kgb, cuba, mafia, cia and kennedy's vice president lyndon johnson were the assassins. >> this has to be taken seriously. when our current secretary of state says to this day i have serious doubts lee harvey oswald acted alone. i have doubts he was motivated by himsel

the commission answered unequivocally lee harvey oswald. was oswald acting alone or was he a member of the conspiracy? the commission answers he acted alone. >> we knew most people were not going to read all of the warren commission report. so cbs news wanted to bring to air an understandable form for the public at large what the warren commission found. >> there was nothing to support the speculation that oswald was an agent, employee or informant of the fbi or the cia or any other governmental agency. >> oswald owned the murder rifle, a mail order purchase slip for that rifle was in his handwriting. oswald's palm print was found on a surface of the gun. >> the media had all concluded that this was the most exhaustive investigation, case closed. oswald did it alone. >> the commission concludes that three shots were fired. all of them from this sixth floor window in the texas school book depository. >> the cumulative evidence of eyewitness, firearms and ballistic experts and medical authorities demonstrated that the shots were fired from abo

that there was nobody in that casket if there was anybody in that casket it was not lee harvey oswaldd so it -- caused such a stir that the police chief and couple of officers went in to the little chapel, checked, came back out assured us that lee oswald was there. >> schieffer: you and the reporters carried the casket out to the gravesite. >> that's right. >> schieffer: doctor, let me ask you, you were called back to the emergency room for the -- when they brought lee oswald was he alive when he got there? >> lee was alive when he got there. there were four of us that got to tram ha room two where the governor connelly had been he did have a heartbeat. he had been shot in the left chest and had major vascular injuries as jack ruby shot him he turned like this that caused a lot of more injuries that if he had taken the shot straight on. same thing, i did a cut down in the upper arm as i had in the president inserted a chest tube we had him to surgery within about ten minutes after he came to the emergency room. he lived almost an hour and 20 minutes before he expired on the table. >>

the commission answered unequivocally lee harvey oswald. was oswald acting alone or was he a member of the conspiracy? the commission answers he acted alone. >> we knew most people were not going to read all of the warren commission report. so cbs news wanted to bring to air an understandable form for the public at large what the warren commission found. >> there was nothing to support the speculation that oswald was an agent, employee or informant of the fbi or the cia or any other governmental agency. >> oswald owned the murder rifle, a mail order purchase slip for that rifle was in his handwriting. oswald's palm print was found on a surface of the gun. >> the media had all concluded that this was the most exhaustive investigation, case closed. oswald did it alone. >> the commission concludes that three shots were fired. all of them from this sixth floor window in the texas school book depository. >> the cumulative evidence of eyewitness, firearms and ballistic experts and medical authorities demonstrated that the shots were fired from abo

the commission answered unequivocally lee harvey oswald. a member of a conspiracy? the commission answers he acted alone. >> we knew most people were not going to read all of the warren commission report. so cbs news wanted to bring to air an understandable form for the public at large what the warren commission itself found. >> there was nothing to support the speculation that oswald was an agent, employee or informant of the fbi or the cia or any other governmental agency. >> oswald owned the murder the mail order purchase slip for rifle. the mail order purchase slip for that rifle was in his handwriting. oswald's palm print was found on a surface of the gun. >> the media had all concluded that this was the most exhaustive investigation, case closed. oswald did it alone. >> the commission concludes that three shots were fired. all of them from this sixth floor window in the texas school book depository. >> the cumulative evidence of eyewitness, firearms, and ballistic experts and medical authorities demonstrated that the shots were fired f

the commission answers unequivocally lee harvey oswald. g alone or was he a member of a conspiracy? the commission says he acted alone. >> we're not going to read all the commission report, so cbs news needed to tear an understandable reform from the commission at large. >> there was nothing to support the speculation that oswald was an agent, employee or informant of the fbi, or the cia, or any other governmental agency. oswald owned the murder right. the mail order slip for that rifle was in his handwriting. oswald's hand print was found on the surface of the gun. >> the media had already concluded this was the most exhaustive investigation. case closed. oswald did it alone. >> the commission concludes that three shots were fired, all of them from this sixth floor window in the texas book depository. >> the evidence suggested that the shots were fired behind the depository on john f. kennedy. >> a majority of the americans accepted the findings of the warren commission. >> the bullet entered here came out just below the president's adam's

we'll never know why lee harvey oswald killed kennedy because he's dead. gs we do know. >> at the age of 13, a probation officer said he remembered oswald as a truant, a troubled boy in need of psychiatric help without which he might turn violent. >> after starting in high school he promptly joined the marines. oswald's marine career ended in 1959 when he was dishonorably discharged. a month later he was in moscow where he announced his decision to renounce his american citizenship. >> are you an marxist? >> i would say that i am a marxist, correct. but that does not mean i am a communist. >> he desperately wants to become a soviet citizen, renounce his american citizenship. they turn him down? what does he do? slashes his wrists, tries to commit suicide. >> lee harvey oswald had these dreams or delusions that he'd been harboring for a long time of an act that would lift him from his obscurity. >> a squad mate of his in the marines said that oswald wanted to do something that 10,000 years from now people would be talking about. >> it looked to me like a stu

the commission answered unequivocally lee harvey oswald. er of the conspiracy? the commission answers he acted alone. >> we knew most people were not going to read all of the warren commission report. so cbs news wanted to bring to air an understandable form for the public at large what the warren commission found. >> there was nothing to support the speculation that oswald was an agent, employee or informant of the fbi or the cia or any other governmental agency. >> oswald owned the murder rifle, a mail order purchase slip for that rifle was in his handwriting. oswald's palm print was found on a surface of the gun. >> the media had all concluded that this was the most exhaustive investigation, case closed. oswald did it alone. >> the commission concludes that three shots were fired. all of them from this sixth floor window in the texas school book depository. >> the cumulative evidence of eyewitness, firearms and ballistic experts and medical authorities demonstrated that the shots were fired from above and behind president kennedy and gove

before lee harvey oswald could be tried, he was killed on live television. [ gunfire ] >> shot by jackuby, a dallas nightclub owner. thus the scene was set for 50 years of suspicions and nagging questions. how could as oswald a withdrawn loaner be responsible for killing the most powerful man in the world? >> there was certainly a ambition on the part of the younger lawyers to find a spon sirsy. >> howard was one of those young lawyers investing jfk's death. the conclusion they reached, that oswald acted alone. >> obviously the commission was not flawless, and the members of the staff were not perfect, but everyone put their energies holy into the project. they had a determination to find out the truth. >> reporter: an important part of the investigation was this famous home movie, shot by a bystander. the commission examined it frame by frame determining both bullets that hit kennedy came from the back. subsequent government investigations agree that those shots came from the 6th floor window of the depository where oswald worked. however, it was concluded this oswald may have had a p

to this day, 50 years later, the evidence points to lee harvey oswald. oved the central conclusion of the warren commission. it was oswald. he fired the three shots in the plaza and killed john kennedy. that's what we know. we know more than the warren commission. they made many mistakes but they were right about that central conclusion. it really was lee harvey oswald. he did it because he wanted us to remember him. we do, we're fascinated to him through this day. oswalt would be thrilled to know we're obsessed with him and the conspiracy theories. >> doug brinkley, do you concur? >> yeah, i largely concur. i think the warren commission got an awful lot right. we point out shortcomings but came out in 1964. you go through all of that, you realize they ready much got right, about 90% of their story. there is no-the grassy knolls myth, what's making it complex is oswald's biography, the fact that he had spent time in the soviet union, the fact that he was grappling with cuba. many people don't want to face the fact that maybe a misfit, a really bad, evil g

a local nightclub owner. 52% of the public thought lee harvey oswald had not acted alone. today, 61% think oswald had coconspirators. that is down from a high of 81% who thought so in the 1990s after oliver stone's film jfk. true the tragedy has all the makings of a conspiracy. oswald was a former u.s. marine. he had earlier defected to the soviet union. he lived in the russian city of minst for years. when he and his wife marina returned to the united states, he became involved in cuba's politics. pro castro. on september 27, 1963, two months before the assassination. oswald went to mexico city and visited the soviet consulate and the cuban embassy. it was concluded that he did act alone. but at the time, the commissioners where unaware of the plans of the u.s. cia to oust cuban dictator castro. many theories have been spawned implying that cuba, the cia, and even kennedy's vice president lyndon johnson were the assassin. >> this has to be taken seriously, of course. when kerry, our current secretary of state says to this day i have serious doubts that lee harvey oswald ac

this was the dreary funeral of lee harvey oswald, alleged murderer of president kennedy. ic group of mourners included oswald's mother, brother robert, and oswald's two children, one of them a babe in arms. the six pall bearers you see here are newsmen. there were not enough relatives or friends on hand to serve as pall bearers. >> now there is a new flag of the president of the united states flying in the white house. in president kennedy's old oval office, mrs. evelyn lincoln, his secretary and her aides, have removed every scrap, every vestige of the signs of the personal touches of president kennedy. >> we know from history that one test of societies is how do the handle the transfer of power at the top. lyndon johnson, whatever you thought of him, and a lot of people disliked him greatly, some even hated him, would be the president of the united states. i think it shouted about the strength of the country and that we swear by the rule of law. >> the president of the united states. [ applause ] >> my fellow americans, all i have i would have given gladly not to be stan

i talked to a woman who new lee harvey as oswald. grandmother ran a boardinghouse where oswald stayed. she gave us a tour of that house and shared her memories. pat hal knew him when she was 11. she will and her brothers saw lee harvey oswald almost every day for six weeks. this house hasn't changed much in 50 years. >> the dining room table and all of that is original. and this is his room. >> reporter: just 5 by 14, space for a twin bed, night stand, wardrobe closet and a dresser. >> he played ball out in the front yard with my brothers a lot. with me being a girl, we didn't play, but he was just very -- it was a quiet, soft-spoken man. >> reporter: a couple of weeks before the kennedy assassination hal says oswald did something she will never forget. her brothers had gotten into a physical fight in the front yard. >> lee got up off of the porch, broke them up, set them on the stairs and sat down between them, and he looked at them, and he says i want to tell you two something, and he says this is important. he says you are brother

and it would be at 2:50 eastern time when lee harvey oswald was arrested at the texas theater after a struggle. 50 years later the tragic events were called in a ceremony just concluding in dealey plaza. the president was shot as his motorcade passed. the mayor mike rollins spoke. >> we all grew up that day, city and citizens and suddenly we had to step up to trying to live up to the challenges of the words, and visions of a beloved president. >> after the mayor spoke those in the crowd bowed their head for a moment of silence. nbc's janet shamlian is live in dallas right now. janet, this is the first time that texas, dallas, has held a ceremony of this magnitude. we'll talk much more about it. but it is striking 50 years later to see these people there on a chilly day marking this moment. >> reporter: you're right about the weather too. the mood was reflective of what we're seeing here, 35 degrees, it feels more like duluth, minnesota than dallas. rainy and overcast. and as you noted, really the first time that this city has paid homage to what happened here to remember and to rememb

when that happened, when jack ruby shot lee harvey oswald that sunday you were already back in washingtoncause president johnson, mrs. kennedy all had gone back on air force one. when you got back to washington, what did the secret service, what was your reaction to hearing that lee harvey oswald had been killed? >> we didn't find that out until somewhat later that day because just as he was being killed we were in the process of accompanying mrs. kennedy and the children and the president, johnson, taking the president's body up to the u.s. capital. some time later, then we were found out this had happened because we really wanted to interrogate him. wanted to find out why. wanted to see what his motivation was. we never had that chance. >> schieffer: you know, we now know especially through the reporting of bill shennan it had been well-known that lee harvey oswald had gone to mexico in the weeks before this had happened, we knew that he had gone to the soviet embassy there where he was politely turned away and the cuban became see tried to get a passport or visa to go to cuba. they sai

this was the dreary funeral of lee harvey oswald, alleged murderer of president kennedy. d oswald's mother, marguerite, his wife marina, his brother robert, and oswald's two children, one of them a babe in arms. the six pall bearers you see here are newsmen. there were not enough relatives or friends on hand to serve as pall bearers. >> now there is a new flag of the president of the united states flying in the white house. in president kennedy's old oval office, mrs. evelyn lincoln, his secretary and her aides, have removed every scrap. every vestige of the signs of personal touches of president kennedy. >> we know from history that one test of society is how do they handle the transfer of power at the top. lyndon johnson, whatever you thought of him, and a lot of people disliked him greatly, some even hated him, would be the president of the united states. i think it shouted about the strength of the country and that we swear by the rule of law. >> the president of the united states. [ applause ] >> my fellow americans, all i have i would have given gladly not to be stan

this was the dreary funeral of lee harvey oswald, alleged murderer of president kennedy. pathetic group of mourners included oswald's mother, marguerite, his wife marina, his brother robert, and oswald's two children, one of them a babe in arms. the six pall bearers you see here are newsmen. there were not enough relatives or friends on hand to serve as pall bearers. >> now there is a new flag of the president of the united states flying in the white house. in president kennedy's old oval office, mrs. evelyn lincoln, his secretary and her aides, have removed every scrap, every vestige of the signs of the personal touches of president kennedy. >> we know from history that one test of society's is how do the handle the transfer of power at the top. lyndon johnson, whatever you thought of him, and a lot of people disliked him greatly, some even hated him, would be the president of the united states. i think it shouted about the strength of the country and that we swear by the rule of law. >> the president of the united states. [ applause ] >> my fellow americans, all i have i

your grandmother believes that lee harvey oswald did not act alone. >> she would say that.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 technology. and by evil scientists. >> reporter: william oakley's grandfather is still around

. >> do you believe that lee harvey oswald was the lone asass sin? >> i don't know. >> we'll talk to them now on "fox news sunday." >>> president obama is crambling to save obama care and possibly his presidency. on friday he met with insurance industry executives to address a new plan to undue the cancellation of health insurance for millions of americans. joining me now are two figures, karen ignagni. and also ben nelsson, coe of the national association of insurance commissioners. after the president announced his fix, you put out this statement changing the rules after health plans already met the requirements of the law could destabilize the market and cause higher premiums. you met for more than an hour on friday, did you change your mind or do you fill have the same concerns? >> i felt it was a good decis n discussion. we have the same goals and we're working to get people into affordable coverage. that's what americans want. the question is what happens, who will join the the markets. will it be the young and the healthy balancing out the old

i talked to a woman not too long ago who was 11 years old when she knew lee harvey oswald. her grandmother ran a boarding house, and six weeks after the assassination, she told me something that she will never forget. oswald did something when her brothers got into a fight in the front yard. >> lee got up off the porch, broke them up, set them on the stairs, and sat down between them. and he looked at them and he says, i want to tell you two something. and he said this is important. he says, you're brothers, and you need to take care of each other, and you need to love each other. and never do anything that would harm another human being. >> unreal. that all said, after the assassination, it was really tough times for her grandmother. she was embarrassed and ashamed that she housed someone who would do what oswald did, and she was the victim of a lot of threats, death threats of people who found out where oswald was living at the time he committed the assassination. >> we should point out that where you are save just one site where people have gathered today, correct? >> yea

the suspect, lee harvey oswald. detective m lovell was assigned t case. >> lovell qstioned oswald, unaware that moment ofis coection to the presidt's shooting. >> i remember a lot abt him. heas calm and collected, just like you and i are sitting here the talking. he answered my questions immediately. he didn't answer them trhfully alwa but he didn't hesite to answer any of thquestions i asked him. >> rorter: the suit and stetson he wore are displayed in a museum feet om where oswald shot the predent. lovell accepts h place in history and history's judgment. do you feel u failed in your duty to protect him? >>vidently. he died, didn't he? i'd say i failed. >> rorter: it's a story that lovell's granddaughter grew up hearing. she is a filaker and decided to dument her grandfathes story. as i started to interview his lleagues and reporte from back then and learned more about the whole incident, a larger story started to stand out t me. >> t prime suspect, 24-year-old lee oswald of llas -- >> reporter: in the documentary

she and her brother saw lee harvey oswald every day. they ran a boarding house. asn't changed much in 50 years, the t.v., piano, stove and furniture is the same as when oswald stayed here for $8 a week. >> the dining room table and all of this, all of that is original. this is husband room. >> justify five by 14, space for a twin bed, nightstand, wardrobe closet and a dresser. >> he played ball out in the front yard with my brothers a lot. with me bunk a girl, we didn't play. [ laughter ] >> but, he was just very -- he was a quiet, soft-spoken man. >> a couple of weeks before the kennedy assassination, hall says oswald did something she'll never forget. her brothers had gotten into a physical fight in the front yard. >> lee got up off the porch, broke them up, sat hum on the stairs and sat down between them, and he looked at them and he says i want to tell you two something. he said this is important. he says you're brothers one need to take care of each other and you need to love each other, and never do anything that would harm another human being. >> after the

host: did he go by lee harvey oswald or lee oswald? guest: lee.t morning you were questioned by the secret service. when and why question my guest: at that time they had moved to dallas. i saw them on november 22, 1962. fact, we introduced them to our russian friends in dallas, which caused him to move to dallas. eventually to get work at the texas school depository. i am getting off track here. what was the question? host: the questioning you received by the secret service the next day, november 23. guest: there were very few people who knew lee and marina at that time. they were newcomers. and probably my father and i were the only outsiders who knew rina say june to october of 1962. i was designated as a known oswald.e of lee harvey so, the secret service came to me around 11:00 in the morning in norman, oklahoma and took me to oklahoma city for questioning. about theme ask you theory -- there are many people who believe lee harvey oswald did not act alone. what is your belief? did he say anything and the 48 hours between his arrest and his own

up to lee harvey oswald and questioned him. >> yes, at the police station. they wanted the news people to see that oswald had been hurt a little bit on his face when he had been arrested, and they wanted to make sure the cops weren't roughing him up. he walked down the hallway and i was right there. i said did you kill the president. and he said i didn't kill anybody. and i mean, there were cops on both sides. i'm not suggesting he just walked down the hallway. they were taking him to another office to continue the interrogation. i wrote that down on my notebook, misspelled his name, you know. i had it something like len howard oswald, all that kind of stuff. and i did write down "i didn't kill anybody." now i can't find the notebook but that's neither here nor there. >> did you realize at that moment that we were almost at an inflection point in the nation, that nothing would ever be the same afterwards? >> we had never seen anything like this. television had never covered a story the way they covered this, wall to wall, but hanging over this was the uncerta

how a then little known journalist wound up driving lee harvey oswald's mother to visit him in jail. >> we'll hear from the driver who survived this crash. the last thing he remembers before everything went black. >>> and the $99 test that can predict your future. we're back in 80 seconds. of president kennedy. from dallas. . >>> 50 years ago tonight americans were glued to their tvs in shock after the assassination of president kennedy. from dallas to pleasant hill, home of the only university named after john f. kennedy, eyewitnesss remember the anniversary like it was yesterday. >> it was a chilling experience. one that marked the turning point for me in my hive. >> reporter: david wallace saw the president twice that day as part of a school assignment, once when mr. kennedy arrived at the airport, the second time after he was shot. >> i went home and saw my mother and dad and we cried. and the world changed after that, the world changed. >> this has been an attempt on the life of president kennedy. >> reporter: most americans recall watching it unfold on the tv. >> president kenn

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did castro know anything about lee harvey oswald before kennedy was shot? is one of the big surprises that i uncovered doing the research on this book. fidel castro and cuban intelligence had a thick file on oswald they began accumulating as early as 1959. that's the first year of the revolution. think of it also. thing of how shocking that is in the context of what castro said publicly about 30 hours after kennedy was killed. castro went on cuban television the day after kennedy's death and he told anybody who was listening, we never in our life heard of him, oswald, we never heard of him. it was a flagrant lie. cuban intelligence had plenty, plenty of evidence and knowledge of lee harvey oswald. >> particularly in those early days after the revolution. castro kept a very personal close hold on all of the intelligence information. so if the cuban intelligence had it, clearly fidel castro did, right? >> fidel was the supreme spy master. ran cuban intelligence almost out of his back pocket. it was a thing the public affairs activity that he loved to do the mo