jack ruby case i think again was more entertainment. people were interested, fascinated by saying jack rebeccay. so, it depends on the case as to the motivation for the people who were there. but in every single one of the cases even though the majority of them with the exception of the john adams case had largely been forgotten to history, when they happened, they were a huge deal. that is one of the things we found so exciting is these were big, big trials tetteh -- at the time. host: dan dreams host on dan abrams on siriusxm tkhaoefrl legal analyst of abc news and abrams media and media quite and law and crime network and he is the author of the

and then finally, in the jack ruby trial, the fact that melvin went for an insanity defense for jack first of the celebrity trials. you had the lindbergh kidnapping and other cases but this was the first one where you had a camera for part of the trial in the jack ruby case. actually the judge wanted a camera throughout but got convinced against it and i think it takes us into the kind of modern era of the jack ruby trial so the evolution of the law through my books wasn't necessarily linear or chronological but the way that i've been characterizing it is the way that we thought about it as we follow the law through the tales. >> host: dan abrams do you think the law is a more sophisticated, equal then it was back whenever? >> guest: i think on the issue of civil rights, sure. when you look at the way the law was abused to enforce people that had been oppressed to take buses that they had been mistreated on, i think you wouldn't be able to do that today with the law. there are arguments that you can still use the law in a way that is unfair or improper. there's no doubt that that can

or much less in jack ruby's cell. 1976 long forgotten, house of representatives a special committee to reinvest the assassination. jack kennedy was murdered as a result of a conspiracy. question is conspiracy by whom? obvious suspect c.i.a. why else would agency hold critical evidence for investigators benign explanation maintaining this level of ind secrecy. 1992 congress passed president jfk president records act. all documents by 2017, 54 years after jfk killed. under intense pressure from mike pompeo with held thousands of c.i.a. documents. today the biden administration did exactly the same thing. thousands of pages of documents after nearly 60 years. after the death of every single person involved. but we still can't see them. clearly not to protect any person they are all dead. it is to protect an institution. but why? today we decided to find out. we spoke to someone who had access to the documents. person deeply familiar with what they contain. did the c.i.a. have a hand in murder of jfk. quote, answer is yes. i believe they were involved. it is a whole different country. it i

that is a picture of jack ruby.e wasn't there. he was cropped out -- >> that commission -- >> tell me about facts instead of your deep fake and the chief justice -- >> you're accusing them of deliberate malfeasance. >> you're part of media that prevented the american people from finding out -- >> you're alarming the american people. >> the public has been kept in the dark for so long about this, but had an undying thirst which could only be quenched by facts. >> we have a right to know who killed our president and why he died, and we can't get that from reading the warren report. >> critics of warren commission have three different points of view. one, we were incompetent, two we were corrupt, and three both of the above. i want someone to tell me that to my face. valentino. ( ♪ ) born in roma fragrances. many ways to be you. valentino. ♪ music: forest blakk, fall into me ♪ ♪ you said close your eyes don't look down ♪ ♪ fall into me and i'll catch you, darlin ♪ ♪ we'll dance in the street like nobody's watching ♪ ♪

psychiatricd of hospitalization. >> those are conclusions that puzzlingly, no one who had spoken to jack ruby previously had reached ruby had seemed perfectly sane to the people who knew him.. d hi >> lewis dailan w pronounced him crazy. but what what w did not say was that he was working for the cia at the time. louis storyland w was a contract psychiatrist for the spy agency . t ony agency he was also an expert on mind control and a prominent player in the now infamouontrol as mk a program in which the cia gave powerful psychiatric drugsinent to americans without their knowledge. so of all the psychiatrists innh the world, what in the worldd wa was this guy doing jack ruby's prison cell? >> p the media didriso not seemt interested in finding out.edn in fact, the new york times, inu an extensive 1999 obituary of w never mentioned the fact that mn he had worked for the cia, much less his time in jack ruby cell ,which seems relevant. >> so you can see why non crazy people would wonder about what really happened.k and of course, many have wondered in nineteen seventy six long forgotten the hous

they got a wiretapped radio in that cell, and the godfather talked about he really owned jack ruby's — all sorts of things. those tapes and those transcripts, they exist. they have never been released. and so, we knew they wouldn't be released today, i don't think they're going to be released on june 30, either. why are people so fascinated witthk and the kennedy family? well, because, number one in england, you guys have the royals, and they occupy a lot of media space. here in america, unfortunately, people worship wealth. jfk's father was one of wealthiest men in america. as a clan, as a dynasty, you know, john f kennedy and his brothers robert kennedy and ted kennedy were big political figures, their children have gone on to become politicalfigures, and all the secrecy surrounding jfk's death. these federal agencies are saying it would destroy national security to release the top—secret files, you know, this many years after it, that leaves people wondering. the fact the most heavily guarded man in america, lee harvey oswald, could be killed in a police station by a gangster. i m

prison yard, they got wiretapped radio into that sale, and the godfather talked about he owned the jack rubyeding 0swald all sorts of things, those tapes and transcripts exist they have never been released, and so we knew they wouldn't be released today, i don't think they will be released onjune 30 either. why are people so fascinated with jfk and why are people so fascinated withjfk and the kennedy family? with jfk and the kennedy famil ? �* , , ., family? because, number one in encland family? because, number one in england you _ family? because, number one in england you have _ family? because, number one in england you have the _ family? because, number one in england you have the royals, i england you have the royals, they occupy a lot of media space, in america unfortunately people worship wealth, the father ofjfk was one of well used men in america, as a clan and a dynastic, john f. kennedy and a dynastic, john f. kennedy and his brothers robert were big politicalfigures, their children have gone on to become political figures children have gone on to become politicalfigures and chil

before oswald was able to spill his guts, jack ruby got to him. >> ozwald walks his last mile.lant moves in from the right. >> there is lee harvey oswald. [gunfire] >> he has been shot. he's been shot. lee oswald has been shot. >> now, from another camera the motion is slowed. the murderer moves in and here is the shame of all america as jack reuben stein takes the law unto himself. >> jesse: millions of americans felt like there was more to the story. theories were running wild, were the russians involved? the cia? lbj? the government has been trying to keep a lid on sensitive documents for almost 60 years but today the national archives finally released 13,000 classified documents on the assassination. the big bombshell buried in all of this is that the soviets took credit for ozwald. the kgb said ozwald was a soviet agent. they used his russian wife to honey trap him. ozwald was actually living in the soviet union in the 50's where the kgb claims he was being trained. is this russian propaganda or did the soviets really orchestrate the assassination of our president? whether

kennedy and the rest is circumstantial, but the fact jack ruby was killed after oswald and the warrenommission didn't do a complete and full job at the time, john berman rightly said there's never going to be enough. we're never going to satisfy all people that want a definitive answer about this, but this may be a couple documents here might move the narrative forward in a small way and that might be enough for another book. >> doug brinkley, john berman, thank you all, great to have you. thanks so much for watching tonight. >>> our coverage continues. imm. airborne. do more. it makes it really easy and seamless pick an order print everything you need slap the label on ito the box and it's ready to go our cost for shipping, were cut in half just like that go to shipstation/tv and get 2 months free >>> hello, and welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and all around the world. i'm kim brunhuber. ahead on

but the fact that jack ruby was then killed after oswald, the fact that the warren commission did nottely full job at the time -- john berman rightfully said, there's never going to be enough. we are never going to be able to satisfy all people that want to definitive answer about this. but this may be a couple documents here. they might move the narrative forward in a small way. and they might pick up for another. >> doug brinkley, john berman -- john, want to thank all of you. and thank you all for watching tonight. our coverage continues. oh no... for the gifts you won't forget. happy holidays from mercedes-benz. see your mercedes-benz dealer today for exceptional offers. are you feeling sluggish or weighed down? metamucil's new fiber plus collagen can help. when taken daily, it supports your health, starting with your digestive system. memucil's plant-based fiber forms a gel to trap and remove the waste that wghs you down, helps lower cholesterol and promotes healthy blood sugar levels. while its collagen peptides help support your joint structures. so, start feeling lighter and m

tonight, so not long after jack ruby shot lee harvey oswald,amer on camera in the basement ofce dallasquarters, a lot of americans startedeopl to have some questions about the kennedy assassination. it was you'dd have to admit, a pretty extraordinary sequence of events. a lone gunman murders the president of the united states and then less thanat forty two hours later, that loma

charged with the murder, but a short time later in a dallas police station, he was shot and killed by jack rubyicans watched live on nbc. >> he's been shot. he's been shot. lee oswald has been shot. >> the warren commission concluded oswald acted alone, but over the decades, kennedy's assassination has spawned countless conspiracy theories. dramatized in movies like oliver stone's "jfq". >> why was kennedy killed? who benefitted? who has the power to cover it up? >> john kennedy's assassination sadly probably will never be solved. that was since the day lee harvey oswald was killed in that police station in dallas. >> joining me now is nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss. what do you think are the outstanding questions in what was not released, the redacted documents? >> i think two things. i think the future documents may actually show us a little bit more about this, but it will never settle the question for everyone. one is, you know, oswald was an amazingly close touch with people from the soviet union. not only as a defector to the soviet union, redefected, but also went to t

oswald saying he's a patsy a couple of days later, he's gunned down by a bar owner, jack ruby.didn't make sense: my question to you, michael, as a historian, first of all, can you shed some light on who killed jfk if he was a lone wolf, but more importantly than that, shouldn't they release every last document 59 years later, unredacted? >> they absolutely should, joe. let's look at it this way, those alive at the time of the kennedy assassination, two weeks after dallas, the united states government just decided to release all sorts of stuff which they would not have released, what would it have shown? it would have given details of oswald's close contacts with our biggest enemy, the soviet union. same thing with castro's cuba. same thing with anti-castro cubans, and also we would have found out at the time if these things were released 59 years ago that oswald down to the day of the assassination was being tracked by the fbi in dallas, which was even trying to interrogate his wife. they knew that he was on the 6th floor of that book depository where the president was going to

documents about jack and his motivation other than the one that we came to understand and is there any more detail? >> there was no classified material, previously classified material about rubyre. and we can't swear that we've seen everything. but that was one thing we looked for, and there's no obvious material in there. >> obviously the man who killed lee harvey oswald while he was in custody. jeff, thank you very much for joining us. it's a really interesting story. can't wait to see the rest of the documents. >>> and the greatest player of all time will play his final world cup match this weekend. and he's facing the best player of the next generation. what to expect when france takes on argentina. on sunday. entina on sunday. meet leon the third... leon the second... and leon... the first of them all. three generations, who all bank differently with chase. leon's saving up for his first set of wheels... nice try. really? this leon's paying for his paint job on the spot... and this leon, as a chase private client, he's in the south of france, taking out cash with no atm fees. that's because this family of leons has chase. actually, it's león. ooh la la! one bank for now.