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

definitely. >> craig, thanks, a long time ago i visited with lee harvey oswald's mother marguerite who30 years ago. >> did your son in your opinion, kill president kennedy? >> i don't have an opinion whether lee killed president kennedy or not. i happen to know my son was framed. i have stated so in my testimony. i have spoken out for 13 years and so i find the question have upsetting. >> over the last several years, especially, there have been reports that your son was actually an agent for one of the intelligence agencies here in the united states, the cia, the fbi, the secret service, something like that. what do you think about that theory? >> well, yes, when lee went to russia, i thought then, which was in 1959, i thought then and just for the fact that he had shown up in russia, but in thinking about everything, i was convinced that he was sent to russia. and i made a personal trip to washington, d.c. in 1960. and i think at the time of the assassination, when everybody was still so upset, if i said anything, people go, oh, that's a mother taking up for her son. so now i'm going

yes, lee harvey could have made that shot.e had the motive, he a had the skill, he could have made those shots. but i'm not a conspiracy guy, i believe there were other forces at play. >> mike baker, thank you very much. with us perhaps the leading researcher and conspiracy theorist on the assassination of jim cantore. jfk. mark lane join us us from virginia. let's put evidence aside, i want you to tell me right now, who killed the president in your opinion after everything that you have researched, everything that you have been to over these long decades, who do you think was responsible for the death of the young and gracious 35th president of the united states, mark lane? >> start out by saying there is no evidence against oswald. i know people talk about his motivation. you're a lawyer and so am i, we know that motive is not an element of the crime. the question is what is the evidence. let's look at the evidence. there is no evidence that oswald was involved. >> mark, i want you to tell me who did it if oswald did not? >>

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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

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. >>

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 actedone. 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 himse

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 ab

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 ab

. >> the president is shot and a police officer is shot, then someone name lee harvey oswald is arrestedhe assassination. who is he? >> lee oswald of dallas, a form erma rein that spent time in russia and applied for soviet citizen ship. >> the description that we have of the suspect in ocliff was similar to the description we have as the assassin but we haven't been able to connect the two. >> down there a crowd of camera men, reporters wait for a possible appearance of the man accused of killing president kennedy and a dallas police officer. >> it will be a great deal of confusion, mr. oswald is put through the door. i don't know if you saw him. oswald lives at 1026 meckley. an employee of which they believe the police and secret servicemen believe was shot today. >> mrs. kennedy accompanied the body in the ambulance from the hospital to the airport where it will be flown back to washington. >> the emergency room at the hospital on the first floor there and they come out and told us that we would have to help her move the remains into a gas knit. >> lyndon johnson had ordered that the

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

this is the bigamistry in america about lee harvey oswalt.ling and the warren commission was done quickly. the point for lyndon johnson was to get something out. they wanted to move on in life in america and and it would have created a melt down of national security, would have made the cold war tensions higher, hence, it was done fast and sometimes hastery the warren commission. doesn't mean they were wrong. >> it's interesting, phil, as you write in your book, a lot of evidence was destroyed or damaged. can you explain that and why that happened? >> well, i mean, evidence begins disappearing from government files within hours of president kennedy's death. the night after the assassination, the navy pathologist pushed the original autopsy report and all of his notes from the autopsy room into the fireplace of his home and watched it turn to ash. that's just the start. in mexico city there may have been photographs of oswalt taken by the cia and tape recordings with the soviet and cuban embassies and that would disappear, as well. >> 50 years

. >> the president is shot and a police officer is shot, then someone name lee harvey oswald is arrested may be a suspect in the assassination. who is he? >> lee oswald of dallas, a former marine, who spent some time in russia, who at one time applied for soviet citizenship. >> the description that we have of the suspect in oak cliff was not similar to the description that we had and the man that we were looking for as the assassin, but at that time we had not been able to connect the two in any way. >> down there in this third floor corridor, a crowd of cameramen and reporters wait for a possible appearance of the man accused of killing president kennedy and a dallas police officer. >> apparently a great deal of confusion. mr. oswald is put through the door. i don't know if you saw him. oswald lives at 1026 meckley. he is an employee of a book binding firm in the building in which the police and secret servicemen believe the president was shot today. >> mrs. kennedy accompanied the body in the ambulance from the hospital to the airport where it will be flown back to washington. >> the e

lee harvey oswald was one of them. >> yeah. let's take a short break.ck, gentlemen, i want to talk about kennedy's legacy as a president, whether he was a great president or somebody cut off in his prime on the potential of becoming a great president. >>> looking back at president kennedy's legacy. back with me now, james swanson, douglas brinkley and robert dahling. where does he rank in the pantheon of american presidents. some people think he was an untouchable genius, brilliant president. others think there was a sinister dark side that was all going to unravel and he wouldn't have been remembered as a great president. where do you lie? >> i think he was not a great president. he was there for only 1,000 days, sixth briefest presidency in the country's history. but i think he certainly was a significant president. he broke the hold of white protestant males on the office, first catholic to win the office. one could see a direct line from him to barack obama. when we get a woman as president i think you can see a direct line to that, as well. he put

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. >> the president is shot and a police officer is shot, then someone named lee harvey oswald is arrestedssassination. who is he? >> lee oswald of a dallas, a former marine that spent some time in russia and applied for soviet citizenship. >> the description that we have of the suspect in oak cliff is similar to the description we had on the man we were looking for as the assassin but at that time we had not been able to connect the two in any way. >> down there a crowd of camera men, reporters wait for a possible appearance of the man accused of killing president kennedy and a dallas police officer. >> there will be a great deal of confusion, mr. oswald is put through the door. i don't know if you saw him. oswald lives at 1026 meckley. he's an employee of a book binding firm in the building in which the police and secret service men believe the president was shot today. >> mrs. kennedy accompanied the body in an ambulance from the hospital to the airport where it will be flown back to washington. >> cleared everyone out of the emergency room at the house on the first floor there. they ca

a recent gallup poll found that 63% of americans do not believe that lee harvey oswald acted alone.efore lee harvey oswald could be tried, he was killed on live television. [ gunfire ] >> shot by jack ruby, 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 flo

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

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 a

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

want -- lee harvey oswald.clip] >> we were in the motorcade going through the main part of town. the crowds were extremely enthusiastic, excited, exuberant , and just after we turned off of main street, someone turned around and said to the president , mr. president, you cannot say dallas does not love you now. he said, no, i cannot. we turned onto elm street to go under the overpass, and i heard this sound that i thought was a rifle shot. i turned to look over my right shoulder because that is where the sound came from to see if i could see anything. i did not. i was in the process of turning to look over my left shoulder when i felt an impact, someone -- as if someone hit me with a closed fist in the middle of my back. , and i sawme over that i was covered with blood. frankly, i thought i had been fatally hit. my wife pull me down in her lap. she was in the jump seat on my left. i was in the gems he directly in front of the president. she pulled me down into her lap. at about that time, i heard aother shot, a

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

. >> 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

. >> the situation right now is that lee harvey oswald has been shot. man who saw the shot fired said it was fired by a man wearing a black hat, a brown coat, a man that everyone down here thought was a secret service agent. we can hear sirens outside and an ambulance apparently is moving down now into the basement. here comes the ambulance. and oswald will be removed now. the ambulance is being pulled up in front of us here. here comes oswald. he is ashen and unconscious at this time, now being moved in he's not moving. he's in the ambulance now. attendants, police, quickly climbing in. the ambulance is leaving dallas police headquarters. where will he be taken? >> i'm assuming parkland hospital. >> parkland hospital, the irony of ironies, the place where president john f. kennedy died. >> don't take the microphone. what is your reaction to the shooting of oswald? >> i think it's a deplorable situation. the man is entitled to a fair trial. >> the should give him a fair trial. because killing him just like that ain't nothing. that ain't going to bring p

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

then someone named lee harvey oswald is arrested. oswald may be a suspect in the assassination. of dallas, a former marine who spent some time in russia, who at one time had applied for soviet citizenship. >> the description that we're had of the suspect in oak cliff was similar to the description we had and the man we were looking for as the assassin. but at that time we had not been able to connect it to him in any way. >> down there in this third floor corridor, a crowd of cameramen, reporters, wait for a possible appearance of the man accused of killing president kennedy and a dallas police officer. >> going to be a great deal of confusion. mr. oswald is put through the door. i don't know if you saw him. oswald lives on north buckley. he's the employee of a book binding firm in the building in which the police and secret servicemen believe the president was shot today. mrs. kennedy accompanied the body in an ambulance from the hospital to the airport where it will be flown back to washington. >> everyone out of the emergency room, hospital on the first floor there and they c

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? >> ye

lee harvey oswald. >> basically he was saying he didn't like the u.s., and they went to the soviet union thinking it would be better, but tfrtn't better. >> ruth thinks oswald was the lone assassin. >> it's not that i had known the assassin, but that we lost a really wonderful president. and all the things that he might have been able to do. >> my fellow americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> he gave people hope, optimism. >> a presidential historian's latest book called "camelot court." it's a shining moment in history. the idea that he was something special. >> november 22, 1963, the day give begins with an excited welcome for president kennedy outside his ft. worth texas hotel. outside dallas, oswald is going to work with a rifle. >> i think it never occurred to michael that there might be a gun. >> it is 8:45 central time. in less than four hours, president kennedy will be dead. back inside the hotel, jacqueline kennedy makes a grand entrance. >> i'm getting that same sensation. >> john kennedy was highly intelligent, witty, and