jfk, lee harvey, oswald and the real target in dallas. what do you mean by the real target in dallas? >> it's a congress -- con have a luted -- i think all of them are nonsense. i think we have to bring it down to the psychology and mind set of lee harvey oswald the killer. what i've attempted to do is go to the core of his motive for picking up the weapon on november 22nd. >> you had to put two things together. the first is the attitude toward kennedy. where he had absolutely no -- for the president at all. admired the president for his policies. the change in military danger from honorable to dishonorable. he appealed to connelly to change it in 1962 and that hounded him to change him and hounded him for the next year and a half. and i believe he put the face of connelly on the frustration. he had a rage and anger against connelly. but not such an attitude toward kennedy at all. >> how did you do the 50 years later? >> a biography of john connelly in 1989. in fact, i was on booktv back there in 1989. on that. it was a 1680 page dallas s

butler, says she was on the stairs at that crucial time and saw, and more importantly, heard no lee harvey oswald because it's a wooden staircase in the 20s. if anyone was on it, they'd hear that. it explains when oswald approached by a police officer is not emotional, but sipping on a coca-cola because he's on the second floor eating lunch when malcolm wallace shoots at least one of the shots. now, i conclude that there are more than one shooter. i think there's a shooter on the grassy knoll, may be a shooter in another building. now, who else says lyndon johnson is involved? well, it's interesting. jackie kennedy, she's never satisfied with what she's told by warren, goes to french intelligence asking them. they conduct a full investigation and publish it. what do they conclude? lyndon johnson is the perp. there's a declassified memo in 1996 from hoover to president johnson letting him know an american spy has reported that the soviets' kgb conducted their investigation, and what did they conclude? lynn don johnson is the key figure in the murder of john kennedy. e. howard hunt, clearly a crair

we talked on the program about secretary of state john kerry letting slip his views that lee harvey oswald did not act alone. which raises eyebrows, letting those views out. but it says something about that generation now in leadership circles who don't view this as settled and a lot of people would like it to be settled. that was true then and still feels unsettled to some. >> the importance of having the mission at time was there was a real fear that the country itself might unravel because of this terrible event. at least you had the power of a respected commission saying at the time it's settled. those answered probably may never be reached. i think as i was saying when we were talking before, there's a desire on people's part to not have it just be a random act. such an act that changes history, maybe you want to believe it's part of something bigger. i'm not sure we'll ever know. people still have questions. >> fairly tangled web, right, that the kennedys had weaved at that point whether there were mafia connections and questions about cuba and the soviets that feel still unsettled.

who was lee harvey oswald? >> on the surface lee harvey oswald was a 24-year-old man, a lifelong loser now a high school dropout with delusions of grandeur minimum wage jobs. joined the u.s. marines at age 17. his brother had been a marine. served about three years. didn't do well in the marines, court-martialed twice shooting himself with a derringer pistol once for fighting with a superior rank. stationed in japan worked on you too planes and other things. the only thing oswald learned how to do well in the marine corps was how to shoot a rifle. he was trying to shoot 800 yards without a scope and he got the middle mark. he cheated his way out of the marine corps but claiming his mother needed him, dependency discharge. one day he showed up in moscow and said he wanted to renounce his citizenship. the russians thought he was nuts. he claimed to have secrets. he didn't have anything they didn't know about the you too or the radar. they recognized him for who he was, a fool. so they shipped them off to minsk to

conclusion, though i would not express any great expertise in, it was probably a loan gunman, lee harvey oswald. the perils between kennedy and reagan, both shot by derangement. one with 23, 124, both loners, both men who tried to assessing other famous people before. oswald had tried to shoot a guy named edward walker. hinkley headstock jimmy carter for a while trying to shoot him. i think part of it just doesn't register because we think of kennedy as the liberal icon, the guy who likes of the right. that guy on the list. he was shot by a self developed marxist. reagan, conservative, a guy who thinks civil rights has gone before. he shot by a guy who is a self avowed white summer prep -- white supremacist. we just look at the bottom line both art troubled young men as sirhan sirhan, do. it's hard to accept that there's a book on lincoln that said it's just hard to believe that a peasant can kill a king. so we just want to look for a bigger reason than that. >> what is the best professional opinion about how bad kennedy's health really was at the time of his death and help might have affected

turn generally united states that that guy was right absolutely cause you couldn't have tried lee harvey oswald because the first person to testify would have been the medical examiner and he never got to examine the body which was flown to washington yes correct yep now i'll give you another one so i noticed the car was a crime scene correct the president was murdered in the car correct lyndon johnson immediately sent the crime scene to michigan violate obstructing justice forensic was never allowed to look at the carving johnson was part of conspiracy to absolutely you do with the meeting that took place with clint murchison edgar hoover j. edgar hoover his his lifetime mistress nat'l and browning stated she was there when johnson came out he grabbed her hand and said after tomorrow those kennedy boys will never bother me again which all of us but i never heard that he does that but no one to mention no. no warren commission didn't want anybody that told a different story come down to the final of thing on this book or i will cool conspired to kill him well that's the difficult question in fi

priscilla johnson mcmillan, probably the only person who ever lived who knew both john kennedy and lee harvey oswald. there's only one. people like dr. ira styler whom you saw there, a second year pediatric resident who happened to be in the delivery room when john f. kennedy jr. was born not breathing and who saved his life. and another gentleman whom i admire very, very much. as many of you may know, the kennedys had a second son born in august 1963. he lived only 40 hours. the surgeon who tried to save his life for 30 of those hours had never spoken publicly, pardon me, about this incident ever before. he gave me his first-ever interview. i told people i would not ask them any questions about john kennedy's sex life or assassination conspiracy theories. more than enough has been written about both. and people were very appreciative of that aspect. there are two or three family members who are in the book, including a nephew, christopher kennedy lawford. he is a actor, a film maker and an author on various books on addictions. he lives in southern california. i've contacted him and said what i wan

lee harvey oswald was given a pair fin test, no nitrogen on him. he had not fired a rifle that day. the dallas police department reports say that there are two shell casings. somewhere along the way, it's changed to three. the police officers says he scratched initials in both, but the shells the commission has has no initials. there's planted a pristine bullet on the stretcher that we're asked to believe it wefnt through jack kennedy and connelly and remains pristine. the government can't duplicate that either december -- despite best tries. i'm sure the book is here, please, my friends, move it to the fiction section. [laughter] another question. somebody who has not asked. yes, sir? >> did you run across an proximation how much military industrial complex money loomed -- or let's say his front companies meads, like, continuing in the vietnam war? >> well, we know that, that lady bird was a shrewd investor, big stock in bell helicopters, big stake in brown and rue known as haliburton. johnson's estate made millions on the vietnam war, millions. she was shrewd when it came to inves

>> they promise safe passage for snowden and lee harvey oswald.can they do the same thing for our athletes? the state department displayed its ineptness and inability to determine whether certain facilities are safe or secure and immune from terrorism. benghazi, example number one. so we have a lack of confidence in what the russians are doing. they say they're going to have 40,000 troops and security personnel there. we also know the state department has issued a travel alert as of last friday. we know that at least three of these so-called black widow terrorists are on the loose in the so-called ring of steel surrounding sochi. we know hundreds of russian troops are killed in that region every year as the result of this chechen crisis that we have and we know there is a man named doku, the chechen tribe leader, he and his band have made threats. doku amarov, that's the kind of osama bin laden of this situation. >> there is the guy right there. >> american teams are very concerned that at least one of the teams has hired its own security unit and

lee harvey oswald was given a test, there's no nitrogen on his face or sand or his arms.he hasn't fired a rifle that day. the dallas police department report says there are two shell casings. somehow along the way the warren commission changes that could trigger the police officers is he scratched initials in both but the shows of the warren commission has no initials. somebody planted a pristine bullet on the stretcher that carried john coming was asked to believe that with reject kennedy and connally and remains pristine. yet the government can't duplicate that either despite their best drive. vincent, please, move it to the fiction section. another question. somebody who hasn't asked. >> did you run across an approximation of how much military industrial complex money loomed in -- or let's say his front companies may, i continuing the vietnam war? >> we know this, that lady bird was a shrewd investor. she had big spot and bell helicopter. she had big stake in brown and root which you may know today as halliburton. the johnson's estate made millions on the vietnam war,