our very first witness was his wife, marina oswald. the press was getting very anxious as to the work of this commission. as far as the press knew, they had done nothing. the reporters congregated outside of our office near the supreme court on the morning of february 3, 1964, one marina oswald was going to appear. when the chief justice approached the group of reporters, they were eager to ask questions, and the first question that came out of their mouth was "mr. chief justice, when will we hear about her testimony?" in the chief justice said you may hear, but perhaps not in your lifetime. when he went on to explain that, he went on to say that certain materials would be withheld because of national security interests, however the whichation that he said, was hurriedly put out by the chief justice never caught up with the tagline, not in your lifetime. indeed, three months later, in europe, where there was a most unanimous view that there had to be a conspiracy, one of the three reasons listed was chief warren's "not in your lifetime

did marina oswald come here? >> she was here in february, 1964. she was the leadoff formal witness for the commission. and she was an important witness because she had made it clear that she thought her husband had killed president kennedy, and she thought he had done alone. he is call back more than once after serious questions are raised about her truthfulness. among other things and her initial interviews with the fbi and the secret service, she denied she had any knowledge of this mexico city trip. it turned out later that she knew all about it before her husband had gone there. >> the so-called magic bullet? what was the significance of that for the commission? >> i think it is probably the single most controversial piece of evidence from the kennedy assassination investigation. it is the bullet that the commission staff would conclude had past the bodies of both president kennedy and texas governor connally. initialtradicted the fbi report on the assassination was found three bullets had landed in the president's limousine. the first one hit

did marina oswald come here? >> she did. for several days she was the leadoff formal witness for the commission. she was an important witness because she made it clear she thought her husband had killed president kennedy and she thought he had done it a loan. among other things in her initial interviews with the fbi and secret service, she denied she had knowledge of this mexico city trip. >> the so-called magic bullet, and what was the significance of that for the commission? >> the single most controversial piece of evidence from the kennedy assassination investigation. it is the bowl at the commission staff would conclude had passed through the bodies of both president kennedy and texas , whichr connally contradicted the initial fbi report on the investigation -- report on the assassination. the first olid hit president kennedy in the back, the second hit connally in the back, and the third one hit president kennedy in the head. determined,on staff , that oswald would not have time to fire off three individual will it's i

the testimony of marina oswald was public because she was represented by earl lane, and she asked for public testimony. the commission agreed to do that. >> was it difficult to maintain an open mind with media coverage as well as the fbi findings being publicized? >> no. the initial fbi and secret service conclusions were the first bullet hit the president through his neck. the second bullet hit the governor. the third hit the president's head. it was not hard to keep an open mind. i was looking at the evidence. keeping an open mind is never a problem. you look at the evidence and go where the facts lead you. i had no preconceived notions. i had no interest in doing anything but finding the truth. earl warren said to us, the truth is our client. >> was there anything in the final report you disagreed with? >> i don't think so. i don't believe so. >> that was the portion of an interview senator specter recorded with the pennsylvania cable network. he served as a lawyer for the warren commission in the year following the assassination of president kennedy. senator specter died in 2012 a

marina, oswald's wife, verified that this jacket was oswald's. if you read the warren commission report, they will give their opinion on this, that it does tie him to the killing of tippit. so, this is probably one of the more famous bullets in existence. it i sometimes referred tos as the magic bullet. i refer to as commission exhibit 399, because that is the number that was assigned to it. it was found on oswald's stretcher. it is believed by the warren commission that this is the bullet that first hit president kennedy, exited through his neck, and hit governor connally sitting in front of the president. after going through his arm it was lodged into his thigh and fell off while he was on a stretcher. one thing to let people know is that we have very high quality, high resolution images of most of these artifacts. this one in particular available on www.archives.gov, through our online public action archive. i want to get as many views as possible because people have questions about every aspect of this bullet. >> and that container, is that a

and went out to the home where oswald's life , were interviewing her. marina he basis of what oswald tells lee harvey oswald, notebook in his hosty's name, the telephone number. i believe it's the license plate fbi car. this particular piece of paper would ld's notebook create an enormous rift between the fbi.ssion and because it appears the fbi tried to eliminate this portion of the notebook when it handed the documentation over to the warren ommission that actually it created a typewritten version of swald's notebook and removed hosty's name, apparently in an effort to prevent the warren knowing that m oswald knew that the fbi agent surveillance. that the fbi was monitoring his movements. so agitated about the fbi's surveillance of him and his family before the assassination he actually went to the allas field office of the fbi early november, 1963 and present add letter in which he protested. fbi office in dallas would later say oswald appeared to be very angry, maybe crazy with anger and left note. after the assassination of oswald t kennedy and himself is

ruth paine, in whose home marina oswald first, with and her tilden state.irst, with eddie barker, the mother. >> he was a happy go lucky young son. had a dog and a bicycle. he belonged to the y. he loved to play monopoly. he used to go swimming. he knew any and everything to know about animals. he was often in the zoo. he was picked up in the bronx zoo playing hooky from school. i consider that normal also. many boys do this. it is sad that lee was deprived of his father. he was born two months after his father had expired. we must understand that lee had two brothers. so he was not raised with just a woman alone. >> misses oswald, how old was lee when he went into the marine corps? >> he was 17 years old. he enlisted on his birthday. >> why do you think your son went to russia? >> i think my son was sent to russia. lee knew russian fluently. he found an application and on the application, it stated, i speak and write russian. >> where did he learn this? >> while in the marines. he was only out three days when he went to russia. so lee had to learn this in

i would have also pursued marina with the question of whether she had any recollection about her husband having been where. we don't know. we have no direct evidence that oswald knew about the report or what was on havana radio. we're drawing inferences from that. so the only person who would have known about whether he was aware of this would have been marina -- maria. >> yeah but that's a question of motive, not conspiracy. motive by oswald. and frankly i think it was very interesting, it would have been, but it's superfluous. and there's no question in my mind at least that he thought he was killing someone that was badly treating cuba. he had become a castro worshipper almost. so, yeah, sure. but what -- i mean, from my point of view, it doesn't -- it doesn't make any difference on the conspiracy. >> you couldn't have pushed any harder to find a connection between ounce wallswald and cub >> yes. i agree. also, if the president -- johnson that is by this time -- who i assume must have known what the cia had done, i can't imagine them doing this without the approval of the president, had made the whole thing happen, that's what should have happened. in fact

--marina oswald >> it took under six seconds to assassinate the president of the united states.uch of the commissions work centered on the question, was it really oswald who fired the rifle? even if he owned the rifle, even if you went home to get it, did he fire the weapon at the president? exactly how many shots were fired and did they all come from the school book building? the rifle was on the sixth floor window. some witnesses believe they heard shots from in front. there was a bullet make in the windshield of the limousine. hospital doctors were quoted as saying they thought of just one bullet entered the stricken at his neck from the front. -- mr. kennedy's neck from the front. the commission try to answer these questions. this is a film made for the commission in december, a reconstruction of the crime at the scene of the crime. in this film, and for the film, investigators sat in a car exactly where the president and the governor sat. it was driven over the same rate at the same speed -- over the same route at the same speed. for a moment, a tree is in the way. now must