here comes john alt now -- and john oswald now. he carries money from the club and he just across the street wearing some cash. he said he saw oswald smirk and you knew that face that he always had. he said youth son of a bitch come he gets the perfect shot and you can hear oswald incomplete edni. the police tackled him and he says tecum veazey. it's me, jeff ruby. half of the police in the basement recognize him to and why did you do it, one policeman saw him before he this shot and he said don't, but it was too late. so they said i had to do it. somebody had to. you weren't going to. >> when i talk to people who believed there was a conspiracy, the one thing that they pointed to the was difficult to answer is they did have some connections. it was maybe jimmy hoffa that said to cut off the head because why would jack ruby to make cracks he said he feared that mrs. kennedy would have to testify at the trial of oswald. robie was a distraught and emotional state all weekend. the assassination put him in an incredible state of depres

so, -- >> host: did oswald ever read threatening letters? >> guest: never. it did not have a single questionable individual on file in dallas. dallas was a hotbed of anti kennedy sentiment. and there have been incidents involving admiral stevenson. well, dallas and particular. you had the incident with adlai stevenson a couple of months before where he was spat upon and insulted. lyndon johnson and lady bird had been attacked their right before the election of 1960, and the local newspapers were strongly, virulently anti kennedy. publisher. i came across a wonderful tour guide in dallas. a lot of the behind the scenes places. the former first lady of dallas was very helpful in doing this. it took me all the hidden places that people normally don't see including house walls jail cell, the jail now closed. at the end of the day, he has done this for years. related to the de lys, kind of obsessed with it. said, you have focused on this for years and years. what do you really think? he says, you know, i know everything that there is to know about november 22nd 1

i think we have to bring it down to the psychology and mindset of lee harvey oswald, the killer.nd what i've attempted to do here is to go to the core of his motives for picking up the weapon on that november 22. you have to put two things together. the first is the attitude towards kennedy where he had absolute no animus towards the present at all. in fact, admired the president for his policies, but with john conway of texas who was in the car with kennedy, he had a long-standing grudge that had to do with the change in his military discharge, honorable and dishonorable. and he blamed conley for this because he had appealed to college to change back in 1962, and that hounded him for the next year and a half. and i believe he put the faith of conley on his frustration. so he had a rage and an anger against conley but no such an attitude towards kennedy at all. >> how did you do this research 50 years later? >> i published a biography of john connally in 1989. in fact, i was on booktv back there in 1989 on that, but this was a 680 page biography and the dallas assassination sided

oswald shot at walker in the dark and then he went outside with his pistol. combat in korea and world war ii and he was not going to sit there and be shot at. so oswald managed to escape and hean away and he got away on a city bus and no one ever knew that he did it. so there was no investigation. lou: how did he get away? >> on a city bus. he didn't have a driver's license. it's so bizarre. months before he is escaping on a bus and now he is escaping the texas school book depository on a bus. >> you know that every conspiracy theorist in our history, saying okay, but marina oswald had every reason in the world to be quiet and what were those reasons and how many of those reasons were part of the fact thatshe was a soviet type of citizen whom oswald had met and encouraged, it seems common many common to have met in moscow. >> he was a violent wife beater coming had delusions of grandeur, he said wanted to hunt down richard nixon, that he wanted to fight in the cuban revolution and he wanted to make her dependent upon him and he didn't want her to learn englis

was oswald involved at all in your opinion i think that he is maneuvered into place by the cia first of all the it's the term patsy yes the first one of the intelligence community lies to the warren commission both the f.b.i. in the cia have previous knowledge of oz wald and ruby for that matter that they deny we now know on the basis of the testimony from cia officials like victor marsh the robert plumlee and others that oswald was part of a defector program that he'd worked for the agency explains why when he returned from russia he gets this is shipped back immediately without ever asking for it and we pay is is airline fare we the taxpayers in they give him a five thousand dollar loan he's clearly got ties to the intelligence community when he's arrested new orleans for handing out pro castro flyers and he has one phone call does he calls wife does he call his lawyer no he calls the head of the f.b.i. in new orleans and an hour later he's out of jail. you conspiracy buff not at all i don't believe that that flying saucers that landed in roswell in the attack on america was in one

so oswald turton was aware of the news about general walker. he really paid quite a bit of attention to what walker was doing politically. bill talked earlier about the attack of at least 10. the night before the event, general walker had his own gathering in the same building, the dallas memorial auditorium. the three about the troops and give them instructions on what to do. when adlai was trying to talk nobody knew how that peter had got here. but i want to say about oswald is he was very general was very twisted >> the states whenever someone says something crazy, it always turns out it's in texas. [applause] is your receipt she misspoke, was dallas and isolated pocket of this kind of craziness? further natural trends in the same direction? >> there were certainly trans. people say you're from texas. it's your fault. they meant every name. and i lived in boston and dallas and san antonio and houston. i felt like i was firm and my response. there were other outcomes all around the country. we object to fire on state and people object to figh

someone like harvey -- lee harvey oswald ayub then -- in the sense that he could be an agent of change he saw the other people this powerful minority, he saw the world's richest man a gel hunt to lift in dallas lead an attack and yet lee harvey oswald felt that he could be a player on the world stage as well. he really did. i think he was influenced by what happened. >> if i can add too that if oswald was a communist who was a terrible communist. this was a guy who defected to the soviet union. he came back to the united states. he despise people who are members of the working class which also i think goes with what communism is all about. when you look at who oswald was and the environment he was then you can see that he was kind of a misfit rate he was looking for a place to fit in and he had above average intelligence. he believed he was about to do something great with his life and he kept trying to find a place to plug himself then and never really did. >> if i may add in april of 1963 and this was exiled little bit to the corners of history, oswald did try to kill someone else in

was oswald involved at all in your opinion i think that he is maneuvered into place by the cia first of all the it's the term that's yes the first one of the intelligence community lies to the warren commission both the f.b.i. in the cia have previous knowledge of oz wald and ruby for that matter that they deny we now know on the basis of the testimony from cia officials like victor marsh the robert plumlee and others that oswald was part of a defector program that he worked for the agency explains why when he returned from russia he gets this is shipped back immediately without ever asking for it and we pay is is airline fare we the taxpayers in they give him a five thousand dollars. he's clearly got ties to the intelligence community when he's arrested new orleans for handing out pro castro flyers and he has one phone call does he calls wife does he call his lawyer no he calls the head of the f.b.i. in new orleans and an hour later he's out of jail and you conspiracy buff not at all i don't believe that that flying saucers that landed in roswell with the attack on america was in on

the capture of oz while in the first live broadcast murder on national television when ruby shot oswald that sunday so this is all through the lens of the reporters who covered it it's really extraordinary to spend one of the most popular exhibits this year and here the famous is a broom story right this is abraham zapruder film the assassination of president kennedy with this home movie camera this is the camera that is the camera that he used to film was probably the most famous twenty six seconds of film in the history of our country he was the only witness to capture the entire sasa nation on film including the moment that the fatal bullet struck. incredible you have all those i saw in route first thing i saw all my life want to be in a movie the. news machine yeah there is the bells used to ring the ticker teletype machines like this one spread the news of kennedy's assassination in the way they did it was like you said a bell inside the machine alerted newsrooms that there was a big story so a news bulletin from u.p.i. would ring five bells but a flash which was the highest and mo

bulletin the moved on his death these artifacts include suspected assassin lee harvey oswald shirt jacket and wallet they're all being publicly displayed here for the very first time they're alone from the national archives and they really tell an extraordinary story of his apprehension in the texas theater. poorest of them feeling old and then his wallet is extraordinary i think because think about your own wallet and what it tells about you well this tells a big story about lee harvey oswald as well and this is old ball can be when you this is about yeah this is how reporters covered those four days that really shook the world from the assassination as you remember the capture of oz well the shooting of officer tippit the capture of oz well and in the first live broadcast murder on national television when ruby shot oswald that sunday so this is all through the lens of the reporters who covered it it's really extraordinary to spend one of the most popular exhibits this year and here the famous roberta story right this is abraham zapruder film the assassination of president kennedy with

you look at the warren commission 50 years ago and they looked at this and said that lee harvey oswald acted alone. in a decade later, the house house committee looks at the evidence and say that that's wrong and we didn't find three shots were fired, we found four. so i went there for the first time, which is was a fantastic trip, take your kids. the best part is i get there and of course i'm taking pictures and making a funny face and having fun. and then a minute later i'm walking and there's a family there with her cute little twin girls and if you can picture them same smile. of course -- i love judging other people. in the play, you people are taking pictures at a murder scene. i go there and it's believed to be where that fourth shot was fired not because anyone saw something and there was a footprint. because there was an audio tape in the sky, these two men are experts and you get the drift. no one in virginia gets that joke. in virginia, they're like, i don't get it. i don't get it at all. and they say that it's a gunshot. and no one knows that three years later, 10 of the to

i think oswald was the only killer. for me, the interesting question is, why is it that this day, 59% of people in this country still think there is an undisclosed or was an undisclosed conspiracy? and i think it has a lot to do with the feeling that people can accept the proposition that someone as inconsequential as oswald could've killed someone as consequential as the president. and also they are deeply troubled by the idea that there could be this sort of happenstance, this chance happening that after all, this oswald was a mayor deuel, didn't get lucky shots and, of course, was also the collected narrative is the fact when kennedy was shot, the first bullet went through the back of his neck. he was wearing a back brace that he normally wore in order to relieve the terrible back pain that he normally had. if he hadn't been wearing a back brace, that first bullet would have toppled him, would have knocked him over and the bullet that then the bullet that then found the back of his head and killed him never would hav

he is a vial human being, oswald.s guy really nailed him. >> yeah. >> overall, americans watching this movie, do you think they are going to finally put the kennedy assassination to rest? >> never. >> no? >> of course not. >> no? >> it's the great mystery of all time. i mean, i think the movie is the definitive word on what happened. >> yes. we presented it really factually and so did you guys. >> and i actually believe that but people can agree to disagree. it's such a shakespearian story that people are going to revisit it forever because it's our -- the loss of our american dream and american royalty. >> and you know what i like most about this movie with lowe? that he actually shaved and combed his hair while it being -- that's not an easy thing to do. >> when i come on the factor, i always make sure because i know you love it so much. i make sure that i have a little bit of -- >> -- i saw you in the west wing. you were shafn, there weren't you? that was another left wing >>> next on the rundown self-reliance. tv

we have oswald, says he is the hope i have been waiting for. chris on twitter thinks the pope thinks aids is bad, the dogma is old , #yan. we have a different pope and that's it. >> accusing the pope of doing branding. we're going to get into it. what is the pope francis effect? from rome to rio de janeiro, what is the buzz? however his softened language on hot button issues have some evaluating his political impact. joining us to take a closer look at the pope francis effect is father john guthrie, a member of the clergy for more than 20 years. sister jean grenick, she has been vocal on lgbt issues, a move that got her sanctioned by the church. and he penned an article, what can sarah palin and the gop can learn from pope francis. a four decade low, lack of interest what do you think is the reason for that? >> well i think institutional religion across the board has suffered in recent decades. but i think what's amazing and inspiring about this new pope is, you know, he's really breathing new life into the catholic conversation in a way we hav

we show the video of him being assassinated, lee harvey oswald as well.do we draw the line here? when do we decide that it's okay to start playing tapes and showing video? >> unfortunately some of those videos the jfk assassination is fortunately a wonderful example of this it becomes like wallpaper. i think we saw this after 9/11 as well. some of the scenes of the towers falling became replayed so often they were like wallpaper. they actually may desensitize people over time. that is not the intent and i think that's not a good thing. but i do err on the side of wanting to show people more rather than less. with warning labels, with viewer discretion advisories, i err on the side of wanting to show people more their than less to let them see unfortunately the horrors that are out there in the world sometimes. >> i'm not sure if you heard tom mauser whose son was killed in columbine. i said what's your advice for these families for the anniversary they said turn off the television. don't watch the news. >> that applies to all of us if we're uncomfortable.

defy you first of all blackstone's law dictionary and well you're a lawyer and ok you know blacks oswald if there's any of us here tonight actually you're a letter to chris i realize that. ok and define sedition as an insurrection or movement tending toward treason but lacking and over act attempts made by meetings or speeches or by publications to disturb the tranquility of the state congratulations are there mr obama's chief crime aren't and that is are you already simply akins committing no it isn't there i mean as a democratic analog can you identify for me any time in our lifetimes and between the three of us that spans a distance any time when democrats have set out to destroy the presidency of a republican i know democrats would do well to read with the what did they do to destroy his presence ok first of all let's talk about the first president bush the senate majority leader a democrat from new england made it his. personal career effort to see to it that mr bush would not be reelected stymieing him at every turn reversing course on tax policy and trade policy labor policy soley

defy you first of all blackstone's law dictionary and well you're a lawyer and ok you know blacks oswald if you there's a group of us here tonight actually you're a letter to chris i realize that. ok and define sedition as an insurrection or a movement tending toward treason but lacking an overt act attempts made by meetings or speeches or by publications to disturb the train will be of the state congratulations mr obama's chief coroner in march and that is that you are an easy m.p. publicans committee should know it isn't there i mean as a democratic analog can you identify for me any time in our lifetimes and between the three of us it spans a distance any time when democrats have set out to destroy the presidency. a republican i know democrats who do but i just read with them what did they do to destroy his presidency ok first of all let's talk about the first president bush the senate majority leader a democrat from new england made it his personal career effort to see to it that mr bush would not be reelected stymieing him at every turn reversing course on tax policy and trade polic

. >> here comes two cops with oswald taking him from one office to the other and i said, did you killdent? he said, i didn't kill anybody. >> a giant among men, an activist, a prisoner, a leader, a president, a founding father, madiba. >> hopefully we'll see in the future that even though he is gone, his spirit is not gone. what he left us will be there to inspire future generations. >> cleanse the country in an incredible way. >> good day, i'm andrea mitchell in doha. maiden voyage as secretary of state. >> don't want this. if president assad could quickly decide to come to the table and negotiate. >> but he has not, sir, with all due respect. there's no sign he's going to. russia and iran, as you pointed out, continue to arm assad. so is the stalemate going to continue? it's already been two years? >> obviously, andrea, we hope not. the president is the person who initiated this meeting. >> good day i'm andrea mitchell in geneva today where john kerry is about to open those talks with his russian counterpart. >>> joining me by skype syrian rebel commander. >> we hope our friends in

oh, says oswald, the negotiator. fine, then i think i can do what you want done which is recognize american independence, something the french did not want to happen. and also -- >> they wanted a small america. >> they wanted america to be small, hemmed in by hostile powers on all sides, at odds with britain, poor and dependent on france, right? well, that's not what happened, and the reason it didn't happen is because john jay, you know, with this stupendous geopolitical understanding and imagination and with this stupendous american initiative and entrepreneurship just said, wait a minute, you know? i know i'm here to serve my nation's interest, and i think i know what my nation's interest is. and i'm going to do it. so it was just miraculous, what he did. >> uh-huh, uh-huh. >> then comes hamilton, about whom you have written so eloquently. and you know that i've learned that you should tell the story of the founding through short biographies from you, because you've written a shelf of magnificent ones, and you've

is the author of "the accidental victim: jfk, lee harvey oswald, and the real target in dallas." >> and it's a rare constant in american political life. but if you look at congress in 1901, less than 2% of members came from working-class background. got into politics and that eventually wound up in congress. fast-forward to the present day. the average number of congress met less than 2% of the career doing manual labor jobs, service industry jobs. and so this is one thing that really hasn't changed, you know, different aspects of the political podcast. big money in politics and the decline of unions and while all of this is happening, there's one of the constants during the, during the last 100 years or so is that working-class people are not getting elected to political office. >> doesn't matter there's a socioeconomic disparity between most elected officials and the citizens they represent? nicholas carnes looks at "white-collar government" tonight at nine on "after words." and in january in depth with mark levin. he will take your questions for three hours beginning at noon eastern

oswald only got the job at the book depository 30 days before the assassination of jfk. just by happenstance, a neighbor said they're looking for employees. he knew he was looking for work there. so he took it by happenstance. he didn't know the motn motorcas going to go by there. assassinations happen that way. to put an unvetted person, a person who has mental health issues -- and i believe this person thinks they can interpret. i think they think they can. we know he can't. the test for the service now is to fix it. they should be meeting with the people, fixing this issue. it should never, ever, ever happen again. >> james, thank you very much. again, to your point, if this man does suffer from mental health issues, particularly as he said schizophrenia, people have mocked and done other things. this is a serious mental health issue. what he's convinced himself he can do and what we know at this point he can't, it's quite obvious. a number of tracks going here. the most important obviously is the safety of the world leader, including the president who was on the stag

medical examiners to the stand, lyndon orton from dallas, who had done the exhumation on lee harvey oswald. >> today the medical examiner took the stand. dr. vincent dimaio said it isn't reliable. 32-year-old michael morton is charged in the death of his 31-year-old wife chris. morton broke down in tears today as district attorney ken anderson showed him photos of his wife's body. >> ken anderson's theory of the case was the theory that it was michael's birthday. christine had refused to have sex with him that night. and he went into a homicidal rage and killed her. >> prosecutors say he beat his wife to death after she refused to have sex with him on his birthday. >> the headline reveals the argument from the prosecution. district attorney ken anderson focused his line of questioning on morton's infrequent sexual relationship with his wife. >> under ken's theory, then michael masturbated over christine's body as i guess some form of sexual release. we don't know what it was. but when he did that, he had tears coming down his eyes as he talked to the jury. it was really quite an effective

linda norton from dallas who had done the exhumation of lee harvey oswald, and the medical examiner fromio. >> conflicting testimony in the murder trial of this man, michael morton. the behar county medical examiner took the stand and said it's not reliable to use the stomach contents for a time of death. >> a man took the stand today in his murder trial. 32-year-old michael morton is charged in the death of his 31-year-old wife chris. morton broke down in tears today as district attorney ken anderson showed him photos of his wife's body. >> ken anderson's theory of the case was the theory that it was michael's birthday. christine had refused to have sex with him that night, and he went into a homicidal rage, and killed her. >> channel 7 reports prosecutors say he beat his wife to death after she refused to have sex with him on his birthday. >> the headline reveals the argument of the prosecution. district attorney ken anderson today focused his line of questioning on morton's infrequent sexual relationship with his wife. >> under ken's theory at that point, then michael masturbated over

time because it was too graphic -- theories continue to this day bout the lone assassin, lee harvey oswald did she express an opinion? > not in anything that i would trust. she kept her counsel in all things. left, don is ins colorado springs. >> thank you for the show. my question is how important is to kennedy's catholic faith her. >> the kennedys were catholics. to them?tant was it >> i'll begin on this. she had con flingt throughout her life. when she ouble man.rried a divorced was supported in doing that by family cardinal. public figures two, things. one, you never get to the truth if they'res marriage married. umber two, you get to the bottom of what the religious feeling was. sometimes presidents and first ladies exaggerate that. sometimes there's more than appears on the surface. > as michael pointed out so well through the oral history, she feels really having her in those ut her faith --ths after >> exactly. she talks about her husband praying at night. >> like a little boy. superstition. he said initially just in case there was a god. >> a wager. she spoke to a father and had s

oh, says oswald, the negotiator. fine, then i think i can do what you want done which is recognize american independence, something the french did not want to happen. and also -- >> they wanted a small america. >> they wanted america to be small, hemmed in by hostile powers on all sides, at odds with britain, poor and dependent on france, right? well, that's not what happened, and the reason it didn't happen is because john jay, you know, with this stupendous geopolitical understanding and imagination and with this stupendous american initiative and entrepreneurship just said, wait a minute, you know? i know i'm here to serve my nation's interest, and i think i know what my nation's interest is. and i'm going to do it. so it was just miraculous, what he did. >> uh-huh, uh-huh. >> then comes hamilton, about whom you have written so eloquently. and you know that i've learned that you should tell the story of the founding through short biographies from you, because you've written a shelf of magnificent ones, and you've

she was accused of lee harvey oswald on a visa form about how much she paid her house keeper.ials in india was outraged that she was arrested, stip searched and jailed. they are looking to transfer to the united nations to provide her with greater diplomatic immunity. the u.s. state department would have to approve the move. she could face up to 10 years for visa fraud if convicted. >> six months after leaking more than a million documents to the press, edward know den said mission accomplished. his leaks exposed details of the massive nsa program. he said all he wanted was for the public to have a say in how they are governed. >> the federal government is getting a closer look at the target hacking scandal. the roles of the justice democratic and secret service are playing. that we will explain that rewarding the data breach on the other side of this break. the church of the nativity in bethlehem gets a makeover for the first time in centuries. we'll take you inside the church for a closer look at the face lift. >> tracking santa around the world. why one of the nation's top

took away the one person who could ever tell us that someone came today and said that i worked with oswald and i was the guy who helped him, none of us would believe him, i wouldn't believe him. we just wouldn't, that's not what our appetite is and this is a story that is about america and what we believe in the death of the american dream and what we lost. and i think that sadly is going to be a lot more books written and i don't think any of them are going to have all the facts unless that's a heck of a book. >> okay. thank you. [applause] >> i want to thank all of you for being here today. authors will be signing the books at the bottom of the stairs. >> one other last thing. i could just say thank you to our host. he is the executive of city or miami. please check it out, it's one of the best

joining us now on booktv is james restton, jr., the newest book called "the accidental victim: jfk, oswald, and the real target in dallas." what do you mean by "the real target in dallas," it's a story, but there's been 50 years of conspiracy theories on the jfk assassination, and i think all of them are nonsense. i think we have to bring it down to the mind set of lee harvey, the killer. what i attempt to do here is go to the core of the motives for picking up the weapon on november 22. you put two things together, first. the attitude towards kennedy where he had absolutely no an mouse towards the president at all, and, in fact, admired the president for his policy, but being in the car with kennedy, he had a long standing grudge that had to do with his change in the military's discharge from honorable to dishonble. he blamed him for this because he appealed to changes. that was back in 1962, and that hounded him to change in the discharge, hounded him for the next year and a half. i believe he put that on frustrations, so he had a rage and anger, but no such attitude towards kennedy at a