robert f. kennedy according to his son robert kennedy junior is. speaking at a roundtable in dallas, he said that his father publicly supported the warren commission, which said it was a lone gunman. but privately, he was much more critical of that conclusion. robert f. kennedy junior said his father thought there was strong enough evidence that he asked the justice department to look into the connection between the assassination and the mafia and the c.i.a. and other organizations. but he never publicly voiced those concerns, because he thought it would take away from the civil rights fight that was gripping the country at the time. >>> it is the biggest celebration that happens once every four years. we are of course talking about the inauguration of the president. all the bands, the drill teams and the stand-ins are in the capital today, rehearsing for next week's second inauguration of barack obama barack obama. athena jones is in washington to give us a sneak preview, hello. i guess they started e

f. kennedy. last night in dallas, jfk's nephew robert f. kennedy jr. spoke out about the assassination. kennedy said like his father, he questioned the warren commission report which concluded that lee harvey oswald was the lone gunman. he said he believed the evidence is very, very convincing that oswald did not act alone. >>> up next here tonight, when getting married can make a difference to others in need. >>> saturday, of course, is a popular wedding day. and tonight how a wedding can make a big difference not just to those getting married, but to folks who need help. nbc's diana alvear explains in tonight's "making a difference" report. >> reporter: after the champagne, the cake and the vows -- >> you may now kiss your bride. >> reporter: -- comes a check made out to a good cause. that's what you get when mary melfy officiates a wedding. instead of getting paid, the county clerk asks the happy couple to donate what they can to safe and hunterdon, a group that helps victims of domestic violence in new jersey. >> i love it. >> reporter: so many weddings, 150 of them a year. the conse

a gunman would assassinate reverent king then two months later, robert f. kennedy was shot and killed on the night he won the california primary. george watson brought us this report back in 1988. 20 years after the king assassination. >> like anybody i would like to live a long life, longevity has its place. but i'm not concerned about that now. i just want to do god's will. and he's allowed me to go up to the mountain, and i've looked over and i've seen the promise land. i mean i'll get there with you. but i want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the promise land. >> reporter: the preacher became the prophet. while standing in tennessee, martin luther king's words rang horribly true. a single gunshot would kill the leader. the shot came from over there. fired from a tiny room it tore into the body of the entire country. rioting broke out. blacks bellowed out theirager in a fire storm of anger and frustration. all this triggered by the murder of a man who preached that freedom would come through nonviolence. king brought nobility and hope to his

f. kennedy was not assassinated by a lone gunman, at least that was the belief of his brother robert f. kennedy. speaking at a round table in dallas, kennedy said his father publicly supported the warren commission which said it was a lone gunman but privately said his father was much more critical of that conclusion. robert f. kennedy, jr. said his father thought there was strong enough evidence he asked the justice department to look into a connection between the assassin nation and the mafia, the cia, and other organizations, but he never publicly voiced those concerns because he thought it would take away from the civil rights fight that was gripping the country. >>> you're in the cnn news room. i'm drew griffin in for don lemon tonight. >>> gun rights activists on one side, people calling for tighter gun control on the other. this is the week the two sides will butt heads again when the vice president and his task force send recommendations to the oval office. the head of the nra says he is ready to fight. >> the likelihood is they are not going to be able to get an assault weapons

. >>> robert f. kennedy junior says he believes there was more than one gunman who assassinated his uncle in 1963. rfk junior also privately doubted the accuracy of the warren commission report on the death of jfk. >>> vice president joe biden is about to send his recommendations to president obama and proposals for new gun control legislation, but he used some interesting words to describe his progress saying he was "shooting for tuesday to hand it in." he went on to say "there is no silver bullet to stop the killing." >>> the white house is giving a detailed response to petitions for construction of a death star like in star wars. the tongue in cheek response entitled "this isn't the petition response you're looking for" says the administration does not support blowing up planets. also it costs too much money and could be described by one man in a spaceship. >>> and that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. now we'll look at the national weather with nbc meteorologist bill karins what is going on wi

college prep for a football scholarship at george washington university, and worked as an aide on robert f. kennedy'sresidential campaign before witnessing firsthand the assassination of a dream. with a new outlook, he returned to the bay area, and as a young adult made a name again with photography, but in the world of music. when bill walsh was hired as head coach, he pitched the idea of documenting the life and times of the team. he got the job. and now six super bowls later, is looking for the perfect moments. >> this is why i do what i do. to be in moments like this, in times like this, and kind of be in the vortex. that's what i love for. it doesn't get any better than this. >> reporter: with the niners in new orleans, i'm laurence scott. >> i've dealt with michael for years. he is a phenomenal -- >> wow, what a life he has had. >> it's great to see his vision through his lens. >> my goodness, what he has seen. that's amazing. >>> let's turn things over to jeff. let's check in for the rest of the workweek. it's only just beginning. >> i know. it's just starting. we have some great weather come

f. kennedy was not assassinated by a lone gunman, at least that was the belief of his brother, robert f. robert kennedy, jr. speaking at a roundtable in dallas, kennedy said his father publicly supported the warren commission which said it was a lone gunman, but privately, his father was much more critical of the conclusion. his father thought there was strong evidence -- he asked the justice department to look into the connection between the assassination, the mafia, the cia and other organizations. the younger kennedy says his dad never publicly voiced those concerns, because he thought it would take away from the civil rights fight that was gripping the country. >>> the man practiced hail to the chief today for president obama's inauguration a week from tomorrow. >> there's the president now -- >> it was rehearsal with hundreds of band members, military personnel, media and law enforcement taking part. they used stand ins for the president and first lady. the military is getting ready to make sure everyone stays safe. >> on the morning of the inauguration the biggest move you'll see i

robert f. kennedy jr.there was enough evidence he asked the justice department for an investigation. that was between the assassination and the mafia, the cia and other organizations. but he never publicly voiced those concerns because he thought it would take away from the civil rights fight that was gripping the country at the time. >>> a lottery winner shows up dead and now the judge has i shall owned order to have his exhumed. this is a story how a simple scratch may have killed a man. far ruche kahn moved to chicago from india in the late 1980s and became an american success, eventually owning a string of dry clearance and real estate you settle into this house on the city's far northside with his wife and teenaged daughter. by all accounts, avenues hard-working, well-liked man, with just one weakness. he loved those scratch off lottery tickets. >> he was heavy on that there was a time woe buy a whole book. talking about the 30 tickets in a book, that's $600. >> reporter: he would win, sometimes hundr

. >> reporter: though rfk publicly supported the warren commission according to his son robert f. kennedyiece of craftsmanship." my father thought that somebody was involved. kennedy injury revealed to a dallas audience. the evidence at this point i think is very, very convincing that it was not a lone gunman" then who. when it was suggested it was the mob or cubans kennedy jr. added or rogue cia agents. he also revealed his father put his own investigators on the case in search for the truth. >> i don't find them credible. it's been investigated, reinvestigated, investigated again and again and again and no one has ever come up with entirely credible evidence. >> reporter: a new revelation about jacqueline kennedy. that image of her so iconic, kennedy jr. told the audience that after jfk's assassination, his aunt spent the next half of the decade mainly out of the country because she feared how dangerous it was becoming. as for why robert kennedy never voiced these suspicions in public his son said with the civil rights debate sweeping the country at the time raising them would have been

. >>> robert f. kennedyior isn't convinced that lee harvey os wald acted alone in president john f. kennedy's assassination. speaking in dallas on friday night, he said his father, president kennedy's brother, believeded the investigation that looked into the shoot iing was quote a shoddy piece of work manship. rfk jr. says he, too, questions the report. robert kennedy jr. said his father was concerned enough about the warren report that he asked investigators to look into the allegations that oswald had help from the mafia, the cia. the 50th anniversary of that assassination is in november of this year. you going the see a lot of these events and a lot of, this topic is going to be percolating a lot this year. finally, the golden globes are usually known for the glitz, the glamour and occasionically, some big award upsets. always a political statement or two, but last night's program stood out for a different reason. there was a lot of politics. among the winner were the political theme. "argo," "lincoln",

robert f. kennedy jr.ther thought there was strong enough evidence that he ask the justice department to look into a possible connection between the assassination and the mafia, the cia and other organizations. but he never publicly voiced those concerns because he thought it would take away from the civil rights fight that was gripping the country at the time. >>> and as we approach the one-month anniversary of the shooting at sandy hook elementary, the debate over gun control moves to the new congress and the white house task force that is headed by the vice president. i'm going to speak with candy crowably that gun debate in congress in just a moment. but she spoke with nra president david keen on "state of the union" today. >> there is some agreement there joe manchin, as you know, democratic senator from west virginia, conservative, bucked his party, also very strong, gets an a from the nra, said i don't think an assault weapons ban can pass unless it's part of a larger package. so he doesn't think as

in 1968, in terms of robert f. kennedy being killed, we passed the 1968 gun control act, which up to that point was the strictest gun control we had had. one thing it did was restrict getting it through the mail. when they say things like you have to protect guns in your home against somebody mentally ill, that is an incentive to do the sane and obvious thing, and restrictions on gun dealers, not to sell ammunition over the internet, the way that the shooter in aurora bought their ammunition. >> so by their logic, right, i mean, it is really disgusting. so by their logic, are they saying schools are also drug-free zones, so basically we should let junkies come up and shoot up in the school yard? if we get through gun-free zones, drug-free -- the logic is ridiculous. it shows they're losing support, all the polls show it within their movement, outside their movement, and they know it is a death knell to fight this, the parents, the victims, the people who survived this gun violence are coming out saying enough is enough. be

it comes from robert f. kennedyt kennedy that suggests that the kennedy family was always skeptical about the conclusion that lee harvey oswald acted alone when he killed jfk. in a split second half a century ago, those shots in dallas changed the world. ever since from the official warren commission report to amateur historians, the overwhelming conclusion has been that the president was shot by one man, lee harvey oswald. now robert f. kennedy jr. has told a dallas audience that his father was deeply skeptical and thought the warren commission report was a shoddy piece of craftsmanship. >> during his lifetime robert f. kennedy went along with the idea in saying that warren commission was right in that president kennedy was killed by a lone gunman. now you have his son and namesake saying there might have been a conspiracy. that's news. >> and he agrees with his father that the evidence is very, very convincing that it was not a lone gunman. he revealed his father worried that some of his own decisions as attorney

joe kennedy is the grandson of the late robert f. kennedy. >> it's a privilege. and you realize that the hard part lies ahead. >> we all have ideas. our districts have sent us. where are the bathrooms? [ laughter ] >> well, the bay area has two new members of congress. in each case the democrat replacing a democrat. eric swalwell represents the 15th congressional district which includes much of alameda county. he defeated veteran pete stark in the november election. jared huffman second district covers much of marin and sonoma counties. he replaces the retired lynn woolsey. >>> u.s. stock markets reacted positively to the 112th congress' approval of a fiscal deal. the dow gained more than 308 points yesterday. it is the biggest one-day gain in six months. the tech heavy nasdaq went up almost 93 points, up more than 3%. >>> one issue the new congress will have to tackle still, financial aid for the victims of hurricane sandy. the senate passed a $60 billion aid package last week. house leaders put off that vote. new jersey governor chris christie was among those o

there have been a million homicides in america since 1968, the killing of martin luther king and robert f. kennedy. yes, texas has had a concealed weapons law, but even as they have had it, it is not a law that has a component to it that can say without doubt that every person who is now holding a concealed weapon is not suffering from a mental health issue, is not prone to high temper -- behavior. >> let me push back on your -- hold on, senator. i'm siding with you on this one -- i mean, i'm not taking sides, i'm just pushing back. why shouldn't that young woman we spoke to have the ability to have a weapon and not cower in a classroom under a desk hoping that the authorities show up? why shouldn't she have the ability to be armed and respond if that gunman does come into the classroom? >> i'm very happy to say that. because we're not talking about just that young woman. we're talking about individuals all over campuses throughout the state of texas having guns, some more prepared than others. and the fact that you have guns on campus that may be one by a concealed weapons permit holder that gun

joe kennedy is a grandson of the late robert f. kennedy. >> it's a privilege. and you realize that the hard part is what lies ahead. >> we all have ideas. our districts have sent us. and where are the bathrooms? [ laughter ] >> every woman wants to know. the bay area has two new members of congress. in each case, the democrat replastics a democrat. er rick swalwell represents the 15th congressional district which includes much of alameda county. he defeated veteran pete stark in the november election. jared huffman second district covers marin and sonoma counties. he replaces the retired lynn woolsey. >>> u.s. stock markets reacted positively to the fiscal deal. the dow gained more than 308 yesterday, biggest one-day gain in six months. the tech heavy nasdaq went up almost 93 points a gain of more than 3%. the s&p 500 also rose sharply. >> a good day. >>> 5:07. one issue the new congress will have to tackle financial aid for the victims of hurricane sandy. now, the senate passed a $60 billion aid package last week but house leaders put off the vote. new jersey

listen, in the aftermath of the assassination of robert f. kennedyident johnson pressed congress tone act gun control ledge slaix he had sent to capitol hill years earlier. after at the assassination lbj ordered all of us on his staff to act swiftly. "we have only two weeks, maybe even ten days," he said, "before the gun lobby gets organized." after newtown president obama was not suggesting action on gun reform in ten days or two weeks but he was asking for it within six weeks, by the end of january. and now joe biden has sped up that six-week time frame to four weeks. and the consequence of that, just like back in 1968, is that the gun lobby is having a hard time getting organized. just like lbj said. the same dynamic is actually at work not just at the federal level but in new york state where new york democratic governor andrew cuomo yesterday in his state of the state address called for new state-level restrictions on guns in new york. and he was not kidding. he was not just calling for something in a speech he hopes people will start working on

f. kennedy and jacqueline bouvier in 1953. robert f. kennedy and ethel in 1950 and john f. kennedy jr. bessette. who could forget that. >> i'm flying down to have a conversation with two of bobby's children. a real sense of legacy. >> 50 years. >> i always like looking at the pictures. i can't wait to see what you get, charlie. >>> the first portrait of the duchess of cambridge is raising some eyebrows this morning. the former kate middleton and her husband, that would be prince william, of course, got to see it in a private unveiling this morning in london. the artist says kate wanted to be portrayed as natural rather than her official self. one art critic calls this portrait dire. i'm thinking, ouch. that artist had a little cup of haterade. you know what that means. people who don't mean you well. it's a serious portrait but it's not dire. dire is never good. >> it's not great portrait. >> it doesn't give her justice. >> he had a cup of the haterade. it's an official portrait. >> it's hard to accurately portray because she's so gorgeous. >> yeah, she is. >> you know what that's like

jay edgar hoover versus robert f. kennedy. >> guest: that is a shakespearean wrestling match. there is no way to simplify that. he was a scales bureaucrat and in some degree a bully. he would try to get his way but people that stood up to him could back him off. bobby kennedy never did, and i think this is a yonder not mature bobby kennedy that feels heavily having to defend his brother, the president, jack kennedy who was vulnerable because he was having affairs with people in the mafia bobby kennedy compromised him in this to try to protect the position in the south and the alliance with martin luther king. ultimately i believe hoover without saying for two skilled bureaucrats for that they say okay i told you over the year keep down the scandal against your brother that i am very concerned about martin luther king we need this wiretap and ultimately he found that wiretap knowing he was surrendering with any pretense of controlling jay edgar hoover so it's a very complex political wrestling match. c-span: how did they use the wiretaps and what did they learn through them abo

f. kennedy. at a symposium hosted by charlie rose, robert f. kennedy jr. lieve lee harvey oswald acted alone. he thought the warrens commission report was, quote, a shoddy piece of craftsmanship. >>> a contestant in tonight's miss america pageant will deliver a strong and perj message about breast cancer after the event. she plans to undergo a double mastectomy after the contest. she said her decision is a preventive measure against the disease that took the lives of her mother and her grandmother. a bold move. >>> well it is just about four minutes after the top of the hour. time for another check of the weather with lisette gonzalez from our miami station wfor. >> all right. good morning, margaret and good morning, everybody. you're going to see the national forecast showing where the bulk of the action will be throughout the day today. we're talking rain courtesy of a cold front across texas, into portions of arkansas, texas, missouri and the ohio valley and blizzard conditions across the northern plains and out east we're seeing record warms possible. 3

joseph kennedy iii, the grandson of robert f. kennedyut a half hour. they're going to a new school. 20 of their classmates and six faculty members were killed nearly thee weeks ago in one of the worst mass shootings in u.s. history. teachers and volunteers have been working to make the new school as comfortable as possible. >> at would you know point there were 80 people in the building cleaning up the building, doing the kinds of things, painting, to make it really look cheerful and happy. >> alisyn: the students' desks, backpacks and other belongings were taken to the new school to make the children feel at home. >>> overnight, u.s. drone taking out a top taliban leader in pakistan. >> brian: all right. >> alisyn: he was allegedly responsible for organizing attacks on u.s. and nato troops in afghanistan. according to pakinstani officials, he was holding a meeting at the time of the strike with several senior leaders of his group. according to reports, they were also killed. >>> it was the right prescription for president bush's recover

robert f. kennedy, jr. all the kennedys believe that jfk was shot by one shooter. his not agree with all. and that lee harvey oswald did not act alone and britney spears planning a move to sin city. ♪ >> and tmz reporting that the pop star is close to inking a huge deal. could get more than 100 million dollars a year? what? 100 million dollars a year. life looking up, the former x-factor judge, well, she actually just recently split with her fiance as you know. >> yes, 48 hours ago. you know-- >> oh, yes. don't touch me. your hands are freezing. >> and they go to one hotel and stay for a year. >> alisyn: they really he make that much per year? >> yes, yes. >> tucker: if they sell out. i mean, i think that's contingent of selling tickets. >> alisyn: we'll keep you posted. let's say you had a fear, a phobia of sitting on this filthy couch. you couldn't do your job. could you sue fox for having this filthy couch here? >> that's happening to one teacher in marmount? what state. >> i think in ohio. >> alisyn: a

. >> robert f. kennedy jr. gunman responsible for the death of his uncle john f. kennedy, but he won't say why. he also said his father believed the warren commission report was a, quote, shoddy piece of craftmanship. they were interviewed last night in dallas as a year of observance begins for the 5050th anniversary of the president's death. >>> and finally, if for your whole life, all you ever did day in and day out was run around a track as fast as you can, you would at one point have a wild fantasy about driving off course one day. this horse had that fantasy. he was heading back to the barn when he bolted for greener pastures, said i'm tired of the track, tossed the jockey, escaped from the lairal race track and was free for two minutes. another jockey and trainer followed the 4-year-old named bullet catcher in a truck. they were able to catch him a few miles down the road in front of a car dealership where apparently the horse read about a good lease. that's the news. now back to you. >> what are the odds

senator robert f. kennedy. next, government officials from libya, lebanon, and the palestinian authority to discuss political and social change in the arab -- arab world. moderated by fareed zakaria, this panel was hosted by the world economic forum in davos, such a land. >> ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, welcome. traditional british style. my lord's committees, and gentlemen. i see in the front row. a great pleasure to have you all here. we have an extraordinary panel in front of us, five trimesters, if you'll allow me it called a had a -- head of the government of morocco prime minister. let me give you a few of the ground rules before we start. some people are going to use translation, summer not. this is going to be an open discussion, a conversation, but it is being televised, so we have a few rules. the most important of which is, turn yourself phones off so it does not interfere with the equipment. this is a mixture of political, intellectual events and an opera performance, so we cannot hav

f. kennedy and robert kennedy and we also examine his business and politics, which included ventures in wall street and hollywood and founding chairman of the securities and exchange commission. this is a little under an hour. >> thank you all. i am pleased to be here. >> as i tell my history students, i teach at the city university of new york. [applause] >> thank you. as i tell my history students until they want to choke me, the past as is a foreign country. we can visit their. try to learn the customs, translate the language, or quail at the fowler, but we are foreigners in this strange land. this is true as much of the recent past as it is of colonial america or 12th century venice. writing about the recent past is not easy, as i learned at this time around. there are people that you must talk to. [laughter] while i was blessed from beginning to end fascinating people to talk to about joe kennedy, including large numbers of kennedys, i much prefer working from written documents than listening to people talk and trying to figure out what is real or imagined and what they know, what

f. kennedy. in an interview with charlie rose, many people are looking back at the kennedy death. robertennedy, jr., said his father during the warren report as a shoddy piece of craftsmanship adding that he did not by the lone gunman theory. the associated press published a similar story. this is from inside "the washington post." this is from the inauguration of january 20, 1977. scenes from past inaugurations. this comes at the same time preparations continue today with a rehearsal at the west capital. ronald reagan was the first u.s. president to be sworn in on the west front. prior to that, it was on the east front. you can see the last minute work eight days before the formal inaugural ceremony in washington, d.c. mark joins us from baltimore on the republican line. caller: we in baltimore would like to comment that we appreciate your purple tie. host: there was no intent, but i know what you mean. it was quite a game last night. thank you very much. caller: i did have one comment. as a republican, i think our party needs to learn how to distinguish the difference between entitleme

f. kennedy and later his martyred brother, robert kennedy. and yet johnson managed to get past all of his hangups, to get the job done together with king, and then tragedy struck big-time. five days after the voting rights act was signed by the president, with king at his side, the largest riot in american history broke out in the watts section of los angeles, california. both johnson and king were surprised. and were slow to respond initially. johnson just -- people tried to call, telling him we needed to send airplanes out to help the california guard transport troops. he wouldn't take the telephone call. he was just so totally demoralized. and so was king who was on vacation in puerto rico. but they snapped out of it. but the riot was a symbol of the fact that revolution was now heading in another direction. young, black, impatient, dissatisfied with the amount of progress that was being made, launched launched launched the back power movement, which both johnson and king resisted as best they could. there's a wonderful conversation, which

he is the grandson of us senator robert f. kennedy. >> if we can weigh flt needs of others, we align ourselves with those forces which are bringing about this suffering. >> the white house is a pulpit and you ought to take advantage of it. >> obesity in this country is nothing short of a public health crisis. >> i think i just had little antennas up that told me when somebody had their own agenda. >> so much influence in that office, it would be ashame to waste it. >> i think they serve as a window to the past on what was going on with american women. >> she is the only one in the world he can trust. >> many of the women who were first ladies, they were writers, they wrote books. >> they are in many cases more interesting as human beings than their husband if only because they are not first and foremost defined and subsequently limited by political ambition. >> dolly was socially adepartment and politically savvy. >> dolly madison loved every minute of it. mrs. monroe absolutely hated it. >> she warned her husband you can't woo withou

attorney general and presidential nominee robert f. kennedy. ♪ ♪ >> if we turn away from the needs of others, we align ourselves with those forces which are bringing about this suffering. >> the white house is a bully pulpit, and you ought to take advantage of it. >> obesity in this country is nothing short of a public health crisis. >> i think i just had little antennas that went up and told me when somebody had their own agenda. >> so much influence in that office, it'd be just a shame to waste it. >> i think they serve as a window on the past to what was going on with american women. >> she becomes the chief's confidant. she's really, in a way, the only one in the world he can trust. >> many of the women who were first ladies, they were writers. a lot of them were writers, journalists, they wrote books. >> they are, in many cases, quite frankly, more interesting as human beings than their husbands. if only because they are not, first and foremost, defined and consequently limited by political ambition. >> dolly was both socially adept and p

f. kennedy was the first one. >> robert frost in 1961. >> in our lifetimes, don. >> our lifetimes. >> noteah, you're right. that was pretty close. i started thinking about that ever since -- when maya angelou gave her poem. and i was like, when did we start --. >> it's a great tradition. i think the only thing better would be having a historian. >> or three historians. >> we do mythology at inauguration and created a myth at the first one. that's the big deal. >> peter. >> yeah. >> put president obama into a historical context. >> oh! right. >> in 20 seconds. >> go! >> yeah. well, we're still around. and i think the best they think is to refer back to the second inaugural of lincoln and to imagine a great war to free slaves that end slavery in america. that one day, a dissen dent of -- well, we think he was, actually. that's right. an african-american would become president is just astonishing. nobody could have predicted it in a period when african-americans didn't have civil rights. so i think that's -- >> also within our lifetime. >> yeah, right. >> go ahead. >> i'm just saying that th

f. kennedy's death, his brother robert was reeling, struggling to understand how it could happen. >> there is the weapon that was used to kill the president. >> reporter: and privately rejecting the lone gunman theory of the warren commission, which he reportedly called a shoddy piece of craftsmanship. this, according to robert kennedy jr. who surprised a dallas audience last night at an event ahead of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of his uncle there. the evidence at this point is very, very convincing that it was not a lone gunman, he said. he was quote, fairly convinced. >> this was a military-style ambush from start to finish. with lyndon johnson waiting in the wing. >> reporter: the 1991 hit film "jfk" fueled and explored conspiracy theories around the evidence. >> i don't find them credible. it's been investigated. reinvestigated again and again. and no one has ever come up with entirely credible evidence. >> reporter: robert kennedy jr. also thinks his father, who was attorney general at the time, felt some guilt, because he believed there could have been a link with his

f. kennedy and he was gay and had a private life but was put in charge of robert kennedy's children when robert kennedy died. the most intimate of friendships, without interruption to the pinnacle of american power. may have had nothing to do with sex but certainly not in terms of explicitly sexual relationship. maybe there is a novelist who could come up with that scenario. i never bought the sheldon no c novick picture. >> i love what jay said yesterday that all biography is fiction. i feel the memoir is fiction because we are leased to be trusted when writing about the closest to ourselves or people closest to ourselves and a great memoirs like paul's book which is the novel, john mccain's novel, it is about the difference between truth and fact, fact and truth rather, between the truth which is in the realm of emotion and intuition and imagination and the facts, in the realm of information. if somebody were writing about my wife, as we have been saying the last couple days, even the diaries julie was talking about, i as somebody living with her try to see the world through her eyes.

an original work of poetry during the public ceremony started with robert frost at the inauguration of john f. kennedyht sunlight prevented him from reading what he had written but he did recite another poem from memory. attempt to close the door on the campaign season of 2012 and if he follows the terms look forward to the new term with anticipation and optimism. >> here on the path of this new day, you may have the grace to look up and out and into your sister's eyes. and into your brother's face. your country and say simply, very simply, with hope. good morning. >> we know what we have done and what we have said. how we have grown degree by slow degree, believing ourselves towards all we have tried to become. just and compassionate, equal,

an original work of poetry during the public ceremony started with robert frost at the inauguration of john f. kennedyht sunlight prevented him from reading what he had written but he did recite another poem from memory.

robert kennedy, junior, says he is convinced a lone gunman was not solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, president john fnnedy. the remarks came during an interview in dallas as a year of observances began marking 50 years since the tragedy. rfk junior went on to say his father questioned the warren commission report that concluded lee harvey oswald acted alone and called it, quote, a shoddy piece of craftmanship. rfk junior stopped short of saying who he thinks is responsible for the assassination. >> rick: another perspective in the gun control debate as we hear people talking really past each other without reaching any kind of consensus, our next guest says that we can't leave the fate of this issue in the hands of the politicians because he answer doesn't lie in opinion polls, she says, but rather in nonpolitical studies. susan estridge is a professor. always good to see you. thank you for being here. >> good to see you. >> rick: your argument is let's take this discussion, this debate out of the realm of politics and talk about it in terms of must be health, right? how do we do that? >> you know, yo

f. kennedy. her secret was first revealed in 2003 when historian robert dallek wrote in his biography of jfk thatall, slender, beautiful white house intern was rumored to be among the president's many paramours. the revelation prompted inevitable comparisons to president bill clinton's scandalous relationship with white house intern monica lewinsky. but in 2003, mimi wasn't offering details. she released a short statement and disappeared. when i saw this book, the first thing that thought was i don't even remember. i don't remember this story. you had successfully sort of fallen off the face of the earth, so to speak. why did you decide to expose yourself all over again, mimi? why write this book now? >> it's not so much that i feel that i'm exposing myself. it's that i'm really unburdening myself. i think when you keep a secret and when you keep silent about something, you do it because you think it's keeping you safe. but, in fact, it's deadly. >> reporter: it all goes back to 1961 when mimi, who was then mimi beardsley, was a senior at miss porter's boarding school for girls in connecticut. as

f. kennedy was the first to include a poet in his inauguration ceremony and he chose robert frost in 196100 years before we were her people. >> wow. go ahead. >> i was just going to say, being here in washington, d.c., hearing that, knowing what's coming next, there's momentum. >> i love looking at the old inaugurations. >> likewise. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> welcome to "cbs this morning saturday," in washington this inauguration weekend. i'm anthony mason. >> and i'm rebecca jarvis. >>> coming up, he's covered every inauguration since rbj. >> then inauguration time used to be the big washington party scene but something has happened to the d.c. social world. veteran washington insider sally quinn explains all. >>> and they've grown before our eyes and they'll be spending another four years in the national spotlight. what it's like growing up in the white house. >>> but first this morning's top headlines. day four of the hostage crisis at a remote gas production plant in algeria. at least one american from texas has been killed. there are conflicting accounts of how many people are still being held c