it was because three-quarters of the american public did not believe the warren commission. by the way, the commission we pulled for this book shows records of the american public today does not believe the warren commission. nothing is changed. essentially congressman were getting complaints from their constituents demanding after the revelations that came with watergate, with the frank church committee about the cia what really happened in dallas. we don't believe the warren commission. the house of representatives want a select committee. house special committee on assassinations. they're work from 76 until 79 on this subject and others. they looked into other assassinations as well, and with the king. in the case of john kennedy, they had been preparing to endorse the basic conclusions of the warren commission after having interviewed people the warren commission did not get to him after having investigated trails the warren commission did not go down. then toward the very end they heard about this. it is a recording that was done by police headquarters, the head of this

tells the warren commission to push johnson the floor after he heard the first shot after johnson's death that agent recants and said well i said that because johnson told me too but lee harvey oswald told the police officer who arrested him in the movie theater and because i interviewed the officer i am not a patsy right patsy is not saying i didn't do it well saying i'm going to said what is pat's but he also says i didn't shoot anybody they reporter shares did you shoot the president of the united states he yells out no sir i did not vest voice stress analysis of technology didn't exist in one thousand nine hundred sixty three tells us that every time i was one said he didn't shoot anybody every time he says that he that he has done nothing but take a pistol into theater he's telling the truth i think oswald it all got a rifle to the depository wow. i'm not we're not sure about that no one saw a rifle we saw a bag of undetermined length under his arm which he claims were curtain rods i'm uncertain about that but i do think this there's no way to be on the sixth floor and also be

the warren commission tells us ruby has no known connection to organized crime that's an absurd he's a button man for carlos marcello he runs his club at the sufferance of the mob he's one guns to cuba for marcello he's clearly a low level mob guy and his contacts are the dallas police department because the off duty police officers drink and cold war and play with women at history club you think roger will ever find it all out now i think it's unlikely because there's this lee there is a both a mainstream media. thing going on where we're only going to bolster the results of the warren commission and then there are other people out there who have some scholarship who have a different theory but i must tell you i don't think l.b.j. did it i know he did it the time or two you have fifty years very hard but it couldn't happen today because instead of just having the ones that put your film you'd have dozens of cell phone camera videos and photos of the crime to be much tougher for anyone to cover up and manipulate the evidence and then in addition to the three networks today we have ca

i testified to the warren commission, and i had one interview on "60 minutes," but other than that we had never talked about the assassination at all. >> you the only one alive -- [inaudible] >> i'm the only one alive that was on the presidential vehicle. there are three other agents, former agents alive who were on the follow-up car. >> so i think we should get to the book signing now and thank you all for coming, for your patience. thanks. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> we'd like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> just a few weeks left in 2013, many publications are putting out their year-end lists of notable books. these titles were included in "the washington post"'s notable nonfiction of 2013. in "brilliant blunders," mario livio explores how some of the world's most well known scientists made their historic discoveries. pakistani education activist malala tells the story of her fight for women's rights in "i am malala. marsha coyle with the national law journal provides an inside look at the supreme court in "the roberts court: the struggle

and the warren commission is terribly imperfect report. the fbi and the cia hated certain things but they didn't want the public to know. are negligent they were. how could they have not known about this oswald, that he got this italian mail order rifle? the guy was a nutcase and had been in the soviet union. and why didn't they know about his whereabouts? so they were very defensive, and i think that the warren commission report sort of in some ways whitewashed or omitted the failings of the fbi and the cia it but the basic conclusion i think is correct. i think the most extensive work on this is by anthony bugliosi, 1650 pages. it's an encyclopedia repeating all these conspiracy ideas, and yet they thrive. i looked the other day at amazon, and my new book was among the hardcover source of there. it was number three. the two books i had that were conspiracy, assassination books. and i really don't deal with the assassination. i just feel it's sort of beating a dead horse. >> several audience members want to know, we could have kept lbj if

. >> you left out the warren commission. [inaudible] >> i didn't want to tell you everything because there's no reason for do you buy the book. >> in 1961 why did lbj put him on the warren commission? >> let me just make two depends about what you said. i think, fist of all, your point about whether they are us or not. is a very good one. i; however, would like to offer this, i think it's a little too easy for us as ordinary americans to say, well, there's a certain elite of bad people who do bad things. but we're not responsible for that. we're not part that have. they are not really representing us. i use the word we after not by accident after consideration. i think it's important for all of us to understand. we are citizens. we are agents. we have the ability to speak. therefore it's too easy to say a couple of people pushed us in a bad direction and no one else wanted us. actually, i think the brothers were reflecting during the 1950s what most americans wanted. now, did they want this because what the media told them a

we had a number of conversations about the warren commission. and his congressional members, remember dick was on bonds. the members of congress who were on that commission were very careful in the language that they chose. they rewrote as i understand it the staff's initial report to say we have found no evidence of a conspiracy which is a little bit different in a subtle way from saying flat out there was no conspiracy. >> speaking of assasinations gerald ford had two attempts on his life in short order. is he the only president to have assasination attempts carried out by women? >> that's a good question. >> i can't think of any. >> i think you're right. >> the first was la net. >> it's a classic instance of the times. swig gi who was a member of the man son family and sara moore who was a bay area housewife on the fringes of radical politics. only in the 1970's would either of those characters have emerged in public. >> and what about the ford family's reaction to these assasination attempts and how did the president take it? did security inc

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

, the signing of the civil rights act which had been kennedy administration legislation, the warren commission -- the war and commission report -- the warren commission report with the findings on the kennedy assassination, the establishment of the outer space treaty which people say today still is the framework for how the international immunity trees outerspace. and of course vietnam war. >> and the voting rights administration of 1965 which is one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation which made it possible for people to get the vote and to get themselves in a better situation. the civil rights bill started under president kennedy but i don't think there is any way on earth that kennedy could've gotten that bill through congress. i think it took lyndon johnson and his great skills as a former majority leader and an incredible arm twister to get that bill through. the tapes certainly shows that. >> each of these programs has talked about how the first lady and the first couple have used the white house as a base for their lobbying, as it were, their relationships in washin

i was wondering president ford was a member of the warren commission, and i was wondering what mrs. thought of his involvement on that commission. and the results and the controversies that have sense occur -- since occurred. >> that's a great question. i'm sorry to say i wish i had. i never had a conversation with her. i never heard her discuss it. he felt, you know, very strongly that -- [laughter] he was once trapped on an airplane -- i shouldn't tell this. i will. he was on the airplane and of course the movie was on jfk. he was not happy. he, you know, artistic license is one thing. he worried that young people, people who are not alive at the time of the assassination would see this and conclude that in fact was history. he also, it was interesting. we had a number of conversations about the warren conversation. he and his fellow congressional members remember dick russell was on -- anyway the members of congress were on the commission were very careful in the language they chose. they rewrote, sinned it, the staff's initial report to say we have found no evidence of a conspir

did she have to testify for the warren commission? >> she did. she did.one or two others came to her georgetown and asked her about the motorcade. it was brief, less than a half an hour, she did have to testify. some of the president's wounding was kept from the public at the 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 su