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Released 19,000 pages of classified briefings of what took place in the darkest days of 1960. bill plante tells us what those documents reveal. >> reporter: it was president kennedy, angered by bad intelligence on the disastrous attempted invasion of cubas bay of pigs, who first asked for a daily rundown of the latest top secret intelligence. kennebunkport director john brennan: >> they called it the pickle short for the presidents

Intelligence checklist. >> reporter: the first version in 1961 was written to fit in the presidents breast pocket and stamped, "top secret." the following years after the soaves pulled back their missiles in cuba, the kennebunkport said: and they noted fidel castros displeasure. three days after president kennedy was assassinated, the daily briefing confirmed that lee harvey oswald had been in mexico. he was trying, we are told, to arrange for visas so that he could travel to the u.s.s.r. have a...

A beautiful soul. i just want to be able to touch her soul now and i cant do it. >> andy parker remembering his daughter alison with us earlier today. lets turn to another major story were following. the dramatic movements on wall street, a surge continuing for a second day with the dow finishing up nearly 370 points building on yesterdays gain of more than 600 to wipe out the steep losses from earlier this week. cnbcs sue herrera joins us now. sue, are we now back on track? >> i think were ce...

But a lawsuit he filed against the station alleging racism was thrown out by a judge last year. in the most violent of ways, flanagan made it clear that he never let it go. law enforcement officials tell nbc news that flanagan legally purchased two glock handguns last month in virginia and that there was nothing in his record to disqualify him from making that purchase, including no indication that he was mentally unfit to own those guns. lester? >> all right. stephanie, thank you. the family of...

The headquarters of that caliphate are, or whether youre in it... it probably makes more sense to start there. >> reporter: on immigration kasich toes a softer line than some of his fellow republican candidates. he would finish construction of a fence along the southern border and give undocumented workers here now a path to legal status, but not citizenship. >> the idea we would go out in cars and hunt people down is just first of all, its not doable in order to ship them out. its not doable. a...

>> rose: thanks, steve herman of voice of america. in new york most folks take public transportation to jury duty. donald trump is not most folks. he took a limo. the billionaire presidential candidate spent a few hours with other perspective jurors before being dismissed. one posted this evidence. on the way out, the g.o.p. front-runner stopped to sign a few autographs. trump is at 25% in the latest national poll followed by carson, cruz and bush. ohio governor john kasich is way back at 4%, bu...

College in 1961 to join the fight for civil rights. at 25, he won election to the georgia house of representatives. white colleagues refused to let him take his seat, calling him disloyal because he strongly opposed the vietnam war. >> it was my contention then and y s my contention now that what i say or do is none of the business of the georgia house of representatives. >> rose: the u.s. supreme court sided with bond who served in the legislature for two decades. a protege of dr. martin luther...

New york wbr id "wbr4810" state senator tony avella says metal detectors are the answer. hes proposing legislation that would require them in theaters. i think it would cut down oncu anybody getting into whether its a movie theater or shopping mall undetected. one at a time please, thank you. reporter: magnometers are already used at many major sporting events and concerts but fewer than 1% of movie theaters do. metal detectors can cost up to $5,000 each and operator costs could add ...

Singers whitney houston and bobbi brown died yesterday. she had been in a coma nearly six months after she was found face down in bathwater at her home. circumstances similar to her mothers death three years ago. president obama traveling in east africa today blasted the critics of his nuclear agreement with iran saying that some of the candidates running for the republican nomination arent fit to lead the country. heres nancy cordes. >> the american people deserve better. certainly presidential...

Ernie obviously loves running, if you can call this that. but the world war ii vet says theres another, much greater purpose here.know >> i want people to know whatwa the war was all about and whatk it took to win it. >> reporter: specifically, thissa old sailor is running to raise awareness for one of the unsung heroes of the war, a ship he served on called an l.s.t. it stands for "landing ship tank," and its how the allies got heavy equipment on to beaches. the u.s. built more than 1,000u. l.s...