the most recent, most spectacular development in the oswald case involves the cia. it involves, too, the spectacular district attorney of new orleans, the man they call the jolly green giant. do you believe that lee harvey oswald did not shoot president kennedy? i don t want to get involved in the speculation of individuals but i will say that there s no question about the fact that there was a plot and there were a number of individuals involved. in 1967, he announced, i ve solved the case. i found the real assassin. we will make arrests based on that and we will make charges based on that and we will obtain convictions based on that. now, you wouldn t have paid much attention to this, except he was district attorney of new orleans. i spent hour after hour with jim garrison. he has presented his case to me
bean street, new orleans, louisiana. mr. shaw will be charged with participation in a conspiracy to murder john f. kennedy. the charges filed against me have no foundation in fact or in law. i have not been apprised of the basis of these fantastic charges and assume that in due course i ll be furnished with this information and will be afforded an opportunity to prove my innocence. clay shaw was a very well respected businessman in new orleans. he had been a distinguished soldier during world war ii. i knew clay shaw, and the concept of clay shaw as being part of an assassination conspiracy was just too weird to be believed. clay shaw was also a homosexual and closeted and i think that played a part. this decision to arrest clay shaw, i believe, was intended to get the national media back to town. as soon as he arrested clay shaw, they all came back. and then they realized the
front. so it s, you know, kind of trying to put the genie back in the bottle. a bullet hit the president from the back. the bullet hit him from the front. the bullet which killed him came from the right front. unless the laws of physics were not working that day, the reaction of the president tells us where the shot came from. some critics say by the very fact that in the picture you can clearly see the explosion of the bullet on the front side of the president, that that certainly indicates the bullet came from the front. well, i don t believe any physicist has ever said that. quite contrary, it does indicate the bullet was coming from behind. it s a minor explosion where pieces of material go generally in the direction of the bullet. if you look at the individual frames of the zapruder film, at 312, frame 312, the president s head is over. at frame 313, 1/18 second later,
is it all right now? is this all right? ladies and gentlemen, i d like to introduce you the chief cameraman and news director of wfaa television. bert, would you tell them exactly what you know as of this point. jay, i was standing at the trade mart awaiting his arrival there. all of a sudden the we saw them approaching. they didn t slow down. as a matter of fact, they were going 70, 80 miles an hour past us. then i jumped in a police car and went to parkland. these two men come running in. one of them had a large appeared to be machine gun and they was hollering for stretchers and cots and everything. they brought him in first. what happened after this? then the presidnt come in and they took him both of them back. albert thomas, democrat of texas, is standings outside the corridor of the emergency room. said he s been told the
complaint was read. it charged that quote, lee harvey oswald did voluntarily and with malice aforethought kill john f. kennedy by shooting him with a gun, end quote. following the reading of the complaint, oswald said, that s ridiculous. within hours of the assassination, it was very obvious to virtually everyone in the dallas law enforcement that oswald had killed kennedy. chief, can you tell us in summary what directly links oswald to the killing of the president? well, the fact that he was on the floor where the shots were fired from immediately before the shots were fired. the fact he was seen carrying a package to the building, the fact that what was in there. yesterday morning. after the shooting in dealey plaza, oswald was the only employee at the book depository that fled the building.