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Weapon fired possibly from a grassy knoll. >> i saw some police run up this grassy slope. i thought theyre chasing a gunman. i ran with them. >> the report is that the attempted assassins we now hear was a man and a woman. >> i got to the top, looked around, and policeman went over the fence so i went over the fence, too. there was nothing there. >> a television news man said he looked up just after the shot was fired and saw a rifle being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. >> it was ...

To conspiracy theorists, this seems improbable. >> that magic bullet has been a source of controversy for five decades and youre saying it could have easily happened. >> absolutely. >> reporter: to prove the point, haags documented the shooting for the show, nova. >> he will test fire one round. >> reporter: the impact is record with a high speed camera. >> the bullet has penetrated 36 inches. but what condition is it in? >> the nose of this bullet is undeformed. it is still perfectly round. >> ...

Talks aimed at preventing iran from building a nuclear weapon. a short time ago, the state department announced that secretary of state john kerry will travel tonight to geneva, switzerland, a possible sign that an agreement may be near. we will go to geneva in a few moments. this afternoon, kerry also visited the grave of president john f. kennedy, joining people across the nation in marking the 50th anniversary of his assassination. the murder not only shook the country to its core, it also ca...

Poverty, which went into those neighborhoods where there have been so much poverty. he couldnt turn it around because the outrage over what was going on in vietnam was far greater. this was the fickle finger of history, its hard to know what might have happened. >> thank you very much. good luck with the show tonight on nbc as "the cycle" rolls in, we continue with the networkwide special coverage of jfk lasting legacy 50 years later. head to nbc.com where you can watch coverage as it happened. ...

That day. >> there was so much shock and horror inside that room when they heard that the president would not be coming because of what happened. and today is a really important day in many ways for dallas. as you said, its the first official commemoration of this day. and they want it to be about president kennedys life. protests at this site where youre standing right now yesterday. >> reporter: yeah, we saw a little bit of that yesterday. whats interesting here, is on the grassy knoll which i...

The president in an open car, despite security risks. that doesnt happen anymore. you know that. im standing here, i can see the texas school book depository right over there. lee harvey oswald from a sixth floor window fired the shots that killed the president. today when you travel with the president, even in the closed motorcade, even with the bulletproof motorcade, the heavily reinforced limousines, you would have secret service and other police authorities on the rooftops around here. that ...

Oswald did it alone. >> the commission concludes that three shots were fired. all of them from this sixth floor window in the texas school book depository. >> the cumulative evidence of eyewitness, firearms, and ballistic experts and medical authorities demonstrated that the shots were fired from above and behind president kennedy and governor connally. >> when the warren commission came out with the report, the majority of americans accepted the findings of the warren commission. >> the bullet ...

Knoll once again filled with people with the old texas school book depository in the background where 24-year-old lee harvey oswald set up his sniper post in an upper floor window. >> i believe the new frontier did not in that day in our texas frontier. i hope that president kennedy would be pleased with our humble efforts towards fulfilling our countrys highest calling. >> half a century later and conspiracy theories around the assassination run rampant. a new gallop poll suggests 61% of americ...

Conspiracy. ed lavandera looks now at some of the theories. >> 50 years later, people still come every day. point to the sixth floor window, stand on the grassy knoll imagining what that day was like. president john f. kennedy and first lady jacqueline kennedy driving by, smiling. they looked down from the school book depository building imagining what lee harvey oswald saw the moment gunfire exploded, the piercing echoes through dealey plaza. >> the flash apparently official. president kennedy ...

>> secret service agents, thought its an automatic weapon fired possibly from a grassy until. >> i saw police run, i thought they are chasing a gunman, i followed them. >> the report is, the attempted assassins, we heard it is a man and woman. >> i got up, looked around, a policeman went over the fence. i went over the fence, too. there was nothing there. >> the television news man said he looked up after the shot was fired and saw a rifle being with drawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. >> ...