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0 thats all for us tonight. "the assassination of president kennedy" a cnn special, starts right now. in the average mans life there are two or three emotional experiences burned into his heart and his brain. and no matter what happens to me i will remember november the 22nd as long as i live. >> there has been an attempt on the life of president kennedy. >> they are combing the floors of the texas book depository building to find the assassin. [ gunshots] >> oswald has been shot at point blan...

0 lyndon johnsson wants the report out so it doesnt interfere with the election if november. >> warren left for dallas because he was a man who had spent his early career as a courtroom prosecutor. he understood a crime scene. he wanted to stand in that window and see if this was a shot that a marksman could make. while he was there, warren felt he should talk to ruby. there were all these suggestions that ruby had killed oswald to silence him. so he wanted to hear from ruby himself. >> the warr...

0 because he was a man who had spent his early career as a courtroom prosecutor. he understood a crime scene. he wanted to stand in that window and see if this was a shot that a marksman could make. while he was there, warren felt he should talk to ruby. there were all these suggestions there were all these suggestions that ruby had killed oswald to silence him. so he wanted to hear from ruby himself. >> the warren commission realized they were going to have to invest a lot more time than was an...

Was really under armed guard. is this a confirmed report as to who did the shooting? [ inaudible ]. >> vic robertson from city hall reports that jack ruby, the owner of the carousel which is a bar in dallas, did the shooting. >> my statement will be very brief. oswald expired at 1:07 p.m. he died at 1:07 p.m. we have arrested the man, the man will be charged with murder. >> who is he? >> the suspects name is jack rubenstein, i believe.

>> here at associated press, a still picture of the moment, the splint second as the shot was fired. this is the man dallas police have identified as jack rubenstein and this of course is lee harvey oswald. you see the gun in the hand of ruby and just about to be fired. >> i know my own feelings were and i think they were widely shared by many, if not most americans. this cant be coincidental. the assassin is assassinated at the police station. what in the hell is going on? >> just learned from ...

I think at this point, best bet is the snow will be far interior sections. so mostly, a rainy event across the coast, but a very rainy event, eric. well be talking about some areas 3 to 4 inches of rain, and wind on wednesday, the big travel day. a bit of a mess. >> we have to be careful. thanks, rick. well, we have always known how important it is, especially us, to get a good nights sleep. next, youre going to learn about how sleep has an added benefit for patients with serious psychiatric d...

Person. and as i was saying awhile ago, hes the type man that probably would give you the shirt off his back at one moment and then turn around and do something as nutty as this in the next. >> i never used the term "angry." thats not in my vocabulary. >> he was known for a quick temper. and later as it turned out, he was hooked on two kinds of speed at the time of the shooting. >> he had been here at the police station during the past two days talking with newsmen and distributing his card, als...

Questions, how much time did oswald have to shoot the president? >> there are so many interesting questions and problems that come from the film. we believe so much in the image. we believe so much in the sort of ultimate truth of film and of images. then they become our memory. >> is it impossible that the bullet would have gone through president kennedy, gone through governor connally and not suffered any more damage than is shown in this photograph? >> i would hesitate really to say that it i...

Correspondent richard engel on the ground for us there in afghanistan. time now flashback to this day in 1963 when lee harvey oswald, the man who shot and killed president john f. kennedy, was himself fatally shot in the garage of the dallas police station. the gunman was later identified as dallas night club owner jack ruby who claimed he shot oswald because he was angry about the assassination. on the same day in washington, d.c., thousands lined up outside the u.s. capitol to view the casket ...

Ruby said he did it, that it was his gun, and that he had built up a tremendous grievance over the death of the president. >> in jack rubys mind he thought he would be a hero. he killed the guy who killed the president. >> i commend what he did. i think he ought to win the congressional medal of honor for it and a lot of other good american citizens think he did the right thing in shooting down this communist. >> word in from dallas, that homicide chief captain will fritz said the case of presid...