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People were about the chain of events. that it was lee harvey oswald, lone gunman who had shot the president of the united states, that he had been called by jack ruby four days later on national television. was the sense at the time that we know just what happened? >> oh, no, certainly not, anything but that. the tenor was theres so much that we do not know. and rauby killing oswald just made it worse than it already was. and even though there this be a lot of forensics, they found the rifle, t...

Question. i think its also true that we resist wanting to believe that someone in oswalds position, who really had failed at everything in life and was in a terrible position, could have pulled this off. but, history and michael knows this better than i do, history is repleat with examples of nobodies becoming somebodies in circumstances like this. >> that is the case, michael. >> this is the case. for americans to be told the president has been killed and the man we think pulled the trigger has...

>> just learned from city hall from an authoritative source, police are working on an assumption there is a connection between jack ruby and lee oswald and in some manner of speaking, oswalts murder was to shut him up. >> captain just told me ruby said he did it, that it was his gun, and that he had build 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 ...

Service. >> there are three issues the commission had to grapple with. did oswald commit the physical act of the murder? and even if he did the physical act, did he have forces behind him? and then of course, whats rubys involvement in this? >> you had various branches of the investigation traveling, interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, bringing it back to the commission. >> the time of day was about -- not very far from two hours from it. >> there were questions how would they deal with...

Out so it doesnt interfere with the election in 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 ruby had killed oswald to silence him. so he wanted to hear from ruby himself. >> the warren commission realized they were going t...

Then a left turn in mid-air. the reality is that connally was not seated directly in front of kennedy. >> if you figure out the alignment of where the men sat, and if you look down as i did and as the others did who conducted the on-site tests, and had the automobile placed in the position, it is perfectly plain, i submit to you, that the bullet that exited from president kennedys throat would have to strike either the automobile, which it did not, or someone else in the automobile. >> to believ...

Jfk. >> takes 1.6 seconds presumably in midair where it turns right, then left, right, then left. >> reporter: that classic scene later recreated on seinfeld with wayne knight rekrprising the demonstration. >> it pauses in midair, mind you, makes a left turn, and lands on newmans left thigh in that is one magic lugy. >> reporter: and then there is jack ruby. why would a dallas night club owner with alleged mafia ties shoot and kill oswald in the basement of the police station? rubys explanation,...

Two days talking with newsmen and distributing his card, also making friends. >> jack ruby was a police and media groupie. ruby thought he was our friend. >> so im in this very same room friday night when we had the defendant up here. if some of you will recall, he asked a question from out here. no, standing right back here. i didnt know who he was. i thought he was a member of the press. and he told me as we walked out of here that he was a nightclub operator. >> rubys act was that of a vigila...

Dallas police headquarters was good. so when ruby shot oswald, however, it was sort of a fulfillment of prophecy. we knew oswald was the most hated criminal suspect in american history and there had been all sorts of crank telephone calls, bomb threats, and yes, maam. >> and as we see there, the colors are being retired at the ceremony in dallas. as dallas is commemorating this moment in time. lets listen. ♪

>> i couldnt tell you. >> do you know what kind of business he happens to be? >> bob, i wouldnt want to say. >> right. >> dallas city hall is normally a public building, but today it was really under armed guard. >> we -- is this a confirmed report as to who did the shooting? >> as far as i know. >> vehicle robertson from city hall reports that jack ruby, the owner of the carousal, which is a bar in dallas did the shooting. >> my statement will be very brief. oswald expired at 1:07 p.m. >> he di...