ted cruz dad did it. sure, why not? but eventually the review board you heard tom pettit talk about did eventually come together to review the secrecy that was deemed too sensitive to be made public. that only fuelled more conspiracies. later, congress gave the national archives a 25-year grace period after which they had to release everything they had, including the thousands of pages they had set aside as super secret sensitive material. the national archives is legally obligated to release the last of the secret documents by a specific deadline and that deadline is tomorrow. national archives say they re complying with that, the president announced he will take no action to stop them, but something is coming out tomorrow. questions? what are we actually going to get? how much and what type of documents will these be? how hard will it be to go
lee oswald has been shot. lee oswald has been shot. there is the man with the gun, absolute panic, absolute panic here in the basement of dallas police headquarters, detectives have their guns drawn. no question about it, oswald has been shot. reporter s voice in that remarkable live broadcast was the voice of the late nbc news reporter tom pettit. tom pettit went on to become a very big deal political reporter. went on to interview three u.s. presidents. won awards over a decade s long career. fast forward to 1991, oliver stone movie jfk had come out. the jfk film by oliver stone posited a theory that it wasn t oswald acting alone but a
stone movie jfk had come out. posited a story it wasn t oswald acting alone but broader conspiracy. had always been that around the assassination but movie drove interest into overdrive. in 1992 congress passed a law, jfk records act, idea to tamp down the assassination conspiracy theories. first batch of documents released following year in 1993 and nbc sent tom pettit to the national archives to report on the new details sure to turn up in those records. there was a lot of interest. turned out to be kind of a bust. thousands of documents do show that cia was deeply involved in the assassination investigation, nothing of any other cia involvement so far. one file from 1963, kgb defector
two days after president john f. kennedy was assassinated in dallas, texas, in 1963, his alleged shooter, lee harvey oswald was being escorted from jail, in the basement, in police custody on the way to being put in the police car, and oswald was shot and killed. happened on live tv. no one knew it was coming but nbc was there and caught whole thing not on tape but live broadcast. and a reporter on the scene reacting and describing what he was seeing in realtime was the reporter, tom pettit. to dallas, texas and tom pettit. there s the president. there is lee oswald. [ shot ]
broader conspiracy. had always been that around the assassination but movie drove interest into overdrive. in 1992 congress passed a law, jfk records act, idea to tamp down the assassination conspiracy theories. the first batch of documents under that law were released the following year in 1993, and nbc sent tom pettit to the national archives to report on the new details that were sure to turn up in those records. there was a lot of interest. turned out to be kind of a bust. the thousands of documents do show that the cia was deeply involved in the assassination investigation. nothing of any other cia involvement so far. one file from 1963, kgb defector tells the cia the assassination may have been planned by the kgb, but no evidence. the cia did serious