Stronger. Eleanor roosevelt was wrong the the gender of but shec bronze figure, aptured perfectly the peace of god that passth understanding. Youre watching american istory tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan 3. To join the conversation, like cspan cebook at history. 50 years ago on september 24, Supreme Court chief Justice Warren handed a report assassination of kennedy to president Lyndon Johnson in the oval office. Pictured commissioners here with president johnson and counsel jay lee ranken Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing john f. Kennedy. The Warren Commissioner worked n this building, a short walk from the u. S. Supreme Court Building and the u. S. Capitol. Camera in a fourth Floor Conference Room to talk to shenon, whose book a cruel and shocking act the history of the kennedy assassination examines the work, using key phone calls, documents, and artifacts, he explains some of the lingering regarding the warren report. First we take a brief tour of the Warren Commissi
Including his wife and mother as well as those who witnessed the assassination and the aftermath on the streets of dallas. Youre watching an official reenactment of the murder of president john f. Kennedy filmed from the window where the alleged assassins crouched and are the telescopic sight of his rifle. This is a cbs news extra. November 22 and the warren report. Here is walter cronkite. November 22, president john kennedy was shot to death in full view of hundreds of spectators watching him in a dallas, texas, motorcade. 48 hours later, Lee Harvey Oswald was killed by jack ruby in full view of millions of americans watching television. This bizarre sequence of double killings raised great questions. Who actually fired the shots that killed kennedy . Why did ruby shoot oswald . Was there a conspiracy . Was it a russian plot . A cuban plot . Were rightwingers involved . Lyndon johnson ordered these questions answered. He appointed a commission of seven prominent americans to investig
Gentlemen. My name is greg floyd, and i am chairman and ceo of the National Law Enforcement officers memorial fund. I want to welcome you all here today to the museums news he ums witness to history, generously sponsored by our friends at target here in the front row. I will turn things over to john maine art in just a moment for the moderation of todays event, but i want to thank all of you for coming. Today is just a glorious day outside, and the fact and you would want to spend an hour or two here with us, thats extra special, and i thank you for taking the time to join us. I think you are in for a fascinating discussion in a moment. I also want to thank our friends from cspan, who tend to cover many of these witness to history events. They are with us again today, and they will be sharing with us on air over the coming weeks. For those of you who may not be familiar with the National Law Enforcement officers memorial byd, we were formed in 1984 a former new York City Police officer
It was originally reported in the New York Times, the Warren Commission report in 1964 that no material question remained on some unresolved. That is the conclusion reached and propagated by new york the outset before anybody got a time to read the report in the 20s and volumes of supporting evidence. The New York Times right from the getgo was supportive. It has become policy. Alwaysthe things that is been the strong support for oswald was the fact that the scientific autopsy Scientific Evidence supported it to find in a book by visit who was interviewed and said all of it pointed to oswalds guilt. When you look at the people we should trust on this. One of the things what the things you will know from people who has followed the case a long time is that there are people who are considered really the authorities. These are people detached, objective, experience, professional, scientifically trained and so forth. What are they . Photograph, in old i cannot find a better one. Finck. Wel
Develop an ort to independent artistic force and power of our own. Scores of cameramen record he event as the president ial party leads a tribute to the lady who will play host to many, many thousands in the next three weeks. The Enigmatic Smile acts like a agnet to art lovers and the curious. The next day, the gallery is jammed as the crowd passes by painting f ining four abreast. Each has three to five seconds in front of the painting. Stand there for one more glimpse for a smile that launched 1,000 arguments. The painting is being exhibited under stringent security panels and the wooden are protected from damage in a Temperature Humidity controlled case. And the mona lisa, the first most aking her by far the popular hostess in washington. Wants to meet the new girl in town. Targeted unabomber universities, airline, and computer stores. Killing 23 and injuring others. Unabomber, how the fbi broke own rules to capture the terrorist Ted Kaczynski. Talk about the investigation and discu