People know about jfk. Republican or democrat . Democrat. Oh, i thought you were asking me, personally. I thought we were getting like a little sentimental here. We just met each other. Ant you havent even bought me dinner. Caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone, the factor begins right now. Hi, im bill oreilly, thanks for watching this special edition of the factor, killing kennedy. For the next hour well explore John Kennedys impact on the usa. How i came to write the kennedys final days and how that became a critically acclaimed film. Starting with the star of kennedy, rob lowe. Theres an old saying that victory has 1,000 fathers is repeated often. The spofbt is mine. I am the president. Good job, lowe. Thank you. It was a good job, when they came to me, and they said i think we want to hire rob lowe, i said are we going to do the Breakfast Club 3 here . I know that youre never wrong about anything, but i was not in the Breakfast Club. But it was one of those movies that that you were in when you were a kid. Everybody knows what he sounds lightning and i just spent hours and hours listening to every possible recording, what i got the most out of actually was his private phone calls within the white house and his dictation. And then Caroline Kennedy put that out. I missed you, kid. I missed you too. Now did you have a coach an allocution coach to help you with the act sent . No. Are you a good mimic . You really nailed the boston accept. In a matter of days, those missiles were operational. I will not be pushed, not be krushchev, not by you or ning else. One thing is for certain, im not going to allow Nuclear Missiles in my backyard. I want to hear military operations and i want to hear from the secretary of state. The other thing lowe does in this movie is this body language. And i told you that on the phone before this, before i saw it, is excellent. Thank you. How did you get that. As you study him, you realize the tremendous amount of pain he was in with the freedom of information act, hiss medical records are now out. And its unbelievable between the back and so playing a man in that kind of pain was i think a really significant part of it and just the back brace, all of that, i actually thought about using the back brace, but in the end, i just acted it. But you also had the kennedy is a rich guy, and he carries himself differently than guys like me from levettown. And he carries himself differently. And his body rang when he reacts is differently. And you had it, you nailed it. These pin heads in washington tharks dont like me at all. Bill. Come on, lowe, no spin zone here. Im not going to have dinner with hanks or damon any time soon, you know what im talking about. The truth is you went. And i have already gotten the message from tom hanks, cloonie and did anybody tell you, hey, you shouldnt do this . No, no, no. I think look, even the most partisan person knows cant argue with the success of the book and how the audience has embraced it and thats a huge thing to be able to bring that to tell a story, that the country needs to hear. When this movie was shot in 18 days in virginia, when you were shooting it, did you know how good it is . Did you have an idea how well it was coming out . Halfway through i had a confidence about it. It just felt magic. The guy who was oswald, hes a very young actor, the guy is phenomenal. Isnt he great . I want you to take my picture. Come here, come, come, come. Take my picture. You take this. Something for junior to remember papa buy. Hes phenomenal, not just great and i told him. I said, whoa, because nobody has ever really brought Lee Harvey Oswald into the consciousness before. They have never made him a human being. This guy does it, hes a vile human being, obviously. Americans watching this mo, do you think theyre going to finally put the kennedy assassination to rest . Never, of course not. Its the great mystery of all time. And i think the movie is the definitive word on what happened. We presented it really factually and so did you guys. I honestly believe that, but people can agree to disagree. Its such a shakespearean story. You know what i like most about this mo with lowe . Is that he actually shaved and combed his hair, while he was being its not an easy thing to zblochdo. When i come on the factor, i always do it because i know you love it so much. I saw you in the west wing, you were shaving there. That was another west wing looney thing that you did zblic. Coming up, the unique killing kennedy whirlwind tour. Im trying to get my reading glasses to work. Let me get this straight, you have Trouble Holding the book and putting your glasses on at the same time . Getting it the right distance. We might be able to hire people to do that for you. Mr. Imus, shall i t t t t t t the holidays are filled with love. And helzberg diamonds celebrates the spirit of the season. Our diamond ring is the perfect way to express your love. Helzberg diamonds. I am loved. It still doesnt feel real. Our time together was. So short. Well, since you had progressives total loss coverage, we were able to replace your totaled bike with a brandnew one. The tank. The exhaust. Well, she looks just like roxie you know, ill bet shes in a better place now. Flo i know she is. I feel it in my heart. [ heavenly choir sings ] actually, the old roxies over at the junkyard. Flo kkhkkh getting you back on a brandnew bike. Now, thats progressive. Continuing now with killing kennedy an Oreilly Factor special. When the book came out, it seemed like everybody wanted to talk to me about it, including my colleague at the fox business network, don imus. s where i am. Oswald had just arrived in mention coe city, and hes on his way to the cuban embassy, you know what im having problems with . Because i Read Everything off the computer now or off of a sure. So holding a book, trying to get my reading glasses to work. So let me get this straight, you have Trouble Holding the book and putting the glasses on at the same time . No, no getting it the right distance and what not. We might be able to hire people for you. Mr. Imus, should i turn the page . Youre dedicated to your ancest ancestors, the kennedys. Yes. So were you related to the kennedys . Maybe a distant cousin, they would never admit. But my maternal grandmother had two sisters and they loved the Kennedy Family because they had the name sake. You obviously knew all about the assassination and to the mimy nush that surrounding it. We dont chase any conspiracy theories. And yet in writing the book, the way you guys wrote it. You create scenarios where there are a lot of potential suspects. Absolutely. Beginning with the mafia. Beginning with the whole Frank Sinatra thing. You bet. With allan dulles at the cia. Maybe even linden johnson. Certainly with castro. So there are a bunch of people. Like Abraham Lincoln who was the most hated man in the country when he was assassinated. Kennedy was the most hated man as well. And he had a lot of enemies and we dont take the evidence any further than what i can prove. But listen to this. Theres a guy named george demorn, hes got cia ties. He was around oswald. Oswald is a loser. Lois rum, what is demornshield doing, getting him jobs and hanging around him. I can not sprain it. And the chicago mob boss, his girlfriend was having an affair with jfk. Right before dee somebody walks into his house and puts five in the back of his head. Right before. So theres a lot of that. A lot of swirling around. But what we have been able to accomplish in killing kennedy is, you u know oswald did it. He did it. And we kind of eliminate all the conspiracy theories, but to the ones we cant, we tell you, we dont know that. Oswald was in the marine corps from 1956 to 59. And i was in the marine corps from 1957 to 1959 and you roomed with him, i understand, didnt you room with oswald . So you write on page 15, the only thing i got on fire about was that oswald was a crack shot. He wasnt. You correct me if im wrong. In the marines he was a sharp shooter. Two points. Designated, he was busted down because he was using his weapon as a baton or something, to a marksman. But when he left the marines, that designation was still in place, he was a markman . No, when he qualmified in december of 56, he qualified with a 212. And anything above 200 is a sharp shooter, so thats only two points. And he qualified again in may of 1959 and he shot a 191. Thats one point, anything below 190 and you dont qualify. So he was barely competent. And he was courtmartials. He accidently shot himself in the elbow with a. 22 pistol that he wasnt supposed to have. But he put two into that car in 3 1 2 seconds, one missed two. Bullet into that car, with frighten accuracy, thats what he did. I dont believe that. What . I dont believe that zbluc. T youre not up to that part yet. But we walk through the trajectory of the bullet, all of this stuff, youll find it fascinating, we got the fbi ballistics report. They got their own guy to try to duplicate what oswald did. They were able to do it. I remember that, it was wonderfully well written. I would like Nothing Better than to no, thats not true. You would like to mock the book, i know you would, but youre an honest man and youre give meg your opinion. Im the only person in the building that likes you is not afraid of you. Was there a little survey . Thats my lame unfunny observation. Anyway, its a wonderful book. I just want everybody to know, to get this mans attention torques actually get him to turn the page because he has the glasses situation, theyre on the back of his head usually. Then he has a puppet that he talks to. Theres a lot of stuff going on. Ahead, where were you when president kennedy was shot in 1963 . Ill tell you where i was. All of a sudden the loud speaker crackles and the principal says, theres a report president kennedy has been shot. You dont think much about it. You never dwell on how it was made. Its just a blanket after all. But when Everything Else has been lost, the comfort it provides is immeasurable. The america red cross brings hope and help to people in need every 8 minutes, every day. So this season give something that means something. Support us at redcross. Org perm choice segment, november 22, 1963 was an act of terrible violence that shook america to its core. I remember exactly where i was when it happened. I talked about that recently with fox newss bill hammer. Its very vivid, im sitting there in theology class in high school in mineola, new york. And all of a sudden, the loud speaker crackles, and the principal, brother kozar comes over and says theres a report president kennedy has been shot. And then they go into the cbs radio report, they put it on the loud speaker. President kennedy has been shot by a wouldbe assassin in dallas, texas. In the beginning, we were all confused, although it was a pretty straight forward thing, had never happened before, we never heard radio on the loud speaker. And then everybody just shut up and listened to the report coming in from dallas. That had to be a day, moments like these, they are locked into our memory forever and for good reason. And now you have 50 years later, people who still have doubts about the assassination. Well why do you believe those doubts still linger for some . Because there was confusion in the investigation. It wasnt a clean investigation. And i have some Unanswered Questions that i say in my book, i havent been able to get to this bottom of this. But theres no doubt that oswald killed him, theres no doubt. And whether oswald was getting advice from some people, thats possible. But there werent there was nobody on the grassy noll, there was nobody anywhere else, he did it. But he w he could have had somebody helping him some way. The ki to all of this is to understand the j. Edgar hoover, the head of the fbi. Hoover wanted control of the investigation, but he didnt have it because of the texas authorities, it was the Dallas Police departments jurisdiction. So hoover told all his fbi agents that flooded into dallas the next day, find a conspiracy, because as long as you can find a conspiracy, then the fbi can run the investigation. So thats what all the fbi guys were looking for. They couldnt find it. In your book, you write that hoovers comments about the act of many, not one lone individual. Youre right about city and the state, they had jurisdiction. But hoover came out and told everybody, jfk, rfk and the media that he was going to take control of it because he felt there was a conspiracy. Hoover wanted it to be a conspiracy, because he wanted russians to be involved, they wanted all that. But he couldnt find it. You think hoover went looking for theres no doubt, find the conspiracy, find the people who did this. President kennedy was wearing a back brace that day. Do you think that back brace prevented him from slumping . Killed him. But even before, theres no doubt, he could. Go down to the floor, everybody else in the car hit the floor, but he couldnt because he wasi. If he had. Had that, he probably would have very few people know how we took painstaking, it was a corset, so he couldnt move. So oswald was able to get all three shots two of which hit him. Youre saying the back brace kept him up right. Couldnt hit to the floor. Jackie was trying to pull him. So he would have death been on the floor. Everybody else was. Because the theorists will look at the zapruder film. We go through the whole thing in killing kennedy, how the bullet s landed. Oswald fires three shots, one miss, two hits, do you believe in a single bullet theory. Its the magic bullet theory that went through kennedy and into connelly. The autopsy shows that it happened and all that. So i dont have any doubt that oswald did it. The first thing Robert Kennedy did when he heard that his brother was killed, is call the white house and secure his files. Oh, you bet. They didnt want you dont want johnson or hoover getting those files. Huhuh. Kennedy, rfk did not trust lindh on johnson. Hated him. And we make that pretty clear in the book. And hoover, huhuh. So they went in and they got everything out of jfks office in the white house, everything and spirited it away. What was in there . I dont know. That probably destroyed any kind of stuff that would be embarrassing. But, boy, rk did not want hoover or johnson to see those files. Someone may look at that and say, thats the first phone call you make . Protect the family, protect the family. They had been taught that by their father, it was always protect the family. In your research, did you find that month unusual . Not knowing, knowing the kennedys the way i know them, they were a very public family. And they were used to tragedies happening. And bobby was a very practical man, he was a very tough, tough guy. This is what he thought he had to do to protect the family. J. Edgar hoover had a man in dallas, who pretty much shouted oswald until tend. Did the fbi drop the ball in their tagging of oswald with their president in town . The fbi was watching oswald, but they never really took him seriously as a physical threat. But the fbis evaluation of oswald was a harmless prank, obviously a mistake. And hoskie did, indeed, that was his file, oswald was his guy. I cant take it any further. Marina oswald and i was the only one who has spoken to mr. Well and foichbtd out. And thats why killing kennedy is so chock full of fbis stuff. He told me flat out what happened there. So, yes, the assessment of oswald by the fbi was erroneous, but did they boot him . They were following a lot of people. I asked you this before, hoover went into dallas to try and seize control over an investigation, that by law said the city and the state had control. He tried to do that. He tried to do it. Hoover, he didnt do it completely, because oswald was in the custody of Dallas Police department. If j. Edgar hoover had succeeded in taking over the case, oswald would have been in federal custody and never would have been killed. Hoover failed and couldnt get control over it and therefore oswald remained in the Dallas Police headquarters where ruby shot him. Hoover was frustrated, he very much wanted to control it. But he couldnt find enough everyday. What was hoover hoping he could force in this case . What was he trying to have happen . He wanted to peruse that facility that cuba killed the president , because he hated communists but he couldnt find it. Next up, what does the everyday american know about president kennedy, jesse watt t ers finds out. My coauthor reveals the secret of their collaboration. Jack ruby left something in his car when he went into the Police Station, achbltd that was . So im the one living and ive listened to the tips, the trends and haveyoutriedthis. Now, im ready for someone to listen to me. Welcome to fit2me. Com, your free customfit, Diabetes Support Program that actually listens to you. Start building your fit2me program today using key areas of diabetes management. Lets start with food. Mexican . Asian . Italian want recipes that reduce calories . Or carbs . Which activity feels more like you . Cardio . 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He did a lot for civil rights and building the nation and bringing everybody together as a whole. When was john f. Kennedy president. From 1961 to 63. 1,000 days. Assassinated around 64. 1970 . 80 . 1963. He was president from 1962 to 1965 . Republican or democrat . Republican, wasnt he . He was a democrat. Oh, i thought you were asking me personally. I thought we were getting