speaker: elements of the central intelligence agency killed j john kennededy. speaker: the story has been suppressed. witnesses have been killed. we have a right to know who killed our president and d why he dieied. [music playing] speaker: in dallas, preparations were already underway for extraordinary police protection when the president should arrive. interviewer: do you anticipate any trouble on the president s arrival? jesse curry: because of what has happened here previously, we would be foolish, i think, not to anticipate some trouble. i don t really, i don t anticipate any violence. speaker:r: here comemes air foe numbmber one, ththe presidenes plane now totouching dowown. here s s mrs. kennnnedy, anand the crowowd yells. and the president of the united states, and i can see his sun tan all the way from here. dan rather: looking at how things actually went, it wasn t just a trip to dallas. it was a political trip, preparing for the 1964 elections. speaker: shaking ha
content. the warren commission, appointed friday night, will investigate and make a report on the murder. as yet, it has said nothing about how it will proceed or when. in the meantime, again, the fbi is investigating every lead it can find and will turn its report over to president johnson probably this week. it was the fbi s hope that its report would be, if not the final word, the semi final word, and that the commission s job would be to read it and essentially endorse the findings of the report. the members of the warren commission, earl warren, john sherman cooper, jerry ford, hale boggs, richard russell and john j. mccoy realized they had to do an independent commission. they didn t want to be a stamp for the fbi or secret service. these to grapple with did oswald commit the physical act