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
jay watson: a gentleman just walked into our studio that i am meeting for the first time as well as you. this is wfaa-tv in dallas, texas. may i have your name, please, sir? abraham zapruder: my name is abraham zapruder. jay watson: mr. zapruder? abraham zapruder: zapruder, yes, sir. jay watson: zapruder. and would you tell us your story, please, sir? abraham zapruder: i got out about a half hour earlier, getting to a good spot to shoot some pictures. charles brehm: five-year-old boy and myself were by ourselves on the grass there on palmer street, and i asked joe to wave to him, and joe waved, and i waved and the the man interviewer: that s all right, sir. - he waved because he was waving back and he was he was the shot rang out and he slumped down in the seat. gayle newman: and then all of a sudden this next one popped and governor connally grabbed his stomach and kind of laid over to the side, and then another one. it was just all so fast. and president kenn
had done a good job and would come up with an answer. when the warren commission report came out, i believed it. we were still in a time when you tended to believe what officials told you. it is now 15 seconds after 6:30 p.m. eastern daylight time sunday september the 27th. as of this moment, the report of the president s commission is public record. for the next half hour, we will search it for answers. first, must come the answers to the two great overriding questions. who killed john f. kennedy? the commission answers unequivocally lee harvey oswald. was he acting alone for a member of a conspiracy? the commission answers, he acted alone. we knew most people were not going to read all of the
sunday september 27th. as of this moment the report of the president s commission is public record for the next half hour we will search it for answers. the answers to the great overriding questions. who killed john f. kennedy. the commission answers lee harvey oswald. was oswald acting alone or was he a member of a conspiracy? the commission answers he act add loan. we knew most people were not going to read all the warren commission report so cbs news wanted to be able to bring to air an understandable form for the public at large. there was nothing to support the speculation that oswald was an agent, employee or informant of the fbi or the cia or any other governmental agency. oswald owned the murder rifle. the mail order purchase slip was in his handwriting.
was he acting alone or was he a member of a conspiracy? the commission answers, he acted alone. the media had all concluded that this was the most exhaustive investigation, case closed. oz warld did it alone. the commission concludes that three shots were fired. all of them from this sixth floor window in the texas schoolbook depository. the reaction to the report initially was very positive. but that didn t last very long. this book is the number one best seller on the nonfiction list in the country, rush to judgment. it gained a vast number of readers in the groundswell of skepticism about the findings of the warren report. tell me something about some facts. you re accusing them of deliberate mall fees an. you re part of the media which presented the american people from happening. you are laralarming the peop. the public was kept in the