Person, knife one person, the person dies, they get maybe the Death Penalty or maybe life in prison, no parole, right . Okay . A drug dealer will kill 2,000, 3,000, 5,000 people during the course of his or her life. Thousands of people are killed or their lives are destroyed. Their families are destroyed. So you can kill thousands of people and go to jail for 30 days. They catch a drug dealer. They dont even put him in jail. Think of it. You kill one person, you get the Death Penalty in many states or you get life in prison. Think of it. You kill 5,000 people with drugs because youre smuggling them in and youre making a lot of money and people are dying and they dont even put you in jail. They dont do anything. But you might get 30 days, 60 days, 90 days. You might get a year. But you are not going to get and then you wonder why we have a problem. Thats why we have a problem, folks. [ applause ] and i dont think i dont think we should play games. I never did polling on that. I dont kno
Of the Central Intelligence agency killed john kennedy. The story has been suppressed. Witnesses have been killed. We have a right to know who killed our president and why he died. In dallas, preparations were already under way for Extraordinary Police protection when the president should arrive. Do you anticipate any trouble on the president s arrival . Because of what has happened here previously we would be foolish, i think, not to anticipate some trouble. I dont really i dont anticipate any violence. Here comes air force number one, the president s plane now touching down. There is mrs. Kennedy, and the crowd yells. And the president of the united states. Looking at how things actually went, it wasnt just a trip to dallas, it was a political trip preparing for the 1964 elections. And here comes the president s now. In fact, hes not in his limousine. He is reaching across the fence shaking hands. And break off one of the red roses. Thousands of children now swarming trying to get ov
Oswald has been shot at pointblank range, fired into the his stomach. Police are working on the assumption that oswalds murder was to shut him up. Elements of the Central Intelligence agency killed john kennedy. A story that has been suppressed. Witnesses have been killed. We have a right to know who killed our president and why he died. In dallas, preparations were already under way for Extraordinary Police protection when the president should arrive. Do you anticipate any trouble on the president s arrival . Because of what has happened here previously we would be foolish, i think, not to anticipate some trouble. I dont really i dont anticipate any violence. Here comes air force number one, the president s plane now touching down. There is mrs. Kennedy, and the crowd yells. And the president of the United States. And i can see his sun tan all the way from here. Looking at how things actually went, it wasnt just a trip to dallas, it was a political trip preparing for the 1964 election
To be on your own with no direction home not only did he take it, but he managed to just chokehold them all and make them see his vision. Like a Rolling Stone other musicians started bringing poetry and politics and soulsearching to popular music. Men shall know and men shall see we all are brothers and we all are free it was obvious to me and the hollies that we had a responsibility as artists to reflect our world around us, and we utilized our music to be able to reach people. Pop musicians in todays generation are in a fantastic position. They could rule the world, man. Well, i dont argue they could rule the world, so why dont we do more of it . We can stop world wars before they ever started. I disagree. I dont believe you know who starts world wars . I for one you know who start world wars . People that are over 40. Really, really that conversation was unstoppable. You couldnt shut it down. Hes oh so good and hes oh so fine and hes oh so healthy in his body and his mind hes a well
On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. CBS News takes a look back at the day that changed America — and how history was televised.