what was it like for you to be there? it is like you re walking through history there. it really is. as soon as you get there, if people haven t been down to dealey plaza in dallas, they have to put it on their must-see list. you feel yourself emerged in modern history. the book depository, you go into the book depository. we were given tremendous access by those folks and you get a real sense of what this was like. interestingly, oswald worked at the book depository. one thing we did is we looked at i m sorry. we do have to leave it there. but we are excited to see your take on this and america declassified on the travel channel and, of course, watch our special right here on cnn on thursday night. please, do not miss it. the assassination of jfk at 9:00 eastern and pacific right here on cnn. i m john berman in new york
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exactly what happened in dallas that day. 50 years later, there s really still a lot of debate about it. as well as we know lee harvey oswald, as we all know he was arrested. he was the man in custody for killing john f. kennedy but he was murdered himself while in police hands. that happened just two days later after the kennedy assassination. our guests coming up recently reenacted how oswald might have done it. i am one floor above where lee harvey oswald was positioned that fateful day to take his three shots. there it is. this is essentially the vantage point for oswald that day. you have clear point as the motorcade rolls through and you acquire the target, bam, bam, bam. quite a view from the book depository. that was mike baker who is with us here now, cia officer and oft an guest and joins us now from boise, idaho. mike, you ve got your own special on the kennedy
time to take a look at the morning papers. forbes, delta air lines warnings its health care costs will rise by $100 million next year when obama care kicks in. 38 million of the total attributed to obama care while the airline says it does not plan to cut hours to avoid providing health care, it may reduce benefits before the tax on high value insurance plans goes into effect. new york times, former today show anchor lou wood passed adue to kidney failure. he covered stories such as the assassination of jfk and accompanied martin luther king during one of his marches. wood left today in 1976, prior could nbc worked for cbs and wnbc. he was 84 years old.
it won t be and it shouldn t be. even if we were able to move on this category, which i think is necessary and utterly insufficient. we still have a larger problem with gun violence in this country. background checks, in my opinion should be absolutely lowest hanging fruit. but even besides that, that is still not going to address the larger, long-term, large-scale issues that we have of not just mass shootings, but also the individual shootings happening within the community. gun trafficking. you know, individual product liabilities, all of these things that become major issues, we re just really in the first innings of what will be a much larger debate and larger conversation. if you look at the history of gun legislation, it s always happened in fits and startings. 1963, the gun control act. inspired, unfortunately by the assassination of jfk. didn t pass until 1968. the brady bill takes seven years of actually making it through congress.