we re standing by awaiting the transfer of ohs old from city jail to county jail. here is bill lord at the city jail. what s the situation? i m presently in the basement of the dallas municipal building and it s like an armed camp. police officials are frankly worried. they don t want anything to happen to oswald. here he comes. let me have tp i want it. being led out by captain fritz. there is lee. he s been shot. he s been shot. lee oswald has been shot. there is a man with a gun. it s absolute panic. absolute panic here in the basement of the dallas police headquarters. detectives have their guns drawn.
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american people that the government was functioning without interruption. and also perhaps he wanted to show that his predecessor s family bore him no ill will for the assassination. lyndon johnson is flying back to washington to take the reins of government, at which time president johnson will have to take into his hands the reins of the most powerful nation in the world. is there any doubt in your mind chief that oswald is the man that killed the president? i think this is the man that killed the president, yes, sir. is there any evidence any one else may have been linked with oswald to this shooting? at this time we don t believe so. i don t know what this is all about. did you kill the president? no, sir, i didn t. how did you get the black eye? sir? did you shoot the president? i work in that building.
were you in that building at the time? naturally if i work in that building, yes, sir. back up, man. did you shoot the president? i m just a patsy. this is room 317, homicide bureau here at the dallas police station. as you see, they are bringing the weapon allegedly used in the assassination of president john f. kennedy this afternoon at 12:30 here in dallas. 6.5 made in italy in 1940. in the wake of the kennedy assassination, the dallas police on the one hand were committing all of their resources to try and solve a crime. move in the doorway, get him in the doorway. on the other hand they were ill equipped to handle this tsunami of reporters. well, i was questioned by a
the van will be here by no later than 10:00 in the morning. why, it will that will be early enough for him. chief, do you have any concern for the safety of your prisoner in due of the high feeling among the people of dallas over the assassination of the president? no, but cautions will be taken, of course. but i don t think the people will try to take the prisoner away from us. here is bill lord at the city jail. i m presently in the basement of the dallas municipal building and it s like an armed camp. police officials are frankly worried. they don t want anything to happen to oswald. here he comes. now the prisoner. let me have it.