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
Oswald has been shot at point blank range, fired into his stomach. Police are working on the assumption that oswalds murder was to shut him up. Element of a simple 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 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. Theres mrs. Kennedy and the crowd yells, and the president of the United States. 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 elections. Shaking hands now with
President johnson received that report today. What the public understood and what i understood is these were very honorable men. They thought the commission had done a good job, and they 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 answered unequivocally Lee Harvey Oswald. Was oswald acting alone or was he a member of a conspiracy . The commission answers he acted alone. We knew most people were not going to read all of the Warren Commission report. So cbs news wanted to bring to air an understandable form for the public at large what the Wa
Was to shut him up. Elements 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 not to anticipate some trouble. I dont really anticipate any violence. Here comes air force number one, the president s plane now touching down. Theres mrs. Kennedy. And the crowd yells. And the president of the United States. I can see his suntan 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 elections. Shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. Connelly. It was whether kennedy could use his charisma and his influence to get all the s