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
Displeased to the report. It is too long. Unanimous . You been listening to a portion of a phone conversation between president lyndon b. Johnson and senator Richard Russell of georgia. He was a member of the worn commission. Commission. N each week, reel america rings you archival films that helped to tell the story of the 20th century. After president kennedy was assassinated, president johnson established a commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding the day headed by the chief Justice Earl Warren. It concluded that lee hot Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in killing the president. Report, a cbs special from the day the report was released to the public. Youre watching an official reenactment of the murder of president john f. Kennedy filmed from the window where the alleged assassins crouched and are the telescopic sight of his rifle. This is a cbs news extra. November 22, and the warren report. Here is walter cronkite. November 22, president johnson strolled kennedy w
Including his wife and mother as well as those who witnessed the assassination and the aftermath on the streets of dallas. Youre watching an official reenactment of the murder of president john f. Kennedy filmed from the window where the alleged assassins crouched and are the telescopic sight of his rifle. This is a cbs news extra. November 22 and the warren report. Here is walter cronkite. November 22, president john kennedy was shot to death in full view of hundreds of spectators watching him in a dallas, texas, motorcade. 48 hours later, Lee Harvey Oswald was killed by jack ruby in full view of millions of americans watching television. This bizarre sequence of double killings raised great questions. Who actually fired the shots that killed kennedy . Why did ruby shoot oswald . Was there a conspiracy . Was it a russian plot . A cuban plot . Were rightwingers involved . Lyndon johnson ordered these questions answered. He appointed a commission of seven prominent americans to investig
Its quiet now but more rain is on the way. Storm scan3 showing some soggy weather on the radar there just in time for the holidays. Good evening towering im jessica dean and chris may is off tonight. It has been wet but relatively warm this week. The snow will stay away but looks like were in for a very rainy Christmas Eve. Meteorologist kate bilo is here with more on a holiday storm. Kate. Thats right, jessica, Christmas Eve not going to feel like christmas. Its going to be warm, steamy, soggy, sloppy, lots of adjectives you dont want to use for christmas. All of the heavy rain that has been impacting the deep south all day this lifting up the eastern seaboard and will eventually get here and theres a lot of rain to get through before we can celebrate our christmas holidays. Zooming out on storm scan3 the center of the low up here. Wraparound snow, there will be snow and heavy snow in portions of michigan but for our area its just rain. We have dense fog before the rain gets here, see