famous footage, infamous footage, what goes through your mind even though now 50 years later? about the only thing i can think of is, i was hoping to save my prisoner and i didn t do it. that probably goes through my mind more than anything else. do you feel a sense of guilt, even though you have no reason, to but do you feel that? that had you managed to keep him alive we may have been able to answer all the conspiracy theories that have raged ever since? no doubt about it had we kept him alive the conspiracy people would have had a hard time bringing up a lot of the things that the bring up. so yes, indeed. i would have really preferred to have kept him alive. you could have also been killed yourself as jack ruby burst through that group of people and came at you? as a police officer you have to act. many people ask what goes through your mind. you don t stop and think because if you stop and think you ve already lost.
he took him and went into his office with him. that s the last time i questioned him. but that was the first inkling i had he would be a suspect in the assassination. when you look back at all this, jim, how do you feel that you were the guy? this footage is played again and again and again that you were so closely entwined with this appalling assassination? well, i would rather it never happened to begin with. but that s life. things happen and you have to put up with them or live with them. i wouldn t have thought that this much interest would have held out this long. in fact, if you could have asked me a few days after the assassination i d have told you give it six or eight months and you wouldn t hear anything more about it. i was wrong with that. the circumstances you have to put up with what comes along. in this case, this generated a lot of interest. of course, the president was
his granddaughter, his coproducer on a documentary capturing oswald. you re another piece of history in many ways. when you yourself see that famous footage, infamous footage, what goes through your mind even though now 50 years later? about the only thing i can think of is, i was hoping to save my prisoner and i didn t do it. that probably goes through my mind more than anything else. do you feel a sense of guilt, even though you have no reason, to but do you feel that? that had you managed to keep him alive we may have been able to answer all the conspiracy theories that have raged ever since? no doubt about it had we kept him alive the conspiracy people would have had a hard time bringing up a lot of the things that the bring up. so yes, indeed. i would have really preferred to
but that was the first inkling i had he would be a suspect in the assassination. when you look back at all this, jim, how do you feel that you were the guy? this footage is played again and again and again that you were so closely entwined with this appalling assassination? well, i would rather it never happened to begin with. but that s life. things happen and you have to put up with them or live with them. i wouldn t have thought that this much interest would have held out this long. in fact, if you could have asked me a few days after the assassination i d have told you give it six or eight months and you wouldn t hear anything more about it. i was wrong with that. the circumstances you have to put up with what comes along. in this case, this generated a lot of interest. of course, the president was quite well-respected he went and quite on vest in dallas looking
in many ways. when you yourself see that famous footage, infamous footage, what goes through your mind even though now 50 years later? about the only thing i can think of is, i was hoping to save my prisoner and i didn t do it. that probably goes through my mind more than anything else. do you feel a sense of guilt, even though you have no reason, to but do you feel that? that had you managed to keep him alive we may have been able to answer all the conspiracy theories that have raged ever since? no doubt about it had we kept him alive the conspiracy people would have had a hard time bringing up a lot of the things that the bring up. so yes, indeed. i would have really preferred to have kept him alive. you could have also been killed yourself as jack ruby burst through that group of