you re not only terrorizing ordinary people, the police themselves are at extraordinary risk in happening upon these guys, doing a car stop, pulling them over. their lives could be lost. we saw that in boston, by the way. that campus cop was executed by those brothers, shot between the eyes. so it s not only endangering the american public, but the cops at this point. and it s changing policing. we ve had this argument about militarization. here you go. when you got a country where the people can pick up weapons at will, you re going to have to equip the police. and that makes policing change in a way that is not good. you know, you remind me that the police officers are often the victims in the case of john f. kennedy assassination. we had an officer killed within moments after the kennedy assassination. planned parenthood, right? planned parenthood a cop who happened to be a pastor, you know. we talk about the stereotype of policing. there is a person who was killed defending peo
as what is on the tapes is what is not. there are a number of obvious edits. i think it s pretty simple, whoever created the tapes had certain parts of the conversations they didn t want anybody to hear. its s good for people to listen for themselves and see how things developed. sometimes seeing the roughness of history. reporter: john mcadams is a political science professor at marquette university and says these recordings are not likely to be the last pieces of history to surface, even 50 years after the assassination. the truth is, a lot of stuff fell between the cracks. this particular tape which was in the possession of general clifton took almost half a century to show up. the historical record on all kinds of fronts is a bit more ragged than one might think. as the nation prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of the john f. kennedy assassination, you won t want to miss the premiere of the 60s, the assassination of jfk tonight at
they thought he had issues. they didn t want to have some american lose it in their country. it would bad pr. well, i mean, i certainly heard that theory offered. it certainly is clear when he went to mexico, he was getting the paper to defect to cube what and at one time defect to russia. the story about lee harvey oswald, it appears he was never happy where he was. countless books, movies, documentaries on the life and murder of our 3 5g9 president. the revelations in this book, how do they remain secret until now? well, i think a lot of serious journalists have wanted to stay away from this estimate as the mess, a morass of conflicting testimonies. there are these armies of conpier is rifts to be dealt with. so much evidence about the assassination has been declassified in the last couple
theories. zubruder, how critical was that to the investigation? it was essential. it served sort of as a clock for the assassination. they were able to match that up with the ballistics evidence and come to some conclusions that led to the zegs that oswald was the lone gunman. talk about lee harvey oswald and what all you uncovered there. well, there is this whole missing chapter of the story of the kennedy assassination is what in the heck was lee harvey oswald doing in mexico city a few weeks before the assassination. i went into this not knowing about the mexico trip. he was meeting with cuban spies and russian spies and other people who may have had a reason to see president kennedy dead. was he doing that, do you think, knowing who they were? things i read about his life in minsk it s almost as if he was played by the russians.
investigated kennedy s assassination. overall, what shocked you the most in your research? i think a big theme in my book is how much basic evidence of oswald was destroyed and it was destroyed within hours of the president s death. you know, the night after the president died the navy pathologist who carried out the auchs was pushing the original autopsy report and all of his notes from the morgue into his home fireplace and that s just the start. okay. why would that be done? well, he said when he got home if night after the autopsy, the night after the assassination, he noticed that all of his notes and the original autopsy report were sustained with the president s blood and he didn t want those documents turned into only grizzly souvenir in a museum some day. he thought he d destroy them. when the warren commission found out about that, they thought it would give to conspiracy