jesse: kennedy s assassination had the country in mourning. some of the best journalists in the business broke down delivering the news. from dallas, texas, the flash apparently official. president kennedy died at 1:00 p.m. central standard time, 2:00 eastern standard time. some 38 minutes ago. vice president johnson. [clearing throat] has left the hospital in dallas but we do not know to where he has proceeded. presumably he will be taking the oath of office shortly and become the 36th president. jesse: the man responsible? lee harvey oswald who shot kennedy from the sixth floor of a dallas building, a book depository. before oswald was able to spill his guts, jack ruby got to him. ozwald walks his last mile.
approximately 1:00 central standard time. oswald was arrested and charged with the murder, but a short time later in a dallas police station, he was shot and killed by jack ruby, as stunned americans watched live on nbc. he s been shot. he s been shot. lee oswald has been shot. the warren commission concluded oswald acted alone, but over the decades, kennedy s assassination has spawned countless conspiracy theories. dramatized in movies like oliver stone s jfq . why was kennedy killed? who benefitted? who has the power to cover it up? john kennedy s assassination sadly probably will never be solved. that was since the day lee harvey oswald was killed in that police station in dallas. joining me now is nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss. what do you think are the
night. the military converted the u.s. capital into a field hospital for union soldiers during the civil war. some have reported sightings of those soldiers wandering the building even today. some of them have continued to stay. a lot of soldiers died here and they were very idealistic at that point and their spirits would be here. joe novotny retired from the house after 30 years. you ve seen him on c-span as the house reading clerk and has absurd weird things in the chambers late at night after everybody else is gone. all of a sudden in the chamber, directly in front of me i see a man walk in front of me and i look up immediately to see who it is and there was nobody there. you tell yourself, is this real? but it was vivid. towering above all capital ghost stories is the legend of the demon cat which prowls the like when they burned the
capitol in 1814, kennedy s assassination. it s put prince are visible in the senate wing but the demon cat also signed its name. in the congressional stairwell, you ll find this. does that stand for district of columbia, detective comics, or demon cat? in another stairwell you ll find the blood of congressman william taulbee, charles can cane shot and killed after a dispute in 1890. ghost is said to work around the capitol reportedly tripping reporters for revenge. is that may be why i was tripped on the capitol stairways not too far from when i tried to