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
Other nationally recognized photographers. I want to talk to you a little bit, of your collection op display. The first one we have chronologically is a photo it was on november 27th. Can you tell me a little bit about that photo . Sure. I was given a wide luxe camera i usually didnt use. I got out in the street. We could go any place we wanted to. I positioned myself at the corner of maine and harwood, because the memo would have to turn. It gives you a different perspective driving straight down the street, making the turn on to maine. Across the street from harwood and maine is delays city hall. There was a woman who had a caricature across the street, all the way with jfk head caricature. I went over and talked to her and told her when the motorcade came by, be sure to have it straight up and high. I arranged myself and waited until that caricature fit into what we were doing and i made the frame. Because its a wide luxe. I only made two pictures, besides four, it was too far and t
Other nationally recognized photographers. I want to talk to you a little bit, of your collection op display. The first one we have chronologically is a photo it was on november 27th. Can you tell me a little bit about that photo . Sure. I was given a wide luxe camera i usually didnt use. I got out in the street. We could go any place we wanted to. I positioned myself at the corner of maine and harwood, because the memo would have to turn. It gives you a different perspective driving straight down the street, making the turn on to maine. Across the street from harwood and maine is delays city hall. There was a woman who had a caricature across the street, all the way with jfk head caricature. I went over and talked to her and told her when the motorcade came by, be sure to have it straight up and high. I arranged myself and waited until that caricature fit into what we were doing and i made the frame. Because its a wide luxe. I only made two pictures, besides four, it was too far and t
Seat. Boom clickclick. And he fell shot in the side of the head. Any effort to explain what happened in dallas must explain lee Harvey Oswald. He is not an easy man to explain. Did you shoot the president . No, im just a patsy. Narrator lone gunman or part of a conspiracy . The evidence is often ambiguous. Im a marxist, that is correct. Narrator on the 50th anniversary of president kennedys assassination, frontlines definitive investigation of the mysterious life and character of lee Harvey Oswald. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from and by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation. Dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The wyncote foundation. And by tfrontline journalism fund