Kennedy. Senatore former u. S. Who served as a lawyer for the worn commission describes the evolution of the single bullet theory. This is a 20 minute portion of an oral history interview he recorded with the pennsylvania cable network. He died in 2012 at the age of 82. How was the fbi and cia to work with . Very cooperative. Question as to whether they had a conflict of interest. Ruby had been interviewed by an agent. There was a question as to whether they could do an independent job. But we had no investigators of our own. I think it was not a good idea to have the fbi money investigation because they were too much involved in it. But that decision was made and we did the best we could. The people we worked with were very able people. The secret service cooperated. Assigned to the chief justice. One was in the front seat. The driver, the name escapes me. T the moment another person you wanted to get testimonial from was former first Lady Jacqueline kennedy. Was only briefed for a fe
I have been satisfied with the report ever since. , to is a personal note myself, i feel like i can rely on this personal opinion. I wanted to share that with you all. Thank you very much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. After what i think was an extraordinary first session, and a truncated break, for which i apologize, we will begin the second session with five additional panelists. Our transitional panelist is jay vogelson. He has a foot in both caps. He was staff member on the Warren Commission and is a dallas lawyer. Begin, similar to the first panel, a description of his esperance with the commission. Then i am asking the second panel to do two things. One is that they have collated and organized the questions, but they also come at the questions for members of the Commission Staff, from their own individual areas of expertise. They have their own questio
Stronger. Eleanor roosevelt was wrong the the gender of but shec bronze figure, aptured perfectly the peace of god that passth understanding. Youre watching american istory tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan 3. To join the conversation, like cspan cebook at history. 50 years ago on september 24, Supreme Court chief Justice Warren handed a report assassination of kennedy to president Lyndon Johnson in the oval office. Pictured commissioners here with president johnson and counsel jay lee ranken Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing john f. Kennedy. The Warren Commissioner worked n this building, a short walk from the u. S. Supreme Court Building and the u. S. Capitol. Camera in a fourth Floor Conference Room to talk to shenon, whose book a cruel and shocking act the history of the kennedy assassination examines the work, using key phone calls, documents, and artifacts, he explains some of the lingering regarding the warren report. First we take a brief tour of the Warren Commissi
We set up a camera in a fourth Floor Conference Room to talk to investigative journalist philip examines, whose book the Warren Commissions work, using key phone calls, documents, and artifacts. He explains some of the lingering controversies regarding the warren report. We take a brief to her of the reef tour we take a brief tour of the or in commissions of the Warren Commissions office. It was in this room here on this floor that the Warren Commission saw for the very first time the entirety of the committee the investigations of hearing would take place down here at the time. We harvey oswalds brother was here. Much oftographs the work was done on the fourth floor. Are now on the fourth floor of the u. S. Capital historical society, where this would have been the working floor for the Warren Commission. I will show you the office of chief Justice Earl Warren. This is his desk and his chair. Are you pretty sure this is his chair . , absolutely. We have a lot of information on it. He
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