you re accusing chief justice warren and that group of notable americans you re accusing them of deliberate malfeasance. you are part of the media which prevented the american people from finding out what happened. you are alarming the american people! i say the american public should be alarmed. the public had been kept in the dark for so long about this, but had an undying thirst, which could only be quenched by getting facts. we have a right to know who killed our president and why he died. and we can t get that from reading the warren report. at the start, lane was almost alone. now he s just one among a growing band of doubters. their books and articles are on the newsstands, they re in the supermarkets. now according to a recent poll, only one in three americans remains convinced that the warren report has the whole story. because of the conspiracy theories, who have put this case under a high-powered microscope, splitting hairs and then proceeding to split the
no matter how illustrious the members were, we were not going to be reassured by a commission. we re already having a little disagreement here while the commercials were on. what were you saying, david? well, i think i disagree almost totally with mark lane on several counts. i don t know where to begin. let me show you something just in case we have a chance. that is a picture of jack ruby. and this was taken five minutes after the assassination in front of the texas school book depository building. the commission said ruby was not there. the commission published it. he wasn t there when they published the picture because they cropped him out. you re accusing chief justice warren and that group of notable americans you re accusing them of deliberate malfeasance. you are part of the media which prevented the american people from finding out what happened. you are alarming the american people! i say the american public should be alarmed. the public had been kept in t
but some raised valid questions. could a bullet which have done as much come out looking like bullet 399? it is another one of the very many highly improbables that we are asked to accept by the warren commission if we are to accept the validity of their full report. some had completely mad theories. cody was killed by a karate chop to the throat in september of, i believe, 1964. but everyone i believed had a right to give their views. you have apparently succeeded in persuading the majority of the american people that we cannot trust the most august conceivable panel to do a responsible job. you talk about faith in these institutions or faith in the fbi as if it s a religious experience to read the warren report. i think to the contrary, you re always supposed to have faith in a democracy in our own ability to look at the facts and reach our own conclusions. the decreasing trust by americans in their government
always a substantial number of americans who supported the vietnam war. you bunch of bums. where is your son? my son is a marine! it s hard to recapture how intense that period was, how morally conflictual it was and your relationship with your country, which was something we never questioned. the pressure on mr. johnson to choose sides has been growing. clinging to a middle line, he tried to give one ear to the war of hawks in america, one ear to the dove, but both ears to neither. we halted bombing in the north in hope that the government in hanoi would signal its willingness to talk instead of fight. but i regret to tell you that no signal came during those 37 days. johnson feels alternately
americans and north vietnamese lay side by side in the grass. kind of walked right into an ambush. it was it was pretty bad to listen to your friends crying out for help, not being able to do a thing. we just we all pinned down. i want to congratulate you on your distinguished victory. you were fighting regular north vietnamese troops. the consensus of the military after ia drang is we can inflict enough casualties on them to win. our armed forces are prepared to take the necessary casualties in order to seek out and destroy the enemy. the question remains, are the american people prepared to lose more and more young men in vietnam?