jackie kennedy by his side. crews can be heard to sort out logistics. the casket is in the rear come partment. volunteer wants a patch with mrs. rose as soon as possible. lbj is passing on condolences to jfks mother, rose kennedy. i want to tell you, we are grieving with you. thank you very much. just as interesting as what is on the tapes is what is not. there are a number of obvious edits. i think it s simple, whoever created the tapes had certain parts of the conversations they didn t want anybody to hear. it s good for people to listen for themselves and see
the casket is in the rear compartment and we suggest because it is so heavy that we have a forklift, a forklift back there to remove the casket. you can hear lbj giving condolences to rose kennedy. i wish there was something i could do. reporter: just as interesting as what is on the tapes is what is not. there are a number of obvious edits. i think it is simple. whoever created the tapes had certain parts of the conversations they didn t want anybody to hear. it is good for people to listen for themselves, see how things develop. sometimes see the roughness of history. reporter: john mcadams is a political scientist at marquette university. he says these are not likely to
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