Displeased to the report. It is too long. Unanimous . You been listening to a portion of a phone conversation between president lyndon b. Johnson and senator Richard Russell of georgia. He was a member of the worn commission. Commission. N each week, reel america rings you archival films that helped to tell the story of the 20th century. After president kennedy was assassinated, president johnson established a commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding the day headed by the chief Justice Earl Warren. It concluded that lee hot Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in killing the president. Report, a cbs special from the day the report was released to the public. 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 johnson strolled kennedy w
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
About 300 the day before that, continues to the upside. Up 83 points or half of 1 . The s p 500 mentioned right now up 14 points in record territory closing here and the nasdaq composite adding 27 and half of 1 . Lets get right to it with our Closing Bell Exchange on this friday to wrap up the week. Gerard fitzpatrick. Steve sax. Pat ty edwards. And kenny pulcari. Patty, questions to the women today seem to be the theme here, what do you think happens . Is this a santa rally . Have we just put it in and seen the gains . All rebalancing and a quad witching effect . What do you think is going on in this market . I think theres a whole lot of things going on. You know, we have got people doing window dressing for the end of the year. Tax loss selling that seems to dissipating. You take all that into consideration and then the fed comes in and says, wait a minute, we dont need to have anxiety about things. We are logical about how we proceed and i think that the fed has just really put a b
Im going to resist the temptation to come to new and minimumwage debate. [laughter] please do. Im happy to have one offline after we are done but just to be responsive to the question about millennials, you know i think one very concrete tangible reality that many people in your age cohort are facing in student debt and i think we are ripe as a country for a cross party cross ideological conversation about how to reform our student debt system and its not simply a matter of using the terms of debt. Its also thinking about to what extent has the presence and expansion of loans contributed to the escalation of the cost of college. We have to have an honest crosscutting look at this but its got to be one that is led actually by those of you in the millennial generation whose citizens are experiencing the pain and i think if you can get an issue like that would be a tangible way to get started in the country. Lets get some more questions please. Good morning. My name is charles and im a te
I think eric did a great with job of talking about some of the problems that we see, that economic inequality seems to breed political inequality. We also have Health Inequalities which is, you know, tightly related to income. And i think what we should be focusing on is the welfare of our nation. And, i mean, that does include focusing on the welfare of those at the bottom of the income distribution, but we shouldnt lose sight that there are people in the middle who really, you know, have seen their incomes stagnate over the last 20 or 30 years. The body language suggests that robert would like to [laughter] i mean, obviously, i worked in the poverty programs for 18 years, and im really focused on the bottom. I will offer this, though, there are some solutions on the income inequality issue. And one of them is and im a believer in the transparency with regard to the ratios between ceos and the workers. That rule has been passed. Sec is trying to enforce it. Thatll with be a good thing