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
even notice it s raining. and if you do notice, you don t care. i just can t believe it. i feel like someone in my own family has died, is dead. i just can t believe it. ma am? i can t like a daze. you don t know what s going on. why? why did it happen? who would have done such a thing is the question. in the first minutes and hours, chaos and confusion was radiating out from the scene itself. it was very pervasive. the secret service agents thought the gunfire came from an automatic weapon fired possibly from a grassy knoll. i saw some police run up this grassy strip. i thought, they re chasing a gunman. i ran with them. the report is that the attempted assassins, we now hear it was a man and a woman i got to the top, looked around. a policeman went over the fence so i went over the fence too. there was nothing there. a television newsman said he
i ran with them. i got to the top, looked around. a policeman went over the fence so i went over the fence too. there was nothing there. a television newsman said he looked up just after the shot was fired and saw a rifle being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. it was originally thought that the shots came from in here. and now it is believed the shots came from this building here. the police officers are running back to the texas school book depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. in the federal downtown in the federal downtown building, they are combing the area in an effort to find the suspected assassin. in the building on the sixth floor we found an area near an area that had been partially blocked off by boxes of books and also the three spent shells that had apparently been fired from a rifle.
in the first minutes and hours, chaos and confusion was radiating out from the scene itself. it was very pervasive. the secret service agents thought the gunfire came from an automatic weapon fired possibly from a grassy knoll. i saw some police. i thought they were chasing a gunman and i ran with them. the report is that the attempted assassin, we now hear it was a man and a woman. i got to the top, looked around. a policeman went over the fence so i went over the fence too. there was nothing there. a television newsman said he looked up just after the shot was fired and saw a rifle being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. it was originally thought that the shots came from here, and now it is believed the shots %-p running back to the texas school depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the