Shes called back more than once after serious questions are raised about her truthfulness. Among other things, in her initial interviews with the fbi and secret service, she denied she had any knowledge of this mexico city trip. It turned out later she knew all about it. She knew all about it before her husband had gone there. The socalled magic bullet and what was the significance of that for the commission . Well, i think its probably the single most controversial piece of evidence from the kennedy assassination investigation. Its the bullet the Commission Staff would conclude had passed through the bodies of both president kennedy and Texas Governor connolly. That contradicted the initial fbi report on the assassination, which found three bullets had landed in the president s limousine. The first one hit president kennedy in the back. The second one hit governor connolly in the back. And the third one hit president kennedy in the head, which was the fatal shot. The Commission Staff
So now it is officially part of the custody of the national archives, the original. The copy right is retained. And i believe that the family has given the copyrights over to the sixth floor museum, in the old Texas School Book depository. If someone were to come here, they could look at it. Its just that if you were to choose to duplicate it and publish it, that you would need to get the copyright in order to do that, permission under the copyright. If you were to come in to see it, you would be watching a duplicate of the original. Which is true for any of our films. Because we want to make sure films are preserved when you come to lock at films here at the national archives, you are looking at a reference copy of the film. We have Motion Picture sound and video here within the national archives. Which, of course, is exactly what it says it is. Its the portion of our agency that takes care of all Motion Pictures and sound recordings. They have custody of this item. Its interesting, y
The times in which they lived. And at 10 00, former nbc news anchor tom brokaw on his more than 50 years of reporting on world events. Thats this Christmas Day on the cspan networks. For a complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums, archives and historic places. Next, we visit the National Archives in college park, maryland, to learn about the kennedy assassination records collection. The warren report was released to the public 50 years ago on september 27, 1964. And well see video recorded by the National Archives of many of the wellknown artifacts from the investigation. Including Lee Harvey Oswalds rifle, the socalled magic bullet and the camera originals zapruder film. Our guide is Martha Wagner murphy. The president john f. Kennedy assassination records collection was created because of the president john f. Kennedy assassination records collection act of 1992. So, a short history, since the time of the assassination ther
Thats this Christmas Day on the cspan americas. For our complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. 50 years ago on september 24th, 1964, Supreme Court chief Justice Earl Warren handed a report of the president s commission on the assassination of president kennedy to president Lyndon Johnson in the oval office. The seven commissioners pictured here with president johnson and general counsel Jay Lee Rankin concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing president kennedy. The Warren Commission worked for nine months in this building, the Washington Office of the vfw, a short walk from the Supreme Court building and the u. S. Capitol. We set up a camera in a fourth Floor Conference Room to talk to investigative journalist philip shenon, whose book a cruel and shocking act examines the Warren Commissions work, using key phone calls, documents and artifacts, mr. Shenon explains the lingering controversies regarding the war and the report. But first we take a brief tour of the former Warr
The times in which they lived and then at 10 00, former nbc tv news anchor tom brokaw on his more than 50 years of reporting on world events. Thats Christmas Day. For a complete schedule go to cspan. Org. Each week American History tvs american artifacts visits museums, archives and historic places. Next, we visit the National Archives in college park, maryland, to learn about the kennedy assassination records collection. The warren report was released to the public 50 years ago on september 27, 1964. Well see video recorded by the National Archives of many of the well known artifact of the investigation including Lee Harvey Oswalds rifle, the socalled magic bullet and the camera original zapruder film. Our guide is Martha Wagner murphy. President john f. Kennedy assassination records collection was created because of the john f. Kennedy assassination records collection act of 1992. A short history. Since the time of the assassination theres been numerous official investigations starti