interviewing witnesses, collecting evidence, bringing it back to the commission. let s see. the time of day was about we re not very far but two hours from it. there were questions, how would they deal with the different stories about the shooters from the grassy knoll and shooters from different directions? the lawyers from the commission took 395 depositions. there were 94 witnesses that appeared before the commission. lyndon johnson wants to report out so it doesn t interfere with the election in november. warren left for dallas because he had spent his early career as a courtroom prosecutor. he understood a crime scene. he wanted to stand in that window and see whether this was a shot that a marksman could make. while he was there warren felt he should talk to ruby. there were all these suggestions ruby had killed oswald to silence him so i think warren wanted to hear from ruby, himself. the warren commission realized they were going to have to invest a lot more time th
that rifle was in his handwriting. oswald s palm print was found on a surface of the gun. the media had all concluded that this was the most exhaustive investigation, case closed. oswald did it alone. the commission concludes that three shots were fired. all of them from this sixth floor window in the texas school book depository. the cumulative evidence of eyewitness firearms and ballistics experts and medical authorities demonstrated that the shots were fired from above and behind president kennedy and governor connally. when the warren commission came out with their report, the majority of americans accepted the findings of the warren commission. the bullet entered here, came out just below the president s adam s apple. the commission believes that the same bullet then entered the right shoulder of governor connally, passed out through his chest, continued through his right wrist and on into his left thigh.
he s been shot! he s been shot! lee oswald has been shot. there is a man with a gun. it s absolute panic. absolute panic in the basement of the dallas police headquarters. detectives have their guns drawn. there is no question about it. oswald has been shot at point blank range fired into his stomach. he is shot. he is shot. oswald is it oswald. the man that shot the man? or do you know? that is the man that shot the man. immediately after the shooting, our only witnesses that we could talk to were other reporters. where did he go, pierre? he was here. they just put their gun there. i saw the flash on the black sweater. did you see the gun to his stomach? i saw him in the group of men right here. was he masquerading as one of us or what? i thought he was a detective. he had a hat.
own ability to look at the facts and reach our own conclusions. the decreasing trust by americans in their government all started with the kennedy assassination. by 1966 there is this cultural revolution in the united states. i mean, we re deeply enmeshed in vietnam. a lot of protests and riots and a sense that things have seriously gone wrong. we ve gone off the rails since november 63. the warren report is a very important part of that loss of confidence in the government. i don t think all the facts were brought out. i think something was held back. i think there s more involved in it than just oswald. i don t know how in the world we could ever reach a conclusion that one person assassinated him. this is ridiculous. i saw the whole thing on television. i just happened to be home at that time. i don t think oswald i think he was working for the cia.
stupid, irrational act. the opportunity presented itself to him and he probably wanted to make a mark on society by proving that he could. people who think oswald was sort of a patsy and such an ineffectual, innocent person, forgot that when oswald was stopped by a police car and a policeman gets out unarmed to talk to him, oswald shoots him four times in the middle of the body. that plus his previous attempt on general lawker. interestingly on saturday morning in the dallas morning news it said there may be a connection between this guy just arrested for killing a police officer and president kennedy and this effort to assassinate general walker back in april. oswald used to attend a small discussion group and he began to rail against this right wing general who was calling for the