his place and shot at general walker. he came in the house 11:30. he was so pale, nervous. and i said, what happened to you? and he said he told, i tried to shot general walker. will you describe for us just what happened last night? rifle shot, fired into the house. fired through the west window. and hit the sill and hit the wall across the room and went over the desk, at which i was sitting. he was very disappointed to find out that he missed by less than an inch. it shows his ability to plan who his target was and that oswald was capable of violence. i think that was kind of the rosetta stone that if you understood the walker shooting, you understood that lee was like a cocked rifle. and he could go off any time.
confronting each other the liar, the misfit, the defector on the one hand, and seven distinguished americans on the other. and yet exactly here we must be careful that we do not say too much. oswald was never tried for any crime, and perhaps therefore there will forever be questions of substance and detail raised by amateur detectives, professional skeptics, and serious students as well. we are the jury, all of us, in america and throughout the world. the reaction to the report initially was very positive, but that didn t last very long. this book is the number one best seller on the nonfiction list in the country rush to judgment by mark lane. it s gained a vast number of readers in the recent groundswell of skepticism about the findings of the warren report. we did not envision the breadth and the scope of the criticism. the author has some highly provocative and controversial things to say, so please greet mr. mark lane. [ applause ] no matter how illustrious the
bureau here at the dallas police station. as you see, they are bringing the weapon allegedly used in the assassination of president john f. kennedy this afternoon at 12:30 here in dallas. 6.5 made in italy in 1940. police have traced a rifle purchased in chicago by mail order to oswald. he bought it under the alias, of a. heidel. handwriting analysts have established that the handwriting on the purchase order was in fact made by oswald. the price of $12.78, the life of the president of the united states apparently was bought. in the wake of the kennedy assassination, the dallas police on the one hand were committing all of their resources to try and solve the crime. move in the doorway, get him in the doorway. on the other hand they were ill equipped to handle this tsunami of reporters.
general walker was about as right wing as you got in the early 60s. and oswald saw walker as an american adolf hitler. and oswald said someone should kill walker. he then ordered a rifle with a sniper scope, and he planned very meticulously his assassination of general walker. he took photographs from different angles, he figured out how to get his rifle there and how to escape. on march 31st, a sunday, he asked marina to come out and take his photograph. all in black, pistol, rifle in his hand, holding a few radical newspapers, and marina writes on the back hunter of fascist and dates it april 6th, 1963. and then he went on the night of the 10th of april, took up
the report will cover all of that in great detail. this committee labored ten months, then brought forth a document close to 1,000 pages. president johnson received that report today. what the public understood and what i understood is these were very honorable men. they thought the commission had done a good job, and they would come up with an answer. when the warren commission report came out, i believed it. we were still in a time when you tended to believe what officials told you. it is now 15 seconds after 6:30 p.m. eastern daylight time, sunday, september the 27th. as of this moment, the report of the president s commission is public record. for the next half hour, we will search it for answers. first must come the answers to the two great overriding questions. who killed john f. kennedy? the commission answered unequivocally lee harvey oswald. was oswald acting alone or was