Pointblank range, fired into his stomach. Police are working on the assumption that oswalds murder was to shut him up. Elements of the Central Intelligence agency killed john kennedy. A story that has been suppressed. Witnesses have been killed. We have a right to know who killed our president and why he died. In dallas, preparations were already under way for Extraordinary Police protection when the president should arrive. Do you anticipate any trouble on the president s arrival . Because of what has happened here previously we would be foolish, i think, not to anticipate some trouble. I dont really i dont anticipate any violence. Here comes air force number one, the president s plane now touching down. There is mrs. Kennedy, and the crowd yells. And the president of the United States. And i can see his sun tan all the way from here. Looking at how things actually went, it wasnt just a trip to dallas, it was a political trip preparing for the 1964 elections. Shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. Connolly, governor connolly on your left. It was whether kennedy, using all his charisma and influence to get all the squabbling democrats in texas to come together before the election the next year. And here comes the president now. In fact he is not in his limo, he has departed the limousine, and he is reaching across the fence, shaking hands. In those days everybody could get a lot closer to the president. I was standing behind mrs. Kennedy and saw a hand reach through the chain link fence and break off one of the red roses. Thousands of children now swarming, trying to get over the fence. The Dallas Police trying to keep them back. This is great for the people and makes the egg shells even thinner for the secret service, whose job it was to guard the man. The trip had gone terrifically well in texas. Pretty hard to write a script for it going any better. Thousands will be on hand for that motorcade now, which will be in Downtown Dallas. A number of my classmates were gone, they were at the parade. My father had been invited to have lunch with kennedy at the trade center. There was a mood, a climate of excitement. The speech of president kennedy at the dallas trade mart will be broadcast by radio. Stay tuned for the president s dallas speech at the trade mart on 570 radio. Work hard in the daytime rest easy at night big boss man wont you hear me when i call yeah big boss man wont you hear me when i call well you aint so big you just tall and thats all this bulletin just into the news. That dallas, three shots were fired at the motorcade of president kennedys day in Downtown Dallas. Police radios are carrying that the president has been hit. Parkland hospital has been advised to stand by for a severe gunshot wound. This is Walter Cronkite in our newsroom. And there has been an attempt on the life of president kennedy. Just turn the mic on. I cant hear you, johnny. What do you want . You want me to move back a little bit. Is it all right now . Is this all right . Ladies and gentlemen, i would like to introduce to you the chief cameraman. And assistant news director. Of wfaa television. This is bert shipp. Bert, we have brought the people pretty much up to date. Would you tell them exactly what you know as of this point . Well, i was standing at the trade mart, waiting for his arrival there. All of a sudden we saw them approaching, they didnt slow down, as a matter of fact, they were going 70, 80 miles an hour past us. And then i jumped into a police car and went to parkland. These two men come in and one of them had a large machine gun and they were hollering for the stretchers and cots and everything. And the governor, they brought him in first. What happened after this . Then the president came in after him, and they took both of them back. Albert thomas, democrat of texas is standing outside the corridor of the emergency room said he has been told the president was still alive but in very critical condition. The president has not arrived here. A group of secret service men and other officials has gathered where the president normally would enter and discussing heatedly with one another some subject or other, of course we have no idea what. Now, here is an announcement from the platform. Mr. Eric johnson with an announcement. It is true that our president , governor connolly in the motorcade have been shot. We shall tell you as much as we know as soon as we know anything. Thank you. Hey. Im ted and this is rudy. Say hi rudy. [ barks ] [ chuckles ] id do anything to keep this guy happy and healthy. Thats why im so excited about these new milkbone brushing chews. Whoa, im not the only one. Its a brilliant new way to take care of his teeth. Clinically proven as effective as brushing. Ok, here you go. 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As he was waving back he was the shot rang out and he slumped down in his seat. And then this next one popped and governor con folly grabbed his stomach and laid over to the side. And then another one. It was just all so fast and president kennedy reached up and grabbed looked like grabbed his ear and blood just started gushing out. Did you see the person who fired it . No, i didnt see the person who fired the weapon. You only heard it . I only heard it and i looked up and saw this man running up this hill. If its a conspiracy not only the president was hit, the governor was hit. Who knows if the next shot would have been for lyndon johnson. Johnsons car pulls into the emergency bay at Parkland Hospital. Four agents reach in and grab johnson and pull him out and start to run him down one corridor. Looking for a safe place. Mr. Johnson, his whereabouts are being kept secret for security reasons. If anyone knows where mr. Johnson is, it is not us at this moment. There was a signal moment in our cultural history. Suddenly it occurred to us the right thing to do is turn on the television. Reports continue to come in but in a confused and fragmentary fashion. President kennedy has been given a blood transfusion at Parkland Hospital here in dallas in an effort to save his life. It was odd because there were no commercials. It was just a continuous experience. Two priests have entered the emergency room at Parkland Hospital where he rests after the assassination attempt which now was about a half hour ago. What are your feelings right now, maam . Im absolutely shocked. Stunned. We have the same birthday. I am just crazy about him. Who would want to shoot the president . What did he do . I mean, he has been doing so much for the country. Someone goes ahead and shoots him. A flash from dallas, who priests who were with president kennedy say he is dead of bullet wounds. This is the latest information we have from dallas. I will repeat with the greatest regret two priests who were with president kennedy say he has died of bullet wounds. Malcolm kilduff, the assistant press secretary, was filling in for the regular press secretary. And then he had to draw himself up to give the most fateful announcement that a press secretary might have ever had to give. All the cameras were rolling and i remember he put his fingers like this on the desk and pressed very hard to stop his hands trembling. John f. Kennedy died at approximately 1 00 Central Standard time. Today here in dallas. He died of a gunshot wound in the brain. I have no other details regarding the assassination of the president. The people standing here are stunned, just as all of us are, beyond belief that the president of the United States is dead. All over the world people are going to remember all their lives what they were doing when they first heard that president kennedy had been killed. The crowds are standing around in silence and sorrow in the rain. The strange thing is you dont even notice it is raining. And if you do notice you dont care. I just cant believe it. I feel like someone in my own family has died. I just cant believe it. Maam . I cant like a daze, you dont know what is 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 hill. 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 came from this building here. The Police Officers are running back to the texas school depository building. They are going to continue searching in that building for the wouldbe assassin of the president. The center of Downtown Dallas is in a virtual state of siege. They are combing the floors of the book depository building 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. Crime lab lieutenant j. C. Day just came out of that building with a british. 303 rifle. It was a 7. 65 mauser. A highpowered army or japanese rifle. A. 3030 rifle. Much of the first things you hear are going to be wrong and to some degree you were constantly trying to separate out what seemed to be a fact. In dallas, a Dallas Policeman just a short while ago was shot and killed while chasing a suspect. J. D. Tippit was shot three times in the chest in the oak cliff section of dallas. Then the manager of a shoe store saw the suspect walk into the texas theater. Someone has been arrested in one of the downtown theaters. They dont know if it was the man who shot the policeman or the person who actually shot president kennedy. Police suddenly jumped this man and started to drag him out of the theater, hustled him out to the car. As the crowd started to break they grabbed this man and tried to run with him. They shouted murder and the officers hustled him into the car and ran away just as fast as they could. As we mentioned a short while ago a number of arrests have been made in dallas in the wake of president kennedys death. We have scenes of one of those arrests in the downtown area. This is just after a Dallas Policeman was shot in the vicinity of a downtown movie house. Paul bentley. How did you approach him . I approached him and as he approached him, the man hit mcdonald in the face. With his left hand, was reaching for his pistol with his right hand. And as he reached for his pistol, i grabbed him along with two or three other officers. What did he say after he was arrested . He just said this is it. It is all over with now. Crowd cg sfx sounds of marching band and crowd cheering so, im walking down the street, sfx sounds of marching band and crowd cheering just you know walking, sfx sounds of marching band and crowd cheering and i found myself in the middle of this parade honoring americas troops. Which is actually quite fitting because geico has been serving the military for over 75 years. Aawh no, look, i know this is about the troops and not about me. Right, but i dont look like that. 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And someone named Lee Harvey Oswald is arrested. Oswald may be a suspect in the assassination. Who is he . Lee oswald of dallas, a former marine who spent some time in russia who at one time had applied for soviet citizenship. The description that we had of the suspect in oak cliff was similar to the description we had and the man we were looking for as the assassin. But at that time we had not been able to connect it to him in any way. Down in the third floor corridor, a crowd of cameramen reporters wait for the possible appearance of the man accused of killing president kennedy and a Dallas Police officer. Intercontinental now, there will be a great deal of confusion. Mr. Oswald is put through the door. I dont know if you saw him, oswald lives at 1026 meckley. He is an employee of a bookbinding firm in the building which the police and secret servicemen believe the president was shot today. Mrs. Kennedy accompanied the body in an ambulance to the airport where it will be flown back to washington. Cleared everyone out of the emergency room, the hospital on the first floor there, and they come out and told us that we would have to help remove the remains into a casket. Lyndon johnson ordered that body be brought immediately to air force one. So there was a little tug of war. They almost shook the crucifix off the top of the coffin as they were trying to get him into the hearse from the hospital. One of the secret service men, well, about two or three of them got into the hearse and just drove off and left the rest of them just standing there. Vice president johnson is expected to be sworn in as president aboard an airliner before flying back to the nations capital. Not everyone realized that johnson was already the president , because he in fact had taken the oath in january 61, the same oath the president takes. Johnson wanted to show the American People that the government was functioning without interruption. And also perhaps he wanted to show that his predecessors family bore him no ill will for the assassination. Lyndon Baines Johnson is flying back to washington to take the reins of government, at which time president johnson will have to take into his hands the reins of the most powerful nation in the world. We see november 22nd, 1963 as a date when a president was killed. But it was also a date when the president was created. Is there any doubt in your mind, chief, that oswald is the man that killed the president . I think this is the man that killed the president , yes, sir. Is there any evidence any one else may have been linked with oswald in this shooting. At this time we dont believe so. I dont know what this is all about. Did you kill the president . Did you shoot the president . I work in that building. Were you in that building at the time . Naturally if i work in that building, yes, sir. Back up, man. Did you shoot the president . Taken in because of the fact that i lived in the im just a patsy. Did you shoot the president . This is room 317, Homicide 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, apparently 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 experts have established that the hand writer 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 a crime. Youre moving in the doorway. When you get him in the doorway. On the other hand they were ill equipped to handle this tsunami of reporters. Well, i was questioned by a judge, but i protested at that time that i was not allowed legal representation. In bringing oswald out, they were of course doing something that you would never see happen today, but they were trying to cooperate with the press, with the understanding that there would not be questions shouted to him. Did you kill the president . No, i have not been charged with that. In fact, nobody has said that to me yet. The first thing i heard about it was when the newspaper reporters in the hall asked me that question. You have been charged. Sir . You have been charged . Nobody said what . Okay. What did you do in russia . Oswald. How did you hurt your eye . A policeman hit me. At 1 35 this morning, a complaint was read. It charged that quote, Lee Harvey Oswald did voluntarily and with malice aforethought kill john f. Kennedy by shooting him with a gun, end quote. Following the reading of the complaint,