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
transfer lee into the regular prison during the night to avoid the press. and then someone must have overruled them so that lee could be photographed by the press during the transfer. we re standing by awaiting the transfer of oswald from city jail to county jail and for that report, here is abc s bill lord at the city jail. bill, what s the situation? well, i am presently in the basement of the dallas municipal building, and it is like an armed camp. police officials are frankly worried. they don t want anything to happen to oswald. it is through this corridor of newsmen, photographers, and policemen that lee oswald will be brought to a vehicle for transfer to the dallas county jail, a distance of about 15 blocks, which ironically is just across from the scene where president kennedy was assassinated on friday.
we re standing by awaiting the transfer of ohs old from city jail to county jail. here is bill lord at the city jail. what s the situation? i m presently in the basement of the dallas municipal building and it s like an armed camp. police officials are frankly worried. they don t want anything to happen to oswald. here he comes. let me have tp i want it. being led out by captain fritz. there is lee. 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 here in the basement of the dallas police headquarters. detectives have their guns drawn.
all right. let s move. lee oswald is to be taken soon to the county jail. that s true. and you are going to take him there how, sir? we are going to use an armored motor vehicle to take him. dallas police meant to transfer lee into the regular prison during the night to avoid the press, and then someone must have overruled them so that lee could be photographed by the press during the transfer. we re standing by waiting the transfer of oswald from city jail to county jail, and for that report, here is abc s bill lord at the city jail. bill, what is the situation? i m presently in the basement of the dallas municipal building and it s like an armed camp. police officials are frankly worried. they don t want anything to