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
of .25 caliber. a .30-.30 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. tippett, a good, experienced police officer, 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 don t know if it was the person 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 broke and started to maul the police officers and
crime lab lieutenant jayce day just came out of that building with a british .303 rifle. it was a 7.65 mauser. a high-powered 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 don t know if it was the man who shot the policeman or the person who actually shot president kennedy.
one of the downtown theaters. they don t know if it was the man who shot the policeman or the person who actually shot president kennedy. this is a picture of him. he probably does not look exactly like this now after he has been questioned. that s lee oswald. the president was shot. and a police officer is shot. 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 the two in any way. now, apparently a great deal of confusion. mr. oswald is put through the