Seat. Boom clickclick. And he fell shot in the side of the head. Any effort to explain what happened in dallas must explain lee Harvey Oswald. He is not an easy man to explain. Did you shoot the president . No, im just a patsy. Narrator lone gunman or part of a conspiracy . The evidence is often ambiguous. Im a marxist, that is correct. Narrator on the 50th anniversary of president kennedys assassination, frontlines definitive investigation of the mysterious life and character of lee Harvey Oswald. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from and by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation. Dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The wyncote foundation. And by tfrontline journalism fund
Seat. Boom clickclick. And he fell shot in the side of the head. Any effort to explain what happened in dallas must explain lee Harvey Oswald. He is not an easy man to explain. Did you shoot the president . No, im just a patsy. Narrator lone gunman or part of a conspiracy . The evidence is often ambiguous. Im a marxist, that is correct. Narrator on the 50th anniversary of president kennedys assassination, frontlines definitive investigation of the mysterious life and character of lee Harvey Oswald. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from and by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation. Dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The wyncote foundation. And by tfrontline journalism fund
Pinches the wants to make you pinches cheeks. This man is as close to god as is humanly possible. [laughter] alford was awesome. I had him fall semester and failed his class. Not because he was bad, but because i did not come to class. Dont expect to fail. That was just me being stupid. Hes cool. [laughter] quotes alfred manages to be wetyourpants funny at 8 00 a. M. In the morning. It is as if you are watching a movie, but it is him just reading the tapestry of american history. And finally, my favorite stop reading these reviews and sign up for his class before all the seats are taken. Please welcome my friend and fellow board member, dr. Terry alford. [applause] professor alford thank you for this great invitation. It is great to see such a large audience. He got invited to read his poems at 7 00 friday night at the community center. He was delighted and showed up at 6 30. No one was there. 6 45 tone was there. 7 00, no one was there, not even the person who invited him. [laughter]
Through, as i interpreted, on a modern frame, early high school. He went to a very good school in though air, maryland. He went to a school in sparks, maryland, run by quickerquaker elder and a military middle and high school run by an episcopalian priest. These are good schools. It was difficult for him. His sister said his older brothers were more intuitive but for john, he had to really force himself to learn things. It was not easy. I see all sorts of clues that he was a good auditory learner. He would listen, especially to people he respected. We know this. You can pay attention. You can learn a lot with your ears. People have made a fortune with her ears. He was very good about picking up things just by listening other people. He became an actor in his late teens. He was in richmond for two years and was popular there. I was able to discover that the roles he played more than any other role was lord gundry in our american cousin. It was not known what role he had until recently a
Boom clickclick. And he fell shot in the side of the head. Any effort to explain what happened in dallas must explain lee Harvey Oswald. He is not an easy man to explain. Did you shoot the president . No, im just a patsy. Narrator lone gunman or part of a conspiracy . The evidence is often ambiguous. Im a marxist, that is correct. Narrator on the 50th anniversary of president kennedys assassination, frontlines definitive investigation of the mysterious life and character of lee Harvey Oswald. Frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from and by the corporation for public broadcasting. Major support for frontline is provided by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information is available at macfound. Org. Additional funding is provided by the park foundation. Dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The wyncote foundation. And by tfrontline journalism fund, supp