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
Good afternoon, everybody. Listen, i am privileged to be here as a moderator, but from what these gentlemen have to say, i am going to step back. It is the easiest moderating job i have ever had because there are some fascinating stories and conversations they will have with you. One thing i did not know other than that i was a sixth grader at the time the president was killed, i did not know i did not study, at that time, about the Warren Commission, but i have come to know quite a bit of it. I actually, in a retaliation creation of a a mock trial of Lee Harvey Oswald i prosecuted mr. Oswald. Former First Assistant with the Dallas Da Office was the defense attorney. So, i got to learn a lot with the assistance of my super paralegal who is here, lisa and anderson anderson. Let me tell you about the panelists. Wow is what you are going to say when this is all over. Judge burt griffin is a graduate of Amherst College and yeah law school. Yale lawhile school school. He served as a law cle
I have been satisfied with the report ever since. , to is a personal note myself, i feel like i can rely on this personal opinion. I wanted to share that with you all. Thank you very much. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. After what i think was an extraordinary first session, and a truncated break, for which i apologize, we will begin the second session with five additional panelists. Our transitional panelist is jay vogelson. He has a foot in both caps. He was staff member on the Warren Commission and is a dallas lawyer. Begin, similar to the first panel, a description of his esperance with the commission. Then i am asking the second panel to do two things. One is that they have collated and organized the questions, but they also come at the questions for members of the Commission Staff, from their own individual areas of expertise. They have their own questio
Thank you. [applause] on the half of Mechanics Institute and asia society thank you for coming and we look forward to seeing you at our next [applause] please come up. Next on booktv from the 18th annual texas book festival. A discussion with authors on mexico. Ere this is about 45 minutes. Good afternoon, thank you for coming tonight. Were happy to be here. Here at the texas bookernoon. Festival. Ng tonit. A few notes of business they asked me to tell everyone to please turn off your cell phonet so you dont interrupt the inven. With that, let me get dirty. I am shannon oneil. I work at the council on Foreign Relations very focused on next month america more broadly unedited and pleasure tonight at talking with two wonderful gentleman, who have written wonderful books are really impressive impressive books about mexico. The first one on my right is ricardo ainslie. His book is called the fight to save juarez. This book tells the story of the border city, which many of you know ive had