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
hospital to the airport, where it will be flown back to washington. everybody in the emergency room, the hospital, completely on the first floor there, they come out and told us that we would have to help remove the remains into a casket. lyndon johnson had ordered that the body be brought immediately to air force one. so there was a little tug of war. they almost shook the crucifix off of the top of the coffin as they were trying to get that coffin out of the hospital. took him out and put him into the hearse, and one of the secret servicemen, about two or three of them, got into the hearse and just drove off. and left mr. o neal and the rest of us just standing there. vice president johnson is expected to be sworn in as president aboard an airliner before flying back to the nation s capital. not everyone realized that johnson was already the president, because he in fact had taken the oath in january
servicemen, about two or three of them drove off and left mr. o neil and the rest of us sitting there. vice president johnson is expected to be sworn in as president aboard an airliner before flying back to the nation s 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 predecessor s family bore him no ill will for the assassination. lyndon 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.
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 nation s 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 predecessor s family bore him no ill will for the assassination. lyndon 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 think november 2 27b2nd,