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
from? if the shots did not all come from the book depository window, then there was most likely some form of conspiracy. i think that the massive head wound where the president s head was literally blown apart came from a quartering angle on the grassy knoll, it struck and his head doesn t go directly back this way but it goes back and over this way, which would be consistent with the shot from that direction and newton s law of motion. unless the laws of physics were not working that day, the reaction of the president tells us where that shot came from. some critics say by the very fact that in the picture, you can clearly see the explosion of the bullet on the front side of the president, that that certainly indicates the bullet came from the front. well, i don t believe any physicist has ever said that. quite contrary, it does indicate that the bullet was coming from behind. it s a minor explosion where pieces of material go generally in the direction of the bullet.
place, a dallas businessman called abraham zapruder stood behind that low concrete wall looking down at elm street. as the president was coming down from houston street and making his turn, it was about halfway down there, i heard a shot. and i heard another shot or two. i couldn t say whether it was one or two. and i saw his head practically open up, all blood and everything. where did the shots come from? if the shots did not all come from the book depository window, then there was most likely some form of conspiracy. i think that the massive head wound where the president s head was literally blown apart came from a quartering angle on the grassy knoll, it struck and his head doesn t go directly back this way but it goes back and over this way, which would be consistent with the shot from that direction and newton s law of motion. unless the laws of physics were not working that day, the
president. in the federal downtown building, they are combing the area in an effort to find the suspected assassin. in the building on the sixth floor we found an area near an window that had been partially blocked off by boxes of books and also the three spent shells that had apparently been fired from a rifle. crime lab lieutenant day came out of that building with a british .303 rifle. it was a 7.65 mauser. a high-powered army or japanese rifle of .25 caliber. 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 time ago was shot and killed while chasing a