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
sort of a patsy and ineffective and innocent person, forgets when police gets out to talk to him, oswald shoots him four time. that, and his previous attempt on general walker. interestingly, on saturday morning in the dallas morning news, it said that there may be a connection between this guy who was just arrested for killing a police officer and president kennedy and this effort to assassinate general walker back in april. oswald used to attend a small discussion group, and he began to rail against this right wing general, edwin walker, who was calling for the invasion of cuba. good general walker was about as right wing as you got in the early 60s. and oswald saw walker as an
the opportunity presented itself did him, and he thought he probably wanted to make a mark on society, and it suddenly occurred to him that he could. people who think oswald was sort of a patsy and such an ineffectual, innocent person forgot that when oswald was stopped by a police car and a policeman gets out, unarmed, to talk to him, oswald shoots him four times in the middle of the body. that plus his previous attempt on general walker. interestingly on saturday morning in the dallas morning news, it said that there may be a connection between this guy who was just arrested for killing a police officer and president kennedy. and this effort to assassinate general walker back in april. oswald used to attend a small discussion group. and he began to rail against this right-wing general, edwin walker, who was calling for the invasion of cuba.
believe that others were involved, while 33% think oswald acted alone. in fact a majority of nearly every demographic group across the country believes others were involved in the killing, with the exception of one group. whites with a college degree. it s even something trump voters and clinton voters agree on, and you know how high a bar that is these days. 61% and 59% respectively believe in the conspiracy theory involving jfk. questioning the lone gunman theory of the jfk assassination is becoming engrained in national culture. it s as american as apple pie these days. beliefs like those are hard to change over time. you need more facts. and the government decided not to release everything. when we come back, endgame and more from our nbc news/ wall street journal poll. could we be seeing signs of a change and perhaps a wave when it comes to the battle for congress next year? coming up, end game, brought to you by boeing. continuing our mission to connect, protect, explore, an