There are significant
dates that are etched in our
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collective memories and
one of these dates is the
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22nd of November, 1963.
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At 12:30 p.m. a gunshot
rang out that reverberated
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right around the world.
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Years after John F. Kennedy's
assassination people are still
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captivated by the event
that happened here on Elm Street
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in Dallas, TX. We're still
fascinated by how the death of
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one leader could impact a
people, a culture, a nation,
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a world. Join me as we look more
closely into this historic event
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and the message
it carries today.
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This is the window in the Texas
school book depository that
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changed history in a
dramatic terrible way.
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You get a clear view
from here down to Elm Street
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in the city of Dallas. Lee
Harvey Oswald took out a rifle
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right here and pointed down
toward the motorcade that was
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bringing President John
F. Kennedy through town.
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Shots would ring out to 12:30
p.m. on Friday, November 22,
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1963 shots that would
reverberate across the country
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and around the world,
Kennedy, would slump down in his
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limousine. America's Camelot
a time of hope and optimism
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had suddenly ended.
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Was there a conspiracy
behind that fatal shooting?
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hearers about Oswald
accomplice's still spin around.
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How did those two or three
shots from way up there hit so
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precisely, way down
here in a moving vehicle?
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Why did this very
popular president have to die?
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And what might have
happened if his term continued?
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This Dearly Plaza structure
that housed the Texas school
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book depository back in
1963 is now the Dallas County
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Administration Building,
Local Government offices
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occupy most of these floors.
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But on the 6th floor,
there's a museum that pictures
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details about that faithful
day that ended Kennedy's
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presidency, it also
teaches his life and legacy.
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Let's take a look.
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What we try to do here
is tell the basic history of
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President Kennedy and who
he came to Texas that day.
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So this is what it was
like, right out that open window
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where the box is sitting on
the ledge here in the front,
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that's where the
shots were fired from.
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One of the stories we try to
tell in the museum exhibits is
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the Kennedy legacy. Now younger
people who weren't around
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when he was in office,
they don't have as much interest
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as the legacy but the legacy
is really quite interesting.
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I believe this nation should
commit itself to achieving
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the goal before this decade is
out of landing a man on the moon
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and returning him
safely to the earth.
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Although it started under
President Eisenhower in the 50's
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when President Kennedy
took office, one of the first
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directives he issued was we're
going to land a man on the moon
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in this decade and this was
just a shocking revelation and
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especially to the people
in the business of supplying
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people and equipment for that
project because this was all
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sudden big boost for them
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And of course the U.S.
Space Race says it yielded
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unbelievable treasures.
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The Cuban missile crisis was
one of Kennedy's most daunting
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challenges he didn't want
nuclear warheads aiming at
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his country so close
in that Caribbean island.
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So he sent out ships to block
the Soviet Vessels that were
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bringing rockets into Cuba,
that was the closest the world
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ever got to a devastating
Nuclear War between superpowers.
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It was the scariest of standoffs
but Kennedy is cautious and
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a sensible strategy would manage
to send the Russian missiles
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back home.
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What it just indicates is what
the President Kennedy was like.
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There were extreme highs
and extreme lows just in the few
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short thousand days.
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Yes, Kennedy would build
quite the legacy, he'd become
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one of the more
Charismatic U. S. Presidents
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but then came that fateful day.
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Right here on Elm Street is
where a few bullets interrupted
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history very dramatically, let's
look at just how it happened.
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President Kennedy's motorcade
tour through Dallas was planned
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to give him maximum
exposure to the crowds here
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he rode in an uncovered
limousine with his wife
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Jacqueline, Texas governor
John Connolly and Connolly's
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wife Nellie. They were headed
toward a luncheon with the
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Silicon business leaders of
Dallas, there were plenty of
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enthusiastic people for this
foursome to wave at of course.
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Weaving through
downtown, passing right here by
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Dealey Plaza, they were
only five minutes from their
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destination.
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Now this southern state of Texas
hadn't been a big supporter of
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Democratic presidents for
some time, but Nellie Connolly
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the First Lady of Texas turned
around to Kennedy and said
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Mr. President, you can't
say Dallas doesn't love you
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Kennedy smiled and nodded
as people shouted greetings
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but then came the rifle shots.
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"Sirens and
Screams" "People running"
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This is the North Pergola it
overlooks the spots where J.F.K.
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was fatally wounded.
Here at the one end you'll see
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a pedestal, this is
where Abraham's intruder stood.
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He just wanted to catch Kennedy
on his home movie camera.
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But he would actually document
this terrible assignation.
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Abraham would record the
most analyzed 26 seconds of film
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in history. At first, those
shots didn't really ring out
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for most people on Elm Street.
There was plenty of crowd noise
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and car noise all around them,
the shots didn't sound that
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different from a firecracker
or a vehicle backfiring
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but then the crowd
noticed some- thing awful.
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Kennedy wasn't waving anymore he
has slumped onto his wife's lap.
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Governor Connelly was a World
War II veteran, he recognized
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the sound right away
as a high powered rifle.
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As Kennedy had waved with
his right arm, a rifle bullet
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penetrated his upper back,
went through his right lung
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and exited his throat.
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Kennedy quickly clenched
his fists in front of his face
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leaning forward and to his
left, Jacqueline put her arms
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around him suddenly terrified.
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A bullet struck Connelly
in his upper right back,
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was it the same one?
That question would perplex
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investigators for many years.
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A second or third shot
rang out, this was the fatal one
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striking Kennedy's
head. US Secret Service Agent
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Clint Hill ran forward and
tried to get on the limousine
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to protect the president.
Jacqueline actually crawled back
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onto the rear trunk
lid, perhaps to help him.
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Mrs. Connelly thought
she heard Jacqueline cry out,
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they killed my
husband, they killed my husband.
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Those bullets came from
here the 6th floor of the Texas
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School Book Depository,
this area has been preserved
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to look just
like it did in 1963.
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Lee Harvey Oswald had
stepped over to the window after
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locking the door behind him.
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He held a Carcano Rifle
with a scope so he could zero in
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on a target in the distance.
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In October of 1963,
Oswald had come up from the city
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of New Orleans where he grew up
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and he got a job here
at the book depository.
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Days before Kennedy's arrival
newspapers were describing
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the route of the presidential
motorcade, it would pass here.
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On Friday morning Oswald
arrived at his workplace with a
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big paper bag, he'd
left his money behind and his
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wedding ring a co-worker would
spot him here on the 6th floor
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at 11:55 a.m., 35 minutes
before the assassination.
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Lee Harvey Oswald joined
the Marine Corps as a teenager
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going through their intense
training, he knows how to handle
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a rifle very well, it was here
at the South East corner window
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that rifle shots would ring
out that penetrated a governor,
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a president, and US history.
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Oswald would quickly hide
from the window in here and then
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cover his rifle under some
boxes then he went down to the
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2nd floor using
the rear stairwell.
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In the Luncheon Room, he
ran into a Police Officer,
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the hunt was already on
for who had fired those deadly
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rifle shots. But Oswald's
supervisor had identified him
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as an employee so the
officer let him pass through.
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Later, people recalled
seeing Oswald seeming very calm
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with a soft drink in his hands.
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With the president lying on the
First Lady's lap, the motorcade
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sped toward Parkland Hospital.
Oswald would go out of the
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front staircase just
before police sealed it off.
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A little later he was walking
down a sidewalk in the Oak Cliff
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Neighborhood, police officer
J.D. Tippet was driving by
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listening to urgent messages
about the assassination.
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At this point Oswald's
supervisor had pointed out
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to police in the
sealed-off book depository that
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Lee Harvey Oswald was the only
employee he knew was missing.
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Officer Tippet decided to
ask this man a question or two.
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He called Oswald over
to his car and stepped out
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but just then Oswald
pulled out a pistol and shot him
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four times as Tippet died
the assassin fled the scene.
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A little later Johnny Brewer
spotted this suspicious figure
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and saw him slip into this
Texas theater without paying
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Johnny alerted the ticket
clerk and he called the police
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at 1:40 p.m. Officers
swept into this dark theater
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and put a hand on Oswald, he
resisted arrest attempting to
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draw his pistol but the police
restrained him and took him
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to the station. Later he'd
be charged with the murders
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of Kennedy and Tippet.
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In trauma room one at
Parkland Hospital physicians had
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identified Kennedy's condition
as morbid, that meant he had
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no chance of survival. They
would try but that shot to his
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head was fatal. A priest named
Huber standing at his bedside
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would draw a sheet back
from the president's face
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and administer the last rights.
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The White House Press Secretary
would officially announce
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Kennedy's death at 1:33 p.m.
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This was the Peace Corp
President, the one who took
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America through the
Cuban Missile Crisis.
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His administration had started
the Civil Rights Legislation
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and the man sworn in after
the assassination, Kennedy's
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Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson
would become the president
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behind real Civil
Rights Reform in this country.
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So there were a lot of
questions after Kennedy's death,
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a lot of investigations, a
lot of theories thrown about.
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What was really
behind those rifle shots?
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Wasn't there a conspiracy?
What political forces would
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want Kennedy killed?
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Surely such a tragic historical
event, couldn't have been
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pulled off by just one
man, Lee Harvey Oswald.
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Many historians look at
the mid-60s and late 60's as a
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time in this country where
people seriously questioned
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the United States Government
and perhaps lost faith
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and trust in the government.
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And that really hasn't
stopped because this is such an
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interesting subject, it's
so visual in nature, it lends
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itself after
television and movie programs.
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The Kennedys come in this story
lives on, young people commit
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into this and they don't know
anything about Kennedy or his
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policies or why he was a great
leader to many so in those days.
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They don't care about that stuff
they want to know who did it,
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they want to
know who killed him.
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So I can't even imagine decades
from now that there won't be
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people walking around
out there in Dealey Plaza
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and pointing and scratching
their heads and trying to make
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some sense of
what happened that day.
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Well, the assassin
would remain forever silent.
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On Sunday, November 24, he
was here at the Dallas Police
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Headquarters being
led through the basement,
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officers were preparing to
transfer him to the county jail
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quite a crowd had gathered
though trying to get a look
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at the alleged assassin. Dallas
night club operator Jack Ruby
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suddenly stepped forward
with a revolver and shot Oswald
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in the abdomen, it
proved a fatal bullet.
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Now, police officers wouldn't
be able to interrogate the man
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but there were plenty
of other investigations.
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The Warren Commission created
by President, Johnson would look
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at all the facts in depth, their
conclusion, Oswald had acted
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alone, those three
shots came from his rifle
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But many Americans just
had to believe there was some
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big conspiracy behind
that fateful shooting.
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I was a senior in high
school when it happened
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and my father who fought in
World War II was scared to death
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that the Russians were
behind it and World War III was
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about to begin, that was
the first conspiracy theory.
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Then when Jack Ruby a
local Dallas Night Club owner
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with mob connections killed
Lee Harvey Oswald the suspect
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in the very state from
which Lyndon Johnson had become
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president, it made you
wonder if Johnson was behind the
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assassination so that
was the second big theory.
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But over the years other
theories have come forth,
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the CIA because they despised
Kennedy for various reasons,
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In 1967 Josiah Thompson
published six seconds in Dallas
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a book about what happened
here just off this mound.
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He suggested Kennedy was struck
by two bullets to the head
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from two directions. One from
the rear, one from the right
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front, close to 1,000
books have been published about
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the assassination and over
95% support some conspiracy.
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Some advance a theory that pro-
Castro Cubans made it all happen
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and there were all kinds of
claims about how the evidence
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had been altered. Dallas
police must have changed those
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autopsy shots to give the
appearance that the wounds
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were caused by
one rifle, one gunman.
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Yes, a tragedy compels us to
create satisfying explanations,
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conservative people, one of the
KGB involved, liberal people,
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one of Right Wing
Businessman involved.
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A big event needs
a big plan behind it.
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The problem with the Kennedy
assassination is there is no
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known motive for Lee Harvey
Oswald and yet to this day
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all of the evidence
points to him and him alone.
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But most people are just
not satisfied that one guy,
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one little tiny individual
without any connections
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to anybody, apparently was able
to do away with the very popular
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leader of one of the biggest
and most powerful countries
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on the planet which is lop-
sided, this doesn't make sense.
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So, as long as there are holes
in the story and people can
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plug in their own answers,
they'll probably keep doing so.
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Well, we'll never be sure
of course, if there were other
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people who helped Lee Harvey
Oswald but here's the basic
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fact behind that assassination,
here's the essential truth
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which a lot of
other people ignored.
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It was a man's character
that produced that killing,
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that's at the bottom of it all.
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Lee Harvey Oswald grew up around
withdrawn and temperamental kid
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once he was even accused of
threatening his half-brother's
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wife with a knife. Later truancy
from school led to a psychiatric
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assessment. This young man was
found to have a vivid fantasy
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life. Imagining scenes of
power to compensate for his
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shortcomings and frustrations.
00:20:16.54\00:20:18.31
Oswald joined the US
Marine Corp just after his 17th
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birthday, he was trained
as a radio operator and served
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in Japan. But he got into
trouble playing around with
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an unauthorized 22-handgun
accidentally shooting himself
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in the elbow. Then he got
into a fight with his sergeant
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who reported the incident
and he was court marshaled.
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Oswald would have to
be punished a third time
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because he fired his rifle
into the jungle for no reason.
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After that, Oswald claimed
that his mother needed care
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and received a
hardship discharge.
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Oswald flew to Russia and
played around with becoming
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a Soviet citizen for a
while but then he got bored
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and came back to America.
Settling in Dallas Oswald was
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by a graphic arts firm but je
was inefficient and quite rude
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to the point that
fights threatened to break out.
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After he was fired, he bought
a 6.5 caliber Carcano rifle
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by mail order
using another named.
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Lee Harvey Oswald
obviously had personal problems
00:21:25.08\00:21:30.02
that may well be conspiracies in
this world but the bottom line
00:21:30.05\00:21:34.72
when it comes to
terrible deeds, is human nature.
00:21:34.76\00:21:37.89
Tragedies happen most
frequently because we are bent
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in the wrong direction.
00:21:42.30\00:21:43.90
Well, Lee Harvey Oswald's
background is really interesting
00:21:43.93\00:21:47.50
in that, he was one of life's
losers, we've all known people
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in life, that just no matter
what they do, no matter how hard
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they try, they fail. At the
time of the assassination of Lee
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Harvey Oswald had a minimum-wage
job, here in the Book Depository
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Building. He had no
future most every job he had
00:22:02.42\00:22:06.76
he's been fired, he had
two baby girls and a wife who
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despised him and they
were living apart, he had no
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prospects. And ensured that he
was a guy who had no future and
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when men are put in that
position, they tend to do very
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dramatic things. When
Oswald woke up that morning,
00:22:23.61\00:22:25.91
he had spent his
last night with his wife,
00:22:25.94\00:22:29.41
he left virtually all his
money and his wedding ring
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on the dressing room table.
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You know when a man makes
a statement like that, that's
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a very powerful decision, he's
decided to do something drastic.
00:22:39.52\00:22:44.29
Did he go out and kill a
president for some reason?
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Well, that's what
the evidence says.
00:22:47.73\00:22:49.06
Was he going to do something
else and just call it quits
00:22:49.10\00:22:52.53
or something? Or we don't
know. Jack Ruby cheated history
00:22:52.57\00:22:55.80
so we will never know.
00:22:55.84\00:22:57.17
You know, there's an
assassination in history
00:23:02.44\00:23:05.65
that puts a
spotlight on that issue.
00:23:05.68\00:23:08.35
It's the killing of
Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
00:23:08.38\00:23:11.69
this is a man who bled
to death on a Roman Cross.
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But He wasn't just a political
leader, He was the Son of God
00:23:15.82\00:23:23.26
laying down His life
for sinful human beings.
00:23:23.30\00:23:26.33
He was all about reconciliation
listen to Colossians: 121 & 22.
00:23:26.37\00:23:34.81
That assassination on
the cross 2,000 years ago
00:23:52.49\00:23:57.13
actually gets very personal.
The cross is about our problems,
00:23:57.17\00:24:02.07
our weaknesses, our alienation,
like Lee Harvey Oswald
00:24:02.10\00:24:06.68
we try to compensate for our
shortcomings and frustrations
00:24:06.71\00:24:11.28
in all kinds of ways.
00:24:11.31\00:24:13.11
We get into quarrels and
fights, we blame other people,
00:24:13.15\00:24:17.75
we go from one place to another,
trying to escape our inadequacy,
00:24:17.79\00:24:23.12
we blow up about pressures
at work conflicts at home,
00:24:23.16\00:24:28.03
but there's only one real way
to deal with our shortcomings,
00:24:28.06\00:24:31.53
our frustrations and that
is the cross of Jesus Christ.
00:24:31.57\00:24:35.67
This Messiah absorbed all our
moral failures in His own body
00:24:35.70\00:24:41.94
and He offers to exchange
all our failures with His own
00:24:41.98\00:24:46.08
blameless perfect life.
00:24:46.11\00:24:48.08
He promises that we can
be accepted by our Holy God
00:24:48.12\00:24:52.95
in the beloved, in the Son.
00:24:52.99\00:24:55.59
You know, John F. Kennedy
was shot with his arms out
00:24:55.62\00:25:00.26
waving at scores of
people, after his assassination
00:25:00.30\00:25:04.27
he became quite the presidential
hero with quite the legacy
00:25:04.30\00:25:08.57
but he wasn't a
perfect President of course.
00:25:08.60\00:25:11.71
He wasn't even a very
faithful husband to Jacqueline
00:25:11.74\00:25:15.61
who would hold his
bleeding head in her lap.
00:25:15.64\00:25:18.51
But Jesus Christ was the perfect
Messiah, the spotless Lamb
00:25:18.55\00:25:23.35
of God, He died with His
arms out wide on the cross
00:25:23.39\00:25:27.59
welcoming all of humanity He
would become an undying hero.
00:25:27.62\00:25:33.26
His legacy can take us from our
human weaknesses straight into
00:25:33.29\00:25:38.43
heaven. The cross is a
legacy with your name on it
00:25:38.47\00:25:41.97
it carries the weight
of God's love for you.
00:25:42.00\00:25:45.47
The cross can set you free, it
gives your life a stable center.
00:25:45.51\00:25:51.11
Isn't it time to stop blaming
some conspiracy way out there?
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Isn't it time to accept the
fact that our human weaknesses
00:25:55.58\00:26:00.52
create most misfortunes?
00:26:00.56\00:26:02.56
But, there is a way out, there
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Dear Father, Thank
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I need you, I've done a
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I ask for forgiveness, I ask
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Thank you for accepting me
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