All language subtitles for JFK.One.Day.in.America.S01E02.Manhunt.1080p.HULU.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H264-WhiteHat

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[Reporter] It--it--it appears
as though something has happened

in the motorcade route.

Something, I repeat, has
happened in the motorcade route.

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[Witness]
Yeah, I'm a time traveler.

I go back to that day...

...many times.

The thing is, that morning,
when I left to go to work

on November the 22nd, 1963,

that young boy

has never come home.

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[Sid Davis] All I could think of
was get to the hospital,

get the story.

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I went to the second floor,

and I saw a priest talking
to some of my reporter friends,

three or four reporter friends.

So, I went over and tried to see
what he was saying.

His name was Father Oscar Huber.

I'll never forget what he said.

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He said, "I just gave him
the last rites."

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All hell broke loose,

and we were told
we couldn't stay there.

[whistle blowing]

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We were told that
we had to go upstairs,

there's a press room
being established upstairs.

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And Malcolm Kilduff,
an assistant press secretary,

got up at the microphone,
tears streaking his cheek.

[Malcolm Kilduff]
President John F. Kennedy

died at approximately
one o'clock today,

here in Dallas.

He died of a gunshot wound
in the brain.

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Of a bullet
right through the head.

I have no other details

regarding the assassination
of the president.

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[Ed Hogan] This is Ed Hogan
of WFAA Television

in Dallas, Texas.

We are standing on the grounds
of Parkland Hospital,

where President Kennedy
has died,

as most of you have already,
already know.

What is your name, please?

[Mrs. Quincy Adams]
Mrs. Quincy Adams.

[Hogan] Mrs. Quincy,
are you from Dallas?

[Adams] Yes.

[Hogan] How does this
affect you?

[Adams] Well, it's just
a complete shock,

and I think it just means
doom for our country.

[Hogan]
Well, it's a terrible thing,

and it's shaken up
and shocked everybody.

[Adams] Well, it has,

and I think Dallas
will never get over this.

[Hogan] Thank you very much.

[Interviewee] I think it's awful
that it had to happen here,

or anywhere
in the United States.

I thought we were less barbaric.

And the main thing in America,
like we hear so often,

so many people
hate each other.

And I think that's what did it.

I hope that nothing like that'll
ever happen again.

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[Clint Hill] It was shocking, it
was terrible, it was emotional.

But I couldn't break down.

I had to get back up
and take care of my job.

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My job was to protect
Mrs. Kennedy as best I could.

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I was too concerned with how
we were gonna get him

from the hospital
to the airplane.

Were we gonna be able
to get him back to DC?

There was no time
for grief or anything

except continue
to do the best job you could.

And that's what I tried to do.

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It's a horrible situation.

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We didn't protect the president
of the United States

like we were supposed to.

[Commentator] We do not
have information

here at the hospital, because
of the chaotic situation

and the shock of this
whole tragic incident,

on whether the assassin
has been apprehended.

We understand that the shot
that took the president's life

came from a building downtown

known as the State
Book Depository building,

and the Secret Service men were
seen gathered around there.

[siren]

[Reporter] The search now
centers at the area

of Elm and Houston

near the old Texas School
Book Depository building,

and there is a possibility
that the would-be assassin

is still inside that building.

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[Rusty Robbins]
When Dallas heard

that the president had been
killed here, all thoughts were,

who could have done this
and why,

and who's behind it?

We were in the middle of it.

We were handling it.

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[Commentator]
Officers are now surrounding

and searching the building,
Book Depository store

on the corner of Elm
and Field at 12:40.

[Robbins] When most people
are running away,

that's when police officers
are running in.

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[Man on radio]
For your information

about this bookstore company
down here,

we found empty rifle hulls,

and looked like it may have
been there for some time.

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[Robbins] Dallas Police
had found a rifle,

and we were in the middle
of the biggest manhunt

the country had ever seen.

[siren]

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[Buell Frazier]
Well, it was very chaotic.

People were very confused
and very scared.

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I was terrified,

knowing that somebody
had shot the president.

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I was standing on the top step
of the entrance

into the Texas
School Book Depository.

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I was standing there
talking to two people,

and they were trying to figure
out what happened themselves.

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And I looked to my left,
and there comes Lee Oswald

walking down
beside the building.

Very normal. No hurry.

And he went across
Houston Street.

Somebody said something to me,

and I looked to see
who was speaking to me,

and I turned back,
and I lost him in the crowd.

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That's the last time I saw Lee.

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[Robbins] We were all listening
to the events that transpired

over the police radio.

There was a little box
we called a squawk box,

so we could hear everything
that was going on.

[Police radio] We're still
out here on Pine.

You'll have to pull in
the downtown area.

[Police radio] Yeah, 21.

[radio static]

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[Robbins] That's when I heard
not a policeman but a citizen

come on the radio
on channel one.

[Citizen] We've had
a shooting out here.

It's a police officer.
Somebody shot him.

What's this?

404 10th Street.

It's in a police car.

Number 10.

[Robbins] And I said,
"That's car 10. That's Tippit."

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[Reporter] Officer JD Tippit,
38 years of age,

was killed today.

[Robbins] We heard JD Tippit
had approached a man.

The man that matched
the description of the guy

they thought had killed
the president.

But when Tippit approached him,
he was shot point blank.

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[Commentator] JD Tippit
died in the line of duty.

[Robbins] JD Tippit
was a good guy.

And for someone to be killed
in such a manner

is heartbreaking.

I'm sure a lot of people, lot
of officers felt the same way.

Hard to find a better officer.

He was salt of the earth.

Just a great guy.

[siren]

[Reporter] The entire area is
being combed more thoroughly

than ever involved
in any manhunt or search

in the history of Dallas,
the state,

and perhaps the nation.

[Robbins] So many things were
happening, one after the other.

Dallas was really on edge.

No one could believe
a policeman had been shot

less than an hour after
the president had been shot.

[Reporter] The entire area
has been blocked off.

No one allowed in or out,

as the search for this
would-be presidential assassin

continues in Downtown Dallas.

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[John Brewer]
It's hard to explain that day.

30 minutes after
they had pronounced

President Kennedy
had been fatally wounded,

all of a sudden I hear a report
that a policeman,

Officer Tippit, had been shot.

I didn't connect those two,

but, you know, it's like,
"What's going on here?"

[Brewer] All of a sudden,

this young man walks
into my shoe store.

He looked scared.

He'd obviously been running.

Well, I stepped outside

and watched him walk
toward the Texas Theatre.

I said,
"Something is wrong with this."

I walked up to the cashier
and said, "Call the police."

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[Brewer] There were police
all over the alley.

A couple of 'em grabbed me,
wanted to know what I was doing,

I said, "Well, there's
a suspicious character.

He's still here."

They said, "Point him out."

I said,
"That's him right there."

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Cops got their licks in.

And at this time, I'm no more
than 10 feet away or so,

watching this.

He looked me in the eye
and said,

"I'm not resisting arrest."

And I don't know if he was
trying to tell everybody else,

but he was talking to me.

[Reporter]
The Dallas Police Department

arrested a 24-year-old man,
Lee H. Oswald,

in connection with the slaying

of a Dallas policeman,
JD Tippit,

shortly after President Kennedy
was assassinated.

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[Hill] We were in the process
of having the body prepared

so that we could take it
back to Washington.

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The nurses wrapped him
in white sheets,

put him in the casket.

We took him out, they put him
in the back of the hearse,

and I turned to Mrs. Kennedy,
I said, "Oh, Mrs. Kennedy,

we could ride in this car
right back here."

And she said, "No, no, no.

Mr. Hill, I'm gonna ride
in there with, with Jack."

And so she crawls
into the back of the hearse,

so I crawl in there with her.

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So, there we were
in the back of that hearse,

Mrs. Kennedy and me.

It was a little bit crowded.

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We went and drove to Love Field,

where Air Force One
was situated.

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And then we had to
offload the casket.

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[Paul Landis]
I went to the front,

sat in the second row,
against the window,

and I broke down completely.

Roy Kellerman, at one point,

he came and he shook--
shook me by the shoulders,

and he said, you know, "Come on,
Paul. You gotta witness this."

And I said, "I don't need
to witness anything.

I've seen all I...
I need to see."

But he said,
"It's a historic moment.

They're swearing in
Vice President Johnson."

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[Davis] I remember
coming into the room.

There were 28 people in the room
that I counted.

And LBJ, as he usually did,
would assemble with people.

He had his secretary go back
and talk to Mrs. Kennedy

and see if she would like
to stand with us

for the swearing in,

and she sent word back,
"Yes, I do.

But I need some time
to compose myself."

And we waited about
four or five or 10 minutes,

and she came forward.

And I could see
the damage it had done.

Then I could see the dress.

She had blood on her

where she cradled
the president's head in her lap.

Blood was congealing on
her stockings and on her shoes.

I would say she was in shock.

She knew what was going on,

but her eyes were wide,

unsmiling, serious.

Mrs. Johnson said, "Would you
like to change your clothes

to something else?"

And she said, "No. Let them see
what they have done."

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[Judge] I do solemnly swear...

[Lyndon Johnson]
I solemnly swear...

[Judge] ...that I will
faithfully execute...

[Johnson] ...that I
will faithfully execute...

[Judge]
...the office of President
of the United States...

[Johnson]
...the office of President of
the United States...

[Judge] ...and will,
to the best of my ability...

[Johnson] ...and will, to
the best of my ability...

-...preserve...
-...preserve...

-...protect...
-...protect...

-...defend...
-...defend...

[Judge] ...the Constitution of
the United States...

[Johnson] ...the Constitution
of the United States...

[Judge] ...so help me God.

[Johnson] ...so help me God.

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[Reporter] Who do you think
would do something like this?

[Interviewee] I don't know.
I can't imagine in a way.

[Interviewee] I don't think
anybody in their right mind.

I think this is a terrible
thing for our country,

not only for our country,
but for the entire world.

[Interviewee] First reaction,
sir, is that I hope

these Southerners,
these radicals,

are satisfied they got
their pound of flesh

in killing a man
as good as that.

[Reporter] Are you certain
that it is right-wing radicals

or people who oppose
the president so desperately

that they would do
something like this?

[Interviewee]
It could be no one else.

Someone who'd do this was--
must be mentally deranged.

[Interviewee]
I disagree with this man

about it being
a right-wing radical. I...

It could be a communist, I think
probably something like that.

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[Reporter] Here is the suspect.

Will you roll it, please?
The suspect.

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[Dan Rather]
24-year-old Lee Oswald,

a sponsor
of ultra-leftist causes,

an active member of the
Fair Play for Cuba Committee,

a avowed admirer of Cuba's
Fidel Castro and Russia.

He once lived in Russia.

He was arrested
less than two hours

after the president was shot,

less than one hour after
a Dallas policeman was shot

and killed in the downtown area.

[Lee Harvey Oswald] Alright,
these people have given me

a hearing without legal
representation or anything.

[Reporter] Did you shoot
the president?

[Oswald] I didn't shoot anybody.
No, sir.

[Reporter] We just heard Oswald,

who said he did not
shoot anybody.

[Crowd member] You don't
have to push. Knock it off.

Knock it off!

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[Crowd member] That guy's got
the biggest elbows

of anybody I've ever seen.

[Crowd member] He hit me
in the head with his camera.

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[Crowd member] Let me get
out of here for a while,

I gotta breathe.

[Davis] It was mayhem
at the police station.

[Crowd member]
Did you hear him say anything?

[Reporter] Yeah.
I knew he was talking,

I was hoping you were in there.

[Davis] And it was
the first time

we did news live on a location.

[Bill Mercer] The rumor,

if you did not happen
to see the gentleman,

the rumor has been rapid
around the police department

that there is a very good case
that this is the man

who they believe was involved
in the assassination.

This was the biggest news story
that any one of us ever covered.

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It was a relief
when they brought him in,

to realize that
he had been found.

And, okay, we've got,
maybe they've got this guy.

Maybe he's not gonna get away.

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He was nondescript,
I guess you'd call it.

Just a little guy.

But maybe we've seen too many
movies of what... [chuckles]

...these killers look like,
but this guy

just didn't
have any appearance

of anger or desperation
or affray.

He was just there.

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None of us at that time could
figure out the motive; nobody.

I don't think the police
could figure out a motive.

And I have no idea what, uh,
what they knew,

except maybe his background,
living in Russia.

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You have to remember
that in this time,

the Soviet Union was seen
as a huge threat to America.

I mean, the fact that Oswald
lived in Russia,

worked in Russia
and the Soviet Union,

and was even married
to a Russian woman,

was seen as a huge red flag.

[John F. Kennedy]
As Americans, we find communism

profoundly repugnant

as a negation
of personal freedom and dignity.

[Reader] Now we know that
Mr. Oswald was Russian-trained,

that it wasn't a fascist
or a Nazi that murdered Kennedy;

it was a communist.

[Interviewee] A lot of guys
think all the people

should have just grabbed him
and just mutilated him

and just broke him into pieces.

This is a terrible thing

what he did to the country,
to the people.

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[Mercer] Here is
District Attorney Wade.

Mr. Wade, I'll walk along
here with you, sir.

What have you learned so far
about the suspect, sir?

[Henry Wade] There's really
nothing new on it.

He was in the building,
though, today.

[Mercer]
He was in the building today.

Thank you, Mr. Wade.

[Crowd member] Hey, can you
hold up just a second?

[Mercer] Thank you, Mr. Wade.

That was District Attorney
Henry Wade,

who, uh, you just heard
the statement.

And as he said, murder charges
have been filed against him

for the death of Officer Tippit,

who was shot while he stopped
the suspect driving his car

on East Jefferson.

And as you did hear,
it was reported

that the man was in the building
at the time of the shooting

of the president
of the United States.

We had a good relationship
with the Dallas Police,

and they cooperated with us
when we asked them to.

So, they told us that he worked
in the Texas Book Depository.

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When the police came in
to do the roll call,

they found that
Lee Harvey Oswald

was unaccounted for.

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That was the only clue that they
had that he might be the guy.

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[Frazier]
I've asked myself many times,

"How'd you get involved? How'd
you get wrapped up in this?"

My involvement
was very innocent.

I was just trying to do
a good neighborly deed.

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That day,
I drove Lee Harvey Oswald

over to where we were employed
at Texas School Book Depository.

I paid a big price
for that, yes.

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Because of what had happened,

two plainclothes detectives
grabs me.

I said, "Who are you?
What are you doing?"

And they said,
"We're arresting you."

I said, "Arresting me?" I said,
"I haven't done anything."

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[Crowd member] This the guy?

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[Frazier] I was on one end
of the building,

and Lee was on the other,

and they were doing to Lee

the same thing
they were doing to me.

"Well, how long
have you known him?

What days he ride home
with you?"

I told 'em that
we worked together.

We're both employees there
at Texas School Book Depository.

That, yes, I drove Lee to work.

And back on that day,

I saw a package about
roughly around two feet.

It just looked like a normal
package; nothing special.

And I didn't look at it.
I just glanced at it.

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I remember the police said
that I was involved,

and I knew all about the
assassination of John Kennedy.

And that was totally false.

It really was a shock
that they'd want me to confess

to something I didn't know
anything about.

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And that's a frightening thing
when you realize

someone is trying
to convict you of a crime

that you had nothing to do with.

But I realized that I was
really fighting for my life.

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[Mercer] As you see,
they are bringing the weapon

allegedly used
in the assassination

of President John F. Kennedy
this afternoon at 12:30

here in Dallas.

[Man] It appears
there's no name on it.

6.5, apparently
made in Italy in 1940.

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[Ruth Paine] It hurts to go
back to that time,

to remember the days
and to remember the feelings,

the disappointment,
and the pain.

I felt angry that
I had unwillingly

been helpful in some way.

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Well, at that time,
I had arranged for Marina Oswald

to come and stay at my house.

She and Lee were separated, and
so it was myself and my two kids

and Marina and her daughter
and her just-born baby.

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[Walter Cronkite]
And in through a rear door...

[Paine] I was sat with Marina,
watching the TV,

when we heard that
an officer had been shot.

[Cronkite] ...but
Officer JD Tippit was shot dead.

[Paine] And then something like
six policemen arrived.

And one turns around to me
and said, "Are you a communist?"

[laughs]
And I just... "No."

But as one, one policeman
was coming in,

he said, "Did Oswald have a gun?
A rifle?"

And I said, "No," and translated
to Marina, who said that he did.

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And she led them
into the garage,

pointed to a blanket roll.

She thought it was there.

And the policeman picked it up,

the blanket roll
folded over his arm;

it was clearly empty.

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And it was at that moment,

I thought,
"It could have been Lee."

I didn't know he had a gun.

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I didn't see him as dangerous.

You know?

I had him in my house
with my little kids.

So, I didn't see that
coming at all.

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[indistinct chatter]

[Mercer] This is the wife
and the brother

of the family coming out now.

If you'll shoot
right down the hall here,

the wife and the family
are coming down.

The wife of Oswald
is carrying a child,

as they move down the hall.

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When Oswald's wife, Marina,
came to the police station,

she was holding Rachel,
their newborn baby.

And she looked like
she had to face something

she probably didn't like.

[Crowd member]
It's his wife and kid.

[Mercer] Did she know anything?
Did she know he had a gun?

Yeah, she knew that,
but she didn't--

evidently, I don't think
she knew that he was gonna

kill the president
or kill somebody.

She just was a wife trying to
keep her little family together,

living apart from her husband.

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[Paine] At that time,
I was not too happy

with Lee's attitude
towards Marina.

He didn't really want her
to learn English,

which, that's crazy, you know,

because she had to cope
with being in the United States.

He was disappointed
in his marriage, I think.

They had argued.

But he cared a lot, also.

I saw him quite caring for his
children and caring for Marina.

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And he was angry with
his mother, angry with his life.

His mother had put
her three kids in an orphanage.

And I think he felt
nobody appreciated his worth.

He wanted to make
a name for himself.

He wanted to be somebody.

And, uh...

he saw that this was possible.

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[Mercer]
Here comes the man again.

[Crowd member] Here we go again.

[Mercer] The suspect is again
coming down the hall,

being flanked by policemen.

Let me get over here,
out of the way.

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[Crowd member] Back up, man!

[Reporter] Did you shoot
the president?

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[Davis] The woods are
lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

and miles to go before I sleep,
before I sleep.

[Reporter] And you will
conduct the trial?

[Wade] Yes, sir, I plan to.

[Reporter] And you will ask
capital verdict?

[Wade] We'll ask
the death penalty.

[Witness] I think
everything was unusual

about this whole weekend.

You know, it was just
an unprecedented set of events

that you just kept following
as they kept unfolding.

[Mercer] Jack Ruby was
up there that night.

He just hated Oswald,
loved the Kennedys,

and wanted to get even.

Chief, do you have any concern
for the safety of your prisoner?

[Police Chief] No, I don't think
that the people

will try to take the prisoner
away from us.

[gunshot]

[Reporter] He's been shot.

There's a man with a gun.

It's absolute panic.