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Disaster Transbian episode 24
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00:00Are you ready to tell him?
00:20Holy shit!
00:22I just had the worst dream!
00:30Oh, how about I read you a story, just like I used to before you got a mustache and became so frightening.
00:37Here we go, the greatest fairy tale ever told.
00:41It's got everything. The Prince of Camelot, rubies, and magic bullets.
00:47The gloomy overcast sky had given way to bright sunshine as Air Force One touched down in Dallas.
00:56On November 22nd, Air Force One arrived at Dallas Love Field at 11.40 a.m.
01:02President Kennedy and the First Lady boarded a 1961 Lincoln Continental convertible limousine to travel to a luncheon at the Dallas Market Center.
01:12Other occupants of this vehicle, the second in the motorcade, were Secret Service Agent Bill Greer, who drove, Special Agent Roy Kellerman in the front passenger seat, and Governor Connolly and his wife, who sat just forward of the Kennedys.
01:27Four Dallas police motorcycle officers accompanied the Kennedy limousine.
01:32Vice President Johnson, his wife, Lady Bird, and Senator Yarbrough rode in another convertible.
01:39The motorcade's meandering ten-mile route through Dallas was designed to give Kennedy maximum exposure to crowds by passing through a suburban section of Dallas and Main Street in downtown Dallas before turning right on Houston Street.
01:54After another block, the motorcade was to turn left into Elm Street, pass through Dealey Plaza, and travel a short segment of the Stimmons Freeway to the trademarked.
02:06The planned route had been reported in newspapers several days in advance.
02:11Despite concerns about hostile protesters, Kennedy's U.N. Ambassador, Adlai Stevenson, had been spat on in Dallas in 1961.
02:20Kennedy was greeted warmly by enthusiastic crowds.
02:24Kennedy's limousine entered Dealey Plaza at 12.30 p.m. Central Standard Time.
02:29Nellie Connolly turned and commented to Kennedy, who was sitting behind her,
02:33Mr. President, they can't make you believe now that there are not some in Dallas who love and appreciate you, can they?
02:39Kennedy's reply, No, they sure can't, were his last words.
02:43From Houston Street, the limousine made the planned left turn onto Elm, passing the Texas School Book Depository.
02:52As it continued down Elm Street, multiple shots were fired.
02:56About 80% of the witnesses recalled hearing three shots.
03:01The Warren Commission concluded that three shots were fired and noted that most witnesses recalled that the second and third shots were bunched together.
03:12Shortly after Kennedy began waving, some witnesses heard the first gunshot, but few in the crowd or motorcade reacted, many interpreting the sound as a firefighter or backfire.
03:25Within one second of each other, Governor Connolly and Mrs. Kennedy turned abruptly from their left to their right.
03:33Connolly, an experienced hunter, immediately recognized the sound as that of a rifle and turned his head and torso rightward, noting nothing unusual behind him.
03:44He testified that he could not see Kennedy, so he started to turn forward again, turning from his right to his left,
03:53and that when his head was facing about 20 degrees left of center, he was struck in his upper right back by a shot he did not hear, then shouted,
04:04My God, they're going to kill us all!
04:06According to the Warren Commission and the HSCA, Kennedy was waving to the crowd on his right when a shot entered his upper back and exited his throat just beneath his larynx.
04:20He raised his elbows and clenched his fists in front of his face and neck, then leaning forward and leftward, Mrs. Kennedy, facing him, put her arms around him.
04:34Although a serious wound, it likely would have been survivable.
04:39According to the Warren Commission's single bullet theory, derided as the magic bullet theory by conspiracy theorists, Governor Connolly was injured by the same bullet that exited Kennedy's neck.
04:53The bullet created an oval-shaped entry wound near his right shoulder, struck and destroyed several inches of Connolly's right fifth rib, and exited his chest just below his right nipple, puncturing and collapsing his lung.
05:10That same bullet then entered his arm just above his right wrist and shattered his right radius bone.
05:19The bullet exited just below the wrist at the inner side of his right palm and finally lodged in his left thigh.
05:27As the limousine passed the grassy note, Kennedy was struck a second time by a fatal shot to the head.
05:36The Warren Commission made no finding was the second or third bullet fired and concluded, as did the HSCA, that the second shot to strike Kennedy entered the rear of his head.
05:49It then passed in fragments through his skull, creating a large, roughly ovular hole on the rear right side of the head and sprayed blood and fragments.
06:02His brain and blood splatter landed as far as the following Secret Service car and the motorcycle officers.
06:10Secret Service agent Clint Hill was riding on the running board of the car immediately behind Kennedy's limousine.
06:17Hill testified to the Warren Commission that he heard one shot, jumped onto the street, and ran forward to board the limousine and protect Kennedy.
06:27Hill stated that he heard the fatal headshot as he reached the Lincoln, approximately five seconds after the first shot that he heard.
06:37And it was blood matter, brain matter, bone fragments, all came out of that wound, got all over the back of the car and all over me and all over Mrs. Kennedy, because she at that point had gotten up on the back of the trunk, trying to grasp some of the material that came out of the president's head, which she was able to do.
06:55So I got up on top of the president's car. And I grabbed her and put her in the back seat. When they did that, his body fell farther to the left with his head in her lap.
07:05The right side of his face was up. I could see the hole in the skull. And in that hole, there was no brain matter left. There was nothing there. It was just a vacuum.
07:16I thought it was a fatal shot. So I turned to the follow-up car and I gave him a thumbs down.
07:23After the headshot, Mrs. Kennedy began climbing onto the limousine's trunk, but she later had no recollection of doing this.
07:32Hill believed she may have been reaching for a piece of Kennedy's skull.
07:37He jumped onto the limousine's bumper and he clung to the car as it exited Dealey Plaza and sped to Parkland Memorial Hospital.
07:45After Mrs. Kennedy crawled back into her seat, both Governor and Mrs. Connelly heard her repeatedly saying,
07:53They have killed my husband. I have his brains in my hand.
07:58Bystander James Tegg received a minor wound to his cheek, either from bullet or concrete curb fragments, while standing by the triple underpass.
08:08Nine months later, the FBI removed the curb and spectrographic analysis revealed metallic residue consistent with the lead core in Oswald's ammunition.
08:21Tegg testified before the Warren Commission and initially stated that he was wounded by either the second or third shot of the three shots that he remembered hearing.
08:30When the commission council pressed him to be more specific, Tegg testified that he was wounded by the second shot.
08:37As the motorcade left Dealey Plaza, some witnesses sought cover, and others joined police officers to run up the grassy knoll in search of a shooter.
08:47No shooter was found behind the knoll's picket fence. Among the 178 witnesses who testified to the Warren Commission, 78 were unsure of the shot's origins.
08:5949 believed they came from the depository, and 21 thought they came from the grassy knoll.
09:05No witnesses ever reported seeing anyone, with or without a gun, immediately behind the knoll's picket fence at the time of the shooting.
09:15Lee Bowers was in a two-story railroad switch tower, 120 yards, behind the grassy knoll's picket fence.
09:22He was watching the motorcade and had an unobstructed view of the only route by which any shooter could flee the grassy knoll.
09:30He saw no one leaving the scene. Bowers testified to the Warren Commission that one or two men were behind him in the fence during the assassination.
09:42One was a familiar parking lot attendant, and the other wore a uniform like a county courthouse custodian.
09:49He testified seeing some commotion on the grassy knoll at the time of the assassination.
09:55Something out of the ordinary, a sort of milling around.
09:59But something occurred in this spot which was out of the ordinary, which attracted my eye for some reason which I could not identify.
10:07At 12.36 p.m., teenager Amos Ewens approached Dallas Police Department D.V. Harkness to report having seen a colored man leaning out of the window with a rifle on the sixth floor of the depository during the assassination.
10:26In response, Harkness radioed that he was sealing off the depository.
10:32Witness Howard Brennan then approached a police inspector to report seeing a shooter, a white man in khaki clothing, in the same window.
10:41Police broadcast Brennan's description of the man at 12.45 p.m.
10:46Brennan testified that after the second shot, this man was aiming for his last shot and maybe paused for another second as though to assure himself that he had hit his mark.
10:58Witness James R. Worrell Jr. also reported seeing a gun barrel emerge from a sixth floor depository window.
11:06Bonnie Rae Williams, who was on the fifth floor of the depository, stated that the rifle's report was so loud and near that sealing plaster fell onto his head.
11:18When searching the sixth floor of the depository, two deputies found an Italian Carcano M91 .38 bolt-action rifle.
11:27Oswald had purchased the used rifle the previous March under the alias A. Hedell and had it delivered to his Dallas P.O. box.
11:38The FBI found Oswald's partial palm print on the barrel and fibers on the rifle were consistent with those of Oswald's shirt.
11:47A bullet found on Governor Connolly's hospital gurney and two fragments found in the limousine were ballistically matched to the Carcano.
11:57Oswald left the depository and traveled by bus to his boarding house where he retrieved a jacket and revolver.
12:05At 1.12 p.m., police officer J.D. Tippett spotted Oswald walking in the residential neighborhood of Oak Cliff and called him to his patrol car.
12:16After an exchange of words, Tippett exited his vehicle. Oswald then shot Tippett three times in the chest. As Tippett lay on the ground, Oswald fired a final shot into Tippett's right temple.
12:30Oswald then calmly walked away before running as witnesses emerged.
12:35As Dallas police officers conducted a roll car of depository employees, Oswald Supervisor Roy Truly realized that Oswald was absent and notified the police.
12:48Based on a false identification of Oswald, Dallas police raided a library in Oak Cliff before realizing their mistake.
12:56At 1.36 p.m., the police were called after a conspicuous Oswald, tired from running, was seen sneaking into the Texas theater without paying.
13:06The film War is Hell still playing.
13:09Dallas policemen arrested Oswald after a brief struggle in which Oswald drew his empty gun.
13:15I approached him about one foot from him. He jumped out of his seat and held his hands up and says, this is it.
13:23And he hit me in the face with his fist, blooding my nose, and I immediately grabbed him and he went for his gun that was in his waist.
13:34He denied shooting anyone and claimed he was being made a patsy because he had lived in the Soviet Union.
13:40At 12.38 p.m., Kennedy arrived in the emergency room of Parkland Memorial Hospital.
13:46Although Kennedy was still breathing after the shooting, his personal physician, George Berkeley, immediately saw that survival was impossible.
13:56After Parkland surgeons performed futile cardiac massage, Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1 o'clock p.m., 30 minutes after the shooting.
14:05We were killed in at 1 o'clock p.m.
14:08Black hadi
14:33Go, go, go!
14:35Go, go, go!
14:37Go, go, go!
14:39Go, go, go!
14:41Go, go, go!
14:43Go, go, go!
14:45Go, go, go!
14:47Go, go, go!
14:49It's a Dallas White House number.
14:51Riverside, one, three, four, two, one.
14:53This is digest.
14:55I need to keep this line open. Repeat.
14:57Keep this line open.
14:59Look at your clock. It's 1240 here.
15:01We have Parkland Memorial Hospital.
15:03Dallas, Texas. The man has been hit. Repeat.
15:05The man has been hit.
15:07We need the President's blood type.
15:13Stay here.
15:15Frank Foster, we have a blood type.
15:17I want everyone out of this room.
15:19I want all Secret Service out of this room.
15:21I don't care who you are.
15:23You don't need to be here, young man. Go on.
15:25We need some room to work.
15:27You're going out. Out, out, out.
15:29Jesus. Hold pressure.
15:31Get.
15:33Get.
15:43Get.
15:45Get.
15:50Get.
15:51Get.
15:53cbs host walter cronkite broke the news on live television the secret service was concerned about
16:11the possibility of a larger plot and urged johnson to leave dallas and return to the white house
16:17but johnson refused to do so without any proof of kennedy's death johnson returned to air force one
16:24around 1 30 p.m and shortly thereafter he received a telephone call from advisors mcgeorge bundy and
16:31walter jenkins advising him to depart for washington dc immediately he replied that he would not leave
16:39dallas without jacklyn kennedy and that she would not leave without kennedy's body according to
16:45esquire johnson did not want to be remembered as an abandoner of beautiful widows at the time of
16:51kennedy's assassination the murder of a president was not under federal jurisdiction accordingly
16:58dallas county medical examiner earl rose insisted that texas law required him to perform an autopsy
17:07a heated exchange between kennedy's aides and dallas officials nearly erupted into a fist fight
17:14before the texans yielded and allowed kennedy's body to be transported to air force one at 2 28 p.m
17:21with jacklyn kennedy at his side johnson was administered the oath of office by federal judge
17:27sarah tyman hughes aboard air force one shortly before departing for washington with kennedy's coffin
17:35kennedy's people who were very quickly learning they no longer held any authority tried to protect
17:41jackie from johnson's request that she be present for the occasion but she appeared and quietly with
17:49head bowed took her place next to him in the iconic photo the bloodstains are not visible but jackie is
17:58central head tipped toward the judge her eyes fixed a portrait of grace grief and pain the flight to
18:07andrews air force base in maryland was somber jackie sat by kennedy's casket with kennedy's people
18:14cramming themselves into the tail of the plane to be close by people came over to offer jackie
18:20condolences and she met them with a level of compassion that many would remember with awe in
18:27particular she insisted that an ambulance drive kennedy's remains to bethesda naval hospital rather than a
18:33hearse and more importantly she asked agent william gear to drive gear had been the one driving the car
18:41when president kennedy was shot he was overwhelmed by guilt over having not swerved or found a way to
18:47save the president jackie's trusting him to drive president kennedy one more time touched the man's soul
18:55by 6 p.m local time air force one arrived at andrews upon arriving robert kennedy jfk's younger brother
19:03and attorney general bounded onto the plane ignoring lyndon b johnson a point that the new president remained
19:11silent on but noticed he went straight to jackie and said hi jackie i'm here it was astonishing how much
19:19like his brother john he was in that moment at this point it was abundantly clear that the casket
19:25was damaged and all this jostling would break it further the casket was finagled onto the platform
19:32and lowered only to find out that it stopped five feet from the ground now the military did have to
19:39step in to help kennedy's men lower the heavy broken casket to the ground the whole situation was clumsy
19:47and embarrassing a reporter called it grotesque when the president's casket was finally off the
19:55lift it was loaded into an ambulance jackie scurried into the back of the ambulance to be with jack
20:00and robert kennedy climbed up front president kennedy's autopsy was performed at bethesda naval hospital in
20:07maryland on the night of november 22nd jacqueline kennedy had selected a naval hospital as the post-mortem
20:15site as president kennedy had been a naval officer during world war ii i'll tell you a war story i was
20:22on pt 109 with john f kennedy i was the first to discover his terrible secret
20:32hb9 bolina he's a nazi get him
20:36the autopsy was conducted by two physicians naval commanders james humes and jay thornton boswell
20:48humes led the procedure under pressure from the kennedy family and white house staffers
20:54to expedite the procedure the physicians conducted a rushed and incomplete autopsy kennedy's personal
21:02physician rear admiral george berkeley signed a death certificate on november 23rd and recorded
21:08that the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the skull three years after the autopsy kennedy's brain
21:15which had been removed and preserved for later analysis was found to be missing from the national
21:21archives conspiracy theorists often claim that the brain may have shown that the headshot entered from
21:27the front alternatively it has been suggested that the president's brother attorney general robert f
21:35kennedy destroyed the brain to hide the extent of the president's chronic illnesses and consequent
21:42medication some autopsy x-rays and photographs have been lost look at me i'm davy crockett
21:50most historians regard the autopsy as the most botched segment of the government's investigation
21:59the hsca forensic pathology panel concluded that the autopsy had extensive failings including failure
22:07to take sufficient photographs failure to determine the exact exit or entry point of the head bullet
22:14not dissecting the back and neck and neglecting to determine the angles of gunshot injuries relative to
22:21body axis the panel further concluded that the two doctors were not qualified to have conducted a forensic
22:30autopsy panel member milton helpburn chief medical examiner for new york city said that selecting humes
22:40who had only taken a single course on forensic pathology to lead the autopsy was like sending a
22:47seven-year-old boy who has taken three lessons on the violin over to the new york philharmonic and
22:54expecting him to perform a tchaikovsky symphony following the autopsy kennedy lay in repose in the east room of the
23:02white house for 24 hours president johnson issued presidential proclamation 3561 declaring november 25th
23:11to be a national day of mourning and that only essential emergency workers be at their posts the
23:17coffin was then carried on a horse-drawn caisson to the capital to lie in state hundreds of thousands of
23:25mourners lined up to view the guarded casket with a quarter million passing through the rotunda
23:32during the 18 hours of lying in state even in the soviet union according to a memo by fbi director
23:39j edgar hoover news of the assassination was greeted by great shock and consternation
23:45and church bells were told in the memory of president kennedy kennedy's funeral service was held
23:51on november 25th at saint matthew's cathedral with the requiem mass led by cardinal richard cushing
23:58about 1200 guests including representatives from over 90 countries attended although there was no formal
24:06eulogy auxiliary bishop philip n hannon read excerpts from kennedy's speeches and writings after the service
24:14kennedy was buried at arlington national cemetery in virginia an eternal flame was lit at his burial site in
24:22in 1967
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