30. Averting Nuclear War

1963 - 1970














30. Averting Nuclear War 1945 - 1958 | 1958 - 1962 | 1963 - 1970





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Time, March 22, 1963
 
 
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Cassius Clay
 
Cassius Clay won the gold medal in the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 at age 18.
 
Clay boasted he would be heavyweight champion by the age of 21.
 
Clay turned pro and over the next three years beat most of the top contenders. He often predicted the round in which he would knock out his opponent.

In early 1963, Clay was rated the number 3 top contender.
 


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"Doug Jones will fall in four!"


Cassius Clay vs. Doug Jones

New York City, March 1963 
 
 
or
 


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Jones, on the left, almost knocked Clay down one minute into the fight. Clay stumbled backwards and fell into the ropes.


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It was a close fight. No knockdowns. The fight went the limit. At the end of ten rounds the fight looked like a draw. Some at ringside thought Jones won. The Associated Press scored the fight 5-4-1 for Jones. United Press International scored it 6-3-1 for Clay.

Clay was awarded a unanimous ten-round decision. The two judges scored the fight 5-4-1 for Clay. The referee scored the fight 8-1-1 for Clay. Of course, no one agreed with the referee. The crowd booed the decision and threw debris into the ring.

It was Clay's toughest fight in his boxing career to date.

Clay was not in the same class as the champion Sonny 
Liston. He certainly did not have the punching power that Liston had.   


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"Henry Cooper will fall in five!"

 
Cassius Clay vs. Henry Cooper

London, June 1963
 

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Cooper knocked Clay down in the fourth. The bell rang. Clay got up after three seconds.


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Clay cut up Cooper's left eye and the referee stopped the fight in the fifth round.

Clay won by a TKO. Clay looked better in his fight against Cooper.  

 
 
Clay was the number two contender, after Floyd Patterson.


 
The Champion
 
 
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Charles 'Sonny' Liston


Sonny Liston won the world heavyweight boxing championship title with a one-round knockout of Floyd Patterson in 1962. Liston had beat all the contenders before fighting Patterson. There was nobody left to fight. An up and coming fighter, Cassius Clay, was not quite ready.
 
 
 
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Sonny Liston with Joe Louis.
 
 

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Sonny Liston with his wife, Geraldine Clark.
 
 
 
Liston's contract with Patterson included a mandatory rematch clause if Patterson lost. So, there was a rematch.
 
 
 
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The Rematch
 
Liston defends the title against Patterson
 
Las Vegas, July 22, 1963
 
 
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The rematch picked up where the first fight left off.
 
 
 
Liston knocked Patterson down less than a minute into the fight. Patterson got up. Liston knocked him down twice more. Patterson was counted out in 2 minutes and ten seconds of the first round.
 
 
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Clay climbed into the ring after the fight and boasted:
"Liston will fall in eight!"


Before the Liston-Patterson rematch, Clay was the number two contender. After Liston's repeat one-round knockout of Patterson in 1963, Clay was the top contender.



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I am the Greatest!
 
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I am the Greatest!
 
Excerpts from a record album by Cassius Clay in August 1963.
 
 
 

 
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Cassius Clay recording the album in New York City in 1963.
 
 

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"Sonny Liston is great
But he must fall in eight!"
 

 
The Champ visits England

 
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Liston rides a horse through Newcastle, in northeast England, on 16 September 1963.


 
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Liston on a visit to Scotland in September 1963.




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On November 5, 1963, Clay signed to fight Liston in 1964.
 
 

 
 
The Challenger
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Mighty Mouth, The Louisville Lip
 
Clay was a 7-1 underdog. It was believed Liston would make quick work of Clay and silence him for good. That would be the end of the self-deluded blabber mouth.
 
 
The champion, Liston, and the challenger, Clay, exchange banters
 
 
 
Cassius Clay on The Jerry Lewis Show
 
2 clips:
 
 
 
 
  


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Liston replies to reporters: "Clay won't last four rounds."  




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Freedom March
 
Lincoln Memorial
 
Washington, D. C.
 
August 28, 1963
 
 
 
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More than 200,000 gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C. to demand equal civil rights for all.
 
 
 
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Martin Luther King Jr., leader of the cvil rights movement, addresses the crowd.
 
 
I Have a Dream
 
Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The Beatles



Beatles 1963 rarities released - BBC News

They came from England. There were four of them. Their names were John, Paul and George. Which one was which was not easy to tell but they played the guitars. The darling of the group was Ringo, the drummer. Everyone knew Ringo Starr.

They were from the big port city of Liverpool in the west of England.    



The Beatles - Mythology , 1962-1963 (2002, CD) | Discogs

1962 - 1963


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The creator of the group and its leader was John Lennon (1940 - 1980). Paul McCartney, born in 1942, became its leader in 1967. George Harrison (1943 - 2001) was the third guitarist. The three sang and played together since the mid to late-1950s. Ringo Starr, born in 1940, joined the group as its drummer in late 1962. They remained together to 1970. 

They were known mostly for their haircuts, or hairstyle, which became popular the world over, called the Beatle haircut. Kids said they wore Beatle haircuts to be non-conformist and 'different'.

They were also known for punctuating their songs on stage 
with the wild shaking of their heads quickly from side to side as they sang 'Ewwwwhhhh', which made the girls scream.      
 


1962

Love Me Do
Please Please Me


1963

From Me to You
She Loves You
I Want to Hold Your Hand
Roll Over Beethoven
Please Mister Postman
Ask Me Why
I Saw Her Standing There




The Beatles' drum kit, used by Ringo Starr, is going on auction ...

Richard Starkey ('Ringo Starr')  

The Beatles - Greatest Hits In Concert 1964 - 1965 Blackpool And ...

Left to right: Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison.


1964

All My Loving
Twist and Shout
Can't Buy Me love
Do You Want to Know a Secret?
A Hard Day's Night
And I Love Her


1965

Eight Days a Week
Ticket to Ride
Help!
Yesterday


1966

Michelle
Paperback Writer
Yellow Submarine
Eleanor Rigby



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The Ugly American

Hollywood movie - 1963

Marlon Brando as American ambassador Harrison Carter MacWhite

Eiji Okada as Deong, the popular national leader of Sarkhan, a country in Southeast Asia

Kukrit Pramoj as Prime Minister of Sarkhan

1963

Filmed in Hollywood and Thailand

https://ok.ru/video/1535471127238


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THE KILLING
OF
TWO PRESIDENTS

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John F. Kennedy         Ngo Dinh Diem

November 1963



COUP D'ETAT in VIETNAM
 
South Vietnamese leader killed
 
November 1 - 2, 1963
 
 
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Map of communist North Vietnam and
democratic South Vietnam, 1954 - 1975
 
 
 
President Diem, brother Nhu killed
 
 
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The Telegram, Canada, November 1963
 
 
 
 
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Ngo Dinh Diem, Prime Minister
of South Vietnam (1954 - 1955),
President of the Republic of Vietnam
(South Vietnam) (1955 - 1963)  
 
 
 
 
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Ngo Dinh Nhu, Diem's younger
brother and advisor
 
 
 
 
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Trần Lệ Xuân (Madame Nhu), wife of
Ngo Dinh Nhu and Diem's sister-in-law,
left. The First Lady.
 
 
 
The Hidden War in Vietnam
 
Episode from the US Army TV documentary series The Big Picture
 
 
 
 
U.S. Army Advisor in Vietnam
 
Episode from the US Army TV documentary series The Big Picture
 
1963
 
 
 
 
The Fight for Vietnam
 
Episode from the US Army TV documentary series The Big Picture
 
1963
 
 
 
 
Madame Nhu
 
Press Conference, South Vietnamese Embassy, Paris
 
October 1, 1963
 
 
 
 
President Kennedy
 
Press Conference
 
1963
 
 
 
 
President Kennedy
 
Press Conference
 
October 31, 1963
 
 
 
 
Death of a Regime
 
CBS News Extra
 
 
or
 
 
 
 
President Kennedy
 
The last press conference
 
November 14, 1963
 
Audio only
 
 
or
 
 
 
Film footage
 
 
 
 
Madame Nhu Leaves U. S., But May Be Back 
 
British Pathé
 
1963
 
 
 
 
Vietnam 1963
 
Revision and Reassessment
 
Lectures by Robert Miller, John Prados, Jessica Chapman, Edward Miller, Pierre Asselin with Q & A
 
New York Military Affairs Symposium
 
C-SPAN
 
November 8, 2013 (2 hrs., 2, min. 27 sec.)
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
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John Kennedy, right, with his
younger brother, Robert Kennedy,,
Attorney General
 
 
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Kennedy with McGeorge Bundy,
National Security Advisor 
 
 
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Kennedy with Robert McNamara,
Secretary of Defense
 
 
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Kennedy with Pierre Salinger,
Presidential Press Secretary
 
 
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John and Jacqueline Kennedy
 
 
 
Cold War:
 
The Kennedy Years
 
Episode 6 of the documentary series Secrets of War narrated by Charlton Heston (1998) (44:54)
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
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The Assassination of a President
 
On November 22, 1963, the American president, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
 
 
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Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas

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Photo taken in 2013 of Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas, where President John Kennedy was assassinated fifty years earlier, in 1963. On the left are the grassy knoll and the seven-story Texas School Book Depository building on Elm Street, (AP Photo/LM Otero)

 

Aerial photo of Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas in 1963. Elm Street is on the left. At the top of Elm Street, on the left, is the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD) building. Between Elm Street and the parking lot, left, is the grassy knoll. At the bottom of the photo is the railroad Triple Overpass (also known as the Triple Underpass).  

      

            The Presidential Limousine

 
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In the above press photo, taken moments before the assassination, President Kennedy sits in the back seat of the presidential limousine. Seated beside him is his wife,  the First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy. In the jump seat in front of the president are the governor of Texas John Connally and the First Lady of Texas Nellie Connally. In the front seat are two secret service agents. 
 
 
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President Kennedy waves to the crowd one minute before the assassination. Beside him is the First Lady, Mrs. Kennedy. In the jump seat before the Kennedys are Mr. and Mrs. Connally. 
 
Photo by Associated Press photographer James Altgens.
 
 
 

Following the presidential limousine is the secret service escort car.

Standing on the front end of the running board of the left side of the secret service car, in a dark suit and dark glasses, is Clint Hill, the secret service agent assigned to protect the First Lady, Mrs. Kennedy.

Photo by James Altgens.

 
 
The assassination was captured in 26 seconds of movie film by a local Dallas garment manufacturer and amateur film maker, Abraham Zapruder.
 

Abraham Zapruder with

his 8-mm. Bell & Howell

Zoomatic Director Series

Model 414 PD movie camera

 

Zapruder and his assistant, Marilyn

Sitzman, stood atop a white stone

wall to the rigjt of the motorcade

as it passed before them.

 

 

 
There was a loud sound, like a firecracker or car backfire or a gun shot, from above and behind the presidential motorcade.
 
 
 
A cropped frame from the home movie film of Abraham Zapruder a moment after the loud firecracker sound above and behind the presidential motorcade.


 
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A color slide taken from the left of the presidential motorcade by Phillip LaFrance Willis shows Kennedy (indicated by the arrow) looking to his right as the motorcade approaches the grassy knoll (in the distance beyond the street) and a moment before he was shot the first time, in the upper back. 


Abraham Zapruder and an assistant, Marilyn Sitzman, are seen in the

distance, to the right of the road sign, standing atop a white wall.

 

 
 
There was a second loud noise, like a gunshot, and the president's arms, with the elbows bent and out, drew up to his chin, his clutched fists together at the throat.
 
The governor reacted at the same moment with a sudden violent upward motion of the forearms.

 

 
 
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The above photo is a frame, # 230, from an 8-mm. home movie taken by Abraham Zapruder. The view is from the right of the motorcade.

 

President Kennedy, left, in the back seat, reacts to the first bullet to hit him, in the upper back, just below the neck.

 
The governor twists around slowly.
 
 
 

In the above frame, # 246, of the Zapruder film, Mrs. Kennedy tends to the president, placing a hand on his left elbow.

 

The governor is twisting around toward the back seat.

 

 

The presidential limousine, front, heading down Elm Street and towards the grassy knoll.

The Texas School Book Depository building is behind the motorcade, to the left. The photo was taken from the the street curb, left of the motorcade.

Following the president's limousine is the secret service escort car flanked by motorcycle policemen. The policemen are looking at the president.

In the centre of the photo, standing on the running board of the left side of the secret service car, in dark suit and dark glasses, Secret Service agent Clint Hill is looking at the president.

Standing on the right running board, the two secret service agents have turned their heads around to look in the direction of the shot.

In the back seat, the president's arms are out to the sides and bent at the elbow, and the governor is twisting around to his right. (Zoom in for close-up view.)

Photo by Associated Press photographer James W. Altgens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o60QslhWcwU 

 

There was a third shot, from above and behind.

 

 

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In the above frame, # 312, of the Zapruder film, Mrs. Kennedy tends to her husband. The governor lies on his back over his wife. The president's head pitches slightly forward. Many believe that this was the moment of bullet impact, hitting the back of the president's head.  

 

The next moment, part of the president's right upper skull was torn off.

 

Frame 313 

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The next frame of the Zapruder film, # 313, shows the moment the top front right quarter of the president's head is shattered by the bullet.

 

Below is the entire Zapruder film   -   all 446 frames   -   at normal speed, with the image stabilised. The numbers indicate the frames.

 

Below is the Zapruder film from the moment the limousine emerges from behind the road sign, in slow motion, zoomed in on the limousine.

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The same footage with a closer zoom on the limousine.

 

The fatal head shot

Below is the Zupruder film footage in slow motion with the camera image stabilised and zoomed in on the fatal head shot. The numbers indicate the frames.

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The same footage below

 

The fatal head shot, frame by frame 

Six (?) frames of the Zupruder home movie with zoom in catch the moment of bullet impact, # 312, and exit, # 313..

         

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Most people at the scene recalled hearing three shots.

Some thought there were four shots.

 

The shots were fired within six to eight seconds.

 

Most people believed the shots came from above and behind the presidential motorcade.

 

Some witnesses saw and heard three shots fired at the motorcade from a far corner window of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building.

 

It was generally believed that the first shot missed the presidential limousine. 

 

If the first shot missed, it was the second shot that hit the president   -   in the upper back, just below the neck.

 

The second shot hit the governor of Texas, who was sitting in front of the president. The shot struck the governor in the right side of the back, exited his chest, went through his right wrist and entered his left thigh.

It was possible that the first shot missed the limousine and the second shot hit both the president and the governor.

The last shot   -   the third bullet   -   tore off the top front quarter of the president's head and was fatal.

Some recalled that the first shot hit the president just below the neck and the second shot hit him in the head, and then a third shot was fired, after the fatal shot, and was wild.

One of the bullets ricocheted off the paved street surface and a small piece of concrete cut the cheek of a bystander standing under the overpass in front of the motorcade.

Later, in reviewing the Zapruder film, some decided that the first bullet missed the presidential limousine and the second bullet went through both the president and the governor.

It was claimed that a complete bullet was recovered from a stretcher said to have carried the governor at the hospital later.

One of the bullets or bullet fragments made a hole in the windshield of the presidential limousine.

 

The Undamaged Zapruder Film

Many copies of the Zapruder film are missing frames in critical places.

The following link is to a copy of the film made by Zapruder before he loaned the original.  

In slow motion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1PbgeBoQ4

 

The Zapruder film of the Assassination 

 

Critical frames are missing from this copy

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7rLYh52fPE

 

 

The Zapruder Film

 

Slow Motion

 

Missing frames

 

http://www.beatsloop.com/video/iU83R7rpXQY

 

and

 

Missing frames

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HZc99iD7ho

 

Wide screen and slow motion (all frames)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYWm26OLve8 

 

Frame by frame

 

All frames

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZoPtl3cZqc

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1Lyv4wrJQU 

 

 

Costella Combined Edit Frames

 

Updated 2006

 

All 446 frames of the Zapruder film frame by frame

 

https://www.assassinationresearch.com/zfilm/

 

 

JFK Assassination

Dan Rather commentary about the Zapruder film

Nov. 25, 1963 

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Rather commentary without the film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuHdK-4M1Wc

Rather commentary with the film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCyjqLM0Ycs 

 


Abraham Zapruder Interview

 

Dallas TV station, November 22, 1963

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLqOGEBcjnI

 

 

Zapruder interview in 1966

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ALPGB0ey90

 

 

Marilyn Sitzman

 

Abraham Zapruder's assistant

 

Excerpt from a British documentary series (1989)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOR08Ag3tzw

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPmZSF1KBp4

 

1993

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-1c323jlvE

 

 

 

Clint Hill

 

Secret Service agent assigned to Mrs. Kennedy

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Secret Service agent Clint Hill

climbing onto the back of the

presidential limousine.

 

 

Hill shielding the president and first lady.

 

 

Interview (2010)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvqTR_1wEBc

 

 

Report of the U. S. Secret Service of the Assassination Report on the Assassination of President Kennedy

 

December 18, 1963

 

https://aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/wc/wcdocs/pdf/wcd3v1.pdf

 

 

 

Texas School Book Depository Building 

 

Arrow indicates sixth-story corner window of the Texas School Book Depository building from which three shots were reported to have been fired at the motorcade.

 

 

View of Elm Street from the corner window of the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository

 

 

Witness Amos Euins

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylF9r5k7xw0

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QwH_5umBZM

 

 

Witness Harold Norman

 

Part 4 of ON TRIAL: LEE HARVEY OSWALD

 

Taped in England in 1986

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od-bTKQk0Lw 

 

 

 

Witness Howard Brennan

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BezYOOa8_LE

 

 

 

 

John Connally, Governor of Texas

 

Connally with his wife, Nellie, at his bedside at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, describes the attack on the presidential motorcade. (Nov. 28, 1963)

John and Nellie Connally at Parkland Hospital on November 29, 1963 (AP photo)

 

 

Interviews

 

Connally was hit by a bullet in the rght side of his upper back.

 

Parkland Hospital

 

November 27, 1963 (19:04)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsIGlSFB7E4 

 

June 22, 1964

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7zH-oqqrLg (8:01)

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGfhzczs1fI (7:49)

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q40kO48nrs (5:24)

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4svgOqQmS3o (5:23)

 

June 15, 1991 (4:29)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSKcOoQH8bc

 

Nellie Connally

 

First Lady of Texas

 

Larry King Live (2003)

 

6 clips

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxvS6kD22R0 

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibz-d5CptX8 

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di6rOVDrmXk 

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBWMHu6Na3E 

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iCP7Wtatzg 

 

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lEKwPg-Dto 

 

 

 

 

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The injured by-stander

 

James Tague, standing under the railroad overpass,

was injured by a bullet fragment or pieces of

concrete blasted from the curb by a bullet strike.

 

 

James Tague interview

 

with Mark Lane, 1966

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_4s9hM_5ks

 

 

2013

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwc_okV1WvQ

 

 

 

 

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How many shots were fired?

 

Excerpt from a Walter Cronkite CBS-TV documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zhXTW3ySUY 

 

 

 

 

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Front page of the Springfield Daily News, Springfield, Massachusetts evening newspaper, November 22, 1963

 

 

 

 

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General Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

U. S. President from 1953 to 1961 

 

Comments to reporters on November 22, 1963

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyGzVQGgdqw

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSVN_NP1EIg

 

 

 

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Was there more than one assassin?

 

 

Most believed the fatal head shot came from above and behind the president.

 

But many thought it came from the right of the motorcade.

 

 


Dealey Plaza in 1963

Relevant points and direction of the motorcade. 

 

 

 

Key to the map:

A. Southeast corner window of the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository Building
B. The Grassy Knoll
C. Limosine's location when a first shot missed
D. JFK hit in the upper back close to the neck by a bullet fired from above and behind
E. JFK hit in the head by a bullet fired from the right side, the Grassy Knoll, or from above and behind
F. Bystander hit by ricochet
G. Abraham Zapruder, cameraman

 

 

The Grassy Knoll

     

The White Retaining Wall and the Picket Fence

 

 

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The grassy knoll moments after the assasination.

 

 

Some witnesses saw or heard more than one shot fired from the grassy knoll.

 

Some witnesses saw or heard a shot fired from behind a picket fence that was above the white retaining wall at the top of the grassy knoll and to the right of the presidential motorcade.

 

Many believed the fatal shot  -  a third (or last) shot  -  was fired from the president's right and from behind the picket fence.

 

Some thought that the shot or shots heard on the grassy knoll could have been echoes of shots fired from above and behind the president.

 

 

The Picket Fence

 

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The above photos were taken from a vantage point behind the picket fence.

 

 

 

 

The above photo was taken by Mary Ann Moorman with a Polaroid camera from the left of the presidential motorcade at the moment President Kennedy was hit in the head. The shot tore off the top front right quarter of the skull. This shot was generally believed to be the third and last shot fired at the motorcade. Beyond the motorcade, on the opposite side of the street, is the grassy knoll with the white retaining wall. The picket fence is atop the knoll behind the wall.

 

From the 1960s to the 1980s photography and accoustics experts suggested there could have been three gunmen hiding at separate points behind the picket fence and appeared in the Moorman photo.

 

 

The Mary Ann Moorman Polaroid Photograph

 

ABC TV, November 22, 1963

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEavxZReo84 

 

 

Jean Hill, ABC TV, November 22, 1963

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzSy2w8E5yk 

 

 

Mary Ann Moorman, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_zZGJuIydQ 

 

 

Mary Moorman and Jean Hill 

 

KRLD Radio, Dallas, November 22, 1963  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgmr03l4GFI 

 

 

The Orville Nix Film

 

Interview

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ksi3rWd9JuY

 

Film

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLERm5sKGSY 

 

also:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU4mAVCprAU

 

 

The railroad workers on the Triple Overpass

 

Witness interviews

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEq63vTOwcI

 

 

The Willis Family

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=971QAMjKP2A

 

Phillip LaFrance Willis

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GGJHzKYsj8

 

Marilyn Willis

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc7ZYzbyNV8

 

 

Beverly Jean Oliver

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akIp9Q5x3EY

 

 

 

 

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The Grassy Knoll

 

     The White Retaining Wall

 

In the Willis photo, a dark area, or a dark object, indicated by the red arrow, appears behind the corner of the white retaining wall on the grassy knoll to the left of the road sign.

 

Photographie d'Hugh Betzner.

The dark area appears in several photographs taken at the same moment, including the above photo by Hugh Betzner. The area is circled in red

Over the years, many have imagined in this dark area a human figure   -    an assassin   -   poised to shoot.

This dark shape was dubbed the "Black Dog Man" because it resembles the profile of a black dog sitting atop the wall.

However, most believe this was just a dark shaded area. If a human figure, it could only be a woman with an infant child in shadow. 

Abraham Zapruder and his assistant, Marilyn Sitzman, are standing atop a white wall in the distance, to the right of the road sign in the photo.

 

 

The above photo, a frame from a home movie taken a minute or so after the assassination, is of the area immediately behind the white rataining wall on the grassy knoll where the "Black Dog Man" appears in several photos taken seconds before the assassination.

 

Abraham Zapruder's assistant, Marilyn Sitzman, later recalled that in the same area, behind the white retaining wall, shortly before the assassination, there were only a black couple.

 

The young black couple, with an infant child, appear in the left half of above photo or movie frame.


At the moment of the assassination the woman and child were behind the retaining wall and the man was on the steps between the retaining wall and the street.   

 

 

The above photo is a frame from a home movie taken by Orville Nix, just before the wounded president was fatally shot in the head.

 

Standing in the foreground on the left are Mary Ann Moorman (in dark coat) and Jean Hill (in light red or dark pink coat). On the right is a woman later identified as Beverly Oliver (in beige or light grey coat).

 

Three men are standing on the steps of the walkway on the opposite side of the street. The man in the white cap is the city groundskeeper. The black man beside him appears in the later film taken behind the retaining wall, with the black woman and child.



 

The above photo is a later frame from the same home movie taken by Orville Nix, a moment after the president was fatally shot in the head.

 

Two of the three men standing on the steps on the opposite side of the street are reacting to the fatal shot.

 

Standing in the foreground are Mary Ann Moorman and Jean Hill. 

 

The man in a dark suit, running from the Secret Service escort car to the presidential limousine, is Clint Hill, the secret service agent assigned to protect Mrs. Kennedy.   

 

In the above photo, taken a moment after the president was struck in the head by the fatal shot, the black man, reacting to the shots, is about to run up the steps to the retaining wall.  

 

The black woman, dressed in light clothing, and the child she is holding in her arms, dressed in white, were the only people behind the rataining wall at the time of the assassination. 

 

In close-ups of the Willis slide and other photos, some have seen the dark area as the woman and a smaller white area or object beside her as the child she is carrying. That is probably correct.

 

In the Orville Nix movie, the three men on the steps are seen running up the steps to get out of the way of the shooting. (In general, people do not run into the direction of fire.)

 

 

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The Three Tramps 

 

 

 

Who were the three "tramps" arrested in a boxcar in the railroad yard behind the grassy knoll shortly after the assassination? 

 

According to Dallas police records, they were, left to right, Harold ("Frenchy") Doyle, John F. Gedney and Gus W. Abrams   -   indeed tramps and released four days later. Many years later, some journalists claimed to have tracked them down.

 

Harold Doyle

 

1. JFK Assassination  -  The Three Tramps  -  Harold Doyle

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG5EJwTypoM

 

2. Harold Doyle, one of the Three Tramps arrested on the day of the JFK assassination

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQLmpdaY2NA

 

 

There has been speculation to this day that the tramps actually were, left to right, Charles Frederick Rogers (aka Montoya), formerly a Shell Oil Co. seismologist and then a CIA agent; Charles Voyde Harrelson, a hired hitman with mafia contacts; and Chauncey Marvin Holt, a CIA operative with mafia contacts.

 

Rogers disappeared shortly after the police found the decapitated parts of the bodies of his elderly parents wrapped in plastic bags in a refrigerator in their home in Houston, Texas in 1965.

 

Harrelson once claimed to have shot JFK. Later, he retracted the claim. He maintained that he was not one of the three tramps or an assassin. He claimed that he was in a Dallas restaurant with a friend at the time of the assassination. He died in prison in 2007 while serving a life sentence for the murder of a federal judge in Texas in 1979.  


 

Charles Voyde Harrelson

 

1. JFK assassination interview with Charles Harrelson, alleged by some to be one of the Three Tramps

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaXWUoP4LYU

 

 

Chauncey Marvin Holt

 

Many years later, Holt claimed that he was indeed one of the "tramps" (the third fiigure, on the right). He claimed that he brought phony secret service badges to Dallas for distribution on the morning of the assassination. He recalled meeting many old acquaintances in the Texas School Book Depository Building parking lot. He said he met Harrelson and the man called Montoya there too. He was in the parking lot at the time of the assassination and, as instructed, hid in the boxcar with Harrelson and Montoya afterward. He realized then that they had been set up as fall-guys.

 

Chauncey Holt

 

1. Spooks, Hoods & the Hidden Elite


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjs9WJSszTA

 

2. Chauncey Holt - News Blast from the Past


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeZNtArY7rg

 

3. Chauncey Marvin Holt Dallas Interview - Lois Gibson Foresics - Dallas, TX


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qONH80JXYt0

 

4. Holt on Luis Posada and Orlando Bosch


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXlLSg0btss

 

5. Chauncey Holt on Lee Harvey Oswald

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyEY92tEA8Y

 

 

The man on the right in the photo was identified also as CIA agent E. Howard Hunt.

 

Hunt was one of the first persons mentioned as a possible suspect in an assassination plot. He was reported to have been one of several persons found by the police on the grassy knoll just after the shooting who claimed to be secret servicemen. Years later, Hunt said he was in Dallas on the day of the assassination.

 

 

 

Col. Prouty

 

The three tramps could have been part of a CIA plot to assassinate Kennedy 

 

Col. Prouty on 3 Tramps

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X8GDSwTpFI

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQQrpj_iyNM

 

 

50 Reasons for 50 Years

 

Episode 18

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxCg1UnV-wE

 

 

 

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The new president

 

 

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Vice-President Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ) becomes president, taking the oath of office; beside LBJ are Mrs. Kennedy, right, and Mrs. Johnson, left. 

 

 

President Johnson taking the Oath of Office

 

The swearing-in ceremony was at mid-day on the presidential plane, Air Force One, on the tarmac of Love Field in Dallas, Texas. A local judge administered the oath. Afterward, the plane took off for Washington, D. C.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCunjwMMud4

 

About it:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl0FMRHA1eI

 

 

Lyndon B. Johnson was president from 1963 to 1969. 

 

 

 

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The shooting of a policeman

 

 

Police squad car of Dallas police officer J. D. Tippet in Oak Cliff, a suburb of Dallas

 

 

  

Dallas police officer J. D. Tippet 

 

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J. D. Tippet (1924 - 1963)
 
 
 

About an hour after the assassination of Kennedy, a Dallas policeman, J. D. Tippet, was shot and killed in Oak Cliff, a suburb of Dallas.

 

Tippet was on duty and cruising alone through the neighborhood. He saw a man walking on the sidewalk. He pulled over to the curb and stopped. He called to the man. The man stopped and came to the front passenger window. Tippet spoke with the man. According to some witnesses, they spoke for several seconds. According to other witnesses, they spoke for one minute or more.

 

The policeman got out of the squad car. As he headed toward the front of the car, to go around it, he reached for his gun. The other man pulled a handgun from a jacket pocket and shot Tippet three times. Tippet fell to the ground, his gun in his hand. The other man walked over to him and shot him a fourth time, the fatal shot.

 

The autopsy report from Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas mentions four bullet wounds   -   three to the chest and one to the head.

 

 

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Autopsy photos show three bullet holes in the chest.

 

 

Sequence Number: 1

Autopsy sketch shows four bullet

wounds in the front.

 

 

 

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Autopsy photo of head wound.

 

 

Sequence Number: 27

Sketch of head wound from the

autopsy report.

 

 

Sequence Number: 3

Gun wound chart of the autopsy

report lists four bullet wounds.

 

 

Policeman Murray Jackson

 

Recalls dispatching Tippet to Oak Cliff

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDkGt2GmfY0

 

 

 

The Suspect

 
 
The Arrest in the Movie Theatre

 

Shortly afterward, police arrested a man in a nearby movie theatre.

 

 

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The arrested man, in the centre, is hustled out of the theatre to a police car by lawmen.

 

 

 

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In the above photo, the man, in white t-shirt, is pushed by lawmen into the back seat of a squad car in front of the movie theatre. A large crowd has gathered.

 

 

 

What led to the arrest?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkHBup0UKpM

 

 

 

The man seemed agitated and entered the 

movie theatre without paying. So an employee called the police.

 

The man was armed with a handgun and fought with a lawman in the movie theatre.

 

 

 

The snub-nosed Smith & Wesson

"Victory" Model .38 Special revolver

taken from the man arrested in the

movie theatre.

 

 

 

JFK

The man arrested, in the centre of the photo, is escorted into the Dallas police station.

 

 

Hours later, he was charged with the murder of Officer Tippet.

 

The arrested man lived in a rented room in a house not far from the site of the shooting of Officer Tippet.

 

Who was he?

 

Lee Harvey Oswald. Age 24. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, 1939. He grew up in New Orleans in Louisiana and in Dallas and Fort Worth in Texas. He lived in New York City for two years in his early teens.

 

Oswald was a marine for three years, with a confidential security clearance, from 1956 to 1959.

 

 

 

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Oswald was a good marksman.



After discharge from the marines,  Oswald went to the Soviet Union, in 1959.


 

 

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Lee Harvey Oswald with his Russian wife in Minsk in Belorussia (1961 - 1962)

 

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Oswald with family and friends in Minsk.

 

Oswald returned to the U. S. three years later, in 1962, with his Russian wife and their infant daughter. They resettled in Texas, in the cities of Fort Worth and Dallas. The family lived in New Orleans, Louisiana for several months in mid-1963 before returning to Dallas. A second child, a daughter, was born in October 1963.

Oswald said he was a Marxist-socialist and against American intervention in Cuba.

 

 

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Lee Harvey Oswald passing out Fair Play for Cuba leaflets in New Orleans, August 16, 1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1F_G5ku7KM

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-DKPnitp04

 

Excerpt from TV Interview with Lee Harvey Oswald

New Orleans, August 16, 1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYNp1orPM5c

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdHHndbrCxI

 

 

Interview of Lee Harvey Oswald, secretary of the New Orleans chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee 

On the program Latin Listening Post, WDSU Radio, New Orleans, August 17, 1963

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vy9k5C94ENw

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjg188Yk7BI

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFqRx-wJw8Y

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF0KO6w4LZg

 

Debate between Lee Harvey Oswald, secretary of the New Orleans Chapter of the Free Play for Cuba Committee, and Carlos Bringuier and Ed Butler, opponents of the Castro regime

 

WDSU Radio, New Orleans, August 21, 1963

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ao2a9mRWkso

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya9BLrmOf2o

 

 

Both programs on one clip:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_mg5-KCjRU

 
 
It was not mentioned at the time but Oswald's first name, Lee, came from a distant cousin, the commander of Confederate armies in the Civil War, General Robert Edward Lee (Robert E. Lee). Oswald's father was Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr. (He died just before Oswald's birth.) Lee Harvey Oswald's older brother, Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Jr., had also been a marine.
 

 

The Killing of Officer J. D. Tippit in Oak Cliff

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKWqGMY8TBY

 

 

Who Killed Officer J. D. Tippit?

 

 

Witnesses Benavides and Calloway

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH5fQshPoMQ

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbcnV9cPL_w

 

 

Witness Helen Markham

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-gap_Cnlt8

 

 

Witness Acquilla Clemons

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTjq7jz8b5g

 

 

Witness Warren Reynolds

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa6MnhlQnUg

 
 
Witness Jack Tatum
 
 
or 
 
 
 
 
Oswald was employed in the Texas School Book Depository building in Dallas and earlier on that particular day he worked on the sixth floor, where shots were fired at Kennedy.
 
 
 
Oswald was charged with the murder of the president at 11:26 p. m. on November 22, 1963.
 
 

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Lee Harvey Oswald talks to reporters in the Dallas police headquarters after his arrest, at 12:05 a. m. on November 23.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o2JMums6Rk

 

 

U. S. District Attorney Henry Wade

 

Press Conference in Dallas
 
After mid-night on November 23, 1963
 

 

 

 

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The rifles and bullet shells found in the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD)

 

It was reported that lawmen found at least four rifles in the TSBD shortly after the assassination.

 

Two of the rifles belonged to the building manager and were for his private recreational use.

 

Lawmen were filmed on the roof holding up a rifle.

 

Lawmen searching the sixth floor found a 7.65 Mauser, brought it to their office, and made official reports of their find.

 

Lawmen were filmed with two rifles on the sixth floor.

 

Lawmen reported finding three bullet shells beside the sixth-floor window from which shots had been fired.

 

The three bullet shells were identified as having been ejected from a 6.5 Mannlicher-Carcano.

Some time later, an employee at the Parkland Hospital in Dallas found an almost complete bullet on the stretcher that was said to have carried Governor Connally. The bullet was later identified as having been fired from a 6.5 Mannlicher-Carcano.

Later, the local FBI office claimed the rifle used in the assassination was a Mannlicher-Carcano, that it belonged to the suspect, Oswald, and that he had ordered it through the post.

 


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In the Dallas police headquarters, a Dallas policeman holds up Oswald's Mannlicher-Carcano rifle, found in the Texas School Book Depository Building, at 1:35 a. m. on 23 November. 

 

  

Roger Craig, Deputy Sheriff

 

Blogger's collage:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RGZPa8FdbA


 

Excerpt from Two Men in Dallas, 1976 documentary film by Mark Lane; go to 1:58 mark of clip # 2:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFEx8hjD8kE

 

 

 

Seymour Weitzman, Deputy Constable

 

Dan Rather reporting 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4l9Sczs9aI

 

 

  

Eugene Boone, Deputy Sheriff

 

Part 5 of On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald (1986)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSOFJI_R76s

 

Interview with Eugene Boone, Sixth Floor Museum, Dealey Plaza, Dallas, November 8, 2014

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3YXdfvJe9k

 

 

 

Oswald was arraigned before a justice of the peace at 1:35 a. m. on November 23.

 

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The Coventry Evening Herald, November 23, 1963
(Coventry, England)
 

 

 

 

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How many bullets hit the president and where exactly?

 

 

How does one account for the following:  

 

- at least two bullet holes   -   and perhaps as many as three or four bullet holes   -   in the back of the president;

 

- two bullet holes in the front of the president;

 

- five bullet holes in the governor;

 

- a nick in a by-stander and a scrape on the paved surface of the nearby street;

 

- a hole in the limousine's windshield?

 

Were they all caused by three bullets fired from one rifle in the TSBD? Many believed that this was the most likely possibility. But some doubted it.

 

Many thought that one bullet missed the limousine and that of the two bullets to hit Kennedy the first one went through him and wounded Connally.

 

 

Doctors examined the body and performed a short autopsy in Parkland Hospital

 

 

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Kennedy as he appeared in Parkland Hospital after doctors examined him.


Some of the photos and sketches of Kennedy's corpse in the operating room of Parkland in Dallas, Texas and later at the autopsy at the naval hospital in Bethesda, Maryland do not match.

Depending on the photo or sketch, Kennedy was shot either two or three times.

 

Considering all the sketches, diagrams and photos, there could be at least two and as many as four different points of bullet entry from behind. There could be two points of bullet entry or exit in front.

 

The single bullet wound in the back appears in different spots in different photos and sketches. In some photos it appears just below the base of the neck. In some sketches it appears lower down the back. In others, to the right of the base of the neck. In another, over the right shoulder blade.

 

According to most photos and sketches, Kennedy was shot twice   -   once in the back of the lower neck and once in the back of the head. 

 

In other photos, it appears that Kennedy was shot once in the right shoulder blade and once in the back of the head. 

 

In some photos Kennedy appears to have been shot three times   -    twice in the right shoulder blade and once in the back of the head. These photos show two bullet holes in the right upper back, several inches apart. One hole is larger than the other. (Some experts maintained that the larger hole could not have been made by a bullet fired from a Mannlicher-Carcano.)

 

 

According to the above sketch, Kennedy was struck at the base of the neck with a bullet and it exited his throat.

 

 

 

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The bullet hole in the upper back, below the neck, described as the entrance wound.

 

 

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The small hole in the throat when Kennedy was brought into the hospital.


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The origin of this hole was the source of much controversy. Was it made by a bullet or bullet fragment? Was it an exit wound, indicating a shot from behind, entering in the upper back or lower neck? Or was it an entrance wound, indicating a shot from the front?

 

Or was the hole a tracheotomy, made by a doctor, to ease breathing?

 


 

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Was the tracheotomy enlarged later? Was it made over a bullet hole in the throat and enlarged? In the photo, the massive head wound is in dark shadow or has been covered.

 

 

Malcolm Perry

 

Surgeon, Parkland Hospital

 

1963

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLmTYCMbvSM

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLbDuO-Lot0

 

1963 and 1967

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZppQ-hVJjk

 

 

If Kennedy was shot in the upper back, just below the neck, or anywhere in the upper back, and if this small hole in the throat was actually a tracheotomy, where then was the bullet exit wound? Is the bullet still in the body?

 

 

The hole in the back of the head, caused by the last shot, was described as the bullet entrance wound.

 

The massive damage to the upper right front quarter of the skull was described as the bullet exit wound.

 

 

 

According to the above photo, Kennedy was hit in the top part of the back of the skull and the bullet sliced off a large part of the top right side of the skull.

 

 

There were different reports of the hole caused by the bullet's entry in the back of the head. 

 

The above sketch on the left shows a large hole in the lower right side of the back of the head as recalled by those present at Parkland Hospital.

 

The sketch at center shows a much larger hole in the lower and upper right side of the back and right side of the skull as recalled by those present at Bethesda later.

 

The photo on the right is of the reconstructed head with a small bullet hole toward the center top of the back of the skull. 

 

 

Accounts of the wound at the back of the head differ. One photo shows a small hole in the back of the head on the right side. But those present in Parkland recall that this was a reconstruction, to demonstrate the bullet's point of entry. They recall a large wound, the size of the palm of a hand, in the back of the head on the right side, when Kennedy was brought in. Those in Bethesda later recall a much larger wound to the back of the head.

 

 

 

 

Four different versions of the bullet entry wound at the back of the head. The first and third sketches, from the left, would be correct.

 

 

There were other questions. Only a few bullet fragments were recovered. It was thought that a bullet or bullet fragments could have remained lodged in the president's body.  

 

 

 

The first autopsy, Dallas 

 

 

Robert McClelland

 

Parkland Hospital (Dallas) Emergency Trauma Room doctor

 

Interview in 2015

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ435lMaCng

 

 

Robert McClelland

 

JFK's Last Doctor

 

Interview on On Stage @ APL in 2015

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySO0pLcN5ww

 

 

 

 

The second autopsy, Bethesda, Maryland 

 

Performed at the naval hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, from 8:00 p. m. on 22 November to noon of the next day, 23 November.

 


 

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Sketch shows two bullet holes   -   entrance wounds   -   in the upper back and head.

 

Autopsy report by the president's personal physician, Dr. George Burkley.

 

 

Burkley was present in the operating room of Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas and later in the autopsy room in the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.

 

According to later reports, the president's brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, feared the brain would be put on public display. He asked Burkley to remove the brain before the autopsy, which was conducted at the naval hospital, and to give it to him.

 

 

 

Paul K. O'Connor, laboratory technician, Bethesda Naval Hospital

 

PART 19 of ON TRIAL: LEE HARVEY OSWALD (1886)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgpvRv9oMs8 

 

 

 

 

Ballistic and Photographic Evidence

 

Three shots were fired within 6 to 8.2 seconds.

 

 

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Dan Rather describes the Zapruder film.

Commentary with the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCyjqLM0Ycs 

Without film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiSoxFHyjGY

 

Many believed that the first shot was around frame # 160 of the Zapruder film. If so, this shot missed the presidential limousine: Kennedy is seen waving twice to the crowd in subsequent frames, before passing behind the road sign.


 

 

 

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Zapruder film frame 161 or 162

 


 

The Last Wave

 

Below is the Zapruder film   -   from frame # 160, when many believed the first shot was fired, to frame # 274.

The president waves to his right, after frame # 160, before passing behind the road sign.

This footage includes frames 222, 223 or 224, when the president reacts to the first shot to hit him.  


 

 

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Note that this early copy of the Zapruder film is missing six frames, # 207 to # 212, when Kennedy is behind the road sign. Frames # 207and # 212 are spliced.

 

Many copies are missing these frames. This copy of the film was tampered with within hours of processing. 

 

This caused many people to complain that a crucial section of the film, showing the first shot to hit the president, was edited out to make it appear that he was hit later, at the same time as the governor, in frame 222 or 223 or 224.  

 

See the entire film above, frame by frame, one frame per second, This is the spliced version, same as above,

  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubW7KB4E--4


 

 

Initially, after reviewing the film, it was believed that Kennedy was first shot before the limousine passed behind the street sign in the Zapruder film.  

 

Eventually, it was decided that Kennedy was first hit between frames 190 and 200   -   just before passing out of view behind the street sign.

 

Below are frames 190, 200 and 207 of the Zapruder film.



Frame 190 (below)


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Frame 200

 


 

Frame 207

 

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Later, many decided that the first shot could have been fired at frame # 186 of the Zapruder film. This shot missed.



Frame # 186 (below)


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Were Kennedy and Connally hit by the same bullet?

 

 

 

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It was determined that Connally was hit by the second shot, in frame 222 or 223 or 224, just as he passed into view from behind the street sign.

 

If Kennedy was hit before the road sign or when behind it, he and Connally were hit by two separate shots less than two seconds apart. This would indicate two assassins.


It was decided eventually that the second shot   -   at frame # 222, 223 or 224   -   hit both Kennedy and Connally.

 

Reviewing the Zapruder film, a presidential commission appointed by President Johnson to investigate the assassination   -   the Warren Commission   -   concluded that Kennedy and Connally were hit at the same time, by the same bullet, in frame 222 or 223.


The third shot, the fatal head shot, was at frame # 312 or 313.


 

 

Charles Petty, pathologist

 

PART 10 of ON TRIAL: LEE HARVEY OSWALD (1886)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q4LUF9aH6Y 

 

 

 

Comments by David Belin, assistant counsel to the Warren Commission

 

Excerpt from a documentary by Dan Rather

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr9l5hd7KPc

 

 

President Lyndon Johnson and Senator Richard Russell

 

Discussion on the telephone of the shooting

 

September 18, 1963

 

Incomplete upload

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtxIGWvLJmw

 

 

 

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The above sketch shows all the bullet holes in Kennedy and Connally, front and back.

 

The above sketch assumes that two bullets hit and one missed.

 

The bullet holes indicated in red and marked # 1 were believed to have been caused by a single bullet, either from the first or second shot. Otherwise, the holes were caused by two bullets, from the first and second shots, with the first bullet hitting Kennedy and the second bullet hitting Connally. 

 

The bullet holes indicated in blue and marked # 2 were believed to have been caused by one single bullet, from the third shot.

 

Most of the people in Dealey Plaza recalled hearing three shots. Many thought the first shot hit Kennedy in the upper back, the second shot hit Connally in the upper back, and the third shot hit Kennedy in the head.

 

  

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David Belin, an advisor to the presidential commission that later investigated the assassination, proposed that one bullet   -   from the first shot   -   hit both Kennedy and Connally.

 

Many complained that a bullet could not zig-zag as Bellin seemed to indicate.

 

But bullets do bounce.  

 

 

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The proposed straight path of the bullet and the positions of Kennedy and Connally as the bullet went through them.

 

Later, reviewing the Zapruder film, many decided that indeed the first shot missed the limousine and the second bullet hit Kennedy, went through him and hit Connally.


 

 

Trying to account for three bullets

 

Exact position of the jump seat explains the single or "magic" bullet

 

Dale Myers

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfSXkfV_mhA

 

and


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwco1NnVVrs


or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPrzCGVi3_E

 

 

 

The Bullet

 

Only small bullet fragments were recovered from the bodies of the president, the governor, the limousine and the street. A fragment remained lodged in the governor's body for the rest of his life.

 

A whole bullet, with a single dent, at the bottom, was found on the stretcher of Connally in Parkland Hospital.

 

 

 

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A bullet with shell before firing from a 6.5 Mannlicher-Carcano rifle

 

 

 

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One of the three shells said to have been found in the TSBD after the assassination.

 

 

 

   

 

The above bullet, without its shell and with a single dent at the bottom, is of the type fired from a Mannlicher-Carcano. 

 

It was claimed that it was found on a stretcher in Parkland Hospital.

 

It is said to have hit Kennedy in the upper back, exited his throat, hit Connally in the back, exited his chest, passed through his right wrist and lodged in his left thigh.

 

 

Many did not believe it possible. They suspected the bullet was planted to cover up the actual weapon   -   another type of rifle.  

 

 

 

Darrell Tomlinson

 

Parkland Hospital employee who found a bullet on a stretcher

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ1ecDXbkRs

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penrtVXLUgU

 

 

O. P. Wright

 

Parkland Hospital Security Chief who received the bullet from Tomlinson and gave it to a Secret Service agent

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dNP1kz2PJA 

 

 

 

Cyril Wecht, pathologist

 

PART 18 of ON TRIAL: LEE HARVEY OSWALD (1986)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On173TSZ8NI

 

 

 

Vincent Guinn, chemist

 

PART 12 of ON TRIAL: LEE HARVEY OSWALD (1986)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVA3T6r11aQ 

 

 

 

The Harmony of the Physical Evidence

 

Lecture by Ken Rahn, chemist

 

C-SPAN TV, Washington, D. C., September 18, 2004

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtB7HTxXZHM

 

 

 

 

Was Kennedy shot from the front right side by a second assassin?


Some point out the massive damage to the front right side of the president's head and maintain the shot came from the right side  -  the grassy knoll.


 

 


Frames 309 to 325 (below):

 

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In slow motion (below):


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They point out that the Zapruder film shows that the fatal shot hit the president in the front right side of the head, indicating a shot from the front, instead of the back of the head from above and behind.

 

They point out that the president was thrown back by the force of the shot.

 

But others maintain that the bullet struck the president in the back of the head and the damage to the front of the head was caused by the bullet's exit.

 

They maintain that the film shows the exit wound, not the bullet entry or impact.

 

They point out that often a person shot in the back recoils.

 


 

Frames 312 and 313 


312 GIF


Some point out that Kennedy's head pitched forward, as in frame # 312 of the Zapruder film, indicating the moment of bullet impact from behind, before he recoiled. Frame # 313 shows the bullet exit, not the bullet impact.

 

 

 

Dan Rather

 

Excerpts from 1994 CBS documentary with Dan Rather and author Gerald Posner

 

Posner believes that Oswald, on the sixth floor of the TSBD, was a lone assassin; he fired three shots: the first shot missed; the second shot hit Kennedy in the upper back, below the neck, went through him and hit Connally; and the third shot hit Kennedy in the back of the head.

 

No assassins on the Grassy Knoll.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5zQLD4FEMg



 

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Harry Truman

 

Vice-President under President Franklin D. Roosevelt (January - April 1945) and President (1945 to 1953)

 

 

Talk with reporters

 

November 23, 1963

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-lyjHxrTAQ

 

 

 

Statement and talk with reporters

 

November 23, 1963

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2eAGoucaA8

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dallas Police Chief Jesse Curry

 

Interview at the Dallas Police Headquarters

 

November 23, 1963 (36:23)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfyno-Bobwc

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tjgH8o4Adw

 

 

 

 

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The shooting of the suspect

 

 

Lee Harvey Oswald was assassinated two days later, on November 24, in the basement of the Dallas City Police Headquarters by a 52-year-old local mafioso, Jacob Rubinstein (Jack Ruby). 


 

 


 
 
 

Oswald, in handcuffs, is shot by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas City Police Headquarters


 

 

Shot and killed: Lee Harvey Oswald was an American sniper who assassinated President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. In this photo, nightclub owner Jack Ruby (in the hat at right) shot and killed Oswald when he was being transferred from the Dallas police station to a nearby jail two days after killing the president

 

 

 


 


 

 

Oswald in lens, Ruby at his shoulder as cameraman filmed history

 



 

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Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald

 

Raw footage

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv_viK8qOfw

 

Raw footage without sound

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N08BAgpQoKU

 

 

The Killing of Lee Harvey Oswald

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjphDSY5QJ4

 

 

Oswald Shooting

 

Digitally Remastered (HD & Slow Motion)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n9VQ-dXrwQ 

 

 

Video tape of the shooting

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGIvfVRxntQ

 

 

Live radio coverage

 

Ike Pappas

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCSNNQle6E4


 

 

Report of Condition and Death

 

Parkland Hospital (22:18)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxhfubMXXHY

 

and

 

Tom Shires

 

Chief of surgery, Parkland Hospital

 

November 24, 1963

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlt5Bk7kz3U

 

 

 

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Photo of Lee Harvey Oswald after the autopsy at Parkland. Oswald died less than two hours after he was shot.

 

 

Earl Rose

 

Dallas County Medical Examiner

 

November 25, 1963

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R76MK1M9MOs

 

 

Assassin Killed

 

President's Slayer Shot in Dallas Jail

 

Universal International News

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOx_tTQlEfY

 


 

 

Jacob Leon Rubinstein (Jack Ruby) (1911 - 1967), local Dallas strip-tease club owner. He ran errands for Al Capone in Chicago in his teens. He was said to have been a mafia hit-man in his late twenties.

 

Ruby spent the rest of his life in jail. In March 1964, Ruby was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to death. A Texas appeals court overturned the conviction over procedural issues and ordered a retrial. Ruby died from cancer in Parkland Hospital in Dallas in 1967 before the new trial began.  

 

 

 

Did Ruby plot to kill Oswald?

 

Or did Ruby act on an irresistible impulse, finding himself by chance in an opportune spot at an opportune moment? 

 

Many wondered if the policeman Tippet had been sent to kill and silence Oswald and when that failed Ruby did the job.

   

 

 

U. S. District Attorney Henry Wade

 

Press Conference in Dallas

 

November 24, 1963

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r43IefWoO_Y

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz_5KLrvBLk

 

 

 

Lecture by Ike Pappas

 

1993

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYxnkYZVHsU

 

 

 

Ruby Trial in Dallas

 

British Pathé (1964)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mEfQ64eTrk 

 

 

 

The Ruby Verdict

 

British Pathé (1964)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMPoWpH4K4o

 

 

 

Excerpt from Mark Lane's 1966 documentary Rush to Judgement 

 

Witnesses who knew Jack Ruby

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SsnhT3cdEM 

 

 

 

The World of Jack Ruby

 

Excerpt from the Dan Rather Report

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KitPJOWqhPg 

 

 

 

Death Bed Interview

 

Parkland Hospital

 

16 December 1966

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VjbE0Y2YMg 

 

 

 

Autopsy

 

Earl Rose, Dallas County Medical Examiner

 

January 3, 1967

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyH-QRrOVQ

 

 

 

 

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Marina Oswald, pictured with her two daughters in the Rachel and June Lee shortly after her husband shot and killed JFK

 

Marina Oswald, born Marina Nikolayevna Prusakova in Archangel, U. S. S. R., in 1941, widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, with their two daughters, shortly after the killings in Dallas, in late 1963.

 

 

 

Interview

 

Late 1963

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRiOZlTTswQ 

 

 

Interview

 

On Hard Copy (22:55) (1990)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ENiBbExw08

 

Or in three parts:

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4cdNJooptw

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR4YyaAZF54

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXTjj0Do7Yk

 

 

 

Ruth Paine

 

Interview (1963)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTb2ZKIhDRQ

 

 

 

Michael Paine

 

Interview (1963)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYLS-jfn6cc

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqkwhok87I

 

 

 

Ruth Paine

 

On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald (1986)

 

Part 16. (Part 1)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ujc5t84qK4

 

Part 17. (Part 2)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UP47ojlVu5U

 

Part 18. (Part 3)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbIdHM9CV20

 

 

 

 

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Richard Nixon

 

Comments to the press

 

Washington, D. C.

 

November 24, 1963

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyoyNF2MbIY

 

 

 

 

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Five days after the assassination, President Johnson addresses both houses of Congress


 

LBJ addresses Congress, 11/27/63

 

 

 

Lyndon B. Johnson's Address to a Joint Session of the Congress

 

Nov. 27, 1963

 

CBS News video of President Johnson's address to Congress following the assassination of John Kennedy

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF0TxpxIMA0

 


 

 

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Why was Kennedy assassinated?

 

The assassination was not a surprise to many people.

 

Many wanted JFK dead.

 

Protestants above all. Kennedy was the first Catholic president of the US in history and many feared this spelled the country's doom.

 

Supporters of Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson, especially Texans, wanted Johnson, a Texan, to be president.

 

Many people did not like Kennedy’s father, Joseph P. Kennedy, a notorious Irish anti-British appeaser of Hitler before and during WW2. It was said that the president spent more time on the phone with his father than he did with anyone else.

 

Cuban leader Fidel Castro? Kennedy backed plans to assassinate him.

 

Anti-Castro Cuban exiles felt Kennedy betrayed them at the Bay of Pigs in 1961. When their invasion of Cuba floundered, Kennedy refused air support and abandoned the operation.

 

The Soviets? Was Krushchev concerned about claims that Kennedy had won a public relations victory in the 1962 Cuban missile crisis?

 

Anti-Communists and American military leaders considered Kennedy weak-kneed and soft on Communism. The CIA feared Kennedy planned to curtail its role in South Vietnam. Many held him responsible for the killing of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem three weeks earlier.

 

Mafia bosses Sam Giancana, Carlos Marcello, Santos Trafficante and John Roselli? 

 

Marcello had been deported from the U. S. by the Kennedys.

 

Giancana felt he had been double-crossed by Kennedy after delivering to him a big Chicago vote fraud in the 1960 presidential elections. This particular vote fraud is believed to have tipped the national popular vote to Kennedy. It would have been exposed if Kennedy's rival, the vice-president and Republican Party candidate, Richard Nixon, demanded a recount. Nixon did not bother because he believed he had lost the electoral vote, and even if he won the popular vote in the recount, it would not have changed the electoral vote, which determines national elections in the U. S. Once in office, Kennedy went after Giancana. 

 

Labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa's Teamster's Union usually voted for Democrats. But under Hoffa's instructions, the Teamsters delivered the state of Ohio to the Republicans in the 1960 presidential election and Kennedy, a Democrat, wanted Hoffa out of the way during the upcoming 1964 presidential elections.

 

 

 

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Was Oswald an assassin? If so, did he shoot the president?

 

Did he act alone? Were there more assassins? Two or three? A dozen or more?

 

What was the motive?

 

Was Lee Harvey Oswald a Soviet agent? Was he a CIA agent? Was he a double-agent?

 

For years, there were stories that Oswald, while with the U. S. Marine Corps in Japan in the late 1950s, passed secret information to the Soviets.

 

Was there a Soviet-Cuban connection in the assasination?

 

There were reports that Oswald visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City in late September 1963. There were reports also that at the Soviet Embassy Oswald met the KGB agent in charge of assassinations and sabotage in the western hemisphere. Some have wondered if the meeting was linked to the assassination of Kennedy in Dallas seven to eight weeks later.

 

Was John Connally, governor of Texas, shot unintentionally? Or did the assassin intend to shoot Connally, too? Was Connally the initial target instead of Kennedy?

 

Oswald was discharged early from the U. S. Marine Corps to take care of his ailing mother. Officially, Oswald left the marines in 1960 with a "hardship discharge" because his mother was suffering hardship. But for renouncing his American citizenship and going to the Soviet Union instead, Oswald's "hardship discharge" was changed to a "dishonorable discharge" one year later, in 1961. Connally, who was Secretary of the Navy at the time, signed the "dishonorable discharge".  (The marines are a service of the navy.) The "dishonorable discharge" was later officially "reduced" to an "undesirable discharge". Oswald corresponded with the navy in an effort to change the "undesirable discharge".  

 

Was Oswald's target actually Connally? If so, at what point did Oswald decide to shoot Kennedy too?

 

Or was Oswald a fall-guy? Was he set up? Was he framed? If so, who framed him?

 

 
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The Warren Commission

 

The seven commission members

and two of the assistant counsels

 

 

Top row, left to right: US Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, US House of Representatives Minority Leader Gerald Ford (Republican, Michigan), US Senator Richard Russell (Democrat, Georgia);

 

Centre row: US Senator John Cooper (Kentucky), former World Bank president John McCloy, US Representative Hale Boggs (Louisiana);

 

Bottom row: former CIA director Allen Dulles (early photo), and two assistant counsels Senator Arlen Spector (Pennsylvania) and attorney David Belin.  

 

 

LBJ TAPES:

 
Kennedy Assassination
 
J. Edgar Hoover
 
Lyndon Baines Johnson (LBJ), now the American president, and J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), discuss LBJ's intentions to appoint a commission to investigate the assassination of Kennedy.
 
 
 
 

 
James Hosty
 
The FBI agent in Dallas who was assigned to Lee Harvey Oswald 
 
Part 20 of On Trial: Lee Harvey Oswald (1986)
 
 
 
Assignment: Oswald
 
Lecture by James Hosty, FBI agent, author of Assignment: Oswald  
 
Coral Gables, Florida
 
About Books on C-SPAN TV
 
September 14, 1996
 
 
   

 

LYNDON JOHNSON TAPES:

 

Warren Commission

 

LBJ informs Senator Richard Russell that he has appointed him to the seven-man commission to investigate the assassination of JFK. 

 

The commission was headed by Earl Warren, former governor of California and chief justice of the Supreme Court at the time.

 

Private Upload (Complete phone call)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE6i2vYbY3I 

 

 

 

 

In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that there was no evidence of a conspiracy to kill Kennedy.

 

Oswald fired three shots from the sixth floor of the TSBD. There were no shots from anywhere else.

 

The first possible opportunity to shoot at the presidential limousine was at frame # 186 of the Zapruder film.

 

The first shot was between frame # 210 and # 225 of the Zapruder film and wounded both Kennedy and Connally. There were two more shots. One of the shots, either the second or third, at frame # 313 of the Zapruder film, killed Kennedy. The other shot, either the second or third, missed.

 

Oswald also killed Tippet.

 

Oswald acted alone.

 

Ruby acted alone in shooting Oswald.

 

 

 

NBC report 1964

 

 

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Robert MacNeil, NBC White House reporter, indicated by the red arrow, follows motorcycle policeman climbing the wall on the grassy knoll in a chase after the assassin.

 

 

Robert MacNeil Discusses President Kennedy's Assassination

 

Excerpt from seven-hour interview in New York on November 15, 2000 and May 15, 2001 (18:39)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-ll5mlX6QE 

 

 

Excerpt from a more recent interview (c. 2013?)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPr10mnumh4

 

 

NBC-TV 1964 report of the assassination and the Warren Commission report

 

Gov. Connally press conference 1966

 

August 1993

 

Includes sections of the NBC report on the Warren Commission in 1964.

 

The first shot wounded Kennedy and Connally The second shot killed Kennedy. A third shot missed. This third shot, which missed, may have been the first, second or third shot.

 

Oswald fired from the TSBD. Oswald acted alone.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iK33PPc8P5Q

 

 

 

CBS report 1964

 

 

November 22nd and the Warren Report

 
1964 CBS-TV program
 
 
or, the same:
 

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQCgQsgCyMY

 

 

 

Mark Lane 1966

 

 

Rush to Judgment

 

1966 film by Mark Lane  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w4sQtwWfBo

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJuKywBfOHY

 


Did Mark Lane misquote witnesses? 

 

Charles Brehm and James Altgens

 

Walter Cronkite on CBS-TV 1967

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNQeEClGSDc

 

 

Mark Lane

 

Interview by William Buckley

 

December 1, 1966

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI7GwBtTRvc

 

 

 

 

CBS review 1967

 

 

The Warren Report

 

A CBS News Inquiry

 

July 1967

 

With Walter Cronkite, Dan Rather and Eddie Barker

 

The first shot could have been fired at frame # 186 of the Zapruder film. That shot missed. The second shot was fired between frames # 210 and # 225, and the third shot was at frame # 313. 

 

Includes long commercials  

 

Part 1.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWtb2JwzkM8

 

Part 2.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8VmRC3-lp8

 

Part 3.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9bZakO-pMg

 

Part 4.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA5rn7A_knI 

 

 

 

CBS 1994

 

Dan Rather

 

Excerpts from 1994 CBS documentary with Dan Rather and author Gerald Posner

 

Posner believes that Oswald, on the sixth floor of the TSBD, was a lone assassin; he fired three shots: the first shot missed; the second shot hit Kennedy in the upper back, below the neck, went through him and hit Connally; and the third shot hit Kennedy in the back of the head. No assassins on the Grassy Knoll.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GWj0T_x7J8

 

 

 

LBJ

 

Lyndon Johnson interview with Walter Cronkite

 

September 1969

 

The part of the interview that was cut from the TV program at Johnson's request

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5psrZmT0tY

 

 

 

Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

 

Dallas, Texas

 

November 22, 1963

 

Secret Service presentation

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeLpnnwEQUY

 

 

The Assassination of JFK

 

2007 BBC documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KukgXzeR5JM (Removed from You Tube)

 

 

The Killing of President Kennedy

1978 BBC documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxUl4SL5U8A

 

 

 

 

The Warren Commission

 

1999 History Channel documentary
 
The new president, Lyndon B. Johnson, and the FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, did not want the assassination to appear to have been a conspiracy. They were concerned also that implicating the Soviets or Cubans could lead to nuclear war.
 
They believed they had to ensure that an investigation of the assassination concluded that there had been a lone assassin without connections and that the assassin's killer had acted alone too.
 
The Warren Commission would have to conclude the same.
 
 
 
 
 

The Warren Report and its Legacy

 

The Lone Assassin Evidence 

 

Discussion about the reports that Lee Harvey Oswald visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City in October 1963

 

C-SPAN
 
September 18, 2004

 

 
 
 

 

50th Anniversary of the Warren Commission Report

 

Lecture by James Swanson, author, at the Supreme Court, Washington D. C.

 

May 22, 2014

 

C-SPAN TV

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbZRJTx2aj8

 

 

The Pollution spread by Hollywooders

 

Lecture by David Belin, assistant counsel to the Warren Commission

 

National Press Club, Washington, D. C.

 

C-SPAN TV, March 28, 1992

 

Oswald acted alone. Ruby acted alone and on impulse. The KGB, Castro and Ruby were not involved in the assassination. Oswald fired three shots at Kennedy, two shots hit and one shot missed; one bullet went through Kennedy and Connally.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wc0Ca7_j2M

 

 

 

On November 24, two days after the assassination, CBS-TV, in a tribute to Kennedy, presented Gustav Mahler's Second Symphony in C Minor (The Resurrection Symphony) by the New York Phiharmonic Symphony conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzPW0FE746s

 

 

Four Days in November

 

A documentary film by David Wolper narrated by Richard Basehart (1964) (2:02:16)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxdoPaKJ64o 

 

 

How the assassination of JFK changed our world

 

Lecture by J. Rufus Fears from a series for The Great Courses in 2013

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue1NPsUTp4E

 

 

 

In Search of Lee Harvey Oswald

 

1980 episode from the documentary series In Search Of with Leonard Nimoy

 

Were there four shots? Five shots? 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho1t8KoBKtQ

 

 

 

The Dictabelt Recording

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0geaCsFFTz8

 

 

Excerpt from a CBS-TV documentary with Walter Cronkite (1988)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHWZLv3iuo8

 

 

An Analysis of the Recording

 

The dictabelt recording of four loud noises was later traced to a motorcycle policeman posted at the distant Trade Mart, where Kennedy was to make a speech, and not in Dealey Plaza.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaBPeHu9pfY

 

 

 

JFK: The Case for Conspiracy

 

1993 documentary by photographer Robert Groden

 

This film considers at length the various and conflicting photos and sketches of Kennedy from the emergency room in Dallas, Texas and the autopsy performed in Bethesda, Maryland.

 

The film considers the possibilities that there were five gunmen; that shots were fired from several different directions; that three shooters were on the grassy knoll; that two men were seen on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building just before the shooting and again later, just after the shooting, when Oswald was on the second floor.

 

(Note:Some claims in this documentary film have been discounted since its release.


For example, the black man some saw with Oswald on the sixth floor before the shooting was a co-worker. He recalled that he saw Oswald by the corner window with book orders in one hand. The co-worker then left the floor.


The image of a particular small white object, surrounded by many similar objects, which appears in the Zapruder film is

described as the back of the head of a possible assassin on the grassy knoll dubbed the "Black Dog Man". The image, however, is actually that of a tree flower. If it indicates a person, it is the white headscarf of a woman standing behind the retaining wall. Or it is the white cap worn by the local groundskeeper standing on the steps of the walkway that lead down to the sidewalk from the grassy knoll.) 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKw1nljVCMw

 

 

 

Executive Action

 

1973 Hollywood movie with Burt Lancaster

 

Oswald was framed, a fall-guy

 

(Shooting of a policeman omitted)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbF5him-EF8

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bsMpU2IVWU

 

 

 

The Men Who Killed Kennedy

 

First five parts of a 9-part British documentary (1988 - 2003) that presents numerous stories about the assassination of Kennedy.

 

(Note: Parts of this documentary have been roundly criticized as erroneous and a distortion and misrepresentation of facts.)      

 

The documentary series mentions the possibility that a team of assassins, trained in a covert American operation to kill Fidel Castro, were used to kill Kennedy instead. 


Part 1. The Coup d'Etat (1988)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2agPurqFJk

 

Part 2. The Forces of Darkness (1988)

 

Includes recollections by Beverly Oliver of the fatal shot fired from the grassy knoll; the much disputed claim of Gordon Arnold to have stood directly in front of a gunman firing from the grassy knoll; the claim of Gary Mack and Joshua White to have found a gunman on the grassy knoll in the Moorman photo; and the claim of Steve Revel to have identified three Corsicans hired to carry out the assassination. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LbNWUNfnaA

 

 

The rest of the documentary series has been panned as mostly fiction, a lot of it wild, woven around a few facts. Parts 3, 4 and 5 are referred to below. Later episodes were considered too unrealistic to mention.

 

Part 3. The Cover-Up (1991)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFhPEzQMSL0

 

Part 4. The Patsy (1991) 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKarTaDUxyU

 

Part 5. The Witnesses (1991)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMA8UvR9OjA 

 

 

 

Jack Ruby and Conspiracy Theories

 

2005 History Channel documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLfkmWWgBWs

 

or, the same:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVls3WIzS6k

 

 

 

ON TRIAL: LEE HARVEY OSWALD

 

1986 docu-drama taped in England

 

PART 1. OPENING STATEMENTS

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oYHsicxdQg  

 

 

 

 

 

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Kennedy rated worst president

 

Until Kennedy came along, Warren Harding (1921 - 1923) was generally considered the worst American president in history.

 

Many Catholics, especially in the U. S., Ireland, the Mediterranean, Latin America, the Philippines and Micronesia, revered Kennedy and maintained that he was the best American president. 

 

By the late 1970s and early 1980s, however, many expressed second thoughts about Kennedy. They wondered if they had over-rated him and if he was indeed a rather mediocre president.

 

Many believe Kennedy, elected president at age 43, was too young for the job. 

 

 

 

 

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Was there a lesson to be learned in this?

 

Perhaps there was.

 

Never take a Texan as your number-two man.

 

Don’t bother to run for high national office if you’re a Catholic. And if you win, count your days.

 

 

 

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The Kennedys

 

Episode from the documentary seriies Dynasties

 

5 clips

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6PXhGlmJxk

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mZvQYnjR_o

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P24v_30-b9s

 

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IVAtZ7tQGE

 

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHD1D_JW1yQ

 

 

 

 

 

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Heritage for the People

 

Documentary

 

An appeal for funding for the establishment of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library by Jacqueline Kennedy in early 1964

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDv1o17vl8g

 

 

 

                     -----

 

 

 

John and Jacqueline Kennedy had two children, a daughter, Caroline, and a son, John Jr. The son was killed in a plane crash in 1999.

 

 

Jackie O.

 

Widowed, Jacqueline remarried, to a Greek-Argentine shipping magnate, Aristotle Onassis, in Greece in October 1968. 

 

 

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Aristotle Onassis with Jacqueline at their wedding on his island in Greece on 20 October 1966. With them is Jacqueline's daughter.

 

 

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Jackie Onassis

 

An Intimate Portrait

 

1993 Documentary by Clairol

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vObRnAZ4Ak

 

 

The Onassis Dynsasty

 

Documentary about the Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis (1906 - 1975)

 

A rags to riches story: an Anatolian Greek born in Smyrna, a war refugee in Argentina, he became a tobacco and shipping tycoon  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJqHbFU7_g8

 

 

 

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Time Magazine, May 30, 1994 

 

 

Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis died at age 64 in 1994.

 

 

 

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Robert F. Kennedy

 

Kennedy's younger brother, Robert, campaigned for the presidency in 1968. He was assassinated in Los Angeles by a Palestinian Christian who resented his declarations of support of Israel.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6VekkXkDT4  (3:37)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXCvJ92YQcU  (9:44)

 

 

 

Edward M. Kennedy

 

In 1972, the last and youngest of the Kennedy brothers, Edward, played a dominant role in presidential elections. He did not run himself but got the Democratic Party to choose his brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, as the vice-presidential running mate. The Democrats lost the election. (Shriver 

abandoned a campaign for the presidency four years later in 1976.)  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFjNhVc_EIo

 

 

The Kennedys were never again influential in national presidential politics.

 

 

The Austrian muscleman and Hollywood movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger married Shriver's daughter, Maria, and was elected to two four-year terms as California governor as a Republican many years later (2003 - 2011).

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfmNeuDE5-8

 

 

 

 

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Comments by Richard Nixon

 

Vice-President under President Eisenhower (1953 - 1961) and President (1969 - 1974) 

 

Excerpts from CNN interview

 

November 9, 1982

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MacmN1EtIPQ

 

 

 

 




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Edward (Ted) Kennedy


Ted Kennedy

Bobby and Teddy

Boston Globe

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoDeEgB6GAk



Ted Kennedy

Chappaquiddick

Short documentary

Boston Globe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNHbDikvXlU



Ted Kennedy did not have a Boston Irish accent

Interview by Roger Mudd in 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXORTribU2Q




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SONNY LISTON

Interview by Jimmy Jacobs

Las Vegas

1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K20cyHRB69Q


SONNY LISTON

On the Spot

Interview by Max Goldberg

1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_abgMzB0cc8&t=206s



Cassius Clay

Interview by Jimmy Jacobs

1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOhWIEflWHU



 
 
 
 
 
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Is this the End of Mighty Mouth?
 
 
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"Liston will fall in eight!"


Sonny Liston vs. Cassius Clay

Miami Beach

February 25, 1964

 


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Fight poster


Sonny Liston uses a punch bag during a training session Stock ...

Liston exercising with the punching bag.



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The fighters compared.
 
Note that the photo of Liston is reversed. Liston and Clay were right-handed and led with the left.  

There was some question about Liston's age. According to boxing records, Liston was born in 1934 and age 29 or 30 at fight time. Most, including Liston, agreed that he was born in 1932 and age 31 or 32 at fight time. Still, by other accounts, Liston was born in 1928 or earlier. But the most accurate date of birth, suggested by the 1930 and 1940 census reports, seems to be the latter part of 1930. Liston does not appear in the 1930 census. But Liston is registered in the 1940 census as age 10. Liston was 33 or 34 at the time of his fight with Clay. Age 33 is most likely.

Clay was an 8 - 1 underdog at fight time. Sports writers were almost unanimous in picking Liston to win. The question was how long would Clay last. Two rounds? Three rounds?

What then of Clay's boxing career? Three-and-one half years of expensive backing, self-promotion and boasting brought to an ignominious end.

Clay would have to wait until Liston retired to try again for the title.

 
 
Cassius Clay makes good his boast
 
Wins heavyweight crown in Surprise Upset
 
Beats Champion Sonny Liston
 
Liston fails to come out for round 7
 
 
 
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The first five rounds were fought at a fast pace. Liston pressed the fight.
 
Clay outboxed Liston in the first round.
 
Liston took a close second round.
 
Clay cut Liston below the left eye early in the third round, wobbled him, battered him, but tired by mid-round.

Liston hurt Clay and knocked him about for the rest of the round but could not put him away.

It was a close round. But Liston looked the better.  
 
Liston had a slight edge in the fourth round. A puffiness appeared below his right eye.
 
Something got into Clay's eyes in the fourth round and he came out for the fifth round complaining that he could not see. Liston had Clay in trouble, knocked him about the ring but could not catch him. The round was clearly Liston's.
 
Liston seemed tired when he came out for the sixth round. He did not press the fight as he had in the previous rounds. Clay took the fight to Liston. Clay had the edge in the sixth round and looked in better shape than Liston.  


Liston in corner


The fight was fought under the rules of the Miami Beach City Boxing Commission.

The fight was scored by the ten-point-must scoring system. The winner of the round gets ten points. The loser gets nine points or less. 

How the two judges and the referee scored the fight:


    Judge             Judge              Referee        

1. 10 - 9 Clay;     10 - 9 Clay;     10 - 9 Clay        

2. 10 - 9 Liston;  10 - 10 even;  10 - 9 Liston      

3. 10 - 10 even;   10 - 9 Clay;    10 - 9 Clay         

4. 10 - 8 Liston;   10 - 9 Clay;    10 - 9 Liston     

5. 10 - 8 Liston;   10 - 9 Liston; 10 - 9 Liston     

6. 10 - 9 Clay;      10 - 9 Clay;     10 - 9 Clay       

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    58 - 56 Liston; 59 - 56 Clay;    57 - 57 even    


The two judges and the referee scored the fight even at the end of six rounds. One judge had Liston ahead, the other judge had Clay ahead, and the referee scored the fight even.

UPI and AP unofficial scorecards: 58 - 56 for Clay.

The fight was scheduled for 15 rounds.

 

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Liston did not come out for the seventh round. He remained seated on his stool.

The cut and bruises about the eyes could have compelled the corner men to stop the fight.

Liston, however, claimed a dislocated left shoulder and his doctors provided x-rays, taken at a local hospital immediately after the fight, to prove it.  

Clay won the fight by a technical knockout (TKO) in seven rounds.

Clay won the championship title at age 22   -   not quite the youngest in history   -   but he made good his boast to win it.

 

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Cassius Marcellus Clay



The fight that changed the world: 50 years since Cassius Clay beat Sonny  Liston | The Courier-Mail

Clay makes his way back to his dressing room after the fight. On the left is former world middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson. Note that Clay's face has no cuts and few bruises. 
  

Muhammad Ali beats Sonny Liston, 1964 - Newspapers.com

Detroit Free Press, February 26, 1964

 
 
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The Courier-Journal, February 26, 1964 

 
 
Sonny Liston, Champion
 
vs
 
Cassius Clay, Challenger
 
Miami Beach, Florida
 
February 25, 1964
 
Commentary by Steve Ellis and Joe Louis
 
 
or
 
 
or
 


 
Explaining the fall of Anthony Pettis, once one of UFC's sure-thing rising  stars - The Washington Post 

The fight was an upset.

Few had expected Clay to win.

The question was how long would Clay last? Few thought he could last three rounds.


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It was noted that Liston did not train hard for the fight. When he had Clay in serious trouble he failed to nail him. He seemed to have tired by the sixth round. He did not come out for the seventh round. The fight was even at that point.

Perhaps Liston feared getting beat and spoiling the gate of a rematch.

 
 
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Clay with championship belt
 
 
The day after winning the title, Clay declared that he had embraced Islam, joined the Black Muslims and that its leader, Elijah Muhammad, had given him the name Muhammad Ali. He became a preacher for the Nation of Islam.
  
 
Cassius Clay is a muslim
 
February 1964
 
 
 
 
The Struggle for Equality in America
 
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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), a Baptist minister, like Mahatma Gandhi, preached non-violence in the struggle for racial equality. He was assassinated by a hired gunman in 1968.  
 
 
Martin Luther King Jr.
 
Documentary
 
 
 
 
The Nation of Islam (Black Muslims)
 
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Elijah Muhammad (1897 - 1975), leader of the Nation of Islam (Black Muslims) from 1934 to 1975.  
 
 
The Hate that Hate Produced
 
Documentary by Mike Wallace (1959)
 
1 hour 35 minutes
 
 
 
 
Malcolm X
 
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Malcolm X (1925 - 1965), Elijah Muhammad's deputy, brought Cassius Clay to the Black Muslims in 1964. Malcolm X broke with the Black Muslims to form his own movement in 1964. He was assassinated by the Black Muslins in 1965.  
 
 
Malcolm X 
 
Make It Plain
 
Documentary
 
 
 
 
Cassius Clay
            Cassius X
                    Muhammad Ali


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Malcolm X, on the left, with Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), at right, in New York City on March 1, 1964.  
 
 
 
Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X
 
New York City
 
March 1963
 
Interview
 
 

  
 
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Milwaukee Sentinel (newspaper), Wednesday morning, February 26, 1964: Clay  Scores TKO in 7, "Liston's Purse Held Up" [Muhammad Ali/Cassius Clay & Sonny  Liston fight]; "Herbert Hoover Seriously Ill": Ray Grody, James G.

Milwaukee Sentinel, February 26, 1964 


Many wondered if Liston threw the fight. If he did, he deserved an Academy Award. 

Many wondered if Clay's Louisville backers or the Black Muslims or the Mafia had paid off Liston.

Some believed Liston's shoulder injury was faked. The Miami Boxing Commission held up Liston's $1.3 million-plus purse after the fight.

However, on the following day, doctors examined hospital x-rays of Liston's shoulder and announced the injury was real. Liston received his purse.

There was also a question of a $50,000 payment from Liston to Clay before the fight to guaranty a rematch.   
 
 


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Becket

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Peter O'Toole as King Henry II and Richard Burton as
Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1964 movie Becket.



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The murder of Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.



Becket

1964 (2:22:15)

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x23tcdn 

or

In French:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pxjfTpe-y8



The movie was based on a stage play by French playwright Jean Anouilh. In the play and the movie, Becket was cast as a Saxon. Becket was in fact Norman. His parents were from Normandy. Henry II was an Angevin, of French origin. He was made Duke of Normandy by the King of France. His mother, Matilda, was a granddaughter of William the Conqueror.


Thomas Becket

 

Discussion on the Thursday BBC radio programme 

In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg 

 

With guests Laura Ashe, Michael Staunton and Danica Summerlin

 

14 December 2017

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09hp2rm









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FAIL - SAFE

1964 movie

US atom bombs Moscow by mistake

Excerpts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Xy91N20lQ

Ending:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUZUGTcMRpE

 
 
 
 
 
---------------------------
 
 
 
 
 
Khruschev Ousted
 
Replaced by Troika
 
Moscow, October 1964
 
 
 
 
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The New York Times, October 16, 1964
 
 
 
 
Front cover of Life magazine, November 27, 1970
 
 
 
Khrushchev Resigns
 
October 15, 1964
 
Universal Newsreels
 
 
 
  

Khrushchev - The Bear's Embrace

Episode from the documentary series Portraits of Power   -  Those Who Shaped the Twentieth Century   -   by Harrison Salisbury and other New York Times journalists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWDWfjUyTLU

 

Cold War: Khrushchev's Regime

Episode # 7 or # 59 from the documentary series Sworn to Secrecy: Secrets of War narrated by Charlton Heston (1997 - 2001)
 
 
or
 
 
or
 
 
or
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
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China tests A-bomb

 

 

October 1964

 

 

 

Related image

 

 

China's First Nuclear Bomb Test

 

Excerpt from a documentary

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGhWB2px99g

 

 

 

 

The Japan Times, October 17, 1964

 

 

 

Who's next?

 

A song by Tom Lehrer

 

From the album That Was the Year That Was recorded at the hungri in San Francisco in 1965 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRLON3ddZIw&feature=relmfu

 

 

 

 

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US loses two nuclear submarines



USS Thresher

10 April 1963

North Atlantic Ocean

129 crew lost



USS Scorpion

22 May 1968

North Atlantic Ocean

99 crew lost



USS Thresher

Atomic Submarine with 129 aboard lost in Atlantic

British Pathé

1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZTWMX2BohA



The Legacy of the Thresher

CBS Reports

Dan Rather

1964

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aZ4udTMlZI



Thresher

British

Waterlines Stories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_TiVchmsWI



USS Scorpion


USS Scorpion

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJWHiPSvzh8



Submarines, Secrets and Spies

NOVA documentary

January 1999

About the Thresher and the Scorpion

Robert Ballard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FUmZql0_Fc






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WINSTON CHURCHILL


The State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill

30 January 1965


The State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill

Independent Television

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUk_KD02E-w


Churchill State Funeral Procession 1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H5Pjb_-Fyc


Sir Winston Churchill's Funeral

A World In Remembrance

British Pathé

1965

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GC1WEdgXKEI


People recall Churchill's funeral

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOKUbcJ_poY


THE STATE FUNERAL OF SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

NEWS IN COLOUR

31 Jan 1965

Movietone

From Westminster Hall to Waterloo to Bladon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQldUeevrQQ


The Prime Minister addresses the US Congress

8 January 1942

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYDLTDL-YD8


Winston Churchill

Walden on Heroes

Brian Walden

BBC

1998

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpJcQDxISL0




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The East is Red

 

The East is red, the sun is rising.

From China has arisen Mao Tse-Tung!
He works for the people's happiness,

he is the savior of the people.


 

The East is Red

 

A song composed in China in the early 1950s and popularized after the Korean War,

 

The East is Red was the basis of an opera portraying China's revolutionary struggle against foreign imperialism.

 

 

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An opera The East is Red was produced in 1963 for the 15th anniversary in 1964 of the People’s Republic of China. The opera recounts the history Chinese communist revolution under Mao Tse-tung.

 

Film of a performance in Peking in 1964 released in 1965.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbSQc6btIQc

 

With English sub-titles (begins with The Internationale)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQaK3tL6qIE

 

 

 
 
     

 
 
 
 
 
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Vietnam
 
 
Early 1965
 
25,000 American military advisors in Vietnam
 
 
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First U. S. Combat Troops sent to Vietnam
 
March 8, 1965
 
3,500 U. S. Marines land on China Beach to protect airbase in Da Nang against Vietcong attacks
 
 
 
President Lyndon Johnson
 
Speech at John Hopkins University
 
April 7, 1965
 
 
 
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75,000 U. S. combat troops in Vietnam by July 1965 
 
 
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President Lyndon B. Johnson
 
Press conference, Washington, D. C.

July 28, 1965
 
 
Draft Doubled
 
50,000 More Men for Vietnam
 
Universal Newsreel
 
 
 

Why We Are in Vietnam
 
President Lyndon B. Johnson
 
Press conference, Washington, D. C.
 
July 28, 1965

Address (complete)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQfghKebsQQ
(43:56)
 
Excerpt:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9KJyiXzp34

 
 
Why Vietnam?
 
1965 documentary film from the US Army TV series The Big Picture, presents the purpose of the American mission in South Vietnam
 
Different versions:

 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ek4bmevx-P4
 
or
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZK87s0mFhFI
(28 min. 07 sec.)
 
and
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkRQA04Ad44
(31 min. 06 sec.)
 
or
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEljbPwFQ9M
(31:00)
 
 
 
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The Battle of Chu Lai
 
Operation Starlite
 
First battle with American soldiers
 
August 18 - 24, 1965 
 
 
The Vietnam War
 
Battle of Chu Lai
\
Clip from a documentary
\
 
 
The Undeclared War
 
Episode 2 of 12 from the documentary series Battlefield: Vietnam (1994)
 
 
 
------------
 
 
185,000 U. S. soldiers in Vietnam by the end of 1965
 
 
 
• Most experts today do not think the ships were
attacked.
• This was Johnson’s ploy to get more involved in
Vietnam.
• On...
 
Graph shows the increase in the number of U. S. combat troops in South Vietnam from January 1965 to December 1968.
 
 
 
 
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LBJ with General William
Westmoreland, commander
of US forces in South Vietnam
 
 
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LBJ with Nguyen Van Thieu,
President of South Vietnam
 
 
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LBJ with Robert McNamara,
Secretary of Defense
 
 
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LBJ with McGeorge Bundy, National Security Advisor 
 
 
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LBJ with Martin Luther King Jr.,
civil rights leader
 
 
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LBJ with Robert Kennedy,
Attorney General
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
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Muhammad Ali

The Rematch with Liston

The biggest scandal in boxing history  

1965

There had to be a rematch. Liston was again the betting favorite.

But long before the fight was held, it was obvious that Liston planned to take a dive. Indeed, had he thrown the first fight? No state wanted to host the rematch.

The fight was eventually held in an out-of-the-way place   -   a high school gymnasium in a small town in New England before a tiny crowd of 2,000.

As expected, Liston threw the fight. He did it quickly.

Less than two minutes into the first round he took a light tap to the left side of the head and went down.

Sportswriters called it "The Phantom Punch".


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Video photo of the 'Phantom Punch' in slow-motion: a short right chop (or uppercut) over Liston's left arm to the head. 

Did the punch have the force to knock Liston down? 


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Ali: "Get up and fight, ya bum!"

 
The referee, ex-champ Jersey Joe Walcott, delayed the count until Ali was in a neutral corner. Liston got up after twelve seconds on the canvas. The fight resumed.


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Walcott was called to the ring apron by Nat Fleischer, editor of The Ring magazine, and Fleischer told him the timekeeper had tolled twelve seconds.


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Walcott returned to Liston and Ali, who had resumed the fight on their own, stopped it and declared Ali the victor.



The rematch

Ali vs Liston

Lewiston, Maine

May 25, 1965

 

Liston did not fight for the title again. He continued boxing, winning 15 of 16 fights (including four in Sweden and one in Mexico), until his death in his home from an accidental drug overdose at age 40 in 1970.  


 

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Ali humbles ex-champ Floyd Patterson in
12 rounds in Las Vegas on November 22, 1965



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Ali beats George Chuvalo of Canada, winning a unanimous
15-round decision in Toronto on March 29, 1966


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Rocky Marciano - 1966 Australian TV Interview - Muhammad Ali - YouTube


Rocky Marciano
 
Interview in Australia in 1966
 
On Clay and the Fight Game 
 



Drafted by the U. S. Army on April 8, 1966, Clay refused induction. He cited religous grounds. He was a minister.

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Ali stops Henry Cooper of England in the sixth round of 
their rematch in London on May 21, 1966



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Ali knocks out Brian London of England
in the third round in London on August 6, 1966 


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Ali beats stops Karl Mildenberger of Germany in the
twelfth round in Frankfurt, Germany on September 6, 1966



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Ali stops Cleveland Williams in three rounds in Houston
on November 14, 1966



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Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali
 
 
Muhammad Ali derided Joe Louis as an "Uncle Tom" but eventually became a friend.
 
 
Joe Louis and Muhammad Ali
 
TV show, Louisville, Kentucky, 1966
 



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Ali beats Ernie Terrell, winning a unanimous
decision in Houston on February 6, 1967


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Muhammad Ali at a Nation of Islam
(Black Muslims) annual convention
in February 1967.


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Ali knocks out Zora Folley in seven rounds in New York City on March 22, 1967



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Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali with Martin Luther King in Louisville, Kentucky on March 30, 1967 



Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali:


“War is against the teachings of the Qur’an. I’m not trying to dodge the draft. We are not supposed to take part in no wars unless declared by Allah or The Messenger. We don’t take part in Christian wars or wars of any unbelievers.”

“Man, I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong. No Viet Cong ever called me nigger.”

“Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?”

“I’m not going 10,000 miles from home to help murder and burn another poor nation simply to continue the domination of white slave masters of the darker people the world over.”


For refusing induction into the U. S. Army, Clay/Ali was stripped of the championship title. he had had beat all possible contenders. But had not yet reached his prime.

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April 29, 1967


Clay, as Muhammad Ali, defended the championship title nine times in three years, from 1964 to 1967.

Clay was arrested and sentenced to jail on July 20, 1967 for refusing to serve in the army.

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The Houston (Texas) Post, July 21, 1967


Clay paid bond and appealed the conviction. He appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court.



Muhammad Ali

1967 documentary

link  


 
Firing Line
 
William F. Buckley Jr. interviews Muhammad Ali
 
1968
 
 




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The Sound of Music

Rogers and Hammerstein

Movie with Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer

1965


My Favorite Things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G6dd7ikrXs


Do-Re-Mi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drnBMAEA3AM


Climb Every Mountain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKuqySkqhHw

and

(finale) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvDFoF9sfQA

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeOMwXeMYwE


Movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edpeRzNTA8w


The Von Trapp Family

Documentary

Biography

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q9UVRQ5gZ4


The Trapp Family (German: Die Trapp-Familie)

1956 West German movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ivtrTM7QI



 
 
 
 
 
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The Mini-Skirt Revolution
 
 
The hemline in 1965, well above mid-thigh
 
 
Mini skirt fashion (1960s - 70s)
 
 
 
 
 
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Beach Babes: Fun in the Sun with 10 Celebs - Photos,Images,Gallery ...

Brigitte Bardot in 1965.


Brigitte Bardot as Maria in Viva, Maria (1965) 03 | Once Upon a ...

Brigitte Bardot in 1965 
 

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1966



 

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Brigitte Bardot | Discography | Discogs




Club Fashionista: Fashion in the 1960s: Brigitte Bardot Style

Brigitte Bardot dans le film Les Femmes en 1969.




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MOROTURI

1965 Hollywood movie

Marlon Brando, Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard

In WW2, the British plot an inside job to commandeer a German cargo ship en route from Tokyo to Bordeaux.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm02_A0tlJU&t=1965s




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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

1965 British film

Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Oskar Werner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPJufmdfdfg





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Round the World Flight in 55 hours and 30 minutes 
 
June 1966
 
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Arthur Godfrey, pilot (and entertainer)(standing), with (left to right) Maj. Karl Keller, test pilot; Fred Austin, flight engineer; and Dick Merrill, aviator, in June 1966 photo.
 
Austin planned the flight. Austin was the co-pilot of the first pole-to-pole round-the-world flight, in 1965.
 
The four-man crew took off in a business aircraft, a Jet Commander, from La Guardia Airport on Long Island, New York on June 4, flew 25,000 miles around the world in 21 legs, and returned to La Guardia on June 7 in 55 
hours and 30 minutes.
 
 
What's My Line?
 
Dick Merrill, Arthur Godfrey, Fred Austin, and Maj. Karl Keller.
 
With Steve Allen in June 1966.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Albert Speer

Adolf Hitler, , Politiker, NSDAP, D, - im Gespräch mit Albert Speer,...  News Photo - Getty Images Amazon.com: All You Need To Know About Albert Speer: The Remarkable Life Of  Adolf Hitler's Personal Architect Albert Speer eBook: Clark, William:  Kindle Store Albert Speer - Wikipedia



Released from Spandau Fortress in West Berlin

1 October 1966


Speer was Adolf Hitler's top architect and Minister of Armaments and War Production.

.


Albert Speer at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials | Harry S. Truman


Speer was convicted of war crimes in Nuremberg in 1946 and sentenced to 20 years in prison.



Nazi war criminal Albert Speer DID know about Hitler's atrocities - and he  even deported Jews, claims new book - World News - Mirror Online


2. Weltkrieg: Nazi Albert Speer - einer für alle - Kultur - SZ.de

Speer was greeted by the press as he stepped out of the prison.

 

Nazi War Criminals High Resolution Stock Photography and Images - Alamy                    

Speer speaks to the press.



Speer became a best-selling author after his release.


Image result for albert speer autographing copy of Inside the Third Reich

 

ผลการค้นหารูปภาพสำหรับ inside the third reich




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American Silk Tycoon 

Jim Thompson

Disappears in Malaya
 

Easter Sunday, March 26, 1967

 
 

The Jim Thompson Mystery.




JIM'S STORY

Jim Thompson with the Delaware National Guard in 1941.
 


Jim Thompson, an architect, was born in Delaware, the son of a textile manuafacturer, in 1906.

Thompson was a francophile.
 
During the Second World War, Thompson joined the U. S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) and landed with Allied forces in southern France in August 1944. He accompanied the French Resistance. Later, he went to the Balkans.

 

Thompson arrived in Thailand with the OSS just after VJ-Day in 1945 and headed the OSS office in Bangkok. He was the military attache of the American Legation in 1946. Thompson resigned from the OSS in 1946 and returned home.

 
Thompson returned to Thailand In 1948 and sold silk produced by local weavers.

By 1951 Thompson had a going silk business in Bangkok.


Jim Thompson - Surawong (Main Shop) [Bangkok - Store] - SoiDB Thailand
Jim Thompson's silk store in Bangkok.


Bangkok's Cham community strive to keep matriarchal heritage alive ...
Jim Thompson with Cham silk weavers in Ban Krua
in 1955.


Thailand: Jim Thompson and a Cham weaver inspecting some silk, Ban ...

Jim Thompson with a Cham weaver in Ban Krua circa 1962


Jim Thompson and Other Spooky U.S. Expats Around the World



Jim Thompson: the legacy of the Thai silk king – Business ...




The Jim Thompson House in Bangkok - Sirinya's Thailand




Jim Thompson: the legacy of the Thai silk king – Business ... 



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งานผ้าไหม ที่โคราช

Among Thompson's many clients was Queen Sirikit of Thailand. 


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Jim Thompson's home, made of teak, beside a canal in Bangkok. The house was completed in 1959. The house, called 'Jim Thompson House', is a popular tourist attraction.


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Connie mangskau, Bangkok Thailand, Thai, Silk, monogram, antiques

An old friend and antique dealer, Constance (Connie) Mangskau, a Eurasian born in Chiang Mai in 1907, invited Jim Thompson to visit the Cameron Highlands during Easter.

Mangskau worked as a translator for the American Legation in Bangkok after the Second World War. 

 

Jim Thompson and Connie Mangskau in Bangkok in the late 1960s.


Thompson and Mangskau went to Penang for the day and reached the Highlands on Friday, 24 March. They joined a Chinese chemist from Singapore, Ling Tien Gi, and his American wife, Helen. They stayed in separate bungalows in a small resort called the 'Moonlight Bungalow'.



Jim Thompson disappearance in Cameron Highlands: The intriguing ...


The Cameron Highlands of the northern Malay Peninsula of Malaysia.



Solving The Mysterious Disappearance Of The Silk Magnate Jim Thompson.

The 'Moonlight Bungalow'. The visit was Thompson's third.



Early on Easter morning, the four drove to a church near the small town of Brinchang.




Lew Toulmin, Ph.D., MN '04, F.R.G.S.


A last photo of Jim Thompson at a picnic lunch with his friends near his bungalow in the early afternoon of Easter Sunday, 26 March 1967. 

After lunch, at 1:30 p. m., Thompson went for a walk alone. He left by the only road to and from the bungalow. At the bottom of the road, about 1.5 kilometres from the Moonlight Bungalow, was a Lutheran Mission. The mission was visible from the bungalow.  


Disappearance of Jim Thompson - Wikipedia

Thompson was last seen two and one-half hours later, around 4:00 p. m., visiting the Lutheran Mission by the mission's cook.

Thompson was never seen again.

Thompson did not return to his bungalow.

A search failed to find him.  


Most assumed that Thompson went for a hike alone in the surrounding hills and jungle. He may have gotten lost. He had an accident. He slipped and fell and injured himself. Perhaps a coconut dropped on his head. A tiger mauled him. A poisonous snake bit him. A python devoured him.   


His remains may still be in the jungle, intact or scattered by wild animals. 


Did Thompson catch a ride into the nearby town?

 

In 1985, locals unearthed a skeleton without its skull in a vegetable plot along the highway near the town of Brinchang.


Did a lorry driver run over a Caucasian man walking along a nearby road, pick up the body, drive it away and bury it?


A local medical examiner insisted there was no indication the bones were Jim Thompson's.


The bones disappeared.





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Map of the Malay Peninsula. The Cameron Highands are indicated in red.



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Map of the area about the Moonlight Bungalow. 


Some wondered if Thompson planned his disappearance.

Five months later, in the night of August 29 - 30, 1967, Thompson's eldest sister, Mrs. Katherine Thompson Wood, was brutally murdered in her home in Pennsylvania. 

To this day, Thompson's disappearance and his sister's murder are unsolved.

 

The Mysterious Disappearance of Jim Thompson

A lecture by Lew Toulmin

 

International Spy Museum, Washington, D. C.

 

Uploaded on April 26, 2017

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ASjJgwDCBc

 
 
Much has been written about Jim Thompson and his disappearance. Most of it is nonsense.


Jim Thompson (eBook): The Unsolved Mystery
 

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The first book about Thompson's disappearance, Jim Thompson   -   The Unsolved Mystery, was written by an American, William Warren, first published in 1970. The book was revised in 1999. This book remains the best about Thompson's disappearance. 



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Elvis Presley


Elvis Presley 1965 Hawaii Interview - Elvis Information Network ...

Elvis on the set at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Honolulu in 1965.


On the movie set at the Polynesian Cultural Center (Paradise ...

Elvis on the set at the Polynesian Cultural Center in Honolulu.


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Elvis Presley Celebrity Relationships and Marriages - Elvis ...

Elvis weds his long-time sweetheart, Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, in Las Vegas on May 1, 1967.

Mrs. Elvis: Priscilla Presley's Life With And Without The King

Just married 



ELVIS PRESLEY and Priscilla's wedding | Elvis wedding, Elvis and ...


LAS VEGAS, NV - NOVEMBER 10 – Elvis and Priscilla Presley Wedding ...
Memphis (Tennessee) Press Scimitar, May 2, 1967


File:Graceland Memphis Tennessee.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

Graceland Mansion, home in Memphis


Elvis-Priscilla-elvis-and-priscilla-presley-25684526-457-358 ...

Elvis and Priscilla in a home movie.



Priscilla Presley: My family values | Elvis Presley | The Guardian

Elvis and Priscilla with their daughter, Lisa Marie, born on February 1, 1968. 


Luhrmann casts Aussie Priscilla Presley | Daily Mercury




Elvis and Lisa in the beach - Elvis Aaron Presley and Lisa Marie ...

Elvis and daughter Lisa-Marie at the beach in 1968.


elvis and priscilla - I Love Old School Music

Elvis and Priscilla


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Elvis and Michele Carey ~ 'Live A Little, Love A Little' | Elvis ...


Michele Carey, Actress in 'El Dorado' and 'Live a Little, Love a ...


Elvis' Women: Michele Carey

Elvis on the set with Michele Carey in 1968.

  

In Photos: A Look Back Elvis & His Girls | Elvis today, Elvis ...

On the set with Nancy Sinatra in 1968.


Barbara McNair Died - People

On the set with Barbara McNair in 1969.


Mary Tyler Moore with Elvis | Elvis presley photos, Elvis, Elvis ...

On the set with Mary Tyler Moore in 1969.



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China tests H-bomb

 

June 17, 1967

 

 

 

China's first hydrogen bomb test

 

June 17, 1967

 

 

 

 

 

China first hydrogen bomb

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrBikzYiZkA&feature=related

 

 

 

 

 

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Interview with Edward Teller

 

On Firing Line with William F. Buckley, Jr.

 

2 March 1971 (53:29)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eltPbMs0Jps

 

 

 

Interview with Edward Teller

 

On the TV program Day at Night (1974)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8uZKs0Pv68

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Beatles

Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (original Gramophone review ...


1967

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (album) 
Penny Lane
Strawberry Fields
Forever
All You Need Is Love

Is Yellow Submarine by The Beatles really about drugs? - Radio X




1968

Lady Madonna
Hey Jude


BEATLES - Yellow Submarine [Vinyl] - Amazon.com Music




1970

Let it Be
Yellow Submarine (album)
Abbey Road (album)



Abbey Road - Wikipedia


Beatles break up - 1970




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Le drapeau du Québec


"Vive le Québec libre!"

Charles De Gaulle

24 juillet 1967


 

 

French President Charles De Gaulle, City Hall, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 24 July 1967

 

 

 

"Vive le Québec libre!"


Charles De Gaulle

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y-FxowN5W0 



 

Related image


 

Vive le Québec libre!

 

Charles De Gaulle

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l1EYNoHY1A

 

 

Vive le Québec libre

 

Visite de Général de Gaulle


Québec 1967

 

Documentaire

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_3H9YH_wPc

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=075MqtGFU2c

 

ou

 

Vive le Québec libre . . . vu par la France

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpXB6PwMRbo

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QejhIqJf7kU

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dysh7-PwtOA

 

 

Histoire du Québec

 

28. Visite du Général De Gaulle

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC81_Tm8x_w 




Image result for french flag, canadian flag, and quebec flag


 


Le Chemin du Roy

 

Le Général de Gaulle au Québec en 1967


(52:23)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5R26LLgyEQ 


 

Address in Montreal, Quebec, 24 July 1967

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k37_Xo6c5XM

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0LQBcygNew

 

 

1967 De Gaulle au Québec


Documentaire (23:00)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZS0SP65vGE 




Related image

 


 

La Bataille du Quebec

 

Droit d'Inventaire

 

(15:55)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEJhyfmRHuA 


 


« Vive le Québec libre ! »


Claire Doutriaux

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j5xF6ZYRQY


Les 50 ans du « Vive le Québec libre ! »





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De Gaulle comments on his address in Montreal  

 

Paris


November 27, 1967


Partie 1. (14:30)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifbJ8vy14aw


Partie 2. (4:54)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOfdIUMd4Tc 



50 ans du « Vive le Québec libre ! » de Charles de Gaulle 


Entrevue Louise Beaudoin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFvhN9JPvvk



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Map of Canada with Quebec in red.



The Flag of Canada   -   Le Drapeau du Canada


 


'Oh, Canada!'

.





Canadian National Anthem (instrumental)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idzh6mKbUAE

 

 

 

Ô, Canada!





French version                  

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsHSVE5d3sc

 

 

 

Hymne National du Québec

 

Gens du Pays

'




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN18fSf0Cx4




'

Version symphonique



 
Le Québec

2000 ans d’histoire sur France Inter (31:17)


 
 
 
 
 
 
Tom Lehrer
 
Image result for Tom Lehrer in copenhagen
 
 
Performance in Copenhagen
 
September 1967
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Hasta  la  Victoria 

Siempre

 
 

Che

 

Ernesto Guevara de la Sierna

 

Rosario, Argentina 1928  -  La Higuera, Bolivia 1967

 

 

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Ernesto Guevara in Argentina

at age 20 in 1948

 

 

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Medical student in Argentina in 1951

 

 

1952


 

 

Image result for che guevara's motorcycle

 

 

Diarios de motocicleta

 

Recounts Che's travels through South and Central America when a medical student in the 1950s

 

Argentina movie (2004)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vgTmvEeq04

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=creV9HQvR1U

 

 

 


Hilda Gadea y Che Guevara - Luna de miel - Yucatán 1955.jpg

Che with his first wife, Peruvian

Hilda Gadea Acosta, in Mexico in 1955

 

 


 

File:CheMuleFull.jpg

Escambray 1958

 

 

 

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Escambray 1958

 

 

 

 

 

 


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Che Guevara, left, with Raúl Castro, centre, and Fidel Castro in Havana in January 1959.  

 


 

 

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Che Guevara and his second wife, Aleida March de la Torre of Santa Clara, at the wedding in 1959.

 

 

 

Che Guevara

 

Hasta la Victoria Siempre

 

Biographical account (54:19)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8eOyDktyc8

 

 

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Che à Alger

 

1963

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWNTvvoAja0

 

 

 

Related image

 

 

Che

 

2008

 

This film, in two parts, recounts the period from Che's meeting with Fidel Castro in Mexico in 1955 to Che's capture of Santa Clara in 1958 (part 1) and Che's Bolivian adventure in 1966 and 1967 (part 2).

 

Except for Che's 1964 UN address, the film omits entirely events in the seven-year period from 1959 to 1966 (the triumphal entry into Havana, execution of opponents, matters of finance and industry, the Bay of Pigs Invasion, the Cuban missile crisis and the Congo adventure).


 

Che, El Argentino (Part 1) (2 hrs. 14 min.)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4XMkE5D0bs

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=row6qtFU5vg

 

 

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U. N. 1964

 

 

1964 address to the UN General Assembly

 

Excerpt:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ekfej_kmHQ

 

Complete Address:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6KyNrhS-OQ&feature=related

 

 


 

 

 

Face the Nation

 

Che Guevara

 

CBS

 

New York City

 

1964

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPCuzfDeUpc

 

 

Che Guevara

 

Interview with ABC reporter

 

1964

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9DyXX7YKuk

 

 

Che Guevara's last public speech

 

Algiers

 

February 24, 1965

 

Translation

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68RQqdIGdMs

 

 

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Hasta Siempre, Comandante

 

Song by Cuban composer Carlos Puebla in 1965. There are many translations.

 

 

Aprendimos a quererte
Desde la histórica altura
Donde el Sol de tu bravura
Le puso cerco a la muerte

 

We learned to love you
from the historical heights
where the sun of your bravery
laid siege to death

 

Refrain:

 

Aquí se queda la clara
La entrañable transparencia
De tu querida presencia
Comandante Che Guevara

 

Here lies the clear,
the beloved clearness,
of your dear presence,
Commander Che Guevara.

 

Tu mano gloriosa y fuerte
Sobre la Historia dispara
Cuando todo Santa Clara
Se despierta para verte

 

Your hand, glorious and strong,
shoots over history
when all of Santa Clara
awakens to see you

 

Refrain

 

Vienes quemando la brisa
Con soles de primavera
Para plantar la bandera
Con la luz de tu sonrisa


You come burning the breeze
with suns of the spring
to plant the flag
with the light of your smile.

 

Refrain

 

Tu amor revolucionario
Te conduce a nueva empresa
Donde esperan la firmeza
De tu brazo libertario.

 

Your revolutionary love
drives you to a new enterprise
where they wait for the firmness
of your liberating arm.
 

Refrain

 

Seguiremos adelante
Como junto a ti seguimos
Y con Fidel te decimos:
Hasta Siempre Comandante.

 

We will continue forward,
as we continue together with you,
and with Fidel we tell you:
"Farewell, Commander!"

 

Refrain

 

 

Buena Vista Social Club

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcPm5Rn36Kw

 

and

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6ZjnxnDSOM

 

Also:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcnH8oK8FlY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k8xMiZp588

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Cec-bzj0Y

Havana street musicians

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meXIJ2yQTY8

Another version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gXiYuGkNXg

Another version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyYkNRcHbmk

 

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Congo 1965


 

 

Cuba! Africa! Revolution!
 
Documentary in two parts about Cuban support of revolution in Africa (2017) (1:37:40)
 
Part 1 describes the Cuban involvement in the Congo in 1965
 

 

 

 

File:CheinMoscow.jpg

Moscow 1965

 

 

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Che, Guerrilla (Part 2)

 

This clip, Parte 2 of 2, picks up where the previous clip, Che, El Argentino, ends, and recounts the Bolivian adventure.

 

Do not bother with the upload called Parte 1 of 2, which is the same as El Argentino, because it is not complete, missing the last several minutes

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5rYDwa0v4M

 


 

 

Image result for Che Guevara in the Congo

 

Che Guevara, centre, was captured by Bolivian army soldiers in the mountains in southeastern Bolivia in the region of Santa Cruz on 8 October 1967.

 

In the above photo, taken the following day, 9 October, Che is escorted by Cuban exile/CIA agent Felix Rodriguez, left, and Bolivian army soldiers in the village of La Higuera shortly before his execution in a small school house at mid-day. Guevara was executed on the orders of the Bolivian president.

 

 

The Hunt for Che Guevara

 

Episode from the ocumentary series CIA Declassified (44:31)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgEONEoV20w

 

 

Le dernier combat du Che

 

Témoignages sur Che Guevara et ses derniers jours en Bolivie

 

Novosti (2017)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoLkkmGPYcs

 

 

End of a Revolution

 

Documentary film about Bolivia in 1967 (features Regis Debray's trial).

 

(3 clips)

 

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn9XRQwnHsM

 

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKzA1VF5re8

 

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqwOcHnDnJs 

 

(There is a reference in clip 3 to a Felix Ramos, who is actually Felix Rodriguez.) 

 

 

The True Story of Che Guevara

 

Documentary with author Jon Lee Anderson, Felix Rodriguez, Dariel Alarcon Ramirez ("Benigno") (2006) (1:30:57)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkUg-SHbIDA

 

 

Che Guevara

 

Episode from the BBC documentary series Infamous Assassinations (2007)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbC7505LTYo

 

 

Les derniers jours d'une icone

 

Les derniers jours de Che Guevara

 

Documentaire (2008)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNfbWaO652I


 

 

Felix Rodriguez

 

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Felix Rodriguez, born in Cuba in 1941, of a prosperous middle class family, educated in the United States, joined Cuban exiles and the CIA in 1960  to overthrow Castro, infiltrated Cuba before the Bay of Pigs Invasion, joined the hunt for Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967, US Army helicopter pilot in Vietnam from 1970 to 1972, fought communist expansion to Central America in the 1980s.   

 

 

Felix Rodriguez

 

Story and interview by Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes, CBS (1989)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7z1BDK7I7c

 

 

Shadow Warrior

 

Interview with Felix Rodriguez by Brian Lamb

 

1989

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnHQAQ6aGC0

 

 

Felix Rodriguez

 

Interview

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQr7j-37w64

 

 

A Snapshot with Che

 

Documentary with Felix Rodriguez and Dariel Alarcon Ramirez ("Benigno") (51:04)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOT_8th7dqo

 

 


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From 1960 photo

 

 

 

Photo by Alberto Korda in Cuba 1960

 

 

Alberto Korda

 

Alberto Díaz Gutiérrez (1928 - 2001)

 

Documentary short

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su0PNIOqlcU

 

or

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHjm5sV-yzs

 

 

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Guevara & Castro (1955 - 1967)

 

Communisme & Guerre Froide

 

2000 ans d'Histoire

 

Patrice Gélinet avec historien Rémi Kauffer

 

le 9 octobre 2007sur France Inter 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZ766PnnCwo

 

ou

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aueVlTkVwU

 

 

Che Guevara  -  Le mythe

 

Histoire de Comprendre

 

Alexandre Adler (2000)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_175DtAr6A

 

 

El Che

 

Documentary (1997) (1:35:36)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axvxshYPa5s

 

In French:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMISN7boIb8

 

 

Pourquoi a t'on tué Che Guevara?

 

Les detectives de l'Histoire

 

Documentaire (2009)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUOIl29myKk

 

 

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Several days after his death, Che Guevara was buried in an unmarked pit with his comrades in a secret location in the town of Vallegrande in Santa Cruz by Bolivian soldiers.

 

In 1997, the spot was excavated by Cubans and the skeletal remains were recovered and identified.

 

 

Excerpts of the excavation (in English, Greek and Spanish):

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK-J-WOAJBU

 

Bolivia   -   Skeletal remains identified

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECHvcV5FQaE

 

 

The skeletal remains were flown to Cuba.

 

 

 


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The funeral of Che Guevara and his comrades in Revolution Square in Havana on 13 October 1997 (above photo).  


 

 

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The funeral cortege of Che Guevara and his comrades.

 

 

The remains were conveyed 281 kilometres to the city of Santa Clara where they were enshrined in a mausoleum.

 

 

Excerpts of funeral (in Greek and Spanish)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ie8slQYEog

 

Excerpts

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=je55G-zYadM

 


 

 

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The Che Guevara Memorial, the mausoleum of Che Guevara, in Santa Clara, Cuba.

 

 

 

 

 

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Diarios de motocicleta

2004

Preview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_LAiSdIXos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UH7BN2RTDc


Excerpt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-krfS1DXAM





El Che

Documentary

2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axvxshYPa5s



Che

2008

Part 1

2:14:03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=row6qtFU5vg

Part 2.

2:00:03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdxKk6k7pes

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5rYDwa0v4M




Felix Rodriguez

Interview

2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cBa8QS7M7U





Le Monde à L'Envers

Dmytro Komarov

Les dernières heures de la vie et de la mort du légendaire Ernesto Che Guevara en Bolivie

2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27esR0_tpzg




Che Guevara

Beyond the Legend

Documentary

2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPz8r1l39gY



Hasta Siempre, Comandante

Barcelona Gipsy Klezmer Orchestra

Andorra

2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXjK3BLyzPI



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The First Heart Transplant
 
 
Groote Schuur Hospital
 
Cape Town, South Africa
 
3 December 1967
 
 
 
 
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While shopping in Cape Town on 2 December, Denise Darvall, age 24, and her mother were hit by a drunk driver. Denise's mother was killed. Denise was taken to the nearby Groote Schuur Hospital and later pronounced brain-dead. Her father gave his permission to transplant her heart and a kidney.
 
 
 
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Photo of Groote Schuur Hospital in 1967
 
 
 
 
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The team of six surgeons conducting the
first heart transplant on 3 December 1967.

The operation took five hours.
 
 
 
 
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Dr. Marius Barnard was one of the team of surgeons that removed the heart from Ms. Darvall.
 
 
 
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Dr. Christiaan Barnard and
his team removed Mr. Washkansky's
heart and inserted Ms. Darvall's
heart.
 
 
 
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Louis Washkansky, age 53, of Cape Town was the recipient of Miss Darvall's heart. He died 18 days after the operation.
 
 
 
 
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Dr. Christiaan Barnard (1922 - 2001)
at press conference after the operation.
 

 
 
 
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The Cape Times, 4 December 1967


 
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The Rand Daily Mail, 4 December 1967
 
 
 
50th Anniversary of the First Heart Transplant
 
2017
 
 
 
First Heart Transplant
 
News
 
 
 
On Heart Transplants
 
University of Cape Town
 
 
 
Interview with Dr. Marius Barnard
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Jo Raquel Tejada
 
 
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1948/1949 
 
 
 

1959
 
 
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1959
 
 
 
 
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1965
 
 
 
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1966


 
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1967
 
 
 
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1967
 
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1970
 
 
 
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1971
 
 
 
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1972
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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1978
 
 
 
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1979
 
 
 
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Raquel Welch in 2010
 
In her home town, La Jolla, California
 
 
 
With Dick Clark on American Bandstand (1965)
 
 
 
 
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Armando Carlos Tejada y Urquizo (1911 - 1976), of La Paz, Bolivia; an aeronautical engineer, father of Raquel Welch 
 
 
 
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Josephine Sarah Hall (1909 - 2000), of Chicago, Illinois, mother of Raquel Welch. (A descendent of American president John Adams.)
 
 
 
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With husband James Welch, a Hollywood agent, in early 1960s. 
 
 
 
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With children, Damon and Tahnee 
 
 
Tahnee Welch
 
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Pelé
 

Pele

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, born in Três Corações, Brazil in 1940, professional footballer (soccer), played for Santos (1956 - 74) and the New York Cosmos (1975 - 77), considered the greatest football player of all-time, called The Black Pearl (Pérola Negra), The King of Football (O Rei do Futebol), The King Pelé (O Rei Pelé) and The King (O Rei)


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Pelé in 1958 World Cup
 
 

Pele

"O Rei"

Episode from the documentry series Footballs' Greatest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W6Rh43e8GY

 

Pele

The story of the world's greatest footballer

Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRpjrG3YPK8

 

Pele

Episode from the documentary series Legends of Football

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXrx7Oi_4i0

 

Pele

Top 20 goals

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7HFq1gKeUU

 
 
 
 


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VERDI

REQUIEM


Orquestra e Coro

Teatro alla Scala di Milano

Regência Herbert von Karajan


Luciano Pavarotti, Tenor

Nicolai Ghiaurov, Baixo-barítono

Leontyne Price, Soprano

Fiorenza Cossotto, Mezzo-soprano


Direção Henri-Georges Clouzot


Ano 1967


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XysUW00P3S8

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zpk2kZBgSk&t=3s

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zpk2kZBgSk&t=12s

or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XysUW00P3S8&t=4s




 
 
 
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Prague Spring
 
1968
 
 
 
Le printemps de Prague
 
2000 ans d'histoire (2008)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Nixon Returns

Nominated Republican Party candidate for President

Wins election

1968

CBS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ectDJDcMuy8

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Nixon Elected President
 
November 5, 1968
 
 

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New York Times, November 6, 1968
 
 
Richard M. Nixon, Republican Party candidate, vice-president under Eisenhower (1953 - 1961), wins 1968 presidential election.
 
From 1957 to 1960, Nixon was the most prominent vice-president in American history. He was defeated by John Kennedy in the 1960 presidential election by a razor-thin margin. Two years later, in 1962, he was defeated in the gubenatorial election in his home state of California. The loss signaled the end of Nixon's politcal career.
 
President Lyndon Johnson announced In March 1968 that he would not seek another term. The most likely candidates for the office were the vice-president, Hubert Humphrey, and the Republican governor of New York, Nelson Rockefeller. 
 
Nixon emerged as a dark-horse candidate and, in an incredible political comeback, bested Rockefeller for the Republican Party nomination. 
 
Nixon won the 1968 presidential election by a slim margin, besting Humphrey and a strong independent third party candidate.      
 
 
 
The Huntley - Brinkley Report
 
NBC News
 
 
 
 
 
The Pull-Out
 
The graph below displays the level of American troops in South Vietnam from the beginning of 1959 to the end of March 1973. The drop began shortly after Nixon took office in January 1969.

 

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Nixon with Henry Kissinger, National Security Advisor

 

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NIxon with Nguyen Van Thieu, President of South Vietnam

 

 
Establishing diplomatic relations with Red China

 
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President Richard Nixon and Mao Tse-tung in February 1972. Nixon visited China.
 
 
 
The Week that Changed the World
 
 
 
 
Arms limitation agreements with the Soviet Union

 
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Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, Soviet leader, in Moscow in May 1972.
 
 
 
Nixon addresses the Soviet Union on Moscow TV
 
May 28, 1972
 



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US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger
and North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho
conclude a Truce in Paris on 27 January 1973.
American soldiers left Vietnam.

The truce was called "a decent interval". It offered the Americans an exit. The last troops left two months later, in March 1973. 


Two years later, on 17  April 1975, Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, fell to the Khmer Rouge (Red Khmer/Communist Khmers).

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17 avril 1975

Les Khmers rouges ont vidé vide Phnom Penh

Documentaire (58 min.)




Thirteen days later, on 30 April 1975, Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, fell to the North Vietnamese.

South Vietnam was dissolved and reunited with North Vietnam under Communist rule.


Vietnam from space in red. 3D illustration with highly detailed realistic planet surface. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.

 


30 avril 1975


La chute de Saigon


Les brûlures de l'Histoire (1995)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go7Mzkm-JxM 




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Vientiane, the capital of Laos, fell to the communist

Pathet Lao on 2 December 1975.



All of Indo-China was under communist rule by December 1975. 


Every generation wants a war or it is less than the previous generation. The Vietnam War was not a war on the scale of WWII ("Dad's war") or Korea ("Kid brother's war"). It was not a conventional war but a guerrilla war. After WWII, Americans wanted experience in guerrilla warfare. They got it in Vietnam.

Otherwise, Americans never wanted the war. They wanted out of Vietnam before they got in. It was a martial action. American soldiers were on occupation duty. The idea of containing Communism was abandoned early on. Americans talked much of the inevitable pull-out and eventual hand-over. The presence of American soldiers in Vietnam was merely a delaying action.

American marines complained, as early as 1965, that their missions were often betrayed. 

No one but the arms dealers seemed to be serious about Vietnam. More bombs (tonnage) were dropped on the rural country-side of Indo-China, mostly in Laos, than all the bombs dropped in WWII. 




 
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Man on the Moon
 
July 20 - 21, 1969
 
 
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Saturn V rocket, carrying the Apollo 11 spacecraft, is launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on July 16, 1969.
 
 
 
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The crew of Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong, mission commander; Michael Collins, pilot of the command module, Columbia; and Edwin Aldrin, pilot of the lunar midule, Eagle.
 
Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon on July 20 and stepped onto the surface the following day, July 21.
 
They were the first men on the moon.
 
 
 
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Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong and the lunar module, Eagle, on the moon on July 21, 1969.
 
 
 
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The astronauts planted the American flag on the moon.
 
 
Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21 1/2 hours on the moon.
 
The Columbia returned to Earth on July 24, splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, 780 nautical miles southwest of Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands and 220 n. m. south of Johnston Atoll.
 
 
 
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Shortly after splashdown, President Nixon greets the three astronauts in their quarantine chamber on board the aircraft carrier USS Hornet. 
 
 
On June 14, three days before the launch of Apollo 11, the Soviet Union launched Luna 15, an unmanned spacecraft, to retrieve rock and dust samples from the moon. Luna 15 reached lunar orbit on June 17 and descended towards the moon surface on June 21, while Armstrong and Aldrin were there. Luna 15 crashed.  
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
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Heroic Materialism

Last of 13 episodes from the BBC-TV series Civilisation with Kennth Clark

1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waoEyjE_dtU

 

About the series Civilization

Interview with Sir David Attenborough

BBC TV

2005

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm8d1FfGsIs

 

 

Pollution

A song by Tom Lehrer (1965)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz_-KNNl-no

 

 

 

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service

James Bond

1969

Excerpt from the movie - the Ski chase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FUMMknEowo



Diana Rigg and George Lazenby

Comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrNWTwsk188



Themes

BBC Concert Orchestra

Royal Albert Hall

Proms

2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTFfW29DP24&t=4s






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BILL EVANS

Spartacus

The Netherlands Recordings

1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHzqau0FM4M









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Bertrand Russell

1872 - 1970



Bertrand Russell

Interview by Romney Wheeler

Russell's home in Surrey, England.

1952

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL_sMXfzzyA



Bertrand Russell

Face to Face Interview

BBC

1959

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bZv3pSaLtY



Earl Bertrand Russell

Speaking Personally

1961

Interview with John Chandos

Recorded on 11 - 12 April 1961 at Bertrand Russell s house in North Wales

List of Topics:

Childhood and Earliest Memories
Life Begins at Cambridge
Eccentrics and Personages
Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson
Mr Gladstone
Lytton Strachey and Family
Bertrand Russell in prison
Cause and Effects of World War I, H. H. Asquith
Approach to the Abyss
Man's Peril and Neutrality
Einstein's Last Act
A Meeting with Lenin
Scandal in New York
Christ versus Christianity
Morality and Hypocrisy
Lawrence, Shaw, Einstein, Conrad
Background to National Greatness
Original Thinking and Persecution
USSR and USA-the Conflict
Education and Tolerance
Survival and Unilateral Disarmament
Religion and Fear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpohrKaos2o



Bertrand Russell interview

Alan Watts

(4 parts)

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MybClNntaI

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw7wqmsyX4w

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyqqBrDnUeQ

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KFGNYAiAz8



Death of Bertrand Russell

CBS broadcast (1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY3tJV6G2uY






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Charles De Gaulle

Lille, France 22 November 1890 - Colombey-les-Deux-Églises, France, 9 November 1970


L'appel du 18 Juin

2010

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqRnvF-uURg


Appel du 18 juin 1940 par le Général de Gaulle

Discours enregistré le 22 juin 1940

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbj-xeCtzV0


Charles De Gaulle

Dans une émission commune, hommage au président Charles DE GAULLE, décédé le 9 novembre 1970, peu après 19 heures.

10 novembre 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGGZpI1VlkE


Discours du Général de Gaulle de l'Hôtel de ville,
le 25 août 1944

Paris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzYCFgKNlyw


De Gaulle in Paris

Liberation

1944

Lowell Thomas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wiEJoGcCg8


Allocution du Général DE GAULLE

radiodiffusée et télévisée

prononcée au palais de l'Elysée, le 25 avril 1969

2 jours avant le référendum sur la régionalisation et la réforme du sénat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziP361-Df7o


Histoire d'un Geant

2020

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFxtJNIm08g


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