Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Collection. 1953 - 1982. Motion Picture Films. 1953 - 1982. The Warren Report

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Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., Collection. 1953 - 1982. Motion Picture Films. 1953 - 1982. The Warren Report

1953-1982

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/89115

This filmed television report presents a detailed report on the findings of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John Kennedy. It discusses several conclusions and presents its own investigative findings. In the first part, Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather give background on the assassination and CBS' own investigation. Eddie Baker interviews Lee Harvey Oswald's wife, mother, friends, employer and fellow workers; the Dallas Police Chief; an intelligence officer; Governor John B. Connally, Jr., and a witness. Next, Baker interviewed witnesses and Dallas Police and excerpts from the Warren Commission assassination reenactment film are shown. In subsequent scenes the report reconstructs Lee Harvey Oswald's movements, interviewing the bus driver and taxi driver who saw him after the assassination, and the witness to Officer J. D. Tippit's murder. Lastly, Cronkite and Rather commented on the Warren Report. Baker interviewed Book Depository witnesses and the Dallas Police Chief. Still photographs are shown of Oswald's and Kennedy's funerals, both held on Monday, Nov. 25, 1963.

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