VIDEO SHOWS KENNEDY'S LAST SECONDS OF LIFE.Byline: Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. TV footage broadcast for the first time Tuesday depicts events surrounding the assassination Assassination See also Murder. assassins Fanatical Moslem sect that smoked hashish and murdered Crusaders (11th—12th centuries). [Islamic Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 52] Brutus conspirator and assassin of Julius Caesar. [Br. of President Kennedy, including scenes of him holding hands with his wife, perhaps for the last time - about 45 minutes before his death. The silent 16mm film, recently turned over to the independent Assassination Records Review Board The Assassination Records Review Board was created as a result of an act passed by the US Congress in 1992, entitled the "President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act. , also captured a rare image of Jack Ruby Jacob Rubenstein (March 25, 1911 – January 3, 1967), who legally changed his name to Jack Leon Ruby in 1947, was a Dallas businessman and nightclub owner. He was convicted of the November 24, 1963 murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, two days after Oswald's arrest for the attending Lee Harvey Oswald's meeting with reporters the night of the assassination. Roy Cooper Roy Cooper can refer to:
Portions of the film were aired Tuesday on the ``CBS Evening News CBS Evening News is the flagship nightly television news program of the American television network CBS. The network has broadcast this program since 1948, and has used the CBS Evening News title since 1963. ,'' the network said. The outtakes do not show the president's motorcade under rifle fire on Nov. 22, 1963, and offer no obvious evidence toward settling the case's many controversies, according to the few authorities who have viewed it. The film does, however, show the chaos in Dealey Plaza after the president was shot. ``This film fills in little gaps,'' said assassination historian Gary Mack, who was shown the tapes by Cooper in the 1970s. ``But I didn't see anything in there that changed any significant facts about the assassination.'' Cooper took home the clips he salvaged from the trash, and a few years later spliced them together with a friend, Eli Sturges. Sturges and Cooper, who retired from KTVT in the early '90s, tried to sell the film over the years, but the only buyer was a 1988 British TV program that purchased about two minutes. Both men have since died, and the film, which was hidden beneath a house for years, was nearly destroyed in a fire a year ago. A few weeks ago, Sturges' daughter decided it was time to release the film after reading that the review board could use it. The board transferred the footage to videotape last week at the National Archives, where researchers and the public will be able to view it. |
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