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In coordination with a historic 4-day broadcast of CBS News broadcast coverage from 1963 of the JFK assassination, CBS News is also selling DVDs of the network coverage.

Two DVDS are currently for sale at Amazon.com: 

As It Happened: The JFK Assassination

Here is a bulletin from CBS News... in Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade ..." 

Those ominous words from Walter Cronkite opened an unforgettable chapter in history - the televised story of a presidential assassination, unfolding in real time before a horrified nation.

Relive the four days of CBS News coverage that riveted the country, as it happened. You'll see Cronkite's announcement of the president's death, and the brief public life of suspect Lee Harvey Oswald, from his first "perp walk" to his claims of innocence to his shocking murder in full view of the TV cameras.c

Watch - as all America watched -- the slain president lying in state in the Capitol rotunda, his grieving widow, son and daughter, the emotional procession to Arlington Cemetery, the funeral service, and burial alongside a flame that - like our memory of the event - still burns today.

Special Feature: CBS News Extra: November 22 and the Warren Report, Sept 27, 1964 Nearly a year after the assassination, CBS News makes an unprecedented witness-by-witness exploration of the crime. Hear from Oswald's family and friends, as well as colleagues who heard his rifle firing over their heads. And meet the officer who arrested him in a movie theater - and nearly died at Oswald's hands. Then Walter Cronkite reveals the conclusions of the blue-ribbon Warren Commission at the instant they're released to the public, starting with answers to the two key questions: who killed John F. Kennedy? And did the killer act alone?

The Warren Report

A CBS News Inquiry: The Warren Report , June 25 through June 28, 1967 

   Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy, and acted alone. Those were the conclusions of the blue-ribbon Warren Commission in 1964. But America didn't buy it.

So CBS News mounted its own original investigations, gaining important new insights that the Commission didn't - or couldn't - reach on its own. Their extraordinary efforts include building the first-ever full-size replica of the shooting trajectory, with an actual-height sniper tower and a moving target. Was it possible for Oswald to fire all the shots in the time available? Was there a gunman on the grassy knoll? Was there a "magic bullet?" Was there a conspiracy? Walter Cronkite and CBS News pursue the answers and draw their own conclusions in a four-hour special report.


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