The Day Kennedy Was Shot Quotes

“the rifle found on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository building was a 6.5-caliber Mannlicher-Carcano with the serial number C2766”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“firm in Chicago called Klein’s Sporting Goods was known to have sold the Mannlicher-Carcano rifle by magazine coupon. Chicago had been asked to track down Klein’s management and, if necessary, to get them out of bed and try to locate a Dallas or New Orleans order from Lee Harvey Oswald, Lee Oswald, L. H. Oswald, Alex Hiddell, A. Hidell, or A. Hidel.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“The appointments secretary had taken Kilduff by the arm and pointed to the broad back of Lyndon Johnson. “He’s got what he wants now,”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“Yes, sir.” “I don’t know what the doctors are looking for, but they should be told that a pristine bullet has been found.” The disorder of the apartment”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“is hard to realize that a complete nothing, a zero like that, could kill a man like President Kennedy.” Ruby asked how”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“bluntly, a transfer of power could hardly have occurred at a better time: there were no important decisions to be made; there was nothing of consequence for the new President to consider for the next couple of days.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“Three weeks ago a man who had called himself Lee H. Oswald had rented Box 6225.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“No,” she said adamantly. The words had become a set piece: “I want them to see what they’ve done.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“When Robert irritated men of lofty station, they complained to the President, and”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“The law lied when it said he had declined the services of a lawyer.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“if Abt was unavailable he would accept the services of a Dallas American Civil Liberties Union lawyer.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“he had constitutional rights, then one of them included the services of a lawyer. He had asked for John Abt of New York almost all day. In”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“Oswald watched, and said: “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“The malcontent appeared to be offended. “Oh,” he shouted at the assemblage, “this is the deal, is it?”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“child. No man who had a grave crime on his mind could relinquish it so easily.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“was sorry that all that evidence had gone up to Washington. If Chief Curry had given the captain one full day, he would probably have traced that cheap rifle to some shop in Dallas and from there right to Oswald.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“Frazier realized that many suppositions would never be proved. There were possibilities and probabilities and few provabilities.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“The two sizable bullet ends found earlier in the front of the car were already being”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“The radiating crack on the windshield was examined, measured, and photographed. The glass was double, fused together”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“A dent was found in the upper frame of the windshield. This too was measured and observed. Frazier thought that a bit of flying metal might have hit it.* Inch by inch, the FBI men examined the exterior of the automobile,”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“A shortwave aerial on the left side was broken off. Robert Frazier guessed it might have happened when Clint Hill made a dash”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“The hour was late, but the men, members all of an elite corps of law enforcement agents, wanted to “wrap the case up” before dawn.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“I think we have sufficient evidence.” “Sufficient evidence to convince—to convict him of the assassination of the President?” “Definitely. Definitely.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“He has not been arraigned on the assassination?” “No.” “Have there been ballistic tests made locally on the gun?” “No, sir.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“and I don’t pass on why he did it or anything else. We, we’re just interested in proving that he did it, which I think we have.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“he was a member of the movement—the Free Cuba movement.” “Fair Play for Cuba,” said Ruby. He had heard it on the radio. “What’s the make of the rifle, sir?” “It’s a Mauser, I believe.” “Does he have a lawyer?”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“Can you tell us any of the evidence against him so far, sir?” The D.A. shook his head. “No. We are still working on the evidence. This has been a joint effort”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“involved. For the sake of Dallas it would be a good thing to present the assassination as solved to the press of the world.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“On at least one other occasion, Oswald had told the officers that, if he could not locate Abt, he would consult the American Civil Liberties Union. He had also declared that he was a member of the ACLU. Will Fritz, surprised, asked how much Oswald had paid in dues, and the prisoner told him five dollars.”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot

“He had asked again and again for a lawyer. He had requested the services of John Abt of New York and, when Oswald had reminded the police inoffensively that they had taken his thirteen dollars away from him, he was told to make the phone call collect. This gave him an unnecessary hurdle”
― Jim Bishop, The Day Kennedy Was Shot