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00:12And will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the
00:18United States.
00:19Preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.
00:23So help me God.
00:26We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are
00:32easy, but because they are hard.
00:35Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills.
00:42Because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept, one we are willing to postpone,
00:49and one we intend to live.
01:10It's the only thing that there's just too little love.
01:17What the world is now is love, sweet love.
01:24No, not just for some.
01:26Oh, but just for every, every, everyone.
01:43What the world is now is love, sweet love.
01:50What the world is now is love, sweet love.
02:18President Kennedy went to Texas to take his program to the people.
02:22He had carried the state by only a narrow margin in the 1960 elections.
02:27There was dissension there over his strong civil rights program.
02:32Ultra-conservative elements were critical, bitterly so, of the administration's foreign
02:37policy.
02:38And yet, the crowds that greeted the president and Mrs. Kennedy were friendly.
02:42And you felt just like he was a member of your family when you met him.
02:49In fact, it was a little difficult to really realize that he was a president, because he
02:55was so, so down on the same level with you.
02:59I mean, you felt a closeness to him.
03:03For more than three years, I've spoken about the new frontier.
03:08This is not a partisan term, and it's not the exclusive property of Republicans or Democrats.
03:14It refers instead to this nation's place in history, to the fact that we do stand on the
03:21edge of a great new era, filled with both crisis and opportunity, an era to be characterized by
03:29achievement and by challenge.
03:41Thursday afternoon, the presidential plane, Air Force One, depart San Antonio and touches
03:47down at Houston.
04:02Mrs. Kennedy is making one of her first public appearances in several months, traveling with
04:08the presidential party, our vice president, Mrs. Johnson, and Texas governor, John Connolly.
04:15I can remember waiting, and I can remember watching the people and getting tired, and I'll
04:20probably wind a little bit.
04:22People saying, they're coming, they're coming.
04:25And the motorcade, it just seemed like a lot of motorcycles, a lot of cars.
04:33In Texas and the nation, change has been the law of life.
04:38Growth has meant new opportunities for this state.
04:41Progress has meant new achievements.
04:44And we dare not look back now.
04:47The presidential party moves on to Fort Worth, where the chief executive will spend the night
04:52and deliver several early morning speeches.
04:55A unique lighting display, normally seen on only two holidays a year.
05:00Fort Worth tribute to the president.
05:13The president's remarks to a group in a parking lot opposite the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth, Texas,
05:20November 22, 1963.
05:26Ladies and gentlemen, there are no faint hearts in Fort Worth.
05:30And I appreciate, I appreciate your being here this morning.
05:36I, Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself.
05:42It takes longer.
05:45But, of course, she looks better than we do, which she doesn't.
05:48But we appreciate your welcome.
05:50Thus begins the last day of his life.
05:53He will live less than four hours from this moment.
06:00The vice president and Texas governor, John Conley, applaud President Kennedy's entrance as he returns to his hotel for a
06:07breakfast with the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.
06:21The breakfast party awaits the arrival of Mrs. Kennedy.
06:48Mrs. Kennedy's entrance draws another comment from the president.
06:52Two years ago, I said that I introduced myself in Paris by saying that I was the man who had
06:56accompanied Mrs. Kennedy to Paris.
06:58I'm getting that somewhat that same sensation as I travel around Texas.
07:10Nobody wonders what Lyndon and I wear.
07:12But, you know.
07:24This is a very dangerous and uncertain world.
07:28We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.
07:33Balance of power is still on the side of freedom.
07:35We are still the keystone in the arts of freedom.
07:38And I think we will continue to do as we have done in our past, our duty.
07:43I'm confident that I look to the future, that our chances for security, our chances for peace, are better than
07:51they've been in the past.
07:52And the reason is because we're stronger.
07:54And with that strength is a determination to not only maintain the peace, but also the vital interest of the
08:01United States.
08:11The presidential jet leaves Fort Worth for the short flight to Dallas, where the president has a scheduled luncheon address.
08:18Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
08:20This is Bob Walker speaking from Dallas Love Field.
08:22This is the control tower at Dallas Love Field, where a large crowd is gathered now to await the arrival
08:29of President and Mrs. John Fitzgerald Kennedy from Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth.
08:35Circling the field all morning long from the early morning hours, and a huge contingent of police are on hand.
08:42Friday morning, 11.37.
08:45The president's jet lands at the Dallas airport.
08:48Love Field.
08:50It was in the newspapers.
08:52Yeah, I thought it'd be really neat for Dallas to have a president visit.
08:56So we had the television on, and we knew when they had left Fort Worth, and then we knew when
09:02they'd landed at Love Field.
09:04And by then, it was getting clearer and more sunny.
09:09There's Mrs. Kennedy, and the crowd yells, and the president of the United States.
09:17And I can see his son's hand all the way from here.
09:22Shaking hands now with the Dallas people, Governor and Mrs. Conley.
09:26Governor Conley on your left.
09:29He shook hands with us when he got off the airplane, and said, you're doing a good job.
09:36I thanked him.
09:39I wanted to vote for him in there.
09:42Come on.
09:43Crowd swarming around.
09:45The president and first lady.
09:49Hold on.
09:54Mrs. Kennedy stepping in the car first.
09:56Now the president.
09:58They both in the back seat now.
10:06Now the motorcade will very shortly start to move out.
10:12In 1963, I was an 8th grade student at Franklin D. Roosevelt High School.
10:19When we heard the president was coming to Dallas, we decided to skip school, skip some classes.
10:31The secret servicemen in the car behind.
10:34Then comes the vice president and Mrs. Johnson, Senator Yarborough.
10:39Now people over in this area are getting a chance to see the president.
10:48Head out for downtown Dallas, where thousands should already be on the street right now,
10:53waiting for a view of the president and his wife.
10:58And she had on that beautiful pink suit, and she was looking and waving, and then they moved
11:03on through downtown.
11:05And I still can't get over the fact that the president and his wife broke away from the
11:10planned trick to the automobile, and went all along this fence out here, right up to the
11:16fence, shaking hands and talking with these hundreds of people gathered inside that fenced-off
11:21area.
11:22This is a great thrill to them, and a complete surprise.
11:25Thousands will be on hand for that motorcade now, which will be downtown Dallas, down Cedar
11:32Springs, to Harwood, and on Harwood it will turn on Main, from which point it will go all
11:39the way down to the courthouse area, which is the end of Main.
11:42It will turn on Houston Street to Elm, under the triple underpass, out to the mart where
11:47the president talks at approximately 1 o'clock.
11:51Friday, 10 minutes before noon.
11:54The motorcade begins the 11-mile ride to the Dallas trademark, where the president is to
11:59deliver a major address.
12:01Governor and Mrs. Connolly ride in the presidential limousine.
12:03The reason for the trip was the maximum visibility and maximum exposure for President and Mrs.
12:10Kennedy, because they wanted as many people to be up close and personal to him as they
12:14possibly could get.
12:15And so that was the purpose of the trip, and that meant open cars no matter where we went.
12:20The agents were instructed to back off as much as possible.
12:25There were times when I got up very, very close, but it was because of the situation that developed.
12:46And we knew what the parade route was going to be.
12:50So we got downtown, and the crowd was just massive.
12:55There were lots and lots of people, and it was very crowded.
12:58And the map of the route was published in the paper, so people could go stand on a corner
13:05and see a president come by.
13:07We couldn't get up to where we were supposed to ride because there was so much people.
13:15But I know one thing, you don't get in between the president's car and the secret service.
13:24You just don't do it.
13:40Under normal circumstances, we've tried to stay as far away as we could to make them feel
13:48like they were just among their friends and people along the side of the street and wanted
13:55the people on the side of the street to feel like there was no barrier between them and
13:59the president and Mrs. Kennedy.
14:02I was in the immediate car behind them, the follow-up car, which we ran between about three
14:07to five feet between the two cars at all times, no matter what the speed.
14:22I was on the left-hand side of the running board of that car that was also an open car.
14:29There were eight agents in that car and two members of President Kennedy's staff.
14:46The president's car is now turning onto Elm Street and it will be only a matter of minutes
14:50before he arrives at the trademark.
14:52I was on Simmons freeway earlier and even the freeway was jam-packed with spectators waiting
14:56their chance to see the president as he made his way towards the trademark.
15:02the front-hand side of the street.
15:50It appears as though something has happened in the motorcade route.
15:54Something, I repeat, has happened in the motorcade route.
15:56There's numerous people running up the hill alongside Elm Street, there by the Simmons
16:02Freeway.
16:03Several police officers are rushing up the hill at this time, stand by just a moment please.
16:09Something has happened in the motorcade route, stand by please.
16:12Well I screamed at the driver to get to the hospital, but the agent in the right front
16:16seat, he also, he told the driver to get out of there, because that was what they were
16:22supposed to do, he was supposed to evacuate the area.
16:24When that bullet hit his head, a plume went up and I was behind the car and I was trying
16:32to, I went through that plume.
16:35It was all over me and all over my helmet and my glasses and everything.
16:40I've seen everybody was converging on the school book repository.
16:46So I also went, we had the building surrounded.
16:52This lady and I walked casually one block back to our office, went back in the building, the
17:00TV was still on and Walter Cronkite said.
17:04Three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas.
17:09I looked around the room and said that's the worst joke I have ever, ever heard.
17:14We just saw him.
17:15And we were running above 70 miles an hour as we traveled down the Stemmins freeway.
17:21And I was lying up on the back seat.
17:24Parkland Hospital, there has been a shooting.
17:26Parkland Hospital has been advised to stand by for a severe gunshot wound.
17:30I repeat, a shooting in the motorcade in the downtown area.
17:34Parkland Hospital has been advised to stand by for a severe gunshot wound.
17:37First reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting.
17:43The President's car is now going past me.
17:46The limousine is now traveling at a very high rate of speed.
17:49Secret Service men standing up in the limousine.
17:51They are armed with submachine guns.
17:53It appears as though someone in the limousine might have been hit by the gunfire.
17:58This hour, as you can see, there are small clusters of people gathered around the small
18:04transistor radios trying to find out what is the latest regarding the reported shooting
18:11of the President.
18:14Put me on, Phil.
18:15Put me on.
18:17Phil, am I on?
18:19We're here at the trademark.
18:21The motorcade is coming by here.
18:23I can see many, many motorcycles coming by now.
18:25Police motorcycles.
18:26Just heard a call on the radio for all units along industrial to pick up the motorcade.
18:31Something has happened here.
18:32We understand there has been a shooting.
18:34According to the information that we have at this hour, the attempted assassination took
18:40place at Elm and Houston Street as the President's party was preparing to go under the triple
18:48overpass and come out here to the trademark.
18:54That just couldn't be true.
18:56They've given him the wrong story.
18:58It's not so.
19:00I called my mother because she listened to the radio news all the time.
19:05And she said, yes, that's what she had heard and that they were in route to Parkland Hospital
19:10at that time.
19:11The presidential car coming up now.
19:13We know it's the presidential car.
19:14You can see Mrs. Kennedy's pink suit.
19:16There's a secret service man spread eagle over the top of the car.
19:19We understand Governor and Mrs. Connelly are in the car with President and Mrs. Kennedy.
19:22We can't see who has been hit, if anybody's been hit, but apparently something is wrong here.
19:26Something is terribly wrong.
19:28I'm in behind the motorcade.
19:29It looks as though they're going to Parkland Hospital.
19:32At this time, the announcement has not been made to the several thousand who are here in
19:38the trademark as to what has happened.
19:41Details are still sketchy.
19:43The only thing that we have at this time is the report that the President is at Parkland Hospital,
19:50that Governor John Connelly was also wounded, and that a Secret Service agent was killed.
19:57According to the best reports that we have at this time, there were only three shots fired,
20:03and apparently all of them struck true.
20:07I'm not sure if the city council or the mayor or who, but they issued requests that all the companies
20:14close in downtown, send their employees home as soon as possible.
20:19We're on the road to Parkland at this time.
20:22The Secret Service man is still spread eagle over whoever is in the car,
20:26the President and Mrs. Kennedy, and as we understand, Governor and Mrs. Connelly.
20:29At this point, it looks as though it could have been one or two or even all of the people
20:33within the car
20:33may have been the victims, may have been struck by shots.
20:36We don't know.
20:37We knew something had happened.
20:39The emergency broadcast tone came on, and he asked everybody to be quiet,
20:44and he turned up the radio that was on the bus, and there was an announcement that the President had
20:52been shot.
21:02Parkland Hospital in the distance.
21:04Now we're on Harry Hines Boulevard, following behind the motorcade.
21:07Many, many police officers, maybe 20 or 25 motorcycle policemen, falling in behind at trademarks.
21:14A huge crowd left behind, waiting expectantly to see the President.
21:17The motorcade now, motorcade now perhaps, two or three blocks ahead of me.
21:22They're approaching the entrance now to Parkland Hospital, traveling at a high rate of speed.
21:26Already police cars converging on Parkland from every single, from every point.
21:31I'm pulling in now toward Parkland Hospital, coming to the approach.
21:34There's an officer waving me down.
21:36He's waving me around. There's a cordon.
21:38There's already a cordon of police officers running from their cars, from their vehicles here.
21:43The official body, as I can see it, pulling around toward the emergency room of Parkland Hospital.
21:47The policeman says, no, you cannot come in here. You cannot come in here.
21:50We'll let nobody else in. It was definitely the President's car.
21:54We could see the first lady's paint suit.
21:56That's the only identification we could see, but we know it is the President's car.
21:59Another car directly behind the presidential car.
22:02There were also bodies in that car.
22:04Another secret service man spread eagle over them. We don't know.
22:07Perhaps there was some hit in that car as well. We're not sure.
22:11These shots apparently came from the fifth floor of the Texas bookstore depository building.
22:16Possibly from an automatic type of weapon.
22:19Police were looking for a young white man dressed in a white shirt with Levi's carrying a lever action type
22:26rifle.
22:27One witness told reporters that he had seen the rifle disappearing from that window after the shots were fired.
22:34In downtown Dallas, President Kennedy was shot today just as his motorcade left downtown Dallas.
22:41Mrs. Kennedy jumped up and grabbed Mr. Kennedy. She cried, oh no. The motorcade sped on.
22:47A photographer said he saw blood on the President's head. It was believed two shots were fired.
22:54And just now we've received reports here at Parkland that Governor Connolly was shot in the upper left chest.
23:00And the first unconfirmed reports say the President was hit in the head.
23:04That's an unconfirmed report that the President was hit in the head.
23:07After the shots were fired, he happened to look up at about the fifth or sixth floor.
23:10The CIA has been given a blood transfusion at Parkland Hospital here in Dallas in an effort to save his
23:13life in downtown Dallas.
23:15A priest has been ordered. Emergency supplies of blood also being rushed.
23:18The President of the United States is dead. I have just talked to Father Oscar Hubert of the Holy Trinity
23:25Catholic Church.
23:27He and another priest tell me that the pair of men have just administered the last rights of the Catholic
23:32Church to President Kennedy.
23:35President Kennedy has been assassinated. It's official now. The President is dead.
23:41Women here in shock. Some fainted. Secret Service men standing by the emergency room. Tears streaming down their face.
23:50There's only one word to describe the picture here and that's grief and much of it.
23:56It's official. As of just a few moments ago, the President of the United States is dead.
24:16From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official, President Kennedy died at 1 p.m. Central Standard Time, 2 o'clock
24:27Eastern Standard Time, some 38 minutes ago.
24:36Vice President Lyndon Johnson has left the hospital in Dallas, but we do not know to where he has proceeded.
24:45Presumably, he will be taking the oath of office shortly and become the 36th President of the United States.
24:53The jacket will fit tightly around the hips, keeping that straight, sleek look that it should have. And very often,
25:00you'll find a zipper hidden in the arm.
25:07You'll excuse me if I am out of breath. A bulletin. This is from the United Press from Dallas.
25:12President Kennedy and Governor John Colony have been cut down by assassin's bullets in downtown Dallas.
25:17They were riding in an open automobile when the shots were fired. The President, his limp body, carried in the
25:22arms of his wife.
25:23Jacqueline has rushed to Parkland Hospital. Here's a piece of copy that was rushed to me and was torn off
25:29from the United Press in Dallas.
25:30President Kennedy has been shot in Dallas, has been shot in Dallas, Texas. He was shot as a motorcade left
25:35downtown Dallas.
25:45At 1.33, a White House aide briefs news map. John F. Kennedy died at approximately 1 o'clock Central
25:54Standard Time today here in Dallas. He died of a gunshot wound in the brain. I have no other details.
26:07Regarding the assassination of the President.
26:09Was Mrs. Kennedy hit?
26:10Mrs. Kennedy was not hit.
26:12Was Conley hit?
26:13Governor Conley was hit.
26:15I turned to my left. I was sitting in the jump seat. I turned to my left to look in
26:20the back seat. The President had slumped. He had said nothing. Almost simultaneously. As I turned, I was hit. And
26:30I knew I'd been hit badly.
26:34And I said, I knew the President had been hit. And I said, my God, they're going to kill us
26:40all.
26:41The President was shot once.
26:42Where is Mrs. Kennedy?
26:43In the head.
26:45Mrs. Kennedy will be returning to Washington.
26:50Was he still on arrival here?
26:52No, he was not.
26:54No, he did not.
27:11One suspect has been apprehended, according to Dallas police, a young man who denies anything to do with the shooting.
27:16The suspect had entered the Texas theater some five blocks away.
27:21If we can, we will try to clear up this arrest which is taking place in Dallas.
27:26As Officer McDonnell approached a suspect sitting on the third row from the back of the theater, the suspect jumped
27:32up, yelled, this is it, and took a swing at the officer.
27:36And some extra news which has come in since we started.
27:39A 24-year-old man, Lee H. Oswald, was arrested by Dallas police in connection with the murder of the
27:45policeman.
27:46He was taken screaming from a cinema.
27:48Police are questioning him to find out whether he has any connection with the murder of the President.
27:51Officer McDonnell started to grapple with the man as he reached for a gun which was concealed under his shirt.
27:59And the gun was fired one time by the suspect, but luckily it misfired.
28:06The pin hit the shell, but it did not fire.
28:09The pistol was taken from Oswald after a scuffle.
28:12The police said Oswald told them, well, it's all over now.
28:15No, no, no.
28:18Sir?
28:18Did you shoot the President?
28:19I work in that building.
28:21Were you in the building behind?
28:22Naturally, if I work in that building, yes, sir.
28:25Back up, man!
28:26Did you shoot the President?
28:27No, they've taken me in because of the fact that I live in the Soviet Union.
28:31I'm just a patsy.
28:33Did you shoot the President?
28:37Good going.
28:57Mr. Kennedy's body is to lie in state tomorrow at the White House.
29:00The President's body is due in Washington at 11 o'clock GMT tonight.
29:03It will be taken first to the Bethesda Naval Hospital.
29:07President Kennedy's two children, Carolyn, age five, and John, nearly three,
29:11have so far not been told of their father's death, the White House spokesman said tonight.
29:16He said the children were at the White House in the care of their nurse.
29:21President Kennedy's body is to be placed aboard Air Force One for the flight back to Washington.
29:26And the President's body, with the police motorcycle escort, is now pulling away from the hospital.
29:35There were three of us sitting up with a casket in the back of the airs all the way to
29:39Love Field.
29:41It is about one and a half hour since he was shot.
29:47And we got to Love Field.
29:48They all carried the casket up the stairs to the rear door of Air Force One.
29:53We had to tear the handles off in order to get in the Air Force One.
29:57The chief engineers for the Air Force One had all the seats removed in a certain portion of the back
30:04of the aircraft.
30:06Vice President and Mrs. Johnson were also on board.
30:09And he had been conferring with Washington and had received instructions that he should be sworn in while we were
30:15still on the ground in Dallas.
30:18At 2.38 in the forward cabin of Air Force One, a necessary ceremony.
30:23I solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States
30:37And will to the best of my building.
30:39And will to the best of my building.
30:41Reserve.
30:42Reserve.
30:43Protect.
30:44Depends.
30:45Depends.
30:46Constitutions of the United States.
30:49Constitutions of the United States.
30:51There's no help to go.
30:53Air Force One, this is the Air Force Command Post.
30:56If possible, request the names of the passengers on board, please.
31:01We have 40 plus.
31:03Go ahead.
31:0440 people, is that affirmative?
31:06It's affirmative.
31:07Can you tell me in regards to one and two, or the top people?
31:13Roger.
31:14The President is on board.
31:18The body is on board.
31:19And the business company is on board.
31:22All right.
31:23Can you affirm once again your takeoff time and your estimated time for arrival, Andrews?
31:272-0-4-7, takeoff time.
31:30Andrews, 2-3-0-5.
31:41A Capitol still paralyzed by shock.
31:44Sad tasks are ahead.
31:46It is arranged that the President's body will first lie in repose at the White House.
31:50Then it will be moved to the rotunda of the Capitol for public homage.
31:55What you see is a special truck that has been moved up to the rear of the presidential jet.
32:00A special truck on which the coffin will be brought out.
32:05The casket is Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy.
32:09To her right is her brother-in-law, the Attorney General, Robert Kennedy.
32:16They are helping her down out of that carrier that has just brought down the casket.
32:23So, events which started swiftly, completely unexpectedly and shockingly in Dallas only a matter of about five hours ago have
32:36gone virtually full circle.
32:38The President and the late President are, in a sense, back home.
32:43This is a sad time for all people.
32:48We have suffered a loss that cannot be waived.
32:53For me, it is a deep personal tragedy.
32:58I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear.
33:06Well, messages from everybody in the world, from people all over the world, are pouring into Washington. Here are some
33:12of them.
33:12It took my breath away at first. Actually, I couldn't figure out why anybody would want to do such a
33:17thing to a bloke in his position.
33:19Actually, it just took all the wind out of me. I felt absolutely deflated about it.
33:24As a man of God, I would say that I felt the impact of the sniper's bullet.
33:28I would also say that I felt the pain that the President had in his dying moment.
33:34I was quite shocked because, actually, I'm not from England. I'm from Australia.
33:38And, generally, he was very well liked there and he had great support everywhere.
33:42I was very shocked. I still can't believe that he's not there anymore.
33:46I think the person who ever shot him must have been a nutcase. There's no other word for him.
33:49I think it's terrible what happened.
33:51The assassins and the would-be assassins of American Presidents are an ill-assorted collection of men.
33:57It could be said that their shadow has hung over the Presidency ever since George Washington took the first oath
34:03of office in 1789.
34:05I was shocked and almost beyond belief. I was at work when I first heard of it in Richmond and
34:11knew somebody came into the office and mentioned something about it.
34:15It's still almost, it's still too much to believe. I'm very saddened by the horrible thing that happened.
34:21I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help and God's.
34:46What the world needs now is love, sweet love. It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
35:03Shortly before the dawn of Saturday morning, John Fitzgerald Kennedy comes home to the White House.
35:10He had been the nation's 35th President for a period of two years and ten months.
35:15Lord, we don't need another mountain. There are mountains and hillsides, enough to climb. There are oceans and rivers, enough
35:32to cross, enough to last till the end of time.
35:37What the world needs now is love, sweet love. It's the only thing that there's just too little of.
35:53What the world needs now is love, sweet love. No, not just for some, but for everyone.
36:04There is a deeply human quality about the scene out here in Lafayette Park today.
36:10While across the street, President Lyndon Johnson and other high officials of the government have been going into the White
36:16House to see the body of the late President Kennedy lying in repose.
36:20There is a lot of people out here in Lafayette Park, despite a great day, despite the driving rain.
36:25People have been standing all morning, huddled under umbrellas, just standing and watching.
36:42I think that everybody has their own reactions to this terrible thing that happened to President Kennedy, but I think
36:51that this weather, this downpour sums it up for everybody.
36:54I just think it's terrible.
36:57What is your name, please?
36:58Dolores Birschbach.
37:00And you're from where?
37:01Washington.
37:01What are your reactions today?
37:03I still don't really know what to think.
37:06I don't think I've ever felt so depressed about anything.
37:08I guess all everybody can do is just pray that everything works out okay.
37:13Our government is led in the right hands, and that's all.
37:19To Dallas, Texas, and Tom Pettit.
37:23There is a president.
37:25There is Lee Oswald.
37:29He's been shot.
37:30He's been shot.
37:32Lee Oswald has been shot.
37:34We have recalled the agony of November the 22nd, 1963.
37:41We have not tried to ask why, because we do not believe there is an answer to that question.
37:47We have most humbly tried to build up a memory which can survive.
37:54There's a man with a gun.
37:56Absolute panic.
37:58Absolute panic here in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters.
38:02Detectives have their guns drawn.
38:04Oswald has been shot.
38:06There is no question about it.
38:08Oswald has been shot.
38:11Pandemonium has broken loose here in the basement of Dallas Police Headquarters.
38:33It is.
38:37Now, whether the bullet literally hit Oswald or not, we are not absolutely positive.
38:44But there has been a gunshot.
38:50Oswald reached for his stomach, doubled up.
38:54It will be impossible to determine whether he was hit or not.
38:57The sound of the muffled drum sweeps in melancholy waves over the hushed throng.
39:02A hush broken only by a stifled sob, a murmured prayer.
39:06A whole people is lifted up in common sorrow and ennobled in their hearts.
39:11Down this avenue of sadness, they bring President John F. Kennedy, martyred hero, to lie in state under the great
39:17dome of the Capitol.
39:19Let's go.
39:23Let's go.
39:23Let's go.
39:23Let's go.
39:24Let's go.
39:25Let's go.
39:26Did you see whether or not he was hit?
39:28He was hit.
39:29He grabbed himself on the side and fell to the ground.
39:31I don't understand.
39:32That was my understanding.
39:33We were, what, four feet away from him.
39:35I was five feet in front of him when they shot.
39:37What is your name?
39:38Frank Johnson.
39:39Your wife.
39:40UPI.
39:40He did grab his stomach.
39:42I saw him grab his stomach.
39:43Right from the side.
39:44I'm not looking in a shining world in your heart.
39:51No doubt.
40:14Oh.
40:14It's virtually impossible to determine the direction from which the bullet came, although police, obviously, in a rather excited state,
40:28are attempting to determine where the shot came from.
40:34Mrs. Kennedy begins the long hours of her public grief with a courageous dignity that has marked each moment of
40:40her ordeal.
40:41Caroline and John seem to mirror their mother's poise.
40:44With President Johnson and Robert Kennedy, he is in the van of the mourners who will pay their respects in
40:50the historic rotunda of the Capitol.
40:52Welcome, yes.
40:55Stars shining bright above you
41:00Night breezes seem to whisper, I love you
41:07Birds singing in the sycamore tree
41:12Dream a little dream of me
41:20Say nighty night and kiss me
41:25Just hold me tight and tell me you'll miss me
41:31While I'm alone and blue as can be
41:37Dream a little dream of me
41:44Stars fading but I linger on there
41:49Still craving your kiss
41:56I'm longing to bring your children here
42:01Just take this
42:08Members of the Kennedy family
42:10Members of the Kennedy family
42:12And my fellow Americans
42:14There are few events
42:16There are few events
42:17In our national life
42:20That so unite Americans
42:24So touch the hearts of all of us
42:27As the passing of a President of the United States
42:32Well, I think that we all are more than with any other President
42:37I think the people of the United States have identified themselves with the Kennedy family
42:41And I think the grief that we all feel at this event
42:46This tragedy is much more real and much more personal than if it would have happened to other Presidents
42:54It doesn't seem possible
42:56It seems to be such a waste and such a tragedy
43:01It's just not
43:04It doesn't seem possible
43:15There is nothing that adds shock to our sadness
43:21More than the assassination of our leader
43:25Chosen as he is
43:27To embody the ideals of our people
43:31The faith we have in our institutions
43:34And our belief in the fatherhood of God
43:38And the brotherhood of man
43:42Such misfortunes have befallen the nation on other occasions
43:47But never more shockingly than two days ago
43:57He said, uh, well, if anyone's ever gonna shoot me, uh, this would be the day they should do it
44:02Oh, really?
44:03He said, I'll never talk this
44:06You know, those things come back now
44:12You went to the airport today
44:14Yeah
44:14Did you like it?
44:16Yes
44:17John, what happened to your father?
44:24He's gone to heaven
44:26He's gone to heaven?
44:27Yeah
44:27Do you remember him?
44:29Yeah
44:29What do you remember?
44:32I don't remember
44:33I don't remember anything
44:38We in this country
44:41In this generation
44:43Are by destiny rather than choice
44:47The watchman on the walls of world freedom
44:51We ask, therefore
44:54That we may be worthy of our power and responsibility
44:58That we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint
45:03And that we may achieve in our time and for all time
45:06The ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward man
45:12That must always be our goal
45:15And the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength
45:20For as was written long ago
45:23Except the Lord keep the city
45:27The watchman waketh but in vain
45:32My
45:32He
45:33Te
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