1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.BZ 2 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:05,040 MUSIC: California Dreamin' by The Mamas andamp; the Papas 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.BZ 4 00:00:08,200 --> 00:00:11,680 All the leaves are brown 5 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:12,720 6 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:15,360 And will to the best of my ability. Preserve, protect, 7 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:19,360 and defend the constitution of the United States. 8 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:23,680 Preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. 9 00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:25,000 So help you God. 10 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:26,600 So help me, God. 11 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,640 We choose to go to the moon in this decay 12 00:00:29,680 --> 00:00:31,400 and do the other things, 13 00:00:31,440 --> 00:00:35,040 not because they are easy, but because they are hard. 14 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:39,560 Because that goal will serve to organise and measure 15 00:00:39,600 --> 00:00:42,720 the best of our energies and skills, 16 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:46,600 because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept. 17 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:48,880 One we are unwilling to postpone, 18 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,120 and one we intend to win. And the others, too. 19 00:00:54,200 --> 00:00:57,080 20 00:01:02,240 --> 00:01:04,560 MUSIC: What The World Needs Is Love by Jackie DeShannon 21 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:11,560 now is love, sweet love 22 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:18,040 there's just too little of 23 00:01:18,080 --> 00:01:24,640 now is love, sweet love 24 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:27,000 25 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:35,000 every, every, everyone. 26 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,120 MUSIC: Stand By Me by Ben E King 27 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,800 28 00:02:18,640 --> 00:02:20,560 ARCHIVE: President Kennedy went to Texas 29 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:22,960 to take his programme to the people. 30 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:27,920 He had carried the state by only a narrow margin in the 1960 election. 31 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:32,520 There was dissension there over his strong civil rights programme. 32 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:35,600 Ultraconservative elements were critical, bitterly so, 33 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:38,960 of the administration's foreign policy, 34 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:41,200 and yet the crowds that greeted the president 35 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,560 and Mrs Kennedy were friendly. 36 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:46,280 You felt just like he was 37 00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:49,280 a member of your family when you met him. 38 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:53,280 In fact, it was a little difficult to really realise 39 00:02:53,320 --> 00:02:54,920 that he was a President, 40 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:59,360 because he was so down on the same level with you. 41 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:03,800 I mean, you felt a closeness to him. 42 00:03:03,840 --> 00:03:08,760 More than three years I've spoken about the new frontier. 43 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:10,920 This is not a partisan term, 44 00:03:10,960 --> 00:03:14,800 and it's not the exclusive property of Republicans or Democrats. 45 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:19,160 It refers instead to this nation's place in history, 46 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:23,040 to the fact that we do stand on the edge of a great new era, 47 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,680 filled with both crisis and opportunity. 48 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:31,440 An era to be characterised by achievement and by challenge. 49 00:03:31,480 --> 00:03:32,800 APPLAUSE 50 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:44,160 ARCHIVE: Thursday afternoon, the presidential plane, 51 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:48,120 Air Force One, departs San Antonio and touches down at Houston. 52 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:04,920 Mrs Kennedy is making one of her first 53 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:08,080 public appearances in several months. 54 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:09,880 Travelling with the Presidential Party 55 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:15,840 are Vice President and Mrs Johnson and Texas Governor John Connally. 56 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:17,080 I can remember waiting, 57 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,440 and I can remember watching the people and getting tired, 58 00:04:20,480 --> 00:04:22,320 and I probably whined a little bit. 59 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,600 People saying, "They're coming. They're coming." 60 00:04:25,640 --> 00:04:27,520 And the motorcade, 61 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:33,640 it just seemed like a lot of motorcycles, a lot of cars. 62 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:38,600 In Texas and the nation, change has been the law of life. 63 00:04:38,640 --> 00:04:41,920 Growth has meant new opportunities for this state. 64 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:47,840 Progress has meant new achievements, and we dare not look back now. 65 00:04:47,880 --> 00:04:50,360 ARCHIVE: The presidential party moves on to Fort Worth, 66 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:52,440 where the chief executive will spend the night 67 00:04:52,480 --> 00:04:55,840 and deliver several early morning speeches. 68 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:59,840 A unique lighting display normally seen on only two holidays a year, 69 00:04:59,880 --> 00:05:01,920 Fort Worth's tribute to the President. 70 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:08,200 MUSIC: I Say A Little Prayer by Aretha Franklin 71 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:15,880 ARCHIVE: The president's remarks to a group 72 00:05:15,920 --> 00:05:19,080 in a parking lot opposite the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth, 73 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:22,280 Texas, November 22nd, 1963. 74 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:28,360 Ladies and gentlemen, 75 00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:31,040 there are no faint hearts in Fort Worth, 76 00:05:31,080 --> 00:05:32,800 and I appreciate... APPLAUSE 77 00:05:34,920 --> 00:05:38,520 I appreciate your being here this morning. 78 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:42,160 Mrs Kennedy is organising herself. 79 00:05:42,200 --> 00:05:43,760 It takes longer... LAUGHTER 80 00:05:45,480 --> 00:05:48,560 But, of course, she looks better than we do when she doesn't, 81 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,000 but we appreciate your welcome. 82 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,400 Thus begins the last day of his life. 83 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:56,080 He will live less than four hours from this moment. 84 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,640 The Vice President and Texas Governor John Conley 85 00:06:03,680 --> 00:06:05,640 applaud President Kennedy home, 86 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:07,720 as he returns to his hotel for a breakfast 87 00:06:07,760 --> 00:06:10,160 with the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. 88 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:25,880 The breakfast party awaits the arrival of Mrs Kennedy. 89 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:27,480 90 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,560 be to live without you 91 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:32,720 92 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,240 93 00:06:36,280 --> 00:06:38,440 94 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:40,960 heart and I will love you 95 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:42,600 96 00:06:42,640 --> 00:06:45,960 oh, how I love you 97 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:48,560 98 00:06:48,600 --> 00:06:50,160 ARCHIVE: Mrs Kennedy's entrance 99 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,280 draws another comment from the president. 100 00:06:52,320 --> 00:06:53,880 Two years ago. I said that, uh, 101 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:56,160 introduced myself in Paris by saying that I was 102 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:58,920 the man who had accompanied, uh, Mrs Kennedy to Paris. 103 00:06:58,960 --> 00:07:00,840 I'm getting that somewhat, that same sensation, 104 00:07:00,880 --> 00:07:03,200 uh, as I travel around, uh, Texas. 105 00:07:10,320 --> 00:07:12,640 Nobody wonders what Lyndon and I wear. 106 00:07:12,680 --> 00:07:14,080 LAUGHTER 107 00:07:25,200 --> 00:07:28,360 This is a very dangerous and uncertain world. 108 00:07:28,400 --> 00:07:30,840 We would like to live as we once lived. 109 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:33,000 But history will not permit it. 110 00:07:33,040 --> 00:07:35,560 Balance of power is still on the side of freedom. 111 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:38,400 We are still the keystone in the arch of freedom, 112 00:07:38,440 --> 00:07:43,320 and I think we'll continue to do as we have done in our past, our duty. 113 00:07:43,360 --> 00:07:46,400 I'm confident, as I look to the future, 114 00:07:46,440 --> 00:07:49,320 that our chances for security, 115 00:07:49,360 --> 00:07:52,840 our chances for peace are better than they've been in the past. 116 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:55,080 And the reason is because we're stronger. 117 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,800 And with that strength is a determination 118 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,000 to not only maintain the peace, 119 00:08:00,040 --> 00:08:02,560 but also the vital interest of the United States. 120 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:13,960 ARCHIVE: The presidential jet leaves Fort Worth 121 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:15,480 for the short flight to Dallas, 122 00:08:15,520 --> 00:08:18,440 where the president has a scheduled luncheon address. 123 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:19,800 Good morning ladies and gentlemen. 124 00:08:19,840 --> 00:08:22,720 This is Bob Walker speaking from Dallas Love Field. 125 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:25,760 This is the control tower at Dallas Love Field, 126 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,440 where a large crowd is gathered now to 127 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:32,200 await the arrival of President and Mrs John Fitzgerald Kennedy 128 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:35,120 from Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth. 129 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,480 Circling the field all morning long from the early morning hours, 130 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:43,200 and a huge contingent of police are on hand. 131 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:46,040 ARCHIVE: Friday morning, 11:37, 132 00:08:46,080 --> 00:08:50,320 the president's jet lands at the Dallas Airport, Love Field. 133 00:08:50,360 --> 00:08:51,640 It was in the newspapers. 134 00:08:51,680 --> 00:08:55,280 Yeah, I thought it'd, it'd be really neat for Dallas to have 135 00:08:55,320 --> 00:08:56,960 a president visit. 136 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:58,560 So we had the television on, 137 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:01,280 and we knew when they had left Fort Worth 138 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:04,560 and then we knew when they landed at Love Field. 139 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:09,240 And by then, it was getting clearer and more sunny. 140 00:09:09,280 --> 00:09:12,280 There's Mrs Kennedy and the crowd yells, 141 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:16,080 and the President of the United States. 142 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:22,320 And I can see his sun tan all the way from here. 143 00:09:22,360 --> 00:09:24,240 Shaking hands now with the Dallas people, 144 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:29,840 Governor and Mrs Connally, Governor Connally on your left. 145 00:09:29,880 --> 00:09:33,560 He shook hand with us when he got off the airplane, and, 146 00:09:33,600 --> 00:09:37,200 and, uh, said, "You're doing a good job." 147 00:09:37,240 --> 00:09:38,360 I thanked him. 148 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:43,920 I would have voted for him in that. Come on. 149 00:09:43,960 --> 00:09:47,480 Crowds swarming around the President and First Lady. 150 00:09:54,920 --> 00:09:57,800 Mrs Kennedy stepping in the car first. Now the president. 151 00:09:57,840 --> 00:09:59,880 They're both in the back-seat now. 152 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:10,840 Now the motorcade will very shortly start to move out. 153 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:14,120 In 1963, 154 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:16,400 I was an eighth grade student 155 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:19,080 at Franklin D Roosevelt High School. 156 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:22,120 When we heard the president was coming to Dallas, 157 00:10:22,160 --> 00:10:25,440 we decided to skip school, skip some classes. 158 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:33,800 The secret servicemen, the car behind. 159 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,360 Uh, then comes the Vice President and Mrs Johnson, 160 00:10:36,400 --> 00:10:37,720 Senator Yarborough. 161 00:10:39,600 --> 00:10:41,520 Now people over in this area 162 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:44,240 are getting a chance to see the President. 163 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:49,920 Head out for downtown Dallas, 164 00:10:49,960 --> 00:10:53,920 where thousands should already be on the street right now 165 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:58,680 waiting for a view of the President and his wife. 166 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:00,800 And she had on that beautiful pink suit, 167 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:02,920 and she was looking and waving. 168 00:11:02,960 --> 00:11:06,160 And then they moved on through downtown. 169 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:08,440 And I still can get over the fact that the President 170 00:11:08,480 --> 00:11:11,120 and his wife broke away from the planned, 171 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:15,760 uh, trick to the automobile and went all along this fence out here, 172 00:11:15,800 --> 00:11:17,440 right up to the fence, shaking hands 173 00:11:17,480 --> 00:11:20,040 and talking with these hundreds of people 174 00:11:20,080 --> 00:11:22,480 gathered inside that fenced off area. 175 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:25,640 It was a great thrill to them and a complete surprise. 176 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:27,880 Thousands will be on hand for that motorcade now, 177 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:30,200 which will be downtown Dallas, 178 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:35,520 uh, down, uh, Cedar Springs to Harwood. 179 00:11:35,560 --> 00:11:37,680 And on Harwood, it'll turn on Maine, 180 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:39,840 from which point it'll go all the way down 181 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:42,480 to the courthouse area, which is the end of Maine. 182 00:11:42,520 --> 00:11:44,280 It'll turn on, uh, 183 00:11:44,320 --> 00:11:46,800 Houston Street to Elm under the triple underpass 184 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:48,920 out to the mart where the President talks at, 185 00:11:48,960 --> 00:11:51,160 uh, approximately one o'clock. 186 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:54,120 ARCHIVE: Friday, ten minutes before noon, 187 00:11:54,160 --> 00:11:57,840 the motorcade begins the 11 mile ride to the Dallas Trade Mart, 188 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,160 where the president is to deliver a major address. 189 00:12:01,200 --> 00:12:04,320 Governor and Mrs Connally ride in the presidential limousine. 190 00:12:04,360 --> 00:12:07,440 The reason for the trip was maximum visibility 191 00:12:07,480 --> 00:12:11,080 and maximum exposure for President and Mrs Kennedy, 192 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:14,160 because they wanted as many people to be up close and personal to them 193 00:12:14,200 --> 00:12:15,440 as they possibly could get. 194 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,720 And so that was the purpose of the trip. 195 00:12:17,760 --> 00:12:20,200 That meant open cars no matter where we went. 196 00:12:20,240 --> 00:12:22,960 The agents were instructed 197 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:25,400 to back off as much as possible. 198 00:12:25,440 --> 00:12:27,840 There were times when I got up very, very close, 199 00:12:27,880 --> 00:12:30,440 but it was because of the situation that developed. 200 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:49,720 We knew what the parade route was gonna be. 201 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:55,200 So we got downtown, and the crowd was just massive. 202 00:12:55,240 --> 00:12:58,960 There were lots and lots of people, and it was very crowded. 203 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,760 And the map of the route was published in the paper, 204 00:13:01,800 --> 00:13:08,000 so people could go stand on a corner and see a president come by. 205 00:13:08,040 --> 00:13:11,840 We couldn't, uh, get up till we were supposed to ride 206 00:13:11,880 --> 00:13:15,200 cos there was so many people. 207 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:17,600 But, uh, I know one thing. 208 00:13:17,640 --> 00:13:20,680 You don't get in between the President's car 209 00:13:20,720 --> 00:13:24,560 and secret service. 210 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:26,000 You just don't do it! 211 00:13:40,640 --> 00:13:42,400 Under normal circumstances, 212 00:13:42,440 --> 00:13:45,840 we've tried to stay as far away as we as we could 213 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:49,200 to make them, uh, feel like 214 00:13:49,240 --> 00:13:51,760 that they were just among their friends 215 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:54,280 and people along the side of the street 216 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:56,320 and, uh, wanted the people inside the street 217 00:13:56,360 --> 00:13:58,880 to feel like there was no barrier between them 218 00:13:58,920 --> 00:14:02,240 and the President and Mrs Kennedy. 219 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,800 I was in the immediate car behind with the follow-up car, 220 00:14:05,840 --> 00:14:08,920 which we ran between about three to five feet 221 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:12,320 between the two cars at all times, no matter what the speed. 222 00:14:22,480 --> 00:14:26,880 Uh, I was on the left-hand side of the running board of that car, 223 00:14:26,920 --> 00:14:29,520 that was also an open car. 224 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:31,240 There were eight agents in that car 225 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,600 and two members of President Kennedy's staff. 226 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:48,880 ARCHIVE: President's car is now turning onto Elm Street, 227 00:14:48,920 --> 00:14:50,680 and it will be only a matter of minutes 228 00:14:50,720 --> 00:14:52,440 before he arrives at the Trade Mart. 229 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:53,840 I was on Simmons Freeway earlier, 230 00:14:53,880 --> 00:14:56,000 and even the freeway was jam packed with spectators, 231 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,000 waiting their chance to see the president 232 00:14:58,040 --> 00:15:00,080 as he made his way towards the Trade Mart. 233 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:16,440 GUNFIRE 234 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:54,280 I-It appears as though something has happened in the motorcade route! 235 00:15:54,320 --> 00:15:57,280 Something, I repeat, has happened in the motorcade route. 236 00:15:57,320 --> 00:16:01,040 There's numerous people running up the hill alongside Elm Street 237 00:16:01,080 --> 00:16:02,960 there by the Simmons Freeway. 238 00:16:03,000 --> 00:16:06,600 Several police officers are rushing up the hill at this time. 239 00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:08,760 Standby just a moment, please. 240 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:10,680 Something has happened in the motorcade route. 241 00:16:10,720 --> 00:16:12,000 Stand by, please. 242 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:14,480 Well, I screamed at the driver to get to the hospital, 243 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:17,240 but the agent in the right front seat, 244 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:20,440 he also, he told the driver to hit it, 245 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,240 get out of there, cos that was what they were supposed to do. 246 00:16:23,280 --> 00:16:24,760 We were supposed to evacuate the area. 247 00:16:24,800 --> 00:16:26,520 When that bullet hit his head, 248 00:16:26,560 --> 00:16:28,880 a plume went up, 249 00:16:28,920 --> 00:16:31,000 and I was behind the car, 250 00:16:31,040 --> 00:16:33,600 and I was trying to... 251 00:16:33,640 --> 00:16:35,000 I went through that plume. 252 00:16:36,120 --> 00:16:39,440 It was all over me and all over my helmet and my glasses, 253 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:41,280 and, uh, everything. 254 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:46,080 I seen everybody and was converging on the Schoolbook Depository. 255 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,200 So I also went... 256 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,120 We had the building surrounded. 257 00:16:53,160 --> 00:16:55,440 This lady and I walked casually 258 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:58,600 one block back to our office, 259 00:16:58,640 --> 00:17:00,320 went back in the building, 260 00:17:00,360 --> 00:17:04,760 the TV was still on, and Walter Cronkite said. 261 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:07,960 ARCHIVE: Three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade 262 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,280 in downtown Dallas. 263 00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:10,480 I looked around the room and said, 264 00:17:10,520 --> 00:17:14,360 that's the worst joke I have ever, ever heard. 265 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:16,040 We just saw him. 266 00:17:16,080 --> 00:17:19,640 And we were running about 70mph as we travelled down 267 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,600 the Stemmons Freeway, 268 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:24,640 and I was lying up on the back of the back-seat. 269 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:26,640 Parkland Hospital. There has been shooting. 270 00:17:26,680 --> 00:17:29,000 Parkland Hospital has been advised to stand by 271 00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:30,760 for a severe gunshot wound. 272 00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,200 I repeat a shooting in the motorcade in the downtown area. 273 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,240 Parkland Hospital has been advised to stand by 274 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,080 for a severe gunshot wound. 275 00:17:38,120 --> 00:17:41,720 First reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously 276 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,960 wounded by this shooting. 277 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:46,560 The President's car is now going past me. 278 00:17:46,600 --> 00:17:49,640 The limousine is now travelling at a very high rate of speed. 279 00:17:49,680 --> 00:17:51,840 Secret servicemen standing up in the limousine, 280 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:53,720 they are armed with some machine guns. 281 00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:56,080 It appears as though someone in the limousine 282 00:17:56,120 --> 00:17:58,960 might have been hit by the gunfire. 283 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:00,840 This hour, as you can see, 284 00:18:00,880 --> 00:18:04,040 there are small clusters of people gathered around 285 00:18:04,080 --> 00:18:07,320 small transistor radios trying to find out 286 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:14,320 what is the latest regarding the reported shooting of the President. 287 00:18:14,360 --> 00:18:17,600 RADIO: Put me on Phil, put me on! 288 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:18,640 Phil, am I on? 289 00:18:20,000 --> 00:18:21,320 We're here at the Trade Mart. 290 00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:23,160 The motorcade is coming by here. 291 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:25,560 I can see many, many motorcycles coming by now, 292 00:18:25,600 --> 00:18:29,000 police motorcycles, just had a call on the radio for all units, 293 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:31,600 along Industrial to pick up the motorcades. 294 00:18:31,640 --> 00:18:32,720 Something has happened here. 295 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:34,640 We understand there's been a shooting. 296 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:38,240 According to the information that we have at this hour, 297 00:18:38,280 --> 00:18:43,880 the attempted assassination took place at Elm and Houston Street 298 00:18:43,920 --> 00:18:47,000 as the President's party was preparing 299 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:51,640 to go under the triple overpass and come out here to the Trade Mart. 300 00:18:55,040 --> 00:18:58,320 That just couldn't be true. They've given him the wrong story. 301 00:18:58,360 --> 00:19:00,280 It's not so! 302 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:05,240 I call my mother cos she listened to the radio news all the time, 303 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:08,320 and she said, yes, that's what she had heard, 304 00:19:08,360 --> 00:19:11,800 and that they were in route to Parkland Hospital at that time. 305 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:13,320 The presidential car coming up now. 306 00:19:13,360 --> 00:19:16,160 We know it's a presidential car, you can see Mrs Kennedy's pink suit. 307 00:19:16,200 --> 00:19:19,320 There's a Secret Service man spread eagle over the top of the car. 308 00:19:19,360 --> 00:19:21,400 We understand Governor and Mrs Connally are in the car 309 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:23,000 with President and Mrs Kennedy. 310 00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,240 We can't see who has been hit, if anybody's been hit, 311 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:28,240 but apparently something is wrong here. Something is terribly wrong. 312 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:30,520 I'm in behind the motorcade trying to follow them, 313 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:32,520 it looks as though they're gonna Parkland Hospital. 314 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,520 At this time, the announcement has not been made 315 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:39,520 to the several thousand who are here in the Trade Mart 316 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:41,440 as to what has happened. 317 00:19:41,480 --> 00:19:43,680 Details are still sketchy. 318 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:46,480 The only thing that, uh, we have at this time 319 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:50,680 is the report that the president is at Parkland Hospital, 320 00:19:50,720 --> 00:19:54,360 that Governor John Connally was also wounded 321 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,560 and that a Secret Service agent was killed. 322 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,000 According to the best reports that we have at this time, 323 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,480 there were only three shots fired, 324 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:07,640 and apparently all of them struck true. 325 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,160 I'm not sure if the City Council, or the Mayor, or who, 326 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:15,080 but they issued requests that all the companies close 327 00:20:15,120 --> 00:20:19,640 in downtown, send their employees home as soon as possible. 328 00:20:19,680 --> 00:20:22,840 We're on the road to Parkland at this time. 329 00:20:22,880 --> 00:20:24,760 The Secret service man is still spread eagle 330 00:20:24,800 --> 00:20:26,920 over whoever is in the car, the President and Mrs Kennedy, 331 00:20:26,960 --> 00:20:29,840 and as we understand Governor and Mrs Connally. 332 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:32,000 At this point, it looks as though it could've been one or two 333 00:20:32,040 --> 00:20:34,360 or even all of the people within the car 334 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,320 may have been the victims, may have been struck by shots, we don't know! 335 00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:38,960 We knew something had happened. 336 00:20:39,000 --> 00:20:42,920 The emergency broadcast tone came on, 337 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:46,840 and he asked everybody to be quiet, and he, uh, 338 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,800 turned up the radio that was on the bus. 339 00:20:49,840 --> 00:20:53,000 And there was an announcement that the President had been shot. 340 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,920 Parkland Hospital in the distance on Harry Hines Boulevard. 341 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:07,720 Following behind the motorcade, 342 00:21:07,760 --> 00:21:09,160 many, many police officers, 343 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:14,640 maybe 20 or 25 motorcycle policemen falling in behind at Trade Mart. 344 00:21:14,680 --> 00:21:17,720 A huge crowd left behind, waiting expectedly to see the president. 345 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:19,040 The motorcade now... 346 00:21:19,080 --> 00:21:22,640 Motorcade now perhaps two or three blocks ahead of me. 347 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:25,000 They're approaching the entrance now to Parkland Hospital, 348 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:26,760 travelling at a high rate of speed, 349 00:21:26,800 --> 00:21:30,040 ready police cars converging on Parkland from every vehicle, 350 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,360 from every point. 351 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:33,200 I'm pulling in now toward Parkland Hospital, 352 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:37,000 coming to the approach. There's an officer waving me down. 353 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:38,640 He's waving me around. There's a cordon. 354 00:21:38,680 --> 00:21:41,960 There's already a cordon of police officers running from their cars, 355 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,360 from their vehicles here. 356 00:21:43,400 --> 00:21:45,080 The official party, as I can see it, 357 00:21:45,120 --> 00:21:47,480 pulling around toward the emergency room at Parkland Hospital. 358 00:21:47,520 --> 00:21:49,440 The policeman says, "No, you cannot come in here. 359 00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,280 "You cannot come in here. We'll let nobody else in." 360 00:21:52,320 --> 00:21:53,960 It was definitely the President's car. 361 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,120 We can see the First Lady's pink suit. 362 00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:57,880 That's the only identification we could see, 363 00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:59,760 but we know it is the President's car. 364 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:01,960 Another car directly behind the presidential car. 365 00:22:02,000 --> 00:22:04,120 There were also bodies in that car. 366 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,360 Another secret service man spread eagle over them. 367 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,760 We don't know, perhaps there was some hidden that car as well. 368 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:11,520 We're not sure. 369 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,720 The shots apparently came from the fifth floor 370 00:22:13,760 --> 00:22:17,360 of the Texas book store depository building, 371 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:19,240 possibly from an automatic cut weapon. 372 00:22:19,280 --> 00:22:21,840 Police were looking for a young white man 373 00:22:21,880 --> 00:22:24,960 dressed in a white shirt with Levi's 374 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,640 carrying a lever action type rifle. 375 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,880 One witness told reporters that he had seen 376 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:35,040 the rifle disappearing from that window after the shots were fired. 377 00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,400 In downtown Dallas, President Kennedy was shot today 378 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:41,200 just as his motorcade left downtown Dallas. 379 00:22:41,240 --> 00:22:43,680 Mrs Kennedy jumped up and grabbed Mr Kennedy. 380 00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:45,320 She cried. "Oh, no!" 381 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:47,120 The motorcade sped on. 382 00:22:47,160 --> 00:22:50,400 A photographer said he saw blood on the President's head. 383 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:53,280 It was believed two shots were fired. 384 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:57,400 And just now we've received reports here at Parkland 385 00:22:57,440 --> 00:23:00,440 that Governor Connally was shot in the upper left chest. 386 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,400 And the first unconfirmed reports say 387 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,440 the President was hit in the head. 388 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:07,160 That's an unconfirmed report that the president was hit in the head. 389 00:23:07,200 --> 00:23:08,920 After the shots were fired, he happened to look up 390 00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:10,120 at about the fifth or sixth floor. 391 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,280 He has been given a blood transfusion at Parkland Hospital 392 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,240 here in Dallas in an effort to save his life. 393 00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:16,360 In downtown Dallas, a priest has been ordered, 394 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,920 emergency supplies of blood also being rushed. 395 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,960 The president of the United States is dead. 396 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:25,040 I have just talked to Father Oscar Hubert 397 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:26,640 of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church. 398 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,200 He and another priest tell me that 399 00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,000 the pair of men have just administered the last rites 400 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,240 of the Catholic Church to President Kennedy. 401 00:23:35,280 --> 00:23:38,000 President Kennedy has been assassinated. 402 00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,560 It's official now. The President is dead. 403 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,520 Women here in shock, some fainted. 404 00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:47,440 The Secret Service men standing by the emergency room, 405 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,960 tears streaming down their face. 406 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:53,720 There's only one word to describe the picture here, 407 00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:56,200 and that's grief, and much of it. 408 00:23:56,240 --> 00:23:58,600 It's official, as of a just few moments ago. 409 00:23:58,640 --> 00:24:01,880 The President of the United States is dead. 410 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,160 From Dallas, Texas. The Flash, apparently official, 411 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:26,760 President Kennedy died at 1:00pm Central Standard Time, 412 00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:31,280 2:00 Eastern Standard time, some 38 minutes ago. 413 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:40,960 Vice President Lyndon Johnson has left the hospital in, 414 00:24:41,000 --> 00:24:45,080 uh, Dallas, but we do not know, uh, to where he has proceeded. 415 00:24:45,120 --> 00:24:49,200 Presumably he will be taking the oath of office shortly 416 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:54,160 and become the 36th President of the United States. 417 00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:56,800 Jacket will fit tightly around the hips, 418 00:24:56,840 --> 00:24:59,680 keeping that straight and sleek look that it should have. 419 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:04,560 And very often you'll find a zipper hidden in the, uh, arm. 420 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:07,360 And... 421 00:25:07,400 --> 00:25:09,160 And I'll, you'll excuse me if I am out of breath. 422 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:12,280 A bulletin, this is from the United Press from Dallas. 423 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:14,040 President Kennedy and Governor John Connally 424 00:25:14,080 --> 00:25:17,840 have been cut down by assassin's bullets in downtown Dallas. 425 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:19,400 They were riding an open automobile 426 00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:20,520 when the shots were fired, 427 00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:23,280 the president, his limp body carried in the arms of his wife, 428 00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:25,480 Jacqueline, has rushed to Parkland Hospital. 429 00:25:25,520 --> 00:25:28,280 Here's a, uh, piece of copy that was rushed, 430 00:25:28,320 --> 00:25:30,920 uh, to me and was torn off from the United Press in Dallas. 431 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:33,040 President Kenny has been shot in Dallas, 432 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,520 has been shot in Dallas, Texas. 433 00:25:34,560 --> 00:25:36,560 He was shot as a motorcade left downtown Dallas. 434 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:49,240 At 1:33, a White House aide briefs news men. 435 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:57,000 John F Kennedy died at approximately 1:00 central standard time 436 00:25:57,040 --> 00:26:00,640 today here in Dallas. 437 00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:04,000 He died of a gunshot wound in the brain. 438 00:26:05,000 --> 00:26:09,160 I have no other details regarding the assassination of the president. 439 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:10,480 Was Mrs Kennedy hit? 440 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:12,320 Mrs Kennedy was not hit. 441 00:26:12,360 --> 00:26:13,720 Was Connally hit? 442 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:15,440 Uh, Governor Connally was hit. 443 00:26:15,480 --> 00:26:18,640 I turned to my left. I was sitting in the jump seat. 444 00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,480 I turned to my left to look in the back seat. 445 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:22,240 The president had slumped. 446 00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,880 Uh, he had said nothing. 447 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,480 Almost simultaneously, as I turned, 448 00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:32,840 I was hit, and I knew I'd been hit badly. 449 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:35,600 And, uh, I said... 450 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:39,400 I knew the President had been hit and I said, 451 00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:41,200 "My God, they're going to kill us all." 452 00:26:41,240 --> 00:26:43,040 The President was shot once in the head. 453 00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:45,160 Where is Mrs Kennedy? 454 00:26:45,200 --> 00:26:50,440 Uh...Mrs Kennedy will be returning to, uh, Washington. 455 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:51,960 Was he dead on arrival here? 456 00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:53,360 No, he was not. 457 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:56,400 Did he gain consciousness? No, he did not. 458 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:13,280 One suspect has been apprehended. 459 00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:14,360 According Dallas Police, 460 00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,800 a young man, who denies anything to do with a shooting. 461 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:21,720 The suspect had entered the Texas Theatre some five blocks away. 462 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,280 If we can, we will try to clear up this arrest, 463 00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,160 which is taking place in Dallas. 464 00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,920 As Officer McDonald approached a suspect 465 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,880 sitting on the third row from the back of the theatre, 466 00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:34,920 the suspect jumped up, yelled, "This is it!", 467 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:37,080 and took a swing at the officer. 468 00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:40,080 And some extra news, which has come in since we started. 469 00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:43,400 A 24-year-old man, Lee H Oswald was arrested by Dallas Police 470 00:27:43,440 --> 00:27:46,320 in connection with the murder of the policeman. 471 00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:48,080 He was taken screaming from a cinema. 472 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:50,440 Police are questioning him to find out whether he's any connection 473 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:51,800 with the murder of the President. 474 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,880 Officer McDonald started to grapple with the man 475 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:56,440 as he reached for a gun, 476 00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,840 which was concealed under his shirt. 477 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:00,640 And, uh, 478 00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,600 the gun was fired one time by the suspect, 479 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,440 but luckily it misfired. 480 00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,880 The pin hit the shell, but it did not fire. 481 00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:12,120 A pistol was taken from Oswald after a scuffle. 482 00:28:12,160 --> 00:28:18,520 The police said, Oswald told them, "Well, it's all over now." 483 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:20,840 Sir. Did you shoot the President? I work in that building. 484 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:22,840 Were you in the building at the time? 485 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,440 Naturally, if I work in that building, yes, sir. 486 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:27,760 Did you shoot the President? 487 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:29,720 No, they're taking me in because of the fact that 488 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,920 I lived in the Soviet Union. 489 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:33,760 I'm just a patsy. 490 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,680 Mr Kennedy's body is to lie in state tomorrow at the White House. 491 00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:04,440 President's body is due Washington at 11 o'clock GMT tonight. 492 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,680 It'll be taken first to the Bethesda Naval Hospital. 493 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,600 President Kennedy's two children, Caroline age five, 494 00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:12,400 and John, nearly three, 495 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,800 have so far not been told of their father's death, 496 00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,000 a White House spokesman said tonight. 497 00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:19,200 He said the children were at the White House 498 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,640 in the care of their nurse. 499 00:29:21,680 --> 00:29:24,280 President Kennedy's body is to be placed aboard Air Force One 500 00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,200 for the flight back to Washington. 501 00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,600 And the President's body, 502 00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,400 with the police motorcycle escort, 503 00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:35,440 is now pulling away from the hospital. 504 00:29:35,480 --> 00:29:38,760 There we were, three of us with the casket in the back of the hearse, 505 00:29:38,800 --> 00:29:41,840 all the way to Love Field. 506 00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:47,640 It's about one and a half hours since he was shot. 507 00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:48,720 And we got to love Field. 508 00:29:48,760 --> 00:29:51,880 They all carried the casket up the stairs 509 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,960 to the rear door of Air Force one. 510 00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:57,680 We had to tear the handles off in order to get into Air Force One. 511 00:29:57,720 --> 00:30:01,000 The chief engineers, uh, for the Air Force One, 512 00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:03,200 had had all the seats removed 513 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,960 and a certain portion of the back of the aircraft. 514 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,240 Vice President and Mrs Johnson, were also on board. 515 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:12,280 And, uh, he had been conferring with Washington 516 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,840 and had received instructions that he should be sworn in 517 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:19,080 while we were still on the ground in Dallas. 518 00:30:19,120 --> 00:30:22,360 At 2:38, in the forward cabin of Air Force One, 519 00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,520 a necessary ceremony. 520 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,920 I do solemnly swear. I do solemnly swear. 521 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:29,840 That I will faithfully execute. 522 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,320 That I will faithfully execute. 523 00:30:32,360 --> 00:30:34,880 The Office of the President of the United States. 524 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,440 The Office of the President of the United States. 525 00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:39,120 And will to the best of my ability. 526 00:30:39,160 --> 00:30:41,440 And will to the best of my ability. 527 00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:45,000 Preserve... Preserve. Protect... Protect. 528 00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:46,560 And defend... And defend. 529 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:48,920 The Constitution of the United States. 530 00:30:48,960 --> 00:30:51,240 The Constitution of the United States. 531 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:53,000 So help me God. So help me God. 532 00:30:54,160 --> 00:30:56,440 Air Force one. This is the Air Force Command post. 533 00:30:56,480 --> 00:31:01,640 If possible, request the names of the passengers on board, please. 534 00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:04,720 Uh, we have 40 plus. Go ahead. 535 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:06,520 40 people. Is that affirmative? 536 00:31:06,560 --> 00:31:07,760 Yes, affirmative. 537 00:31:07,800 --> 00:31:10,480 Uh, can you tell me in regard to, uh, 538 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:13,840 uh, one and two are, uh, the top people? 539 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,400 Uh, Roger? Uh, the President is on board. 540 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:23,080 The body is on board, and, uh, Connally is on board. 541 00:31:23,120 --> 00:31:25,240 All right. Can you confirm once again your take off time 542 00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,720 and your estimated time of arrival? 543 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,800 RADIO CHATTER 544 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,440 ARCHIVE: A Capitol still paralysed by shock. 545 00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:46,840 Sad tasks are ahead. 546 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,680 It is arranged that the President's body 547 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,040 will first lie in repose at the White House. 548 00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:55,360 Then it will be moved to the rotunda of the Capitol for public homage. 549 00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,280 What you see is a special truck that has been moved up to the rear 550 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:00,440 of the presidential jet. 551 00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:05,760 A special truck on which the coffin will be brought out. 552 00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:10,040 In front of the casket is Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy. 553 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,280 To her right is her brother-in-law, 554 00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:16,600 the Attorney General Robert Kennedy. 555 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:18,920 They are helping her down 556 00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:24,240 out of that carrier that has just brought down the casket. 557 00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,760 So, uh, events which started swiftly, 558 00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,960 completely unexpectedly and shockingly in Dallas, 559 00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:36,120 um, only a matter of about five hours ago have, 560 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:39,480 uh, have gone virtually full circle. 561 00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,760 The President and the late President are, in a sense, back home. 562 00:32:43,800 --> 00:32:47,640 This is a sad time for all people. 563 00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:52,360 We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. 564 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:57,920 For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. 565 00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:03,080 I know that the world shares the sorrow 566 00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,760 that Mrs Kennedy and her family bear. 567 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:09,280 Well, messages from everybody in the world, 568 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,520 from people all over the world are pouring into Washington. 569 00:33:11,560 --> 00:33:12,840 Here are some of them. 570 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,560 It took my breath away at first, actually, 571 00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:15,760 I couldn't figure out how, 572 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,000 why anybody would want to do such a thing 573 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:19,760 to a bloke in his position. 574 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:22,480 Actually, it just took all the wind out of me, 575 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,200 felt absolutely deflated about it. 576 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,360 As a man of God, I would say that I felt the impact 577 00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:28,960 of the snipers bullet. 578 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,360 I would also say that I felt the pain 579 00:33:31,400 --> 00:33:34,480 that the President had in his dying moment. 580 00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,200 I was quite shocked, because actually, I'm not from England, 581 00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:38,360 I'm from Australia. 582 00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,560 And, generally, he was very well liked there, 583 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:42,720 and he had great support everywhere. 584 00:33:42,760 --> 00:33:44,520 I was very shocked. I still can't believe it 585 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:45,960 that he's not there any more. 586 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,120 I think the person who shot him must have been a nutcase. 587 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:49,280 There's no other word for it. 588 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,840 I think it's...it's terrible what happened. 589 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,400 The assassins and the would be assassins of American Presidents 590 00:33:55,440 --> 00:33:57,440 are an ill assorted collection of men. 591 00:33:57,480 --> 00:34:00,360 It could be said that their shadow has hung over the presidency 592 00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:05,360 ever since George Washington took the first oath of office in 1789. 593 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,040 I was shocked and almost beyond belief. 594 00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:11,520 I was at work when I first heard of it, in Richmond, 595 00:34:11,560 --> 00:34:13,760 and knew somebody came into the office 596 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,760 and mentioned something about it. 597 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:18,160 It's still almost...it's still too much to believe. 598 00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:21,920 I'm very saddened by the horrible thing that happened. 599 00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:25,080 I will do my best. 600 00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,080 That is all I can do. 601 00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,960 I ask for your help. 602 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,800 And God's. 603 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:54,040 now is love, sweet love 604 00:34:55,240 --> 00:35:01,560 there's just too little of 605 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:04,040 606 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:06,400 Shortly before the dawn of Saturday morning, 607 00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:10,520 John Fitzgerald Kennedy comes home to the White House. 608 00:35:10,560 --> 00:35:12,640 He had been the Nation's 35th president 609 00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:16,720 for a period of two years and ten months. 610 00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:21,000 need another mountain 611 00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:27,680 hillsides enough to climb 612 00:35:27,720 --> 00:35:33,400 rivers enough to cross 613 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:39,640 'til the end of time 614 00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:45,520 now is love, sweet love 615 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:53,440 there's just too little of 616 00:35:53,480 --> 00:36:00,400 now is love, sweet love 617 00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,840 some, but for everyone... 618 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,720 There was a deeply human quality about the scene out here 619 00:36:08,760 --> 00:36:10,520 in Lafayette Park today. 620 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,160 While across the street, president Lyndon Johnson 621 00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,560 and other high officials of the government have been 622 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,800 going into the White House to see the body of 623 00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:20,960 the late President Kennedy lying in repose. 624 00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,960 Out here in the park, despite a grey bleak day, 625 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,840 despite the driving rain, 626 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,760 people have been standing all morning, huddled under umbrellas, 627 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,600 just standing and watching. 628 00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:41,240 now is love, sweet love 629 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,200 630 00:36:43,240 --> 00:36:46,720 I think that everybody has their own reactions 631 00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,840 to this terrible thing that happened 632 00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:50,720 to President Kennedy, 633 00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:53,320 but I think that this weather, this downpour, 634 00:36:53,360 --> 00:36:57,160 sums it up for everybody. I just think it's terrible. 635 00:36:57,200 --> 00:36:58,920 Thank you. What is your name, please? 636 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:00,000 Dolores Birschback. 637 00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:01,880 And you're from where? Washington. 638 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:03,880 And what are your reactions today? 639 00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:05,840 I still don't really know what to think. 640 00:37:05,880 --> 00:37:08,920 I'm...I don't think I've ever felt so depressed about anything. 641 00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:11,880 I guess all everybody can do is just pray that 642 00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:13,480 everything works out OK. 643 00:37:13,520 --> 00:37:17,120 Our government is lead in right hands and...that's all. 644 00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:23,120 To Dallas, Texas and Tom Pettit. 645 00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:24,800 There's a person. 646 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,480 There is Lee Oswald. 647 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:29,760 GUNFIRE 648 00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:31,080 He's been shot! 649 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:34,760 He's been shot. Lee Oswald has been shot. 650 00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:41,080 We have recalled the agony of November the 22nd, 1963. 651 00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:44,360 We have not tried to ask why, 652 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,400 because we do not believe there is an answer to that question. 653 00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:55,160 We have most humbly tried to build up a memory which can survive. 654 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:58,480 There's the man with a gun. It's absolute panic. 655 00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:02,080 Absolute panic here in the basement of Dallas police headquarters, 656 00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:04,480 detectives have their guns drawn. 657 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,040 Oswald has been shot. 658 00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:11,320 There is no question about it. Oswald has been shot. 659 00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,440 Pandemonium has broken loose here in the, 660 00:38:14,480 --> 00:38:17,120 uh, basement of Dallas Police headquarters. 661 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:42,160 Now whether the bullet literally hit Oswald or not, 662 00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:44,880 we are not absolutely positive, 663 00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,520 but there has been a...gunshot. 664 00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,800 Oswald reached for his stomach, doubled up. 665 00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,920 It'll be impossible to determine whether he was hit or not. 666 00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:00,840 The sound of the muffled drums sweeps in melancholy waves 667 00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:02,560 over the hushed throng. 668 00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:06,520 A hush broken only by a stifle sob, a murmured prayer. 669 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:09,400 A whole people is lifted up in common sorrow 670 00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:11,200 and an noble in their hearts. 671 00:39:11,240 --> 00:39:13,040 Down this avenue of sadness, 672 00:39:13,080 --> 00:39:14,960 they bring President John F Kennedy, 673 00:39:15,000 --> 00:39:18,800 martyred hero, to lie in state under the great dome of the Capitol. 674 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:29,080 Did you see whether or not he was hit? He was hit, wasn't he? 675 00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:31,800 He grabbed himself on the side and, uh, fell to the ground. 676 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:33,760 That was my understanding. 677 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:35,720 We were, what, four feet away from him? 678 00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:37,880 I was five feet in front of him when he shot. 679 00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,360 What is your name? Frank Johnson. And you're with...? 680 00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,040 He did grab his stomach. Yes, he did. I saw him grab his stomach. 681 00:40:02,800 --> 00:40:05,280 Lee Oswald obviously has been shot. 682 00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:10,960 The witnesses around us here seem to confirm that it happened so fast, 683 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,160 and with such suddenness that you can understand, 684 00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,440 it is virtually impossible 685 00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:19,600 to determine the direction from which the bullet came. 686 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:24,440 Although, uh, police obviously, uh, 687 00:40:24,480 --> 00:40:27,840 in a rather, uh, excited state 688 00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:31,000 are attempting to determine where the shot came from. 689 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:37,480 Mrs Kennedy begins the long hours of her public grief 690 00:40:37,520 --> 00:40:41,560 with the courageous dignity that had marked each moment of her ordeal. 691 00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:44,880 Caroline and John seemed to mirror their mother's poise. 692 00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,600 With President Johnson and Robert Kennedy, 693 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,280 she is in the van of the mourners who will pay their respects 694 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,920 in the historic rotunda of the Capitol. 695 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:54,200 SOMBRE MUSIC PLAYS 696 00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:02,560 697 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:06,680 to whisper I love you 698 00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:13,960 in the sycamore trees 699 00:41:14,000 --> 00:41:17,320 700 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:25,320 701 00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:32,520 tell me you'll miss me 702 00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:37,880 703 00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:42,800 704 00:41:44,880 --> 00:41:50,600 705 00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:55,400 706 00:41:56,840 --> 00:42:02,640 linger 'til dawn dear 707 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:03,960 708 00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:11,960 Members of the Kennedy family, and my fellow Americans... 709 00:42:15,240 --> 00:42:20,920 ..there are few events in our national life 710 00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:24,720 that so unite Americans 711 00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:28,080 and so touch the hearts of all of us 712 00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:33,200 as a passing of a President of the United States. 713 00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:35,520 Well, I think that we all, uh, 714 00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:37,080 more than with any other president, 715 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,720 I think the people of the United States have identified themselves 716 00:42:40,760 --> 00:42:42,480 with the Kennedy family. 717 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:46,680 And I think the grief that we all feel at this event, 718 00:42:46,720 --> 00:42:51,160 this tragedy, is much more real and much more personal 719 00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:55,000 than, uh, if it would've happened to other Presidents. 720 00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,680 It, it doesn't seem possible. It, uh... 721 00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:02,240 It seems to be such a waste and such a tragedy. 722 00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,640 It's just not... 723 00:43:04,680 --> 00:43:07,040 It doesn't seem possible. 724 00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:14,320 linger 'til dawn dear 725 00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:15,800 726 00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:21,480 There is nothing that adds shock to our sadness 727 00:43:21,520 --> 00:43:25,520 more than the assassination of our leader. 728 00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:31,800 Chosen as he is to embody the ideals of our people, 729 00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:35,120 the faith we have in our institutions 730 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:38,600 and our belief in the fatherhood of God 731 00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,560 and the brotherhood of man. 732 00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,000 Such misfortunes have befallen 733 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:47,880 the nation on other occasions, 734 00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:51,960 but never more shockingly than two days ago. 735 00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,800 He said, "Well, if anyone's ever going to shoot me, 736 00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:02,840 "uh, this would be the day they should do it." 737 00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:06,560 Oh, really? He said, "We'd never top this." 738 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:08,520 Those things come back now. 739 00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:15,120 You went to the airport today. Yeah. 740 00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,920 Did you like it? Yes. 741 00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:21,800 John. What, John, what happened to your father? 742 00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:26,600 Well, so, he's gone to heaven. 743 00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:27,920 He's gone to heaven? Yeah. 744 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:30,080 Do you remember him? Yeah. 745 00:44:30,120 --> 00:44:31,960 What do you remember? 746 00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,800 I-I don't, I don't remember anything! 747 00:44:39,240 --> 00:44:41,640 We in this country, 748 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:47,440 in this generation are, by destiny rather than choice, 749 00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:52,000 the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. 750 00:44:52,040 --> 00:44:56,640 Ee ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power 751 00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:58,680 and responsibility. 752 00:44:58,720 --> 00:45:03,960 That we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, 753 00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,360 and that we may achieve in our time and for all time, 754 00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:09,960 the ancient vision of peace on earth, 755 00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:11,800 goodwill toward man. 756 00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:14,280 That must always be our goal. 757 00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:21,000 And the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. 758 00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,280 For as was written long ago, 759 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:30,880 "Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman wake us, but in vain."