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A web of evidence
appears to be closing in

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on Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Thinking back, how
different this could have been,

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were it not for a guy
like Lee Harvey Oswald.

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I'll never forget those sounds.

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It's having heard,
pow, pow, pow!

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Methodically this guy's
pulling this trigger,

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and he knows he's killing the
president of the United States.

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Air Force One,
the big jet

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on which President Kennedy
made so many of his trips,

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will be bringing him back
to Washington the last time.

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The plane, which is carrying
the president's body

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in a bronze casket, also has
now-president Lyndon Johnson,

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as well as Mrs. Kennedy.

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On that flight
between Dallas and DC,

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there was no time
for grief or anything,

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except continue to do
the best job you could,

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and that's what I tried to do.

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Mrs. Kennedy was in shock.

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She cried terribly.

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Here she was, a brand new widow,

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I mean, she--
alright, with two children.

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And now that's all that
was left of that family.

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Bobby Kennedy came running up
the front steps of the aircraft,

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ran all the way
through the aircraft

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to where Mrs. Kennedy and the
casket was situated in the back.

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And he was tearful.

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It was shocking,
it was emotional.

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I couldn't break down.

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I just cried,
I think, all the way home.

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I helped to unload the casket.

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We were tired,
we put in a long day.

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A lot had gone on, and I hadn't
handled a lot of it very well.

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I know now I was in shock.

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The First Lady was
still wearing the pink wool suit

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that she had when she rode
beside Mr. Kennedy

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in the parade.

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We have not yet seen
President Johnson.

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It's expected that he will make
a public appearance

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and a statement.

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The president
walked haggard and alone.

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This is
a sad time for all people.

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I know that the world
shares the sorrow

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that Mrs. Kennedy
and her family bear.

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I will do my best.

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That is all I can do.

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I ask for your help and God's.

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The helicopter
which will take him

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to the Rose Garden
of the White House

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is in the picture now,
as he embarks

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on the last leg
of the journey,

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which will put him literally
in the White House.

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I called to find out
where the children were.

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They were at the White House.

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If John or Caroline were to see
or hear that helicopter coming,

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they would assume it was
their mother and father.

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They had not, at this point,
been told

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of what had happened in Dallas.

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I went back to Washington,

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got back around midnight,

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and went to the White House.

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I was broadcasting
on the arrival of the casket.

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This is a earth-shattering
type of experience.

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Something that many people
believe could not happen

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in the 20th century.

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This was the president
of the United States.

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In prime of life,
youngest guy elected.

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All of us were
in a state of shock,

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but the point is,
I couldn't stop to think.

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If I stopped to think of how bad
this really was at the moment,

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I wouldn't have gotten
through my broadcast.

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Mrs. Kennedy riding as close
as she can with the president.

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I started wrapping up
the broadcast,

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and I did the closing
and everything.

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And I said
he enjoyed Robert Frost,

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and he used to close
his campaign speeches,

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at every stop he'd quote
from Robert Frost.

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And I had this Robert Frost poem
in my pocket,

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and I went and did it.

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"The woods are lovely,
dark and deep.

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But I have promises to keep,

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and miles to go before I sleep,
before I sleep."

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"I have promises to keep

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and many miles to go
before I sleep."

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And with that,
this is Sid Davis,

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reporting from the White House.

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We want to say
this, that this investigation

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has been carried on jointly
by the FBI,

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the Secret Service, the Rangers,

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and the Dallas
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He has not confessed,

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he has made no statement.

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Charges of murder have been
accepted against him.

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We'll go get
in a larger room here,

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that's what we're
talking about here.

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What about the assembly room
right around there?

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That night, I was
broadcasting when they decided

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that nobody could get
their questions answered,

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so why not have
a press conference

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with Oswald answering questions.

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Can you imagine doing that today

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with a person who's been
arrested for murder?

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Now this is the moment

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that I'm sure the country's
been waiting for.

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Lee Oswald, 24, former Marine,

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reported to have lived in Russia
for three years.

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And also reported to be a member
of a pro-Castro party.

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This is the situation now,
here in Dallas.

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The man has not confessed.

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He has not confessed
either the murder of Tippit,

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or the murder of the president.

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As I walked by
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one of them came out
and he said,

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"Bill, I'm gonna tell you
something you might use later,

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that we are now filling out
the charge papers,

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that Oswald murdered
the president."

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We're now in the basement
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It was a surreal situation.

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I'd never been
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with a murder suspect.

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It was unprecedented.

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The indication is now
that the suspect

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is coming down the aisle, and
into this identification room.

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There he is, a slight fellow

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with some scratches and marks
around his face.

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I was down at the edge
of the stage there.

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And a reporter
next to me said...

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No, I've not
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In fact, nobody has
said that to me yet.

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The first thing I heard about it

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was when the newspaper reporters
in the hall

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asked me that question.

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And as he turned facing me,

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I said, "Yes, you have,
you have been charged

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with the murder
of the president."

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He kind of moved his head back.

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And, "What?"

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And I said,
"You have been charged

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with the murder
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Sir?

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That was Oswald.

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Lee Oswald, who was charged
with the murder

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of the president
of the United States.

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He's being taken back upstairs.

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That was one of the rare times
when we saw any real reaction.

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I think I kind of
burst his balloon,

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of thinking he was getting away
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Jack Ruby was up there
that night.

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He worked the police and
gave them tickets to his club,

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and he was always around 'em.

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I don't think he had
to show any credentials.

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He's the police buddy.

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Everybody knew
who Jack Ruby was,

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no question about it.

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He ran, some people call 'em
burlesque joints,

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I call 'em stripper clubs.

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Jack was known
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Back then, if a businessman
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it was overlooked.

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And maybe one or two of 'em
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and said, "Well, that's Jack."

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Chief,
do you have any concern

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for the safety of your prisoner,

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in view of the high feeling
among the people of Dallas

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over the assassination
of the president?

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No, but the precautions
necessary,

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precautions will be
taken of course.

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But I'm not--I don't think
that the people will,

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like, try to take the prisoner
away from us.

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It is anticipated
that he will be moved.

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Police are worried,
they are so worried

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they've talked about
the possibility of moving him

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in an armored vehicle.

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Since 6:30 this morning,

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people have been gathering
across the street

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from the White House, waiting
to pay their last respects.

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The people
of the United States

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have identified themselves
with the Kennedy family.

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And I think the grief
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at this event, this tragedy,

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is much more real
and much more personal.

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I came here to express,

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somehow to express
my own sympathy

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to Mrs. Kennedy
and to all the family,

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and to the whole
United States, actually,

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for the great loss
that we have suffered.

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A lonely little boy

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who observes
his third birthday Monday

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wandered through
a big Washington house today,

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complaining, "I don't have
anyone to play with."

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jr.,

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says his father was killed
by a bad man.

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But he doesn't understand why
the slain president is not there

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to walk the White House
corridors with him,

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or why he's not allowed to enter
the presidential office

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as was his wont and somewhat
his consistent habit.

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It had a tremendous
impact on all three of 'em.

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Now, John, you know,
he was so young.

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The agents would take him out
to a playground, he'd play.

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And one day a photographer from
The Washington Post showed up.

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And John turned to him and said,

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"Why are you taking my picture?
My daddy's dead!"

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He knew; he knew
his daddy had died.

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Just a little while from now,

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the president's body
and its flag-draped coffin

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is to be taken
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down Pennsylvania Avenue,
and escorted to Capitol Hill.

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Mrs. Kennedy had gone up
to the second floor

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with members of the family.

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They decide to have
a prayer service for the family

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there in the East Room.

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She said, "Mr. Hill,
I'd like to see the president."

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I said,
"Okay, give us a moment."

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I went and opened the casket,

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made sure that it was okay
for her to look,

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wasn't gonna be too shocking.

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They went up
and stood there, crying.

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And then she turned to me
and said,

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"Mr. Hill, can you
get me a scissors?"

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I didn't see what happened,

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but I could hear
the clip, clip, clip, clip,

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I knew that she was cutting
a piece of his hair.

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And so then
she closed the casket.

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00:19:25,414 --> 00:19:40,680
♪ ♪

262
00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:44,100
It's hard to describe
her demeanor.

263
00:19:46,185 --> 00:19:48,646
She could control herself
pretty well

264
00:19:48,646 --> 00:19:52,191
when she was in the public eye.

265
00:19:52,191 --> 00:19:56,487
♪ ♪

266
00:19:56,487 --> 00:19:59,657
But she was really suffering.

267
00:19:59,657 --> 00:20:09,750
♪ ♪

268
00:20:14,255 --> 00:20:21,178
♪ ♪

269
00:20:21,178 --> 00:20:26,100
Oh, I think this
man had planned this murder

270
00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:27,560
weeks or months ago

271
00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:33,190
and has laid his plans carefully
and carried them out.

272
00:20:33,190 --> 00:20:34,650
And you will
conduct the trial?

273
00:20:34,650 --> 00:20:36,152
Yes, sir. I plan to.

274
00:20:36,152 --> 00:20:37,778
And you will ask
capital verdict?

275
00:20:37,778 --> 00:20:39,822
We'll ask
the death penalty.

276
00:20:41,824 --> 00:20:43,534
Kennedy's death was a huge blow

277
00:20:43,534 --> 00:20:45,494
to a lot of people.

278
00:20:48,789 --> 00:20:50,583
I just couldn't believe
that that could happen

279
00:20:50,583 --> 00:20:53,586
in our country,
let alone on my doorstep.

280
00:20:53,586 --> 00:21:00,134
♪ ♪

281
00:21:00,134 --> 00:21:02,219
My bureau chief called and said,

282
00:21:02,219 --> 00:21:04,263
"You know, I want you
to be in the jail

283
00:21:04,263 --> 00:21:06,140
and show up at 10 o'clock,

284
00:21:06,140 --> 00:21:09,977
because the cops
are moving Oswald

285
00:21:09,977 --> 00:21:13,022
from the city
to the county courthouse."

286
00:21:15,900 --> 00:21:18,444
Officers have checked
every vehicle coming in,

287
00:21:18,444 --> 00:21:21,780
and no one who is not
a member of the press

288
00:21:21,780 --> 00:21:24,700
and not able
to show identification

289
00:21:24,700 --> 00:21:26,911
can enter the basement.

290
00:21:26,911 --> 00:21:36,879
♪ ♪

291
00:21:36,879 --> 00:21:38,714
Guards are stationed at points

292
00:21:38,714 --> 00:21:41,717
all across the inside
of the basement.

293
00:21:41,717 --> 00:21:51,936
♪ ♪

294
00:21:56,315 --> 00:21:58,943
When I arrived at the jail,

295
00:21:58,943 --> 00:22:01,779
there were so many people
who were gathering

296
00:22:01,779 --> 00:22:04,448
and being angry
at what had happened.

297
00:22:04,448 --> 00:22:07,910
The atmosphere, the paranoia
in the atmosphere

298
00:22:07,910 --> 00:22:11,247
that was gripping Dallas
at the time.

299
00:22:13,249 --> 00:22:16,544
There was a feeling of outrage
that this could have happened,

300
00:22:16,544 --> 00:22:18,003
this could have happened here.

301
00:22:18,003 --> 00:22:20,256
Who is this person anyway?

302
00:22:20,256 --> 00:22:27,763
♪ ♪

303
00:22:27,763 --> 00:22:34,436
I walked down the ramp
into the, what was the driveway,

304
00:22:34,436 --> 00:22:39,817
and, um, I positioned myself
at the front row

305
00:22:39,817 --> 00:22:42,319
of about 20 or 30 reporters

306
00:22:42,319 --> 00:22:46,156
who were in front of,
grouped around the opening

307
00:22:46,156 --> 00:22:48,784
where Oswald would be
brought out.

308
00:22:51,662 --> 00:22:52,872
People still are wondering

309
00:22:52,872 --> 00:22:56,333
exactly when Oswald
will come down.

310
00:23:03,882 --> 00:23:07,886
Everything was unusual
about this whole weekend.

311
00:23:07,886 --> 00:23:11,015
You know, it was just
an unprecedented set of events,

312
00:23:11,015 --> 00:23:15,311
that you just kept following
as they kept unfolding.

313
00:23:19,189 --> 00:23:20,774
Alright, we got
a little activity down there,

314
00:23:20,774 --> 00:23:22,735
I don't know what it is.

315
00:23:22,735 --> 00:23:53,390
♪ ♪

316
00:23:53,390 --> 00:23:58,562
Oswald was going to be
transferred to the county jail.

317
00:23:58,562 --> 00:24:01,023
It was live news.

318
00:24:01,023 --> 00:24:05,611
We were watching
on my little 10-inch television,

319
00:24:05,611 --> 00:24:11,325
watching the events
as they unfolded for that day.

320
00:24:11,325 --> 00:24:14,370
It felt like the whole
of America was watching.

321
00:24:16,622 --> 00:24:18,916
Security precautions
have been tightened.

322
00:24:18,916 --> 00:24:22,753
Armed guards are stationed
throughout Dallas, City Hall,

323
00:24:22,753 --> 00:24:25,339
and the Police Headquarters.

324
00:24:25,339 --> 00:24:38,352
♪ ♪

325
00:24:41,772 --> 00:24:44,066
He's been shot.
He's been shot.

326
00:24:44,066 --> 00:24:46,360
Lee Oswald has been shot.

327
00:24:46,360 --> 00:24:48,195
There's a man with a gun.

328
00:24:48,195 --> 00:24:49,780
It's absolute panic.

329
00:24:49,780 --> 00:24:51,740
Absolute panic here
in the basement

330
00:24:51,740 --> 00:24:53,909
of Dallas Police Headquarters.

331
00:24:57,663 --> 00:25:01,417
I just knew that
Oswald had been badly hurt,

332
00:25:01,417 --> 00:25:06,004
and that the cops
were in astonishment.

333
00:25:06,004 --> 00:25:08,549
You could just see the horror
on their faces.

334
00:25:08,549 --> 00:25:12,261
♪ ♪

335
00:25:12,261 --> 00:25:14,763
There was total chaos
and total pandemonium.

336
00:25:14,763 --> 00:25:18,767
Nobody was quite sure
what on Earth was happening.

337
00:25:18,767 --> 00:25:21,729
What was going through my mind
was, "Get out of here."

338
00:25:21,729 --> 00:25:27,026
♪ ♪

339
00:25:27,026 --> 00:25:28,736
I didn't even think.

340
00:25:28,736 --> 00:25:31,113
You know, you can't think
in a moment like that.

341
00:25:31,113 --> 00:25:34,032
You have to just act
on automatic pilot.

342
00:25:34,032 --> 00:25:35,117
And I walked around

343
00:25:35,117 --> 00:25:39,788
and went straight
into the police station.

344
00:25:39,788 --> 00:25:45,169
Oswald is now taken
back inside the police station.

345
00:25:45,169 --> 00:25:49,089
There was just
this horror, sense of horror.

346
00:25:51,133 --> 00:25:52,551
The situation is now

347
00:25:52,551 --> 00:25:57,806
that Lee Harold Oswald
has been shot.

348
00:25:57,806 --> 00:25:59,767
We can hear sirens outside,

349
00:25:59,767 --> 00:26:03,771
and an ambulance apparently
is moving down now

350
00:26:03,771 --> 00:26:04,938
into the basement.

351
00:26:04,938 --> 00:26:07,232
Here comes the ambulance.

352
00:26:08,901 --> 00:26:12,488
And Oswald will be removed now.

353
00:26:12,488 --> 00:26:30,380
♪ ♪

354
00:26:30,380 --> 00:26:32,508
Captain,
where will he be taken?

355
00:26:32,508 --> 00:26:34,176
I'm assuming
Parkland Hospital.

356
00:26:34,176 --> 00:26:36,428
Parkland Hospital,
the irony of ironies.

357
00:26:36,428 --> 00:26:39,640
The place where
President John F. Kennedy died.

358
00:26:39,640 --> 00:26:47,981
♪ ♪

359
00:26:47,981 --> 00:26:50,776
A sense of total disbelief.

360
00:26:50,776 --> 00:26:53,028
How could this be happening?

361
00:26:53,028 --> 00:26:56,365
After two days earlier,
the president being shot.

362
00:26:56,365 --> 00:26:58,534
How--who was this guy?

363
00:26:58,534 --> 00:27:01,578
You had to absorb the fact
that somebody had been there

364
00:27:01,578 --> 00:27:03,956
to kill Oswald, and they did.

365
00:27:03,956 --> 00:27:05,165
Mass confusion.

366
00:27:05,165 --> 00:27:06,667
The man accused of assassinating

367
00:27:06,667 --> 00:27:08,836
the president
of the United States

368
00:27:08,836 --> 00:27:11,588
has just sustained
a bullet wound injury.

369
00:27:11,588 --> 00:27:14,174
Lee Harold Oswald is now
in an ambulance

370
00:27:14,174 --> 00:27:17,678
speeding on his way
to Dallas Parkland Hospital.

371
00:27:17,678 --> 00:27:30,148
♪ ♪

372
00:27:30,148 --> 00:27:33,861
We were watching
the news live.

373
00:27:33,861 --> 00:27:37,447
We were,
"Oh, my god, another one!

374
00:27:37,447 --> 00:27:41,076
What else is gonna happen?
Now who else is gonna get shot?"

375
00:27:41,076 --> 00:27:44,454
It was just impossible
to believe.

376
00:27:44,454 --> 00:27:50,252
♪ ♪

377
00:27:50,252 --> 00:27:54,673
I was on the phone
with my bureau chief,

378
00:27:54,673 --> 00:27:58,302
and I heard the cops say,
"This is Jack Ruby."

379
00:27:58,302 --> 00:28:01,471
And I said, "This is--
they say the cops know this guy,

380
00:28:01,471 --> 00:28:03,891
they say it's Jack Ruby."
And he said, "What?!"

381
00:28:03,891 --> 00:28:07,269
You know, "I drink in his bar!
How could that be?"

382
00:28:07,269 --> 00:28:11,148
♪ ♪

383
00:28:11,148 --> 00:28:12,649
He was a known person;

384
00:28:12,649 --> 00:28:15,360
he wasn't somebody that they
expected to do any harm.

385
00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:20,115
♪ ♪

386
00:28:20,115 --> 00:28:21,491
I understand
that he was here

387
00:28:21,491 --> 00:28:23,702
passing out cards yesterday
to members of the press,

388
00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:27,039
offering them to come by and get
free drinks at his clubs.

389
00:28:27,039 --> 00:28:28,373
That's what
I understand, yeah.

390
00:28:28,373 --> 00:28:29,791
Well, how does he have access

391
00:28:29,791 --> 00:28:32,085
to the police department,
a nightclub owner in Dallas?

392
00:28:32,085 --> 00:28:34,504
How does he--I saw him
walking around downstairs.

393
00:28:34,504 --> 00:28:35,964
How does he do this?

394
00:28:35,964 --> 00:28:38,091
Does he have a lot of friends
in the police department?

395
00:28:38,091 --> 00:28:40,719
Well, I would
think so, I don't know.

396
00:28:42,888 --> 00:28:49,227
When I saw that
Jack Ruby had shot Oswald,

397
00:28:49,227 --> 00:28:50,812
I was shocked.

398
00:28:53,482 --> 00:28:57,527
I was sorry that he had
messed up like that.

399
00:28:57,527 --> 00:29:03,116
He committed a grave error,
one you can't eradicate.

400
00:29:03,116 --> 00:29:05,243
It's gonna go down in history.

401
00:29:07,871 --> 00:29:10,749
Jack did what he did.

402
00:29:10,749 --> 00:29:14,336
He wanted to be somebody.

403
00:29:14,336 --> 00:29:15,963
Everybody loved the president,

404
00:29:15,963 --> 00:29:20,342
so everybody hated the man
who had killed the president.

405
00:29:20,342 --> 00:29:23,220
So now this is gonna
make Jack a hero.

406
00:29:26,723 --> 00:29:29,935
The chief of surgery
at Parkland Memorial Hospital

407
00:29:29,935 --> 00:29:35,565
is coming into the room now to
make a statement on Mr. Oswald.

408
00:29:35,565 --> 00:29:38,235
Yeah, he--Mr. Oswald died

409
00:29:38,235 --> 00:29:41,822
at 1:07 our time,
in the operating room,

410
00:29:41,822 --> 00:29:45,492
of the gunshot wound
which he'd received.

411
00:29:45,492 --> 00:29:49,413
♪ ♪

412
00:29:49,413 --> 00:29:52,416
My statement
will be very brief.

413
00:29:54,960 --> 00:30:00,465
Oswald expired at 1:07 p.m.

414
00:30:00,465 --> 00:30:01,508
He died?

415
00:30:01,508 --> 00:30:06,513
He died at 1:07 p.m.

416
00:30:06,513 --> 00:30:08,223
We have arrested the man.

417
00:30:08,223 --> 00:30:12,102
The man will be
charged with murder.

418
00:30:12,102 --> 00:30:15,647
The suspect's name is Jack Ruby.

419
00:30:25,532 --> 00:30:27,659
Actually,
what Jack Ruby did

420
00:30:27,659 --> 00:30:33,290
was prevent justice from being
served when he killed Oswald.

421
00:30:35,834 --> 00:30:39,087
Everybody had questions
about why.

422
00:30:39,087 --> 00:30:41,423
It was just like Oswald
shooting the president.

423
00:30:41,423 --> 00:30:43,258
Somebody had to be
in charge of him.

424
00:30:43,258 --> 00:30:46,386
Somebody had to know,
why would he do this?

425
00:30:46,386 --> 00:30:48,472
And the same thing
happened with Ruby.

426
00:30:48,472 --> 00:30:51,641
People said,
"Oh, he's working for somebody."

427
00:30:51,641 --> 00:30:54,686
Everybody suspected the mafia,

428
00:30:54,686 --> 00:30:58,732
the communists,
the usual suspects.

429
00:30:58,732 --> 00:31:03,278
♪ ♪

430
00:31:03,278 --> 00:31:06,615
The police said that Ruby's
excuse for shooting Oswald

431
00:31:06,615 --> 00:31:10,494
was that he just hated the man
and loved the Kennedys

432
00:31:10,494 --> 00:31:14,539
and wanted to get even for them;
and he did.

433
00:31:14,539 --> 00:31:33,225
♪ ♪

434
00:31:33,225 --> 00:31:37,521
The assassination
was on a Friday,

435
00:31:37,521 --> 00:31:41,691
and I had not slept
for three days.

436
00:31:41,691 --> 00:31:44,903
And Monday morning,
I got up real early,

437
00:31:44,903 --> 00:31:47,364
I wanted to go down
to the funeral.

438
00:31:49,699 --> 00:31:53,286
I got in my car, and I started
down MacArthur Boulevard

439
00:31:53,286 --> 00:31:56,373
to go down to the parade route.

440
00:31:56,373 --> 00:32:03,171
♪ ♪

441
00:32:03,171 --> 00:32:07,300
I saw a woman at the bus stop,

442
00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:10,011
and I pulled over and I said,
"Are you going to the funeral?"

443
00:32:10,011 --> 00:32:11,138
She said, "Yes."

444
00:32:11,138 --> 00:32:13,431
She got in the car
in the front seat.

445
00:32:13,431 --> 00:32:16,393
And we talked a little bit.

446
00:32:16,393 --> 00:32:23,692
♪ ♪

447
00:32:23,692 --> 00:32:26,236
She said, "I'm a Republican."

448
00:32:26,236 --> 00:32:30,031
♪ ♪

449
00:32:30,031 --> 00:32:32,576
"But I didn't know
how much I admired him."

450
00:32:32,576 --> 00:32:37,038
♪ ♪

451
00:32:37,038 --> 00:32:39,499
I think that was repeated
millions of times

452
00:32:39,499 --> 00:32:41,585
across the country.

453
00:32:41,585 --> 00:32:45,130
He was an endearing guy,
you just couldn't help it.

454
00:32:45,130 --> 00:32:47,090
Even if you didn't
agree with him,

455
00:32:47,090 --> 00:32:49,885
you couldn't help but like him.

456
00:32:49,885 --> 00:32:56,474
♪ ♪

457
00:32:56,474 --> 00:32:59,936
Let every nation know,

458
00:32:59,936 --> 00:33:04,024
whether it wishes us
well or ill,

459
00:33:04,024 --> 00:33:07,569
that we shall pay any price,

460
00:33:07,569 --> 00:33:10,071
bear any burden,

461
00:33:10,071 --> 00:33:12,532
meet any hardship,

462
00:33:12,532 --> 00:33:14,951
support any friend,

463
00:33:14,951 --> 00:33:17,621
oppose any foe

464
00:33:17,621 --> 00:33:21,708
to assure the survival
and the success of liberty.

465
00:33:21,708 --> 00:33:43,647
♪ ♪

466
00:33:50,904 --> 00:33:54,616
Mrs. Kennedy,

467
00:33:54,616 --> 00:33:57,535
she was determined that

468
00:33:57,535 --> 00:34:00,789
people were not going to forget
her husband either.

469
00:34:00,789 --> 00:34:07,295
♪ ♪

470
00:34:07,295 --> 00:34:12,050
She wanted to walk
behind the casket.

471
00:34:13,677 --> 00:34:18,098
I had talked to her and said,
"It really isn't advisable."

472
00:34:18,098 --> 00:34:19,724
And she said, "Well,
at least I'm gonna walk

473
00:34:19,724 --> 00:34:23,395
from the White House
to St. Matthew's."

474
00:34:23,395 --> 00:34:54,551
♪ ♪

475
00:34:54,551 --> 00:34:57,387
Jackie put on a show.

476
00:34:57,387 --> 00:34:58,930
That's what she wanted to do.

477
00:34:58,930 --> 00:35:03,435
This is "I'm gonna give him
the best send-off I can

478
00:35:03,435 --> 00:35:07,731
and give him what he deserved."

479
00:35:07,731 --> 00:35:27,876
♪ ♪

480
00:35:27,876 --> 00:35:29,210
The day of the funeral

481
00:35:29,210 --> 00:35:34,007
was also the third birthday
of John F. Kennedy, Jr.

482
00:35:34,007 --> 00:35:37,510
♪ ♪

483
00:35:37,510 --> 00:35:41,431
It was very emotional.

484
00:35:41,431 --> 00:35:51,524
♪ ♪

485
00:35:51,524 --> 00:35:54,444
It was thought
that the most appropriate

486
00:35:54,444 --> 00:35:59,824
commemoration of this
heartbreaking event

487
00:35:59,824 --> 00:36:02,077
would be the expression

488
00:36:02,077 --> 00:36:05,455
of President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy's

489
00:36:05,455 --> 00:36:09,292
ideals and his aspirations:

490
00:36:09,292 --> 00:36:12,420
his inaugural address.

491
00:36:15,048 --> 00:36:19,427
"Let the word go forth
from this time and place

492
00:36:19,427 --> 00:36:22,180
to friends and foe alike,

493
00:36:22,180 --> 00:36:23,973
that the torch has been passed

494
00:36:23,973 --> 00:36:27,560
to a new generation
of Americans.

495
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:32,023
Born in this century,
tempered by war,

496
00:36:32,023 --> 00:36:36,277
disciplined by a hard
and bitter peace,

497
00:36:36,277 --> 00:36:39,698
proud of our ancient heritage

498
00:36:39,698 --> 00:36:45,161
and unwilling to witness
or permit the slow undoing

499
00:36:45,161 --> 00:36:47,622
of those human rights

500
00:36:47,622 --> 00:36:52,377
to which this nation
has always been committed

501
00:36:52,377 --> 00:36:57,298
and to which we are
committed today at home

502
00:36:57,298 --> 00:36:59,384
and around the world."

503
00:36:59,384 --> 00:37:13,440
♪ ♪

504
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:14,566
When the president's casket

505
00:37:14,566 --> 00:37:19,946
was taken out of the church,

506
00:37:19,946 --> 00:37:23,450
John noticed
all the military saluted.

507
00:37:23,450 --> 00:37:26,703
♪ ♪

508
00:37:26,703 --> 00:37:29,956
Mrs. Kennedy bent over
and said something.

509
00:37:31,624 --> 00:37:35,503
And he turned,
looked at his father's casket,

510
00:37:35,503 --> 00:37:37,547
and he saluted.

511
00:37:37,547 --> 00:37:52,020
♪ ♪

512
00:37:52,020 --> 00:37:57,776
Everyone from generals on down
were teary-eyed.

513
00:37:57,776 --> 00:38:07,994
♪ ♪

514
00:38:11,790 --> 00:38:22,342
♪ ♪

515
00:38:22,342 --> 00:38:26,012
Going up
to the cemetery,

516
00:38:26,012 --> 00:38:27,806
in the distance...

517
00:38:30,808 --> 00:38:32,602
very...

518
00:38:34,479 --> 00:38:38,733
...a very distinct sound

519
00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:40,944
of Air Force One.

520
00:38:40,944 --> 00:38:51,955
♪ ♪

521
00:38:51,955 --> 00:38:57,418
And Captain Swindal
dipped the wings,

522
00:38:57,418 --> 00:39:01,631
in like a final salute
to the president.

523
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:07,554
I almost broke down
really completely there.

524
00:39:07,554 --> 00:39:10,515
I'm having a hard time now,
as you can tell.

525
00:39:10,515 --> 00:39:26,614
♪ ♪

526
00:39:26,614 --> 00:39:28,992
I want to take this opportunity

527
00:39:28,992 --> 00:39:31,244
to express my appreciation

528
00:39:31,244 --> 00:39:33,955
for the hundreds of thousands
of messages,

529
00:39:33,955 --> 00:39:36,291
nearly 800,000 in all,

530
00:39:36,291 --> 00:39:38,001
which my children and I
have received

531
00:39:38,001 --> 00:39:40,670
over the past few weeks.

532
00:39:40,670 --> 00:39:43,506
The knowledge of the affection
in which my husband was held

533
00:39:43,506 --> 00:39:46,259
by all of you
has sustained me,

534
00:39:46,259 --> 00:39:47,719
and the warmth of these tributes

535
00:39:47,719 --> 00:39:50,597
is something
I shall never forget.

536
00:39:50,597 --> 00:39:53,808
All his bright light
gone from the world.

537
00:39:53,808 --> 00:39:56,311
All of you who have
written to me

538
00:39:56,311 --> 00:39:58,396
know how much we all loved him,

539
00:39:58,396 --> 00:40:02,442
and that he returned that love
in full measure.

540
00:40:02,442 --> 00:40:04,986
Each and every message
is to be treasured,

541
00:40:04,986 --> 00:40:08,781
not only for my children,
but so that future generations

542
00:40:08,781 --> 00:40:11,159
who will know
how much our country

543
00:40:11,159 --> 00:40:15,288
and people in every nation
thought of him.

544
00:40:15,288 --> 00:40:19,292
May I thank you again
on behalf of my children

545
00:40:19,292 --> 00:40:22,045
and of the president's family.

546
00:40:22,045 --> 00:40:24,005
Thank you.

547
00:40:24,005 --> 00:40:34,349
♪ ♪

548
00:40:43,983 --> 00:40:49,906
♪ ♪

549
00:40:49,906 --> 00:40:54,661
Taking this man,
who was a gentle,

550
00:40:54,661 --> 00:40:56,829
brilliant president.

551
00:40:59,248 --> 00:41:03,127
He endeared himself
to the country.

552
00:41:03,127 --> 00:41:05,505
John Kennedy was
an upstanding protector

553
00:41:05,505 --> 00:41:08,883
of civil rights
of the American people.

554
00:41:08,883 --> 00:41:12,303
Calling on Americans to change.

555
00:41:12,303 --> 00:41:14,263
So, I've seen
that it's happened.

556
00:41:14,263 --> 00:41:16,683
We have legislation now
that proves it.

557
00:41:16,683 --> 00:41:18,476
I think we're not perfect,

558
00:41:18,476 --> 00:41:21,729
and we're not anywhere
near successful yet,

559
00:41:21,729 --> 00:41:23,648
but I think we're
a better country today

560
00:41:23,648 --> 00:41:27,610
than we were when
I came to Washington,

561
00:41:27,610 --> 00:41:30,905
because Kennedy was president.

562
00:41:30,905 --> 00:41:33,616
And that's pretty good.

563
00:41:33,616 --> 00:41:47,588
♪ ♪

564
00:41:47,588 --> 00:41:50,174
I wouldn't even
tell people

565
00:41:50,174 --> 00:41:52,719
that I was
in the Secret Service.

566
00:41:52,719 --> 00:42:03,563
♪ ♪

567
00:42:03,563 --> 00:42:05,106
The pain has gone.

568
00:42:05,106 --> 00:42:08,901
There is no longer any pain
talking about it.

569
00:42:08,901 --> 00:42:11,154
I can get emotional,

570
00:42:11,154 --> 00:42:16,117
but that's a nice feeling.

571
00:42:16,117 --> 00:42:34,635
♪ ♪

572
00:42:34,635 --> 00:42:36,763
They gave me a medal.

573
00:42:36,763 --> 00:42:38,347
Yeah, that was
very nice of them,

574
00:42:38,347 --> 00:42:40,725
I appreciate it very much.

575
00:42:40,725 --> 00:42:43,811
But I wanted to do
better than I did.

576
00:42:43,811 --> 00:42:46,397
I had always felt that, you
know, I have this sense of guilt

577
00:42:46,397 --> 00:42:49,567
that I should have been able
to do more than I did.

578
00:42:49,567 --> 00:42:54,072
The one thing that I'd be
willing to do or give

579
00:42:54,072 --> 00:42:57,950
is my life for his,
if I could change it that day.

580
00:43:03,915 --> 00:43:55,174
♪ ♪