speaker: elements of the central intelligence agency killed j john kennededy. speaker: the story has been suppressed. witnesses have been killed. we have a right to know who killed our president and d why he dieied. [music playing] speaker: in dallas, preparations were already underway for extraordinary police protection when the president should arrive. interviewer: do you anticipate any trouble on the president s arrival? jesse curry: because of what has happened here previously, we would be foolish, i think, not to anticipate some trouble. i don t really, i don t anticipate any violence. speaker:r: here comemes air foe numbmber one, ththe presidenes plane now totouching dowown. here s s mrs. kennnnedy, anand the crowowd yells. and the president of the united states, and i can see his sun tan all the way from here. dan rather: looking at how things actually went, it wasn t just a trip to dallas. it was a political trip, preparing for the 1964 elections. speaker: shaking ha
jay watson: a gentleman just walked into our studio that i am meeting for the first time as well as you. this is wfaa-tv in dallas, texas. may i have your name, please, sir? abraham zapruder: my name is abraham zapruder. jay watson: mr. zapruder? abraham zapruder: zapruder, yes, sir. jay watson: zapruder. and would you tell us your story, please, sir? abraham zapruder: i got out about a half hour earlier, getting to a good spot to shoot some pictures. charles brehm: five-year-old boy and myself were by ourselves on the grass there on palmer street, and i asked joe to wave to him, and joe waved, and i waved and the the man interviewer: that s all right, sir. - he waved because he was waving back and he was he was the shot rang out and he slumped down in the seat. gayle newman: and then all of a sudden this next one popped and governor connally grabbed his stomach and kind of laid over to the side, and then another one. it was just all so fast. and president kenn
apartments in baltimore more other veterans returning home from the war, amazing stories and there s hardly a veteran alive who doesn t have one. our guest speaker [applaus [applause] our guest speaker today also has a story to tell, not of his own service, but of his family s. the vice-president s father, second lieutenant edward j pence, also served in the 45th infantry division in korea, not long after bill scott, our teenage chickasha sergeant. in the wars last month, ed pence was awarded the bronze star for higgs actions as a rifle platoon leader near pork chop hill. that s not all. in 1983, the vice-president s older brother first lieutenant greg pence also served with the 3rd 3 battalion in beirut
be bear. as often times a burden that lives far beyond your time in uniform. 64 years ago my dad served in combat in korea. 2nd lieutenant edward j pence was in the u.s. army. 45th infantry, he fought in the battle of old baldy and pork chop hill and earned a bronze star for his courage under fire. the truth is, i learned most of that after i grew up. cause dad never talked about the war. and that medal stayed in his dresser drawer. a few years after he died, i was visiting a cousin that he grew up with on the streets of chicago. and he told me that the war had
about second lieutenant edward j pence who was with the 45th infantry division in the u.s. army. dad served here in combat. it was in this month, this very week in 1953 that my dad was awarded the bronze star here in korea for action in combat. but you know, like so many who have worn the uniform and come home, my dad didn t my dad didn t think the heroes were the ones that came home. whenever he spoke of his time here in korea he spoke of the ones that didn t come home. he spoke of friends lost, sacrifices made, and so on this day i think of my dad gone 29 years now but still enshrined in the hearts of everyone in our family. and i think of what dad would be