Known as a history maker, a groundbreaker, but why a rule breaker . You know, we struggled a little with with the title. And i would ask people, what should i title this this biography of Barbara Walters . And people suggested things, like Million Dollar baby or baba wah, wah. I mean, these were actually slings and arrows she endured. And it was interesting that thats what came to mind with some people when i when i talked about a biography of Barbara Walters. But it was my it was my editor at simon and schuster, priscilla peyton, who said she really me as a rule breaker. And rule breaker seemed to be exactly right because Barbara Walters broke every rule around. And, you know, she didnt just break rules. She ignored them. She pretended she couldnt see them. So the idea that a a woman couldnt do serious interviews, she just ignored it and went ahead and scheduled serious interviews. The idea that a woman can be paid as much as a man. Well, she certainly blew that idea up. The idea late
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
greatest generation, with a tribute to the men who turned the tide and saved democracy. we have a special obligation. we cannot let what happened here be lost in the silence of the years to come. we must remember it, must honor it and live it. and we must remember the fact that they were heroes here that day. it does not absolve us from what we have to do today. those remarks taking a deeper significance ahead of biden s meeting with zelenskyy later today, there for the d-day ceremonies as the war in ukraine wages on. the president s son in court, hearing testimony in his federal gun trial. on the stand today, his brother s widow, with whom hunter had a romantic relationship after beau died. hallie testifying about hunter s addiction to crack. donald trump returning to the campaign trail in arizona, almost a week after he gets critical pre-trial rulings, both florida classified documents and the georgia election interference cases. good day, everyone. i m andrea
Rights legislation that became law while i was 9 years old, yeah, that was a signal. It was optimism. It was a promise that you could do all the things that my parents told us we ocould do anything. They mistakenly told the doctors that as well as the sons so we took them at their word. As a result, you saw laws and barriers falling as you went along. You came away from that hopeful and optimistic about the possibilities. And looking back over this period, civil rights law, brown in 54, 55, all these things, have these turned out the way you thought at the time theyd turn out . Yes. Have they accomplished what at the time you may have thought they would . Yes in terms of they provided access. I never had to doubt whether i was going to be able to apply to any college i wanted to apply to. It never occurred to me that i would be denied Something Like that education because of limitations that were put in place by law. All that was done, all that was sealed. It never does it mean that i