then the death of the president. earlier that day, president kennedy delivered a final speech at the texas hotel in ft. worth. so this country, which desires only to be tree, which desires to be secure, which desires to live in peace for 18 years under three different administrations has borne more than its share of the burden, stood watch for a number of years. i don t think we are for the eagled or tired. we would like to live as we once lived. history will not permit it. we are still the keystone in the arch of freedom and we will continue to do as we have done in the past, our duty and the people of texas will be in the lead. so i m glad to come. three and a half hours after giving that speech, president kennedy was shot. shortly after he was declared dead and even today decades after it happened americans can still recall exactly what they
then even this he didn t get it through and have the public passion like bobby did later on, i love digging into the tapes and finding out he s fighting with dick daly to get him in line or going to billy green in philly and trying to get them in line, working moderate republicans. the great new book coming out, i ve been reading it, how he was a working pal for good causes right to the end, to the point of being in the car that morning with conley and jim wright trying to figure out how he s still going to carry texas being a civil rights guy. where did that come from? where did the peace corps come from? was it humphreys idea? he did it the way nobody else would. the moon shoot. everybody had something to do with the moonshot but he did it, in 10 years. rhetorically a huge sense of the presidency and what it many. in that speech we played, the last speech he made. he says we re still the keystone in the arch of freedom.
after giving what would be his last public speech inside the grand ballroom at the hotel texas in ft. worth. so this country which desires only to be free, which desires to be secure, which desires to live in peace for 18 years under three different administrations has born more than its share of the burden, has stood watch for more than its number of years. i don t think that we are fatigued or tired. we would like to live as we once lived. but history will not permit it. we are still the keystone in the arch of freedom and i think we ll continue to do as we have done in our past, our duty. and the people of texas will be in the lead. so i m glad to come. [ applause ] just about one hour later, the president and first lady would depart ft. worth aboard air force one and head for dallas, texas. msnbc s alex witt has a look at the scars the assassination of