Who climbed aboard the president ial limousine as it sped to Parkland Hospital with the dying president. I still have a sense that that we had a responsibility to do that day st. We failed in that responsibility. The way i was brought up was that if you have a job to do you carry it throw the end result and in that day i wasnt able to. And thats what has always bothered me is that i wasnt able to do anything. Because i was the only one who had a chance. Rose a historical appreciation of president kennedy and a conversation with clint hill, the secret Service Agent who climbed aboard the president ial limousine as it sped to Parkland Hospital. Next. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We chose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and the field because that challenge is one t
Who climbed aboard the president ial limousine as it sped to Parkland Hospital with the dying president. I still have a sense that that we had a responsibility to do that day st. We failed in that responsibility. The way i was brought up was that if you have a job to do you carry it throw the end result and in that day i wasnt able to. And thats what has always bothered me is that i wasnt able to do anything. Because i was the only one who had a chance. Rose a historical appreciation of president kennedy and a conversation with clint hill, the secret Service Agent who climbed aboard the president ial limousine as it sped to Parkland Hospital. Next. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We chose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. Because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and the field because that challenge is one t
Watergate hearings, the impeachment hearings and finally his departure from the white house. And thenit was too passionate a time to use the images right away for any major purpose. I had done it as a historic document primarily. And so i had to wait andwhich i did, until about three years ago, and at which time i took the negatives out of storage, where i had them, and produced about 1,000 work prints and edited them. And now, 25 years later, the book is published, and there is an exhibition at the same time at the National Museum of american history. Cspan where does this photo come from . Guest this is in the oval office. It was one of the earlier photographs that i did during his presidency. He just sat in the chair, and the only thing you could hear werewas the rustling of the pages as he turned them. I used a very quiet camera, whichwhich i like to use. Its like an m camera, which doesnt make the sound that aa largethat a single lens reflex does. I didnt want to get thrown out. I
New frontier. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. It appears as though something has happened in the motorcade group. Osgood after dallas, the horror of his end, the dashed hopes of what might have been. Throughout the morning well be remembering key moments of that have friday afternoon and the three days that followed and well be taking the measure of a kennedy legacy. The john f. Kennedy who loom sod large in our National Memory very much a mixture of fact and legend. Rita braver will examine the facts, far teichner the legend. Reporter when you think of the kennedys, is it what actually happened during j. F. K. S Administration that comes to mind thor . Think bank on all the pains that you remember. We all got to think that the kennedys were mythical. They were royal, they were beautiful. Reporter ahead, the immortality of camelot. Osgood during the good times first Lady Jacqueline kennedy played a
Up next former Washington Post executive editor ben bradlee appeared on booknotes in 1975 to workaround his journalism career. Mr. Bradlee died this past week at the age of 93. This program is about an hour. Cspan ben bradlee, one of the last things you tell us in your book is that you gave an anonymous gift to harvard and nothings happened. Guest well, i didnt want to have any publicity about it while i was still editor of the post. I thought that would be inappropriate. And so i yeah, i tried to thank the two influences in my life; one was kennedy and one was phil graham and the Washington Post. So i thought giving something to the Kennedy School, endowing a chair, would be appropriate, and i did and theyve been looking ever since. Cspan why has it taken so long . Guest i dont know. Cspan when you. Guest theyll find somebody. Cspan when you give an endowment to a school like the Kennedy School at harvard, how does it work . Guest well, you have first thing, you have absolutely no say