is we ll be taking you back to that and we ll be with taking you back to that once it gets fully underway. barbara, back to you. a lot of talk now about the legacy of president kennedy. what do you say it is? well, of course, we mentioned saving the world during the cuban missile crisis. i think helping to lead the way up to president reagan to ending the cold war, defeating the soviets eventually and ending their system, their system of communism as we knew it as part of that bipolar cold war conflict. on the domestic front, civil rights although president kennedy was rather slow to that movement, but finally in the last summer of his life claiming that it was a moral issue rather than just a political one and then putting up to congress what became the 64 civil rights act. and then let s not forget things like the peace corp.s and the nuclear test ban treaty. so all of these we should remember on this day. jon: more that era, for that generation, bill, it was in some
now. reporter: take a look at this, this is the front page of the dallas morning news from saturday, november 23, 1963, the day after jfk was assassinated here. kennedy slain in dallas street. you know, the last several decades, frankly, a lot of hate has been directed toward the city of dallas and the state of texas, for that matter. a dark cloud has really hung over this city for the last 50 years after what happened here. some of the newspaper headlines on that day read texas killed kennedy. so the purpose be of today s memorial is clearly twofold, not only to remember the fallen president and pay tribute to him, but to also help the city of that s and the people of texas continue of dallas and the people of texas continue to mourn and move forward. you know, in his short time in office jfk helped found the peace corps, he expanded the space program to get ahead of the russians, he likely prevented a nuclear war with the cuban missile crisis, he gave