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