i m priflthed to be here with you today. as we approach 2:15 p.m. this is the minute that officer jd tippet was shot and killed in oak cliff texas and his widow received a letter from jackie kennedy, two who lost their spouses that day, jackie kennedy said she felt great pain because of her husband being killed, mr. tippet was then killed. still ahead, 2:30, when acting press secretary mallcom gave the announcement of kennedy s death. we will play it as it happened 50 years later. this is extraordinary. you ll want to see it. how dallas and ft. worth are still trstruggling to balance i place in history. dallas was branded as a city of shame and hate and all of these ridiculous terms that didn t apply to most people. we will talk to wayne slater for the dallas morning news.
foreign policy. he does all of these things. you know, on that plane ride, he makes a list. we have the list on a little note pad, of what he has to do when he gets off the plane. he knows what he has to do because he has been in washington for 30 years doing it. and speaking of being on that plane, it s fascinating. how dallas, you talk about how it had gotten to the point where kennedy would roll his eyes and go, oh, god, johnson doesn t want to fly with me on air force one again. these guys did not like each other a whole lot. talk about and this is again a part of johnson that i had not read about yet. how he was motivated by fear of failure. actually, he was paralyzed. and you explain moving up to 1960 how he just refused to jump off the cliff. and then you explain why. it goes back to his father.
ac360 starts right now. we begin tonight keeping them honest with breaking news. 360 has learned this waw not the first time that the costa conco concordia steered so close to shore. the cruise line not only knew about the route but approved it. the company that owns the ship said the accident was the result of a rogue decision that the captain and only the captain made. we learned the previous close call happened back in august. we have video, this is the video of the incident in august taken from the shore. the cruise line said the ship was a safe distance from the coastline. lloyds lip said it was dangerously close, closer, in fact, than it came on friday night when it hit the rocks. here is new satellite imagery of the wreck. look how big it is against the coast, just a massive, massive ship. the search for nearly two dozen was suspended when the wreckage began shifting. really dangerous for the rescue divers. a dutch salvage team has arrived to offload diesel fuel. als
clash. so many of these images have been from tahrir square. we re now hearing injuries close to about a thousand, and the fascinating thing to me, 200 just thursday morning. so in one hour, 200 of those. and that s incredible. turning more violent, even members of the media covering the story. you ll see more of that coming up. on a lighter note, cashing in on the super bowl. how dallas is preparing for an influx of, get this, prostitutes and pimps. interesting weekend coming up in the big d, your home city. yeah, you re not going to want to miss that one, are you? of course, we begin with the millions of folks digging out from the monster storm. take a look as more than a thousand cars are being removed from iconic lake shore drive in the windy city. imagine the agony of being stuck in the car as the blizzard blew through. i ve never seen footage like that in my entire life. of course, this wasn t any blizzard. it was the third worst storm in the city s history. chris bur