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In new interviews with the Star-Telegram, three reporters who covered Kennedy in Fort Worth and Dallas say the assassination will forever be “The Story” that changed their lives.
and it s impossible for me now to this day, and i m sure ten years from now, to drive-thru dallas without looking at the school book depository building. and it s impossible for me to drive by the texas hotel today and not think of that morning when kennedy president spoke there. it will always be with us. kennedy, alongside other presidents johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, the two bushes, even bill clinton people, they don t remember what they did, but they remember their rhetoric. and they remember the images. ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them. who gives them hope. for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy s standing hold on the public i think will only fade if
looked up just after the shot was fired and saw a rifle being withdrawn from a fifth or sixth floor window. it was originally thought that the shots came from in here. and now it s believed that the shots came from this building here. the police officers are running back to the texas school depository building. they are going to continue searching in that building for the would-be assassin of the president. the center of downtown blass is in a virtual state of siege. they are combing the floors of the texas depository building in an effort to find the suspected assassin. in the building, on the sixth floor we found an area near a window that had been partially blocked off by boxes of books. and also the three spent shells that had apparently been fired from a rifle. crime lab lieutenant j.c. day came out of that building with a british .303 rifle. it was a 7.65 mauser. a high-powered army or japanese rifle.
president from his window in the texas school depository. three years later, the major question is still a simple one. did the warren commission with all that time and resources get its answers right? tonight we go over the arguments one by one, area by area. as the assassination was taking place, a dallas businessman stood behind that low concrete wall looking down at elm street. as the president was coming down from houston street making his turn, it was about halfway down i heard a shot. i heard another shot or two. then i saw his head practically open up. blood and everything. the warren commission could use the film and each frame to reconstruct each moment of the assassination. part of the reason i think the film captured the american imagination is because it