Many of you have filled out the forms are ready. If you dont have a pencil or pin to write with pulled up your hands and our people will come around. I have some prepared questions obviously but i know i cant cover everything and we will see we can do. Toward the end of the program we will get into our q a session. Lets get acquainted first. We like to do that with these programs. Raise your hand and remember the kennedy assassination weekend. Raise your hand if you are here in dallas at the time. Fascinating. I wanted to make one point. We are here because of a very sad event but we dont want to make this a sad occasion. I would like to pass on a story that came to me while i was halfway through the book. It did not occur to me until i read a passage in the book. Let me take you back to Denver Colorado where jerry and clans worked in the office but not at this time. In 1963 i think it was i saw president kennedy and at the time we lived next door to one of the top executives at the lo
i need to remind folks, we need you to turn your cell phones off, not just put em on silent, but turn them off. there s a lot of radio interference in the area, and we want to make sure the recorderrings come out well. there are two cameras here, those are from c-span. the program is being recorded for c-span, and they ll broad this sometime probably within the next week or two. and our associate curator is recording, also, for our oral history program which now totals over 800 people. while we re chatting, the biographies of our guests will appear on the screens behind us, also some photographs. ones of the kennedys come from the national archives and white house photographers, and the photographs of the kennedys that you ll see in dallas come from the sixth floor museum s collections. let s see here. we ll also have a q&a session. many of you have filled out the forms already. you don t have a pencil or pen to write with, hold up your hand, and people will come around an