speaker: elements of the central intelligence agency killed j john kennededy. speaker: the story has been suppressed. witnesses have been killed. we have a right to know who killed our president and d why he dieied. [music playing] speaker: in dallas, preparations were already underway for extraordinary police protection when the president should arrive. interviewer: do you anticipate any trouble on the president s arrival? jesse curry: because of what has happened here previously, we would be foolish, i think, not to anticipate some trouble. i don t really, i don t anticipate any violence. speaker:r: here comemes air foe numbmber one, ththe presidenes plane now totouching dowown. here s s mrs. kennnnedy, anand the crowowd yells. and the president of the united states, and i can see his sun tan all the way from here. dan rather: looking at how things actually went, it wasn t just a trip to dallas. it was a political trip, preparing for the 1964 elections. speaker: shaking ha
i don t really, i don t anticipate any violence. here comes air force number one, the president s plane now touching down. there is mrs. kennedy, and the crowd yells. and the president of the united states. and i can see his suntan all the way from here. looking at how things actually went, it wasn t just a trip to dallas, it was a political trip preparing for the 1964 elections. shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. connolly, governor connolly on your left. it was whether kennedy could use his charisma and his influence to get all the squabbling democrats in texas to come together before the election the next year. and here comes the president now. in fact, he s not in his
dallas people, governor and mrs. connolly, governor connolly on your left. it was whether kennedy, using all his charisma and influence to get all the squabbling democrats in texas to come together before the election the next year. and here comes the president now. in fact he is not in his limo, he is reaching across the fence shaking hands. in those days everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and saw a hand reach through the chain link fence and break off one of the red roses. thousands of children now swarming, trying to get over the fence. the dallas police trying to keep them back. this is great for the people and makes the egg shells even thinner for the secret service, whose job it was to guard the man. the trip had gone terrifically well in texas. pretty hard to write a script for it going any better. thousands will be on hand for that motorcade now, which will be in downtown dallas.
trip to dallas. it was a political trip preparing for the 1964 elections. shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. connolly, governor connolly on your left. it was whether kennedy could use all his charisma and influence to get all the squabbling democrats in texas to come together before the election the next year. and here comes the president now. in fact, he is not in his limosine, he is reaching across the fence shaking hands. in those days everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and saw a hand reach through the chain-link fence and break off one of the red roses. thousands of children now swarming, trying to get over the fence. the dallas police trying to keep them back. this is great for the people and makes the egg shells even thinner for the secret service, whose job it is to guard the man. the trip had gone terrifically well in texas. pretty hard to write a script
and the president of the united states. and i can see his sun tan all the way from here. looking at how things actually went, it wasn t just a trip to dallas, it was a political trip preparing for the 1964 elections. shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. connolly, governor connolly on your left. it was whether kennedy, using all his charisma and influence to get all the squabbling democrats in texas to come together before the election the next year. and here comes the president now. in fact he is not in his limo, he is reaching across the fence shaking hands. in those days everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and saw a hand reach