us through the civil rights movement. but the truth is that we ll never know because he really never had much time in office. and because the nature of his death was so tragic and it really struck at the core of one of the things we hold dear, the peaceful trance tigs of power in our government. whatever one s ideology, we watched so many times a republican president give way to a democrat and vice versa and to have such a violent and traumatic end to a presidency, especially one as beloved as kennedy was, i think is still traumatic. well, it has been just a pleasure to have you this morning. thank you for sharing. appreciate your time this morning. thank you. tom hanks was just a boy when president john f. kennedy was assassinated. he spoke to cnn about how he remembers november 22nd, 1963 and about his new documentary jfk that is airing on cnn. i remembered thinking that this doesn t happen in the real