It has been the greater part a long time, thus numerous lifetimes back. However the pictures from November 1963 stay tormenting, obscured into our public awareness. After sixty years, CBS News remembers that show, second by second, as it unfurled before a world in shock.
Weave Schieffer : When the president came to Texas, I was a youthful journalist covering the wrongdoing beat for the Post Worth Star Message. With JFK and his exquisite spouse Jackie traveling our direction, for us it was the greatest story of the year. Little might we at some point realize history was going to be made. Time halted chilly, in that dim second, on a Dallas road. The loathsomeness of the professional killer’s shots broke dreams and reverberated as the decades progressed, shading our legislative issues, and lives. It was likewise a turning point for American TV news, drove by CBS News broadcaster Walter Cronkite. With the passing of a president came the introduction of live inclusion. America shared a public misfortune, as it worked out.
Due to TV we assumed we knew JFK and his family more personally than any of his ancestors, the man companions essentially called “Jack.”
Voice of John F. Kennedy: I was brought into the world in Boston, Massachusetts in 1917. I have eight family and they… I’m the second most seasoned, And it was an extraordinary joy experiencing childhood in a huge family. I think it has an enormous effect.
Voice of Rose Kennedy: His dad would go out and watch the boats … and afterward he’d say, “For what reason are your sails fluttering while the other one was straight? What’s more, the other one came out on top in the race and you didn’t. … On the off chance that you will race, why, get everything done as needs be and arrived in a victor. Runner up is no decent.”
Sandy Socolow | Walter Cronkite’s maker: John F. Kennedy … was raised in a super rich manner. Very knowledgeable. … Awesome looking. Truly amicable. … He was remarkably self-assured.
Schieffer: Sure, he was playing the media. … Yet, the truth of the matter is he was simply so great at it, that it worked. … Also, who could fault him?
1960 Kennedy-Nixon official discussion practice:
Kennedy: It’s a joy to be here this evening to partake in this program which opens up a progression of conversations. … Is that about the right manner of speaking?
Richard Nixon: Think I better shave.
Walter Cronkite on the air, 1960: And the well known vote … 84% of the areas counted now … give Kennedy a tiny bit of edge north of 50% of the vote… Nixon very nearly 50% of the vote. Perhaps of the nearest political race in our country’s set of experiences has been kept in this extended time of 1960.
Walter Cronkite: Kennedy appeared to be driving us into another period of, of energetic abundance … over the fun of life, the fun a nation could have acting naturally, being significant on the planet. We were moving on mists.
Schieffer: It was only the distinction in night and day. He was the Technicolor President, and we had kind of seen the administration in highly contrasting up until that point. … Abruptly we had this youthful attractive president and this dazzling spouse and these wonderful youngsters … furthermore, he is the main president that we came to truly be aware, and we came to know his family and that was a direct result of TV.
Schieffer: In those days presidents didn’t travel without question and it was a significant occasion. … They chose to come to Texas since they figured they could fund-raise there. … Individuals were so invigorated.
Schieffer: The connection between Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy was exceptionally intricate. They were accomplices. Is it true or not that they were ever companions?
Robert Caro | Creator and student of history: Not actually.
