Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: It was one of the most shocking things I'd ever heard.Frankly I was very upset and couldn't adjust to it and could hardly believe it in the beginning. Oswald shot and killed a Dallas police officer named J.D. Kennedy's well-wishers crowded close to his limousine as the motorcade neared Dealey Plaza. One is that he is dead. While waiting, Oswald is searched and five bullet cartridges are found in his pocket. Walter Cronkite on the air 1960: And the popular vote 84 percent of the precincts counted now give Kennedy just a little margin over 50 percent of the vote Nixon almost 50 percent of the vote. But I took them, anyway. (Bobby himself spent most of Nov. 21st in a Justice department meeting about targeting organized crime.) See more of her work at MosaicWorks.com. She was surprised that someone spoke so bluntly about what was going on. Reporter: This is a scene at Andrews Air Force Base. And yes, just in case you were wondering, that was actually the actress' real voice. That's when I changed my mind. Schieffer: People were crying. A third-year student named Nick Grivas, who went on to become a neurosurgeon, was also on surgery call that day. The president had been assassinated. Onlookers milled about, treating Dealey Plaza with reverence. MedPage Today confirmed that Goldstrich was present in Trauma Room One and reached out to the physician, who is now an advocate for medical cannabis. The president is already technically dead, but Jackie is worried about him receiving his Catholic last rites before he has died. 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My first thought was that the reason they were paging Dr. Clark was that this patient had bled and now has obstruction of his airway. I guess I was a major JFK fan. Schieffer: Air Force One is still on the ground at Love Field. This is a very dramatic change in body position. Despite ill political winds in Texas, the Kennedys were greeted on Nov. 22nd by cheering throngs in Dallas. I knew the Zapruders very well, and had been in their home many times. I ran up five or six flights of stairs to the floor where the patient was, and I burst into the room. I am clear, however, that I saw the posterior aspect of the trachea. Schieffer: Johnson had this innate sense of command. Covering this kind of tragedy, nobody had done it on television before. The cars passed him and he photographed John and Jackie. A platform was set up and the president, wearing no protection against the weather, came out to make some brief remarks. Governor John Connally and his wife, Nellie, were already seated in the open convertible as the Kennedys entered and sat behind them. He frequently shot with his trusty Leica and multiple lenses on Kodachrome slide film. Myers:Kennedy, when he emerges from behind the sign, he's obviously hit as the hands come up in a very dramatic fashion.So the problem that conspiracy theorists point out is they say, "Well, the time lag between this and the moment when Gov. Reporter: Something is wrong here, something is terribly wrong Caro:It's an atmosphere of uncertainty. All Rights Reserved. John F. Kennedy: The day . Schieffer:I think the picture that most people will remember, is this tiny little boy, in his little boy suit -uh, and he puts his hand up and he salutes.it's hard for me to think of it even today and not be touched by that. The bus isn't moving much because of traffic in Dealey Plaza. None of Kennedys public comments that day is particularly memorable. We will have a direct report. Almost as prevalent as theories about his assassination are theories about what would have happened to three major historical events if JFK had been alive in 1964. Caro: I mean, here's Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy, two men who hate each other.They're going to be riding behind the body of Robert Kennedy's brother.In this long, slow procession. Most importantly, on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was. It was the first time this procedure had been done at Parkland. I highly recommend a funeral parlor." It was a soft sound. When I looked at JFK's throat wound, my thoughts were that it was not necessary to expand the hole for the tracheotomy. Cronkite (1993): It was disbelief that it could have happened, that it had happened. blood splattered on her dress.But she was just observing everything, wasn't talking. In 2005, my father passed away. Strangely, though, it wasnt a right-wing extremist who would end Kennedys life, but a confused and angry Marxistone who, seven months earlier, fired a shot not at Kennedy, nor Connolly, nor Johnson, nor Yarborough, but at Walker, whom he considered a fascist. Afterward, at the grave site, Mrs. Kennedy and her husband's brothers, Robert and Edward, lit an eternal flame. FBI agents have been sitting in on the interrogations. He has covered the building in black bunting and, at the request of Jackie Kennedy, has gotten books and documents so he can make the White House look like it did when Lincoln died and laid in repose in the White House. Kennedy was on his way to Dallas, but on November 21 Richard Nixon was already there, to attend a meeting of the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages. Dr. James Carrico, the first doctor to enter the trauma room, noted a large wound located in the right occipito-parietal area and one small penetrating wound in the middle of the neck. ", "John F. 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Huffaker: We knew that Oswald was the most hated suspect, of the 20th Century. Robert Caro | Author andhistorian: Not really. The procession left the airport and traveled along a ten-mile route that wound through downtown Dallas on the way to the Trade Mart where the President was scheduled to speak at a luncheon. Kennedy's assassination created moments of chaos in the federal government that afternoon. / CBS News. Dr. Charles Baxter said the right temporal and occipital bones were missing and the brain was on the table. Abraham Zapruder film: I was down on this freeway early and even the freeway was jammed pack with spectators waiting their chance to see the president as he made his way toward the trade mart it appears as though something has happened in the motorcade route something I repeat has happened in the motorcade route. When he did see her, I was right between them. "Review: The Sixth Floor: John F. Kennedy and the Memory of a Nation,", Eder, Elizabeth. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. Wearing a bright pink suit with a dark fur collar and a matching pink hat, and the president wearing a dark suit. What did you do after JFK was declared dead? Retired Iowa cardiologist, Joe Goldstrich, MD. And that is "The United States is still on course. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Suddenly at mid-morning the skies opened up and it was a beautiful blue spring-like day. Well in those days we didn't keep a camera hot. Simultaneously, Johnson phonesgrief-strickenRobert Kennedy, the president's younger brother and the Attorney General, to find out what his legal options are about taking the oath of office. See also her post on the significance of JFK's assassination. Dr. Salyer: It seemed like forever. Connally never accepted it. That gun is a powerful military rifle, which police found in the building from which the President is believed to have been shot. When Dr. Clark walked in, [emergency room director] Dr. Charlie Baxter was doing closed-chest cardiac compressions on JFK. Nonetheless, JFK seemed to relish the prospect of leaving Washington, getting out among the people and into the political fray. This cannot be confirmed. Dr. Kenneth Salyer: I'm Dr. Kenneth Salyer. [Pauses] And yet it happened. he League of United Latin American Citizens, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Arts and Culture in the Kennedy White House, John F. Kennedy and People with Intellectual Disabilities, President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. Dan Rather reporting: This is 24 year-old Lee H. Oswald. Because if you don't do that, then you're at some risk of just falling apart emotionally. Randy Dotinga is a freelance medical and science journalist based in San Diego. Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough, a Democrat, was feuding with Texas Governor (and fellow Democrat) John Connally. This year marks 51 years since his assassination in . The trip was also likely intended as an attempt to help bring together a feuding Democratic Party in a state that was vital to Kennedy's chances for reelection in 1964. And despite all the theories and all the investigations over the last 50 years, no one has yet produced credible evidence of a conspiracy behind Oswald. November 22, 1963: Death of the President. In the following years, presidential successions happened after the deaths of six presidents, and there were two cases where the offices of President and Vice President almost became vacant at the same time. All rights reserved. Someone shot him.". Harry Reasoner on the air: We are now switching to Dallas where they are about to move Lee Oswald and where there is a scuffle in the police station Reporter: We are going to switch now to Bob Huffaker, down in the basement of the court house who is close to the scene. Mary McCarthys racy "The Group" tops The New York Timesbest-seller list for fiction. There were so many people who were associated with the assassination who had died, sometimes by questionable means. Air Force One lands at Love Field. When I woke up from my nap and came out into the surgical area, people were running around. On the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, the president was riding in a motorcade near Dealey Plaza in Downtown when he was shot in the neck and head at 12:30 p.m. from Mashable that may sometimes include advertisements or sponsored content. He was extraordinarily self confident. I'll give you a second to get . In 2017, former President Donald Trump's administration releasedseveral thousand documents about the assassination. At this point, they are still only investigating and interrogating Oswald about the shooting death of Officer Tippit. But Yarborough refused--in full view of reporters--to ride in a motorcade with Johnson. What changed your mind? The president had a large, huge jagged injury of the right side of his skull, with pieces missing. Now he wouldnt. At least, that is what I was told as a medical student back then. In fact, it wasn't even recycled old footage. As they fight, officer McDonald gets his finger in front of the pistol's hammer so the gun will not fire. The images have never been published, but my dad would be happy to see them in TIME Magazine, his favorite news publication. Almost immediately, wreaths, tributes and memorials began to accumulate in Dealey Plaza near where Kennedy was shot. Voice of Rose Kennedy: His father would go out and watch the sailboatsand then he'd say, "Why are your sails flapping while the other one was straight? And then when he called me again, and I said to myself, "Well, maybe this professional writer can help me with the book that I was writing [about antioxidants and heart disease].". Meaning, we'll find out who/what electrocuted poor Eddie near the clearing. I got into the emergency room at the same time as JFK was entering on a gurney. : Performance of the Intelligence Agencies, "Letter from Assistant Attorney General William F. Weld to Peter W. Rodino Jr., undated", "1. Although my fathers job required him to travel constantly, my dad arranged to be in town the day he heard Kennedy was coming to Dallas because he wanted to take pictures. How come? Schieffer: And it was Lee Harvey Oswald's mother, Marguerite Oswald. But when he got near the Trade Mart, all he photographed was the motorcade racing to Parkland Hospital. He had a birds-eye view. When the end came, eyes turned to Jacqueline Kennedy at her husband's side. Dr. Clark saw the head wound and said something like, "My God, Charlie, what are you doing? Huffaker: This was the day that the news went live on television. Doesn't acknowledge him. This was well known to the rest of the country. His father was Abraham Zapruder [the Dallas dressmaker who shot the famous film of the assassination.] Opens in a new tab or window, Share on LinkedIn. And on Nov. 22, 1963, I was on neurosurgery call at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas. I think it makes a tremendous difference. Connally. Shots rang out while the president's motorcade drove through the streets of Dallas And with that I turned around and shouted: "Let's get on the air, lets get on the air!" Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our, Digital He's clearly been hit. Caro: It was like it burned it into our consciousness. There was already a Secret Service agent at the door. Well, the Staten Island Ferry Disaster occurred on Nov. 22, 1963, it killed 400 people, and oh yeah - it's all fake. Reporter: President Johnson, has gotten into the car with the Kennedy family. Mrs. Kennedy is organizing herself. (Related: See a rare photo of Lee Harvey Oswald being arrested). In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. And when he did, Oswald walked up and shot him at point-blank range. Harry Reasoner on the air: Let us go now to the White House and Robert Pierpoint. As we were going through his possessions, I didnt want all his old slides at first, because I worried it might be some giant burden and Id never look at them again. What's happened?". He knew Dallas really well, and he knew where to go to get close to the motorcade. On November 29, 1963 President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy. Reporter: Chief, do you have any concern for the safety of your prisoner In due of the high feeling among the people of Dallas over the assassination of the president. Bob Huffaker: And he is a resident of Dallas, is he not? Do you have any regrets about those moments in Trauma Room One? It must have been a shock to my immune system. It is live. That first effort failed, but Bayh, with President Lyndon Johnsons support, proposed it again right after Johnsons inauguration in January 1965. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Governor John B. Connally, and Senator Ralph W. Yarborough led the welcoming party. As we know he never got there. After further questioning, he was formally charged with the President's death. IE 11 is not supported. Dr. Kemp Clark, who pronounced Kennedy dead, noted two external wounds. Rather (2008): This was something brand new.. There's something else: One my best friends growing up in Dallas was named Henry Zapruder. 223, but at 224 we can see the right shoulder buckle and start to drop. A fragment from the bullet or debris from the street hit JamesTauge,who is watching the motorcade in Dealey Plaza. Dan Rather (2008): Nobody knew how to do it and in terms of coverage everybody in television we were making it up as we went along. Eddie Barker reporting: As you can imagine there are many stories that are coming in now as to the actual condition of the president. Explore our new 15-unit high school curriculum. The US House of Representatives established the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1976 to reopen the investigation of the assassination in light of allegations that previous inquiries had not received the full cooperation of federal agencies. We've got you covered. As he and Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson are leaving, she sees the flags drop to half mast. As students, we were told that Parkland had some of the best survival rates in the whole country for trauma patients. Now he was a partner in the New York law firm of Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander, & Mitchell, where Nixons friend Donald Kendall, president of Pepsi, was a client. What America was like on November 21st, 1963. As rumors and uncertainty spread, one thing was certain: America, and much of the world, was united in unimaginable grief. Bury something of our past along with that man. Dr. Salyer: As I was looking at Mrs. Kennedy and everyone started to exit the room and she came over. Reporter: President John Kennedy his body in the casket moving down Pennsylvania Avenue now, up toward Capitol Hill. Vice President John Tyler, in a bold move, settled the political debate about succession. He knew that the country had to know that there was continuity. Schieffer: Mrs. Kennedy would not change clothes.She said "I want them to see what they have done to him. It was a sad moment, but it was a great moment in the history of the country because it said: there is still a president. Updated on: October 26, 2017 / 8:15 PM He was being held for the assassination of President Kennedy and the fatal shooting, shortly afterward, of Patrolman J. D. Tippit on a Dallas street. Magazines, Digital Cronkite (1993): The police, uh, captured a man at the scene who reporters saw shoot Oswald and have booked him.They say his name is Jack Ruby, or Rubenstein. Dr. Kemp Clark, who was the head of neurosurgery, said the main complication that concerned him for this procedure was that there might be bleeding and it could obstruct the airway, and the patient might need a tracheotomy. The car turned off Main Street at Dealey Plaza around 12:30 p.m. As it was passing the Texas School Book Depository, gunfire suddenly reverberated in the plaza. And I said yes. He had it all figured out: he would take pictures of the Kennedys as they drove near Turtle Creek (pictured above) and then take the back streets to the Trade Mart to photograph the president and First Lady. Cronkite on the air: In Dallas -- a Dallas policeman just a short while ago was shot and killed while chasing a suspect. After Captain Fritz signs the complaint charging Oswald with the murder of Kennedy at 11:26 p.m. Sonia King is a mosaic artist based in Dallas. We had covered him up and she laid on his chest. They flew over. America was never quite the same after that day.A nation that had been brimming with confidence suddenly felt a new vulnerability.How could this have happened? Oswald's second interrogation starts in Captain Fritz's office. His aide Kenny ODonnell recalled him saying that morning, in the White House, I feel great. Cronkite on the air: We have not been told their condition. Socolow: As the news spread people stopped what they were doing to go to the radio, mostly, but also to television. Schieffer: It was just the difference in night and day.He was the Technicolor President and we had sort of seen the presidency in black and white up until that point. Oswald gets a Coca Cola from the soda machine in the book depository and starts walking out of the buildings after being stopped briefly by Dallas police officer Marrion Baker. Also in attendance at the bottlers meeting was the actress Joan Crawford, widow of Pepsis former chairman. Starting May 1, 2023, the Museum will be open 7 days a week from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. By the fall of 1963, President John F. Kennedy and his political advisers were preparing for the next presidential campaign. Opens in a new tab or window, Visit us on TikTok. Reporter: The line 40 blocks long estimated by police at 500,000. The website features a dramatic tale(opens in a new tab) of the fictional tragedy (which supposedly occurred in the early morning hours on the day of President John F. Kennedy's assassination), fabricated newspaper clippings(opens in a new tab) from decades ago, memorial T-shirts(opens in a new tab) and the museum's hours, admission prices and transit directions(opens in a new tab) (including getting off a bus at "Smug Harbor"). He sees the infamous "black border" ad which accusing him of treason. Schieffer: On that Sunday, the plan was to transfer Oswald from the Dallas City Jail where he had been questioned and where he had been kept, and transfer him to the county jail. He noted that Kennedy had lost support in Texas, which was true; indeed, that was Kennedys main reason for visiting the state with his Texan vice-president, Lyndon Johnson. Will these new features draw users back to the platform? Reporter: Mrs. Kennedy followed the casket on foot to St. Matthews Church. I resonated with his philosophy and his agenda. Reporter: She does makes a very striking picture as she clutches the huge bouquet of bright red roses Caro: He takes Jackie and they walk along the fence. Technically, the Constitution never spelled out how a Vice President would become President if a President died, resigned or was unable to perform the offices duty. Since it was no longer raining, the plastic bubble top had been left off. Cronkite (1993): It really happened.The President of the United States dead, and there he lied. Dan Rather | CBS News Dallas reporting: These are scenes at a building across the street from the scene where President Kennedy was shot. On Nov. 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, was shot to death during a motorcade in Dallas; Texas Gov. From "Paddington" to "Galaxy Quest" and beyond! The non-fiction list is headed by "JFK: The Man and the Myth," a hatchet job by Victor Lasky, followed (somewhat ominously) by "The American Way of Death," Jessica Mitfords expose of the funeral industry, at number two. On Monday, November 25, 1963 President Kennedy was laid to rest in Arlington National Cemetery. The shooting as we now understand it some almost 50 years later -- there were three shots fired. And Jackie [Kennedy] was further back on his right side, in a corner. Governor Connally's wife, turned to the president and said, "Well Mr. President, you can't say Dallas doesn't love you.". Davies as the man people saw unloading a pistol as he came across their yard immediately following the Tippit shooting. Schieffer: They decided to fly from Fort Worth to Dallas, which is literallyonly 30 miles. Please enter valid email address to continue. Link couldn't be copied to clipboard! I never felt that way until 9/11. Reporter: Behind it comes, Mrs. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy. And now President Johnson is coming down the ramp, out the back door. by During the 21 hours that the president's body lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda, about 250,000 people filed by to pay their respects. Penny Robinson to Charles Kuralt: Nobody could believe it.It's too there's no words to express what happened at all. We wouldn't be surprised if Reginella actually rents a space and puts together a full museum dedicated to the Staten Island Ferry Disaster and we would totally go visit. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called RFK to tell him "we have the man.". All of thisthe investigations, the slights, Johnsons fears about his political futurewould evaporate on Nov. 22. Was the president really killed by a lone gunman in Dealey Plaza? Who was the murder? Nobody knows at this moment if this was the beginning of a conspiracy. Randy Dotinga, Contributing Writer, MedPage Today Because of television we thought we knew JFK and his family more intimately than any of his predecessors, the man friends simply called, "Jack.". Opens in a new tab or window, Visit us on Facebook. To resolve the matter, Johnson had to talk to Yarborough. Or maybe youll just catch up on your reading. He is the first president to be sworn in by a woman, Judge Sarah T. Hughes. Medpage Today is among the federally registered trademarks of MedPage Today, LLC and may not be used by third parties without explicit permission. "We will continue to doour duty, and the people of Texas will be in the lead.". Kennedys assassination created moments of chaos in the federal government that afternoon. Second place is no good. C.T., Oswald is officially told he has been charged with Kennedy's murder. Caro: So the caisson is pulled up to the front of White House. Also, later when testifying to the Warren Commission, McWatters says he was wrong in selecting Oswald in the lineup. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as president. They have only charged him with the killing of Officer Tippit. President John F. Kennedys death on November 22, 1963, traumatized a nation and led a united Congress to make a constitutional change, in the form of the 25th amendment. Arriving at Love Field, President and Mrs. Kennedy disembarked and immediately walked toward a fence where a crowd of well-wishers had gathered, and they spent several minutes shaking hands. In fact nobody has said that to me yet. In his new account of the Kennedy assassination, Philip Shenon, a former investigative reporter for the New York Times, explores why many suspected an international conspiracy. I was also the chief gofer. Solid. Sargent Shriver, the president's brother-in-law, prepares the White House to receive Kennedy's body and for it to lay in repose. Shenon:It's just-- a difficult concept for folks that one young, unstable man, with a $21 rifle could change the world. I think my son is the one that they've arrested. If, as I was, you were very youngI was two months shy of my sixth birthdaytheres very little of your life before that date that you can remember. The caisson pulls away. According to Guare (whose monologue about that day was included in a recent multimedia event at New Yorks Symphony Space and reprinted in the Huffington Post) his fellow airmen basics used this precious free time to mutter one hateful thing after another about the visiting party: We got to stand in this hot sun for a n----- lover? He don't belong in Texas. He aint my president. Id like to show that wife of his what a man is. And so on.
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