It’s been sixty years since President John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. He was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963.
You may think that you know everything there is to know about that fateful day, but this version has interviews and footage from people who were there that day. Secret agents assigned to protect the President and the first lady as well as Dallas police officers who lost one of their own that day give details to their memories.
These Federal Secret Agents tell what it was like from their vantage point before and after the assassination including the moment that JFK was shot in the head and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in on Air Force One as the new president of the United States of America.
The words of Jacqueline Kennedy as she traveled back to Washington D.C. with her husband’s coffin after he was rolled in white sheets and given last rights at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.
The first lady didn’t usually go on the campaign trail with her husband, but he wanted her to go this time. Jacqueline B. Kennedy was very popular with the public as this docuseries proves and it’s interesting to see how she was held in such high regard.
All eyes were on the First Lady as she walked into the room at one of the last large breakfast gatherings that were attended at first by just the president until he noticed the sadness and disappointment that was circulating in the room and immediately had the Secret Service escort her to the breakfast wearing her “raspberry” suit that would later be soiled as the day went on.
The feelings of grief as the word spread on television and radio announcing the death of the beloved president feel real sixty years later. The youngest elected president at 43 years old was now being mourned throughout America when he died at the age of 46.
With only three years in office, Kennedy was out campaigning early in Dallas for his hopeful second term that next year. The three-part series also provides archival footage along with surviving witnesses.
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Photo Credit: Nat Geo NBC News, The White House, and JFK Libary
