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And why isnt it just simply fiction in your mind? >> if you do it right, it teaches you two things. one, the incredibly contingent nature of history. over and over again, tiny changes would have resulted in enormous consequences. if it hadnt stopped raining in dallas, that bubble top would have stayed on john kennedys limousine. if elian gonzalez mother had survived there wouldnt have been a custody controversy that probably cost al gore 15 or 20,000 votes in state he lost by 500. the second thi...

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Buell frazier: i wish it would just rain or quit all together. kenneth odonnell: its raining in dallas. we want a bubble top on the limo. agent: they say its going to clear up. kenneth odonnell: okay, if it does, no bubble. john f kennedy: well be sure to get that in. good morning lyndon. man: mr. president. radio announcer: the presidential party will leave ft. worth on a quick flight to dallas where the motorcade will travel through downtown on their way to the trade mart. lee harvey oswald: m...

Buell frazier: i wish it would just rain or quit all together. kenneth odonnell: its raining in dallas. we want a bubble top on the limo. agent: they say its going to clear up. kenneth odonnell: okay, if it does, no bubble. john f kennedy: well be sure to get that in. good morning lyndon. man: mr. president. radio announcer: the presidential party will leave ft. worth on a quick flight to dallas where the motorcade will travel through downtown on their way to the trade mart. lee harvey oswald: m...

Correspondent and host of cbs "face the nation." jim leher went on to launch the award-winning show "news hour" on pbs, even recently writing a fictional novel about the jfk assassination. i got the opportunity to sit down with these two legendary reporters about their experiences 50 years ago. thanks so much for coming in. its so great to have you here on this solemn day. bob, you were at the ft. worth star telegram and jim, you were at the dallas times herald. the basis of your latest novel, "...

With the orders of the president. he always wanted the bubble top down unless it was a weather emergency because he didnt want people saying oh, my god, theres the president under glass. so he did make a mistake. but my novel, this guy has guilt feelings because he thinks it might have saved his life if he had -- kennedys life if the bubble top had stayed up. >> bob, you told me the story once. your brother is the one that told you kennedy had been shot. >> yes. i was asleep, because i worked th...

Because my rewrite man, who was on the telephone, wanted to know whether the bubble top was going to be up or down. this was as the plane was coming from ft. worth. so he said, you know, its clear and he asked what the weather was like downtown. he said, okay, its clear, so lets take the bubble top down. i stood there for a few seconds while they started to take the bubble top down. now, the bubble top, a lot of people thought it was bullet proof. it wasnt. it was quarter-inch plex si glass. it ...

>> the event and the vehicle in which it happened will be forever linked. >> reporter: five decades later, jfks limo is one of the symbols of that day. the vehicle the president and first lady were riding in in dallas. the 1961 four-door lincoln. there is now near silence when people see that car where it now sits at the henry ford museum in dearborn, michigan. >> we have images burned in our mind and every one of those images includes the car, a vital intimate part of the assassination. thats w...

Arrested him and confiscated his rifle and he would have been in jail not shooting at november kennedy. thats one of the incredible coincidences. if it was raining the president would have lived because the bubble top would have been put on top of the car. those are some of the coincidences that could have saved the president. if the car sped up after the first shot. if it sped up or swerved after the second shot the president might have survived that day. >> we talked about jfks assassination a...