C concludes our program. we thank you for your attendance. we hat a moving hour this ha been. john king, ed lavendera are standing by, both at deala plaza watching what is going on. john, ed, the missing man flyover by the air force, i anticipated that would be the concluding moment. did it happen, not happen, was it canceled because of bad weather? do you have a clue? we have no official word yet, wolf,a as to why it didn t happen. it s a cold and rainy, pretty dismal day here in dallas. one has to assume it s just not safe to have a low flyover at this moment in the weather. we ll try to get official word. as the ceremony breaks up, a very solemn ceremony, as your previous guests have been talking about, as dallas tries to turn the page and remember. it is worth remembering as people reflect on this day, after this solemn ceremony, you see the crowd leaving.
That will message was to be delivered a few miles away in a speech to dallas leaders following his parade. it was a speech he never got to make. but those unspoken words resonate far beyond the life of the man to commemorate that day and those words, we are unveiling a memorial right here in this historic plaza. it is inscribed with the last lines of his undelivered speech and will serve as a reminder and a permanent monument to president kennedy s memory. i leave you with those res nat words. we in this country, in this generation, are by destiny
You see it there, kennedy slain on dallas street. it s the on dallas street part that made it so hard for the city. it was labeled the city of hate after the assassination. several of the speakers talked about how dallas struggled with its reputation, struggled with guilt of what happened to the beloved president in dealey plaza 50 years ago. quite a solemn ceremony. prayers, readings of his speeches by david mccullough. as you noted, a moment of silence and then the bells tolling at 12:30 local time, 1:30 in the east. that s the moment the bullet struck president kennedy in deala plaza. 50 years ago in this hour, as we speak, lee harvey oswald was arrested at the texas theater where he was watching a movie play. it was at the bottom of the hour, 2:38 local time, 3:38 in the east, when lyndon johnson took the official oath of office and became the 36th president of
Kennedys it was camelot. the kennedys had been and were, bobby kennedy was a senator from the state of new york, but the kennedy family was the royal family of massachusetts for some time. i was a week shy of 39 months when kennedy was assassinated. my mother used to tell me about that day in the house about sitting on her lap when she was watching the television reports of that day. and if you grew up in boston, the kennedys were legend. a lot of the irish catholic households i grew up in, if you walked into the front hallway or kitchen, there would be a picture of jesus christ and jack kennedy. that s the way it was in the neighborhood growing up. it s interesting to be here on this many special day, an i a somber day as you noted. we re now just moments away from 12:30 when the motorcade rolled into the plaza and legal oswald shot the president. 25 minutes from now would be the exact moment 50 years ago.
True courage and modeled it himself. we applaud a visionary who created a core of young americans to promote peace around the globe. we stand in awe of a dreamer who challenged us to literally reach for the moon, though he himself would not live to see us achieve that goal. other goals were even tougher. have taken longer to reach. and we the united states still struggle towards some even as we speak. as do we here in dallas. but we re fortified by the knowledge that we have always had big goals and big aspirations in this city. set by our founding fathers like john nili brian and george dealy, the namesake of this plaza. reenergized by mayor eric johnson, the mayor who led
Happened on the city streets 50 years ago. we talked a lot about that. i think the fact that it s been 50 years and it took that long for the city of dallas to do an official ceremony commemorating this anniversary, any of the anniversaries, and it s finally happened, but i m also struck by the way this one event changed so many lives of so many people in the city. we saw the widow of jd tippett, the police officer who was killed shortly after by lee harvey oswald. he knew there had been a shooting attempt on the president s life in deala plaza, and they were warning to be on the look out, but he had no idea it was lee harvey oswald, who was walking toward his police car. i spoke with the emergency room doctor who treated president kennedy at parkland hospital. imagine a young doctor in an marriage room, and he s in this room crowded with people, jackie onassis kennedy in this pink suit covered in blood. this is a young e.r. doctor, and how that changed the course of