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Welcome back. you think about the early jet age it's hard not to think about the kennedys. there is a reason. they helped usher it in. before then air force one was an old propeller plane and then was a gleaming plane. >> reporter: the paersful transition of power for the mightiest nation on earth took place not in the white house or even in washington, but on a plane. windows shades drawn for fear of snipers, the air conditions off to save fuel. the scratchy audio captured on a dictation machine. built the year before, president kennedy's air force one was the

>> preserve. >> preserve. >> protect. >> protect. >> defend. >> defend. >> reporter: air force one was the first presidential jet. jackie kennedy hired the designer who came up with its distinctive paint scheme still used today. that day in dallas, as the first couple set off into the adoring crowd, the crew monitored their progress on the plane's radios. >> you realize that i'll be monitoring this frequency. >> reporter: it wasn't long before they knew something was terribly wrong. >> there's a situation, i read you. >> reporter: the president had been shot. >> we have report quoting in dalla...

Shooting, president kennedy's body was taken to air force one. martin savidge looks at what happened on this cramp and overheated space in one of the darkest days in our nation's history. >> the peaceful transition of power for the mightiest nation in earth took place not in the white house or even in washington, but on a plane. window shades drawn for fear of snipers. the air conditioning off to save fuel. the scratchy audio captured on a dictation machine. >> built the year before, president kennedy's air force one was the first presidential jet. jackie kennedy hired the designer that came u...

Pieces of what became johnson's great society. because of that, you don't have as much of a legislative record but you do have a chance to look at the person, the man, the mood of the moment, and people put such high hopes in him and that's why his numbers are so high 50 years later. >> yesterday in our cnn poll, we reported president obama's job approval number right now, president obama at 41%. john king in dealey plaza in dallas, thank you. it's arguably the world's most important plane, air force one played a pivotal and historic role when president kennedy was assassinated in dallas 50 ...