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Welcome back to the hilltop, welcome back to smu to dallas hall and also a fun program that is a joint program tonight between our center for president ial history and our Clement Center for southwest studies. Always exciting when the two History Centers here at smu can come together and its wonderful for us, the younger partner, the Clement Center has been the leading center for southwest studies at least a generation. So we as still in our toddler phase, look up to them and they also babysit us. It works out really quite nicely. Im really thrilled to have you all here tonight for our continuing series looking at history and president ial history especially since this one in particular our talk tonight has of course a dallas flair to it, its fundamentally a dallas story and we all know especially having gone through th ....
President John F. Kennedy arrived at Love Field in Dallas via Air Force One on November 22, 1963, after stops in San Antonio and Fort Worth in the Lone ....
Revisiting the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as the tragedy s fiftieth anniversary approaches, writer-director Peter Landesman provides an up-close-and-personal view of the events in Dallas by following the intertwined stories of several people swept up in the shooting and its aftermath. Taking its title from the hospital where both Kennedy and assassin Lee Harvey Oswald were pronounced dead, Parkland expends lots of energy and expertise on re-creating these infamous events, yet it is so lacking in narrative purpose that many viewers are likely to leave muttering, Okay…but so what? Advertisement The reason for that has to do with the Kennedy assassination s place in the national imagination. Much of the event s lingering fascination stems from the perception of unsolved mystery that still surrounds it, and questions about the effects it had on the nation s subsequent history and character. Whether one agrees with it or not, Oliver Stone s seminal JFK w ....
Winston lawson: we stay about 30 miles an hour out by the airport. forrest sorrels: puts us downtown around 20 minutes later. now the parade will travel down main street here. winston lawson: we slow to fifteen miles an hour so the crowds can get a good look at lancer. forrest sorrels: these tall buildings on either side, this is like a canyon. winston lawson: there s more than 20,000 windows along this parade route. forrest sorrels: yeah, we ll be sitting ducks. winston lawson: we have to assume the president s car will be open, unless it s raining. here at dealey plaza we make a right on houston. forrest sorrels: can t we avoid this? there s a 120-degree turn onto elm is gonna slow the motorcade down to a crawl. winston lawson: no look, the only way under the stemmons freeway is from elm. forrest sorrels: [sighs]. this town makes me nervous. you know dallas is the murder capital of the country. winston lawson: did a thorough check of active threats to the president, there are none in ....
Winston lawson: we stay about 30 miles an hour out by the airport. forrest sorrels: puts us downtown around 20 minutes later. now the parade will travel down main street here. winston lawson: we slow to fifteen miles an hour so the crowds can get a good look at lancer. forrest sorrels: these tall buildings on either side, this is like a canyon. winston lawson: there s more than 20,000 windows along this parade route. forrest sorrels: yeah, we ll be sitting ducks. winston lawson: we have to assume the president s car will be open, unless it s raining. here at dealey plaza we make a right on houston. forrest sorrels: can t we avoid this? there s a 120-degree turn onto elm is gonna slow the motorcade down to a crawl. winston lawson: no look, the only way under the stemmons freeway is from elm. forrest sorrels: [sighs]. this town makes me nervous. you know dallas is the murder capital of the country. winston lawson: did a thorough check of active threats to the president, there are none in ....