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Decades to painting a bright historical picture of his presidency? something else? what was the real legacy of john f. kennedy's presidency and how should we think about it today 50 years later. here to try and answer this, we have with us former rnc chairman and msnbc political analyst michael steele, jane hall, journalism professor at american school of communication, robert macneil, former co-anchor of macneil lehr news hour and harris wofford, former democratic senator from pennsylvania who assisted president kennedy in the white house. there are a lot of different aspects of the kennedy l...

0 three shots are heard, like toy explosions. wigman jumps from his car, running towards the president with his camera running. people scream and lie down, grabbing their children. >> that was robert mcneil, a young nbc news correspondent describing what he saw later that night. neil was in the press bus tailing the presidential motorcade where everyone only heard the shots, didn't see them hit the target. nbc news quickly caught up with the man who did. >> fortunately i was probably 50 to 20 feet away from the president when it happened. >> tell us exactly what you saw, sir. >> he was coming ...

panel to prevent the disease. >> brown: mark shields and david brooks analyze the week's news. >> woodruff: and margaret warner talks with prize-winning reporter leslie maitland about her powerful and personal tale told in a new book, "crossing the borders of time." >> i had to grown-up all my life fascinated, spellbound by my mother's stories of war, escape and lost love. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is the at&t netwk-a living, breathing intelligence bringing people together to bring new idea...

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the therapeutic power of dance for parkinson's patients. >> many people with parkinson's feel like they are outside of the human experience and dance is a huge part of the human experience. so to come in and dance, you're human again. >> lehrer: judy woodruff interviews the u.s. surgeon- general about a new study on the health damage from even small amounts of cigarette smoke. >> warner: and with the holday shopping season underway, jeffrey brown talks to technology reporter david pogue about our obsession with gadgets and gizmos. >> people associate so heavily with their gadgets tha...