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John Fitzgerald
Kennedy
Where were you,
what were you doing when you heard President Kennedy was shot?
On the 39th anniversary of President
Kennedy's assassination new voices tell a chillingly familiar story.
"Give me all available information on the president. Over."
It's November 22, 1963, and two-thirds of the members of the
presidential Cabinet are in a plane over the Pacific Ocean, en route
to Japan, when President John F. Kennedy is fatally shot while he
rides in a Texas motorcade. Ground-to-air radio messages --
beginning with the above query from White House Press Secretary
Pierre Salinger -- boomerang between the White House and two
aircraft carrying Cabinet members and newly sworn-in President
Lyndon B. Johnson.
"John and Governor Connally of Texas have been in the car in
which they were riding. We do not know how serious the situation is.
We have no information." -- White House reply to Salinger
This
is the situation room... The president is dead...He died
about 35 minutes ago.
-- White House radio transmission,
November 22, 1963
With first lady Jacqueline Kennedy at his side, Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson takes the presidential oath aboard Air
Force One hours after President Kennedy's assassination.
This
is the situation room... The president is dead...He died
about 35 minutes ago.
