kennedy and mrs. connally sitting in the hall of the trama room. a remarkable moment. what was it like to witness in realtime? >> i found the open door at the end of the hospital, remarkable, you know, no one there, no security, and i found a nurse quickly and asked her if she would take me to ms. connally. she did. i found ms. connally in a dark hallway out side trauma room two. the president was in trama room one. she was sitting there across with jackie kennedy. two women, not a sound spoken, thinking about their husbands and whether they could survive. >> did you say anything to them? >> i talked to her. i certainly didn't say anything to ms. kennedy. i talked to her because i knew the press would be there any minute. i needed to know what happened. i needed to report what occurred. mrs. connally was calm under the stress and she knew he was inside in hands to save him hopefully. >> and he did thankfully. >> he did, thank god, that's the good thing that came out of that. >> the president of usually did not survive. he was read the last rights by two catholic priest

kennedy and mrs. connally sitting in the hall of the trama room. a remarkable moment. what was it like to witness in realtime? >> i found the open door at the end of the hospital, remarkable, you know, no one there, no security, and i found a nurse quickly and asked her if she would take me to ms. connally. she did. i found ms. connally in a dark hallway out side trama room two. the president was in trama room one. she was sitting there across with jackie kennedy. two women, not a sound spoken, thinking about their husbands and whether they could survive. >> did you say anything to them? >> i talked to her. i certainly didn't say anything to ms. kennedy. i talked to her because i knew the press would be there any minute. i needed to know what happened. i needed to report what occurred. mrs. connally was calm under the stress and she knew he was inside in hands to save him hopefully. >> and he did thankfully. >> he did, thank god, that's the good thing that came out of that. >> the president of usually did not survive. he was read the last rights by two catholic priests

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connally went with him into the emergency room, trauma room two. then, we were going to try and help the president. i asked mrs. kennedy, i said "please let us help the president." no response. she had ahold of him and she wouldn't let go. so i pleaded with her again and still no response. and i realized the problem was she didn't want anybody to see the condition he was in, because it was horrible. so i took off my suit coat, i covered up his head, his upper back. as soon as i did that, she let go. >> pelley: once the president is wheeled into the trauma room at parkland hospital, what happens after that? >> the senior supervisor on the trip asked me to open a phone line to the white house in washington, so i did. i got in touch with my senior supervisor. as i was talking to him, the operator cut into the phone line. he said, "mr. hill, the attorney general wants to talk to you." >> pelley: this is the president's brother. >> the president's brother, robert kennedy. he said "clint, what's going on down there?" i explained that both the president a

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. >> shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. connally. governor connally on your left. >> it was whether kennedy could use his charisma and influence to get all the squabbling democrats in texas to come together before the election the next year. >> and here comes the president now, in fact, he's not in his limousine. he's departed the limousine and he is reaching across the fence, shaking hands. >> in those days everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and saw a hand reach through the chain link fence and break off one of the red roses. >> thousands of children swarming, trying to get over the fence. the dallas police trying to keep them back. this is great for the people and makes the egg shells thinner for the secret service. whose job it is to guard the man. >> the trip had gone terrifically well in texas. pretty hard to write a script for it going any better. >> thousands will be on hand for that motorcade now, which will be downtown dallas. >> a number of my classmates were gone. they wer

mrs. connally right in front of mrs. kennedy. so once we got the governor out we started to try to get the president out but she had ahold of him and wouldn't let go. so i pleaded with her, said "please, mrs. kennedy, let us help the president. i didn't get any response at all. i said it again. then i recognized what the problem was having been with her a little over three years. i knew she didn't want anyone to see the condition he was in. because it was gruesome, it was terrible. >> rose: the back of his skull was blown away. >> the bullet entered back of the skull and it blew out this portion. just blew it out and -- kind of a flap went forward. and it was terrible. so so i took off my coat and covered up his head and when i did she let go of his body and we put him on a gurney and rushed him into the emergency room. >> rose: when was the next time you spoke to her? in the emergency room i had my associates stay with her all the time because they had me get on a phone to let the white house in washington know what had transpir

. >> shaking hands now with the dallas people, governor and mrs. connally. governor connally on your left. >> it was whether kennedy could use his charisma and influence to get all the squabbling democrats in texas to come together before the election the next year. >> and here comes the president now, in fact, he's not in his limousine. he's departed the limousine and he is reaching across the fence, shaking hands. >> in those days everybody could get a lot closer to the president. i was standing behind mrs. kennedy and saw a hand reach through the chain link fence and break off one of the red roses. >> thousands of children swarming, trying to get over the fence. the dallas police trying to keep them back. this is great for the people and makes the egg shells thinner for the secret service. whose job it is to guard the man. >> the trip had gone terrifically well in texas. pretty hard to write a script for it going any better. >> thousands will be on hand for that motorcade now, which will be downtown dallas. >> a number of my classmates were gone. they wer

mr. eric johnson with an announcement. >> it is true that our president, governor connally and the motorcade have been shot. we shall tell you as much as we know as soon as we know anything. honestly, i'm a little old fashioned. i love chalk and erasers. but change is coming. all my students have the brand new surface. it has the new windows and comes with office, has a real keyboard, so they can do real work. they can use bing smartsearch to find anything in the world... or last night's assignment. and the battery lasts and lasts, so after school they can skype, play games, and my favorite...do homework. change is looking pretty good after all. ♪ change is looking pretty good after all. ♪ (train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. >> a gentleman just walked in our studio that i am meeting for the first time as well as you. this is wfia in texas. your name, sir? >> mr. abraham zapruder. >> would you tell us y

from the car in which he and governor john connally of texas were both shot at. mrs. jacqueline kennedy, who was in the rear seat of the open car beside the president, was not hurt. vice president lyndon johnson, who was with the president, walked into the hospital. was he in the same car? these, go ahead. he walked into the hospital .olding his own arm just a moment, bob. i'm going to interrupt with a bulletin from the associated press in dallas. ms. -- mr. lyndon johnson said -- yes, go ahead. he just emerged from the area where the president has been -- mrs. lyndon johnson, who just emerge from the area where the president has been taking, said that the vice president, her husband, is fine. she would not say anything about the condition of president kennedy, however. she appeared to be in a state of shock and was heard away why -- by white house personnel. -- hurried away by white house personnel. be hospital staff appear to preparing a blood transfusion. for both the president and governor connally. bob is telling me that the isest he knows at the moment that the

from the car in which he and governor john connally of texas were both shot at. mrs. jacqueline kennedy, who was in the rear seat of the open car beside the president, was not beside the president, was not hurt. vice president lyndon johnson, who was with the president, walked into the hospital. was he in the same car? these, go ahead. he walked into the hospital holding his own arm. just a moment, bob. i'm going to interrupt with a bulletin from the associated press in dallas. mrs. lyndon johnson said -- yes, go ahead. mrs. lyndon johnson, who just emerge from the area where the president has been taking, said that the vice president, her husband, is fine. she would not say anything about the condition of president kennedy, however. she appeared to be in a state of shock and was herded away by white house personnel. kennedy, however. she appeared to be in a state of shock and was herded away by white house personnel. the hospital staff appear to be preparing a blood transfusion. for both the president and governor connally. bob is telling me that the latest he knows

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it hits connally in the back and he starts falling. mrs. kennedy turns to her husband. something's wrong. she looks into his face. the fatal head shot. the exact number and timing of the shots have been argued over endlessly, but there is a growing consensus that the zapruder film shows three shots were fired in about eight seconds. some believe a second gunman fired a fourth shot from the grassy knoll. immediately after the shooting, many people followed a policeman up the embankment. but when police searched the area, they found no gunman, no gun, no cartridges. >> and just now we've received reports here at parkland that... >> narrator: in the chaos and confusion of that day, many mistakes were made in the autopsy on kennedy's body. but the medical photographs and x-rays have confirmed that if there was a shot from the grassy knoll, it missed. >> there were only two shots that struck president kennedy. both came from the rear. four government investigations all came to the same conclusion: the warren commission in the '60s; in 1968, the clark panel set by attorney ge

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. >> governor connally is being reported as being in satisfactory condition. we have no report on the condition of mrs. kennedy. she is still in the hospital. traveling behind a police escort, lady bird johnson, she is now the first lady of the land since mr. johnson has become president of the united states. lady bird johnson has been under heavy guard and is in seclusion somewhere in downtown dallas. >> excuse me. i was going to say that the president kennedy is the third american president to be assassinated since lincoln. the others were james garfield and william mckinley. this continues one of the grimmest statistics. no president who is taken office has completed his term of office in a 0 year has completed his term. >> the capitalist is starting to react on what happened in dallas. we will go to nbc news in washington. >> this is the flag at half mast outside our studios here at nbc in washington. we assume that the flag at the white house is at half mast. wherever the american flag flies, it has been lowered to half mast as a sign of respect to the pr