and so after innumerable years of sponsoring "this week with david brinkley," david brinkley retired and became a spokesman for adm. c-span: where is dwayne andreas today? >> guest: dwayne andreas continues to reside in decatur, illinois, where he is chairman-emeritus of adm and plays--he was just recently re-elected to the board of directors--plays a role in the-in the operations of the company. c-span: how old is he? >> guest: he's in his 80s. he is--he is a man who is winding down significantly. c-span: mick andreas? >> guest: the son. mick andreas was born to power. his godfather was hubert humphrey, also a very good friend of--of dwayne. and mick had always been destined to be his father's successor, the--the man who would take the throne, the man who would gain control of this corporate and political behemoth, and ultimately, got tripped up and caught in--in the--the tapings that took place at the company and was recorded engaging in both criminal conspiracies as well as actions that would certainly cause any member of a board of directors to--to wince and perhaps suggest a--a

. >> i think the most memorable words that day spoken were by our own late colleague david brinkley atthe coverage of the funeral. lets watch david brinkley summarizing it. >> more than any other one person, it was she who raised the level of it all from savage insanity up to the level of solemn grandeur. maybe no one will ever know how she did it, how she found the strength and self-control to do it but she did. everyone who has lived through all of this will remember these days and remember what happened and certainly will remember her. >> and the other memorable moment, there was so many, mike mansfield then the majority leader of the senate wanted to play the audio of his eulogy to jack kennedy. he was reflecting poetically about that moment at parkland hospital the previous friday when jackie kennedy had taken the ring off her finger and put it on the finger of her slain president, her husband. >> there was a father with a little boy and a little girl and the joy of each, in a moment it was no more. so she took the ring from her finger and placed it in his hands. there was a husba

david brinkley in washington. >> we have reported this before. the president's body is expected to arrive at andrews air force base a few miles outside washington about 5:30 washington time. the church bells all over town are ringing. we are told that people are standing on street corners crying openly and freely. robert abernathy reports from andrews base that the base commander says the president's body will be arriving at 5:30. he says senator edward kennedy and mrs. shriver have just taken off by jet for otis air force base in massachusetts. we assume they are going to the home state to join their mother and father and other members of the kennedy family. military officers who have the job of arranging state funerals are at the white house now and presumably making the plans. mr. kennedy is the first president to die in office since the defense department was set up. these arrangements are made and i think there is no set a standard ritual to be followed so it will have to be made up. presumably the army will be in charge of the operations. i

here now is how david brinkley started off this broadcast on this very night 50 years ago. >> good evening. the essential facts are these. president kennedy was murdered in dallas, texas. he was shot by a sniper hiding in a building near his parade route. he was dead within an hour. lyndon johnson is president of the united states. >> nbc news from november 22nd, 1963. just over six hours after the shots were fired from the building here behind us, meaning this place and this city and our country would never be the same. the cold and wind and rain here in dallas today was a sharp contrast to the bright sunshine of 50 years ago, weather beautiful enough to ride in an open car. today, one half century later, thousands turned out to remember john f. kennedy. >> the people of this city have been felled with a sense of industry born of tragedy. >> the place is little changed since that day 50 years ago. thousands were here then, too. people lined the motorcade route, the final critical moments captured by the film camera of abraham zapruder. >> hi, sir. how are you? >> across the street that da

let's bringing in david brinkley to give us some thoughts. 50 years agoing this hour, that all of eventl moment for so many people in the united states and around the world to recall. >> well, absolutely. i think we can now say john f. kennedy's a sustainable hero and david mccullough, our great historian from massachusetts, like john f. kennedy was talking about the heroism of kennedy. i say that because after his death there was a lot of camelot literature, books by ted sorenson building up kennedy and other books came out of a different generation very critical of his personal life. but now on the 50th anniversary, not only is he coming off as a sustainable hero, the amount of love, the outpouring from love from all over america, its bipartisan and spirit. david reading those words reminds you kennedy was the greatest orator of the 20th century. you could chisel so many speeches into marble and monuments. now there's another new monument in dallas as of today. >> gerald posner, as you reflect and we get ready for the flyover to recall and to honor the memory of the president of the u

he was preparing for an interview with david brinkley. it's a rare glimpse behind the curtain. while the audio is poor, you can make out that they're discussing the story about nixon's makeup. a historian is here with me now. and you've seen this and you agree this is a big deal. >> yeah. it's amazing, because number one, especially this week. if you think about the amount of film footage that you and i maybe have not seen before of jfk, very hard to think there could be anything like that. so here we have a find that at least you and i have not seen. i think most americans have not. >> i love it. because like the scene in crisis about the alabama desegregation effort, you've got a glimpse of the guy when he doesn't think the cameras are on. >> that story about the makeup man. >> who was it, do you know? >> no. >> i must say all these newspapers keep putting the knock now on the debate. i think it's just a media rivalry, isn't it? >> some of that. >> as a democrat, i can say i don't know what we'd do without television. >> well, it was a hell of a show, i thought. >> i get a gl

. >> this is "nbc nightly news" with david brinkley in washington and john chancellor in new york. >> good evening. filibuster fever has broken out in the united states senate. >> reporter: in 1975, democrat majority leader mike mansfield oversaw two changes. one, a change to the rules making it easier to defeat a filibuster by lowering the threshold to 60 votes. the other change made it easier to launch a filibuster, allowing senators simply to announce their intention to filibuster rather than actually delivering a speaking filibuster. thus, the procedural filibuster was born. and it was used around 20 times a year, throughout the carter and reagan administrations. but perhaps not surprisingly, its use spiked under bill clinton. >> they required us to get 60 votes. we didn't get it, we didn't get it twice, and so where i come from, that means we lost. >> reporter: by 2005, it was republicans who were threatening filibuster reform. >> we turn to the latest political battle braing on capitol hill. it's the fight over federal judges and the so-called nuclear option. >> reporter: back t

it goes for me and david brinkley for all of the correspondents as well.s so impossible for all of us to contemplate, to realize and understand that this young, so vital man, can be dead in this fashion. >> this hour lee harvey oswald had just been taken into custody, the so-called pristine bullet found on a stretcher inside dallas's parkland hospital. the president's casket was moved from the hospital and on to air force one. mrs. kennedy stayed by her husband's side and watched as the president security detail lifted the coffin on the plane. when an agent wrote, nowhere in any training or manual that the width of the door on air force one was just a few inches too narrow for a casket. three shots have been fired in dealey plaza and the world stopped for four days. there's one question an entire generation knows the question to you, where were you the day jfk was shot? that's the focus of the two-hour documentary reported on by tom brokaw. he interviews dozens from celebrities to average middle class americans. take a look. >> i remember exactly where i w

. -- david brinkley in washington. [silence] >> we are still in the rotunda of the capitol, which is now close to the public. members of congress, families, and staff members are passing through for the last time. the group of them have just been greeted by speaker mccormick standing to the side. mr. mccormick there, that tall man in the center. the last figure we had from the capitol police was 250,000 people passed through the rotunda yesterday afternoon, last night, all of last night, and this morning until the door were closed about 45 minutes ago. at the time they were closed some thousands, we have heard as many as 50 but we are not short, some thousands were still waiting in line even though they had been told that it was most unlikely there would be time for them to pass through. the schedule now calls for mrs. kennedy, her brother, the attorney general to be here at 1030 and to begin the procession from year to the white house to the cathedral. that is representative alec on the right, republican leader in the

you because you've become the man at what you do and if cronkite is the thing you measure by or david brinkley you are delight with them, sir, for the rest of your career. and i've watched it from the beginning. the man is interviewing dr. jarvik, christian bernard, one of the space guys that walked on the moon, excuse me. and it was fun! and here's all these things and charlie asked me something, he says "well how do you feel about all this space stuff and everything?" i said "you know, charlie, i'm just hoping i can get on american 644 back to l.a." >> rose: (laughs) i'm just happy you came here and sat at this table much success for "nebraska" and for you and i hope the phone will be ringing tomorrow morning and the morning after that and the the morning after that. >> thank you, sir. >> the opportunity to take everything that you have learned and pour it into a work of art is a great thing. thank you. bruce dern for the hour. thank you for joining us. see you next time. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> heirlooms are trea

now, at this moment, david brinkley, and washington. >> we are still in the rotunda at the capitol, whichs now closed to the public. members of congress, their families, and staff members are passing through for the last time. a group of them have just been graded by speaker mccormick. mr. mccormick, there, the tall man in the center. the last figure we had from the capitol police -- 250,000 people passed through the rotunda yesterday afternoon, last night, all of last night, and this morning, until the doors were closed 45 minutes ago. when they were closed, some thousands -- as many as 50,000, but we are not sure, were still waiting in line. they had been told, dimly, that it was most unlikely there would be time for them to pass through. the schedule now calls for mrs. , thedy, her brother attorney general to be here at 10:30 and begin the procession from here to the white house, to the cathedral. that is representative hallock on the right, republican leader in the house, along with hale boggs, speaker mccormick. only members of congress. familiesff members, are allowed into the rotun

david brinkley described of that moment, he said that the assassination was beyond understanding, and i quote him, the events of those days don't fit. you can't place them anywhere. they don't go in the intellectual luggage of the time. it was too big. it was too sudden. too overwhelming. and it meant too much. it has to be separate and apart but we want to, as both our leaders have said, remember this president in the way that we viewed him and his heroic importance to this country and now.nerations then and jacqueline kennedy, as ralph marden, her biographer, said, she talked about a person who had written to her about the president. and she said i loved the president but had never known him and wrote to me this past winter that the hero comes when he is needed. when our belief gets pale and weak, there comes a man out of a need who is shining. and everyone live will -- and everyone living reflects a little of that light and stores up some against the time when he is gone. so now he is a legend, mrs. kennedy would conclude, when he would have preferred to be a man. and so it has bee

developments in the nation's capital reported now by nbc's david brinkley in washington. >> bill, we are -- again, we have reported this before, but we'll report again the president's body is expected to arrive at andrews air force base a few miles -- a few miles outside of washington at about 5:30 washington time, which is about an hour and 40 minutes from now. the church bells all over town are ringing. we are told that people are standing on street corners crying openly and freely. nbc's robert abernathy reports from andrews air force base that the base commander says the president's body will arrive at 5:30. he also says that senator edward kennedy and his sister, mrs. shriver, who was eunice kennedy, have just taken off by jet for otis air force base in massachusetts. we psalm then they are going to their home state to join their mother and father and other members of the kennedy family. we also are told that military officers who have the job of arranging state funerals are at the white house now and presumably making the plans. mrs. kennedy is the first president to die in off