of one thanksgiving to god for the inspiring and of ageous life and legacy esident john fits gerald kennedyn. nd amen. ladies and gentlemen, please stand as we retire the colors. >> some members of the kennedy family paid their respects on the 509s anniversary. among them was jean kennedy smith, a sister of president yind who was u.s. ambassador to ireland. she was joined by her son and ther family members. >> yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of john f. kennedy. the library ony at and museum in boston. his is about 45 minutes. >> a man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea ives on. >> the new frontier of which i speak is not a set of promises. it is a set of challenges. it sums up not what i intend to offer the american people, but what i intend to ask of them. it appeals to their pride, not their pocketbooks. it holds out the promise of more sacrifice instead of insecurity. i tell you the new frontier is here, whether we think it or not. beyond that frontier, are the uncharted areas of science and space, unsolved problems of peace and war, unconquered pocke

[background sounds] [background sounds] john fits gerald kennedy holds title to a special place in ourrest. you are not to lament over them as the rest of the world does with no hope to live by. we believe, after all, that jesus underwent death and rose again just so when jesus comes back, god will bring back those who have rested through him. ♪ ♪ >> a solemn reading of the bible is followed by a lesson which serves as an additional food for thought. the first of these, for example, certainly reminds us of president kennedy, the just man shall always be repped. he shall fear no evil rapport. he's reading a 13th century hymn. ♪ this is a christian medication on the day of death. a notary public-catholic described this magnificent hymn as solitary in its excellence, the secret of its irresistible power lies in the awful grandier of its theme. the simple music of the language, the stately meter, the triple rhythm, all combine to produce an overwhelming effect as if we heard the final crash of the universe, the commotion of the openings of grays, the trumpets of the archangels summoning th

are following for you. [ bells chiming ] >> a nation remembers the life and times of john fritz gerald kennedy50 years after his assassination. this on a day when two people are killed during violent clashes in egypt. and a major storm moving across the northeast that could impact your holiday travel plans. ♪ >>> it has been exactly 50 years now since president john f. kennedy was pronounced dead by doctors at parkview memorial hospital in dallas. crowds of mourners have been paying their respects at arlington national cemetery. and for the first time since the assassination, the city of dallas holding a memorial at dealey plaza, the scene of the shooting itself. the place with heidi zhou castro is live now. heidi a solemn dais specially when the bells rang. >> absolutely. sdel, here the moment of silence followed by the bells was an emotional moment. the major of dallas saying that the sky as it rained was weeping with them. 50 years after president kennedy was assassinated here just steps from where i am standing by lee harvey oswald. but this was about the life pa -- and legacy of john f. k

john fit gerald kennedy. how to has commanded to go forth today from this world. do not hand him over to the power of the enemy, nor forget him forever. but command that his soul be taken up by the holy angels and brought home to paradise. may his soul and all the souls in the departed for the mercy of god rest in peace. amen. [speaking in latin] the cardinal has now return to the throne. there he changes the -- preparation to leading the corpse from the church. ♪ ♪ may the angels take you in to paradise. may the martyr come to welcome you on your way and lead you to the holy city of jerusalem. ♪ ♪ [speaking in latin] ♪ the mass is a summit of christian life. a source of its power for in if it cris gatt -- as one with him. thus offering all honor and glory forever and ever. this mass has been offered for john fitzgerald kennedy, the 35th president of the united states. may he rest in peace. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ our body of the late cemetery is taken to the cemetery. the church proposes that we recall the words of christ. i'm the resurrection in life. he who believes in me

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fit's gerald kennedy lives on in the immortal words .nd work that he left behind he lives on in the mind and memories of mankind. he lives on in the heart of his countrymen. expressedre sadder to our sense of loss. no words are strong enough to express determination to continue the forward thrust of america that he began. [applause] >> president lyndon b. johnson on november 27, 1963, 5 days --er jfk was assassinated john f. kennedy was assassinated. we will bring you that entire speech tonight at 8:00 eastern. the 60s -- the 60s were different. [laughter] there were a lot of things happening involving race, structure in society. i was suddenly out of the seminary and in new england. rules.ere no things were falling apart. structure, it is very difficult to navigate. i was extremely fortunate to be at holy cross. i was extremely fortunate to ive a residual him of the way was raised in the structure that had given me. i was also extremely fortunate because i had been in schools.ntly white so the transition to a school a veryry few black's in difficult set of circumstances academically and

but the four presidents -- eisenhower, kennedy, gerald ford, and george h w bush, all served in world war ii. these men have a tremendous appreciation for the service of veterans. and kennedy, eisenhower, gerald ford did not work in vietnam and did not commit troops -- george h w bush went into iraq and came out out of respect for the troops. eisenhower warned about the military-industrial concerts. johnson, nixon, george bush ii, they gave into the military industrial complex. i have had four of my friends commit suicide over neglect of veterans. i reported to my congressman about the abuse of veterans in maryland. as a result of these men being abused, i have been blackballed in the v.a., because i did something that should have been done. host: mr. noonan, part of what he was talking about was the experience of actually going to war of u.s. leaders. pew research center put out a recent survey on veterans in congress. talked about this issue. number of veterans in congress, down to about 20 sent -- 20% today and both the house and the senate. does it contribute to the civil- militar

i did get a glossy photo from bobby kennedy. but geraldford wrote me a personal letter, and later president ford, but he was representative from michigan and a senior and a ranking republican on the warren commission. and he wrote me a really nice letter, very artfully worded that said high , my inchoiry wa kennedy had addison's disease which i suspected for other reasons -- i'll tell you why. he had a perpetual tan if you will remember. with addison's, there's a pigmentation of the skin. kennedy was a sun lover and he liked to be suntanned. but i saw him, in thinking back on the color of his skin, when i saw him close up a few times that i did, it had a bronze quality to it that lacked the reddishness of a suntan. so i, thinking back on those things, i thought, well, maybe, maybe he does have addison's disease. and i wanted to find out. so the tack i took was i wrote to the warren commission that i had looked at the warren commission autopsy report, which any of you can get the report and read it. the adrenal glapds are just not mentioned

kennedy. you ask why people wonder, i interviewed gerald ford once for a book i was asking him about nato, the fall of saigon he said, come here. look at this, there was a little stack like, this is my incoming about my presidency. now you see this stack, it was like towering, he said that was about me and the warren commission why i invented a magic bullet. get some of the warn commission report i think it was at times sloppy, it was rushed, it was right in the end. maybe on this anniversary we need to thank people, the legacy of gerald ford and john mccloy and people that worked so hard on those multiple volumes because they i think nailed the story. >> schieffer: what do you think that john kennedy's real legacy is? >> first of all that he was the first catholic elected president. he kicked open the door after him came whole bunch of other minorities. he appointed the first polish american to his cabinet. he wrote a book about immigration called a nation of immigrants, very important to him. the other is of course the cuban missile crisis. kennedy hadn't -- i wonder if we'd be sitting here

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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. >> geralde memory of the president of the united states, president john f. kennedy, this is a special moment for the city of dallas itself where this terrible tragedy occurred 50 years ago this hour. >> yeah, absolutely, wolf. dallas did it self very proud today with some serenity, a sober ceremony that was distinguished and dignified. and that's really what they wanted. this was a city that was in turmoil and filled with a lot of anger when jack kennedy arrived. a full-page ad in the newspaper greeted him calling him essentially a treen sonnyer and traitor. i think today, they did an admirable job of focusing on what they should which is the life of this man in many ways because as we're talking right now, you bring yourself back 50 years ago, john kennedy is at parkland hospital, young doctors in their 20s, good doctors are working furiously to try to get a sign of life in him. in just another hour, jacqui kennedy who our heart goes out to because we see her with her husband is going to take

kennedy. but to his everlasting credit, gerald ford wrote me a personal letter. and later president ford, but he was representative from michigan and the ranking republican on the warren commission. and he wrote me a really nice letter, very artfully worded that said, my inquiry to them was, if kennedy had addison's disease, which i suspected for other reasons, i'll tell you why. he had a perpetual tan, if you'll recall. if any of you know anything about addison's disease, you'll know that the skin -- there's a pigmentation of the skin that comes with addison's disease. now, kennedy was a sun lover, and he liked to be suntanned, but i saw him, and thinking back on the color of his skin when i saw him close up the few times that i did, it had a bronze quality to it that lacked the reddishness of a suntan. and so i -- thinking back on those things, i thought, well, maybe -- maybe he does have addison's disease. and i wanted to find out. and so the attack i took was i wrote to the warren commission saying -- and i looked at the warren commission autopsy report, whic

kennedy knew they'd get a good response. >> all weekend long, american history tv is featuring ann arbor michigan where gerald ford's presidential library is located. he attended and played football for the university of michigan. hosted by our comcast cable partners, c-span's local content vehicles recently visited many sites exploring the city's rich history. learn more about ann arbor all weekend long on american history tv. >> today you are at the ypsilanti automotive heritage museum. 30 miles west of detroit. where we have created here is a museum attempting to tell the automotive history of our area here. and right this minute, we're in a hudson dealership that started off as a dodge dealership way back in 1916. became a hudson dealership in 1933. and continued as a hudson

. -- the four presidents eisenhower, kennedy, gerald ford, and george h w bush, all served in world war ii. en have a tremendous appreciation for the service of veterans. eisenhower, gerald ford did not work in vietnam and did not commit troops -- george h w bush went into iraq and came out out of respect for the troops. eisenhower warned about the military-industrial concerts. johnson, nixon, george bush ii, they gave into the military industrial complex. iendse had four of my fr commit suicide over neglect of veterans. my congressman about the abuse of veterans in maryland. men beingt of these abused, i have been blackballed in the v.a., because i did something that should have been done. noonan, part of what he was talking about was the experience of actually going to of u.s. leaders. pew research center put out a recent survey on veterans in congress. talked about this issue. shrinking number of veterans in congress, down to about 20 sent -- 20% today and both the house and the senate. does it contribute to the civil- military divide here? guest: first, i would like to thank robert

these men had a tremendous appreciation of veterans, and kennedy, eisenhower, in gerald ford would notmit troops. george w. bush went into iraq and came out. mr. eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex. eisenhower and george bush to you, they gave in. i have had four of my friends commit suicide over neglect of veterans. i reported to my congressman about the abuse. as a result of these honorable men and services that were being abused -- i did something that should not have been done. host: the experience of actually going to war, and u.s. leaders and the pew research center put out a recent survey on veterans in congress that talks about this issue and talks about the shrinking number of veterans in congress, down to about 20% today in both the house and the senate. does that contribute to the civil-military divide here? guest: first, i would like to thank robert for his service in vietnam, and i would like to say that the issue he raised about suicide is a very, very important one today. people will need to step up their game to help those coming back particularly th

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, thehes, even bill clinton, people, they don't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, thel clinton, people, they don't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> good evening. this is "piers morgan live" looking at the grave site of john f kennedy at arlington national cemetery. two days after the assassination jackie requested the flame as a permanent memorial. 50 years later, america and the world are remembering the 35th president in dallas, the city where jfk died a moment of silence at 12:30 local time, the exact moment the shots rang out in dealey plaza. >> ladies and gentlemen, woul

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, theple, they don't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ >>> storm dprunlting. it's the busiest travel week of the year. along with typical delays and traffic. you know the deal, a massive weather system is threatening to make thanksgiving travel even worse, i'm sorry to say. this thing is expected to affect nearly the entire country. >>> breaking overnight, secretary of state john kerry arrived in north korea to try to hammer out an agreement with the deal. >>> and the moments here for you

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, thee, they don't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> this is "piers morgan live." welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. and james ray had had it all, fame, fortune, even oprah winfrey, listen to what he told her back in 2006. >> i had peers in our industry telling me you will never be on oprah, you're not mainstream, i said baby, i'm the new mainstream. >> and he was, it all came crashes down in tucson, arizona, bromising powerful

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, thenton, people, they don't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. > what started out innocently with teddy bears became anything but at the vma awards in september. a performance that had tongues wagging. >> it became that moment of a singer/song writer/entertainer finding that special moment. >> i thought it was sloppy and i didn't think it was professional enough for her. she has to go back to the drawing board. >> about a woman who most of america knew as wholesome hannah, a disney character living a double life. but, if her recent appear

kennedy operated as president, 78% for reagan, 74% for bill clinton, 67%, gerald ford, george h.w. , 62%. jimmy carter, 60%. lbj, 55%. george w. bush, 42%. nixon, 31%. kennedy tops that list by far. >> reporter: tops that list by far, even though if you go back to the days in october 1963, his poll numbers were beginning to decline some because he had asked the congress to pass the civil rights act and that was very unpopular, especially in the south. but even then, he had a 57% job approval rating. now that 90% number is stratospheric. most smart political people will tell you why, number one, he was young, handsome, aspirational and inspirational and because his presidency was snuffed out at just the 1,000 day mark. so many people look back and ask what might have been. yes, we went to the moon, yes, call to serve, but we yes, yoh don't know what would have happened with vietnam, we don't know what would have happened with the civil rights and other pieces of what became johnson's great society. because of that, you don't have as much of a legislative record but you do have a chan

gerald griffin. the headline -- close parallels are noted in the kennedy and lincoln deaths.s today and dallas ended a brief but brilliant chapter in american history. in a flash of an assassin's gun, the nation would be sent plunging into grief. the resident was well on his way to a triumphant reelection next year. a tv journalist who passed in july of last year reflected in an event we covered on how the media dealt with the immediate story of the kennedy assassination in trying to get that story. getting it out to readers, viewers, listeners. [video clip] >> very frankly, i cannot think of a time in history when it was more important to make a decision very quickly and then hope to god that you are right. and this panel that we have with us this morning are the folks that had to make some of those decisions. and i think that history is pretty well-recorded that the decisions they made at the time were decisions that they can still live with 30 years later. i was in the decision-making business then, too. one of the things that i think that we really have to think reminisce

. >> kennedy, alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, the, they don't remember what they did, but they remember their rhetoric. and they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you. ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. >>> this is nothing more than a power grab. >> gridlock. gridlock. gridlock. >> there are no rules in the united states senate. >> enough is enough. >> the senate goes nuclear. democrats toss out the rules and why republicans this morning are vowing war now. >> different subject. a real life nuclear deal hangs in the balance as talks with iran continue. we are live with the latest. >>> her remark and i think she made it more than once, is, no, i'm going to leave these clothes on. i w

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, the't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> in the average man's life there are two or three emotional experiences burned into his heart and his brain. and no matter what happens to me, i'll remember november 22nd as long as i live. >> there has been an attempt on the life of president kennedy. >> they are combing the floors of the texas book depository building to find the assassin. >> did you shoot the president? >> i'm just a patsy. >> oswald has been shot at point b

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, thetheir rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm anderson cooper coming to you live from manila in the philippines with the latest on the disaster here and the relief tacloban and cebu, and lots of places, all in between. we have correspondents around the region to broadcast. there is breaking news tonight. the death toll has been revised upward. the official philippine death toll is 2,300 people, more than that. but there is some confusion on the ground because according to

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, thees. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. >>> detroit's the city of champions. the whole world knows that detroit is the american city whose products have revolutionized our way of living. >>>. >>> the economic pace setter in

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, thenton, people, they don't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. >>> he changed tv news forever. >> most of my colleagues thought ted was nuts. >> sailing, media, environment, the united nations. >> a billion is a good round number, you know? >> you know you changed the world. >> yeah, i know. >> they

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. >>> this is a place of fantasy and reality. m

. >> kennedy alongside of the other presidents, johnson, nixon, gerald ford, jimmy carter, reagan, thethey don't remember what they did but they remember their rhetoric. they remember the images. >> ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. >> this is what people wish for again in the government. they want someone who inspires them, who gives them hope, for whom they have a kind of admiration. kennedy's standing hold on the public, i think, will only fade if and when we get another president about whom they feel the same way as they currently feel about kennedy. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com was the investigation bungled? see what a leading expert says after viewing the footage. >>> she wore the suit to dallas and covered in blood back home to show what was done to her husband. jackie kennedy's outfit. why it may not be seen for 100 years. >>> what government does with your business, the temptation is to tune out. the fact is, though, what democrats in the united states senate today matters if you care who runs government agencies who

kennedys new frontier. >> let's not forget civil rights either. but there was another issue that obviously -- and maybe i'll have gerald posner pick up on this, the, nixon, a lot of us remember those years. if jfk, can gerald posner, had lived, would the u.s. still have gotten involved in vietnam the way it did? >> wolf, that's the $66,000 question. that's why we are so sort of immersed as a society in this assassination is not just the death of a president because it is john kennedy and he was so early in his presidency. just two and a half years in. he become aror shack test for what people think he would have done. so people who think vietnam would not have been the unmitigated disaster it was, they say kennedy would have got us out. he would have done that differently. if he had been killed in the sixth or seventh year of his second term, we knew what his successes and failures were, there won't have been all the lost hope there was on this young president. if barack obama had been assassinated in the second year of his presidency, he would be considered today one of the great presidents because everybody would have said he would have gone on

gerald griffin. the headline -- close parallels are noted in the kennedy and lincoln deaths.ys president kennedy's seven deaths today and dallas ended a brief but brilliant chapter in american history. in a flash of an assassin's gun, the nation would be sent plunging into grief. the resident was well on his way to a triumphant reelection next year. a tv journalist who passed in july of last year reflected in an event we covered on how the media dealt with the immediate story of the kennedy assassination in trying to get that story. getting it out to readers, viewers, listeners. [video clip] >> very frankly, i cannot think of a time in history when it was more important to make a decision very quickly and then hope to god that you are right. and this panel that we have with us this morning are the folks that had to make some of those decisions. and i think that history is pretty well-recorded that the decisions they made at the time were decisions that they can still live with 30 years later. i was in the decision-making business then, too. one of the things that i think that

gerald ford or miller filmore. two plus years in power came with serious blemishes. june 1961, kennedypremier. the cold war is barely a decade old, but intensifying by the minute. the disastrous bay of pigs invasion was six weeks earlier, episode that dramatically weaknd kennedy's image with america's ed adversaries. vienna is a crucial meeting, the first chance for two leaders with a power to destroy the world to size each other up, to take the measure of the other. for the american president, nothing short of a debacle. the worst thing in my life, jfk confesses to a friendly journalist when it is over. he savaged me. weeks late, khrushchev's command, the berlin wall goes up. around this time, kennedy feels trapped by the events in south vietnam. the domino theory, the idea that if one southeast asian nation fell to communist, all the others would follow, is conventional wisdom and he endorses it. he endorses it two months before his death. >> mr. president, have you ever had any reason to doubt this so-called domino theory that if vietnam falls, the rest of southeast asia will go alo

kennedy was an outstanding or above average president. ronald reagan was second, 61%. bill clinton is third. if you go to the bottom three, lyndon johnson's approving rating just 20%, gerald, richard nixon ranked the lowest. in case you're wondering, president obama came right in the middle, 28%. and we've got a link to the full list up at jansing.msnbc.com. yo, yo, yo. aflac. wow. [ under his breath ] that was horrible. pays you cash when you're sick or hurt? [ japanese accent ] aflac. love it. [ under his breath ] hate it. helps you focus on getting back to normal? [ as a southern belle ] aflac. [ as a cowboy ] aflac. [ sassily ] aflac. uh huh. [ under his breath ] i am so fired. you're on in 5, duck. [ male announcer ] when you're sick or hurt, aflac pays you cash. find out more at aflac.com. >>> the abortion debate's latest battlefield is the desert city of albuquerque, new mexico. residents there head to the polls to vote on a referendum to ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. the first municipal election of its kind in the country. pro-life and pro-choice supporters are watching closely. albuquerque is a testing ground for whether abortion limits can be impose

ladies and gentlemen, would you join me in a moment of silence in honor of the life of john fits gerald kennedy fitzgerald kennedy. [bells tolling] ♪ america, america god shed his grace on thee o beautiful for spacious skies for amber waves of grain for purple mountain majesties bove the fruited plain america! america! god shed his grace on thee and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea! o beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife who more than self their country loved nd mercy more than life! america! america! may god thy gold refine till all success be nobleness nd every gain divine! >> ladies and gentlemen, mr. david mccullough. >> he spoke to us in that now distinct time past with a vitality and sense of purpose such as we had never heard before. he was young to be president, but it didn't seem so if you were younger still. he was ambitious to make it a better world, and so were we. let the world go forth, he said, that the torch has passed to a new generation of americans. it was an exciting time. he talked of all that needed to be done, of so much that mattered, e