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00:00 Thinking back, I'll never forget those sounds.
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00:10 Pow, pow, pow.
00:13 [MUSIC]
00:22 It's been 60 years this year.
00:24 There are a few of us left.
00:27 [MUSIC]
00:30 But very few.
00:31 [MUSIC]
00:34 I think about the event as it happened.
00:37 And I go right back to the moment that it happened.
00:41 We were one lane width away from him when he was shot in the head.
00:46 [MUSIC]
00:48 I saw a father take his little boy and put his body on top of the boy.
00:54 My maternal instinct kicked in.
00:58 I jumped to the rear bumper.
01:01 Mrs. Kennedy was screaming, "I love you, Jack."
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01:08 I wasn't fast enough.
01:12 Mrs. Kennedy came forward, and I could see blood on her dress,
01:17 where she cradled the President's head in her lap.
01:22 And she said, "Let them see what they have done."
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01:30 The paranoia and the atmosphere that was ripping Dallas.
01:35 Who was this guy?
01:39 I drove Lee Harvey Hospital to work there at Texas School of Depository.
01:44 I had to stay with Mrs. Kennedy.
01:48 She hadn't handled a lot of it very well.
01:52 On November 22, 1963, the United States lost its innocence.
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02:02 [BLANK_AUDIO]