Tragedy and Transition
Friday, 22 November 1963: Texas
12.15 pm The Presidential Motorcade drives into Dallas.
12.28 pm The President's car approaches Dealey Plaza. Close behind in another car is the Vice-President.
12.30 pm Shots are fired from Book Depository. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, President of the USA, is assassinated.
1.15 pm Lee Harvey Oswald kills a police officer.
1.50 pm Oswald is arrested.
2.38 pm Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in as President of the most powerful nation in the world.

What were the new President's emotions and thoughts?
What did he see of the murder which made him President?
What decisions did he make?
How did he reach those decisions?

For the first time since that day when the entire world was stunned, former President Lyndon Baines Johnson answers those questions in this exclusive interview with American reporter Walter Cronkite.
Introduced by Robert MacNeil
Produced by CBS of America
(That Day in Dallas: page 6)