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00:00 It all began so beautifully.
00:02 Lyndon Johnson and Mrs. Johnson have just arrived.
00:06 Lyndon and I rode down the avenue in one car.
00:09 Suddenly, there was a shot.
00:11 I heard the words, "The President is dead."
00:15 Mrs. Kennedy's dress was stained with her husband's blood.
00:19 I asked God if I couldn't get somebody to help her change.
00:23 She said, "Oh no."
00:24 I want them to see what they have done to Jack.
00:27 We have this from Washington.
00:29 The commandator was saying, "Lyndon Johnson, our President of the United States."
00:33 That was when the enormity first struck me.
00:36 I was walking onto a stage for a part I had never rehearsed.
00:41 As the wife of the President, only I would see events unfold from that particular vantage point.
00:48 I thought to record this.
00:52 And it was incredible.
00:56 I walked to the oven, hands, whatever he's doing.
00:59 You want to listen to my critique tonight?
01:02 Yes, ma'am.
01:03 You are a little reckless. You need to read it with a little more conviction.
01:06 In general, it was a good B+.
01:08 Lindbergh came flying into my room.
01:11 "Mama, Mama, Dr. King's been shot."
01:13 Evening assumed a nightmare quality.
01:16 The White House was like a fortress.
01:18 Nobody gets out, nobody gets in.
01:20 The phone jarred me awake.
01:23 It was Lyndon saying, "Senator Kennedy had been shot."
01:26 What is our country coming to?
01:28 What is happening to us?
01:29 Are we a sick society?
01:31 The world had changed overnight.
01:35 But Vietnam dominated the news.
01:37 He, I, and the children, Linda and Lucy,
01:43 will be criticized and slandered for things we have done, things we never did at all.
01:47 That Vietnam War is for the birds.
01:49 Linda Bird, Lady Bird, Blue Bird.
01:51 This will be painful. It's a perilous path to tread.
01:54 The burial of Bobby Kennedy.
01:58 I found myself in front of Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy.
02:01 I felt extreme hostility.
02:03 Was it because I was alive?
02:05 The greatest courage in the world is to get up in the morning and go about the day's work.
02:11 It is an endurance contest, this job.
02:13 That's a large order for a woman.
02:19 [laughter]
02:20 [music]