Describe how that picture took place. What happened? I was on the air broadcasting the president's death when the White House travel office person grabbed me by my suit collar from behind and said I had to go with him. And I said I'm on the air. I'm not leaving them. I'm on the air. I said, well, we need a pool. I said, we'll get peer-point and sister. I mean, we're arguing over the biggest story of the century and I'm not wanting to go to cover it. It's crazy. I couldn't believe it. I looked back and thought by fighting over. But I did go and we picked up Mariam and Smith and Chuck Roberts of Newsweek and went down through the hospital and they had an unmarked police car waiting for us and they said we're going out to Air Force One. We took off and we were doing 60 to 70 miles an hour through Dallas over curbs, driveways, lawns, no matter how this police officer could get through backyards trying to get to Air Force One before it took off back to Washington. Got to the airport and Mrs. Kennedy had just arrived with the casket and they were putting the casket onto the aircraft and they had to carry it up the incline of the rear stairs. This was a 707, the big airplane and majestic airplane because Mrs. Kennedy and Jack Kennedy had helped design the colors. The colors you see on Air Force One today and the lettering were designed by Mrs. Kennedy and Jack Kennedy. It was a brand new airplane that came to his administration. So they had a piece of it in the history as well. They had to knock four handles off the casket because the handles were sticking out and they couldn't get it into the airplane. So the Secret Service got an axe somewhere and they knocked off the handles and were able to manage to get the thing in there. I went around the side of the airplane with the Mariam and Smith and Chuck Roberts and climbed in from another side of the aircraft coming from the front end of the plane, went back to the midships and I saw Mrs. Johnson, I saw President Johnson in there with a group of people and President Johnson was talking to Marie Famer and Secretary. I talked to Marie for a little bit and they said they were trying to assemble and get a judge from downtown to come out and do this wearing in. Mrs. Kennedy was in the rear with the casket. Marie told me when the President arrived on the aircraft which was maybe 15 minutes no more than that then Mrs. Kennedy's arrival. The first thing he did was he asked for a hot cup of vegetable soup and he said to Marie I've lived a year since this morning and then he told her and I overheard him tell her that I would like you to go and ask Mrs. Kennedy if she will stand with us at the swearing in and Marie went back and talked to Mrs. Kennedy or sent a message back and the message came back yes I will I'll come but I want a few minutes to compose myself. And so we waited by this time the room was stifling hot, probably 120 degrees. It had been sitting under a hot sun and only one engine had been running to keep the electronics going and it was probably a few minutes before Mrs. Kennedy appeared in the doorway and that's when the sobbing this the quiet sobbing by the young Kennedy staff you have to understand these were young people in their 20s and 30s who had made the long march to the campaign and made him President and they got to the Bay of Pays and the Cuban Missile Crisis and he was their hero and now he was gone. And the sadness of this scene was evident on the faces of these young women with a mascara streaking their cheeks as they were waiting for Mrs. Kennedy and once she came into the room the crying became almost unbearable among everyone the sobbing was just unbelievable and was Mrs. Kennedy crying? Mrs. No was Jackie Kennedy crying? No she was not. She was standing in the doorway and we could see her President Johnson left his place in the middle of the room walked over to her took her by both hands and he walked backward sort of backward and took her and placed her to his left in the center of the room and he pulled Mrs. Johnson over to his right and he asked for glass of ice water and Marie brought him some ice water and then he took look at the judge and he said proceed. Now as a poor reporter it's my responsibility to write everything I saw. I'm just a rinky dink reporter who covered the police station in Ohio and now I'm covering one of the biggest stories in the world and I have to tell you that I was worried that I wouldn't get everything I had to get. It was such an important story but I examined her pretty carefully. I saw blood on her legs, it had congealed on both legs. I saw blood and speckles of her brain matter on her skirt and on her blouse. I noticed that she was unblinking. She was in grief but she had her wits about her. She knew exactly what was going on. She understood everything was going on. I don't think she would have come forward had she not known what was going on. I think in the annals of history this is one of the most courageous things I've ever seen between the President and another first lady where she I believe having to suffering the probably the worst thing that could happen to a married couple losing your husband in a murderous situation leaving the casket to come up front to attend the ceremony took a lot of courage and I think Mrs. Kennedy felt it was important for her to be in that room. At the same time I thought that gesture by President Johnson asking her to come forward if she said if she would like to stand with us because you knew the circumstances. I think that the opportunities for greatness were there in that in that setting for the so brief of time. The compassion shown by President Johnson I've never seen it since. He invited all the members of Kennedy staff on the airplane that wanted to come into the compartment. They jammed the compartment as close as they could. He asked people to get closer together so that more of the Kennedy people could attend the thing. In his behavior I never saw anybody who was more resolved than what he had to do. He had his wits totally about him. He went over as soon as the oath was finished. He kissed Mrs. Johnson. Then he kissed Mrs. Kennedy on the cheek. Then he went over to President Kennedy's secretary Evelyn Lincoln. He shook her hand and held her tightly and said he was sorry that this had happened. Then he fended off almost any effort on the part of anyone to come up and congratulate him. Which was another sign of I think his greatness. He did not want this to turn into a celebration. The sombre mood that existed from the biny was there at the end. My friend Chuck Roberts, one of the other pullers who was standing near me but went over to President Johnson. He shook his hand. He looked up at the President. The President was six through six four. He looked up at the President. He told me later. He said I looked up at him and now he's different. He said I didn't know what to say. I said God speed Mr. President. I thought I wish I could have said something like that. It was so appropriate for him to have said that. Then President Johnson's first order was let's get airborne. They knew they had to move that airplane out of Dallas to get back to Washington.