Meet Former Radio Reporter Who Talked To Oswald After Kennedy Assassination

54 YEARS AGO TODAY DALLAS WAS AT THE CENTER OF A WORLD CHANGING MOMENT. PRESENT JOHN F KENNEDY SAVAGE NEEDED IN THIS DAY IS STILL TASTE ASSASSINATED AND THIS DAY STILL AFFECTS THE WORLD. NOVEMBER 22, 1963. X MARKS AS FAR IN THE MIDDLE OF ELM STREET. A MARK THAT LEFT AN INDELIBLE SCAR ON THE HEART OF DALLAS. IN INFAMOUS MARK FOR TOURIST TO CAPTURE IN PHOTOGRAPH. BUT PIERCE ALLMAN -- IT IS AS VIVID AS YESTERDAY. Reporter: HE SEES NOVEMBER 22, 1963 FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE. SOMETIMES IT IS IN SLOW MOTION. Reporter: THEN 29-YEAR-OLD ALLMAN WAS A RADIO NEWS MAN JOINING THE THRONGS FOR A GLIMPSE OF THE PRESIDENTIAL MOTORCADE AND JOHN AND JACKIE KENNEDY. PEOPLE ANTICIPATING A BRIGHT MOMENT. WHEN THREE SHOTS RANG OUT FADING HOPE INTO DARKNESS. THE CAR THERE, TURNED, RIGHT HERE. Reporter: THEN CHAOS. ALLMAN RACED TO THE DEPOSITORY BUILDING TO CALL IN THE NEWS PICKY PULLED THE DOOR OPEN JUST AS ANOTHER MAN WALKED OUT. I SAID WHERE IS THE PHONE AND HE SAID IN THERE. Reporter: TWO WEEKS LATER THE SECRET SERVICE AND IF YOU'D HIM AND REVEALED THAT MAN WAS LEE HARVEY OSWALD. MET I COULD NOT HELP BUT THINK SO OF A LITTLE LAKE WHAT IF. WHAT IF? IT IS EMOTIONAL FOR HIM 54 YEARS LATER. IT TOOK NEARLY THAT LONG FOR THE CITY OF DALLAS TO FACE ITS OWN STRUGGLE. YOU HAVE THE PRESIDENT KILLED IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS AND FOR SO MANY PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD THE REACTION IS -- OH DALLAS -- THAT IS WHERE THINGS LIKE THIS HAPPEN. Reporter: THE SIXTH FLOOR MUSEUM IS A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE SEEK UNDERSTANDING TODAY. HERE THE EXHIBIT ENZYME PRESIDENT KENNEDY THESE LEGACY WHICH CURATOR SAYS HELPS TO THE MEMORY JUSTICE. THAT WAS PUSHED AHEAD. THE 50th ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL SERVICE WAS A BIG STRIDE DIGNITARY STANDING IN THE COLD AND RAIN THE FIRST PUBLIC ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT THIS IS DALLAS HISTORY. FROM THE MOMENT OF THE ASSASSINATION TO THE 50 YEARS LATER WHEN DALLAS WAS ABLE TO EMBRACE TO A DEGREE INTERNALIZE THE START MOMENT AND REFLECT ON IT THE WAY ANY GOOD CITY WOULD. PIERCE ALLMAN AGREES. AS YOU CAN SEE IT IS STILL A MAJOR ATTRACTION. Reporter: THE CITY CONTINUES MOVING FORWARD BUT NOT WITHOUT CONSIDERING THE PAST. JUST LIKE THE PEOPLE STANDING IN THE STREETS. THE IMPACT ON

Channel: CBS TEXAS

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Keywords: CBS 11 News Evening, Pierce Allman, Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK assassination, Top 25 Moments

Id: 20774ctM9GY

Length: 3min 10sec (190 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 23 2017