JFK remembered: Nelly Connally

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Nellie Connally was the First Lady of Texas. She and her husband Governor John Connally were hosting President and Mrs. Kennedy on a whirlwind tour. They all rode in a motorcade through downtown Dallas. NBC’s Brian Williams speaks with the last surviving passenger in that car on that fateful day forty years ago.

Nov. 21, 2003, 9:59 AM EST / Source: NBC News

On Saturday, we mark one of the most devastating moments in American history: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, 40 years ago. That moment still seems like it was just yesterday for many Americans - and one in particular. NBC’s Brian Williams reports from the grassy knoll in Dallas.

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