INT. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. NOVEMBER 27 1963. NIGHT

LBJ stands at a podium bearing the Presidential Seal, addressing a joint session of Congress just 5 days after JFK’s assassination LBJ

 

LBJ

No memorial or eulogy

Could better honor John F. Kennedy

And the work he spent all his days and nights

Than the earliest passage of Civil Rights

At his inauguration in ‘61

He said “Our work has just begun.”

 

Though it’s our darkest moment, our darkest hour

I can’t bring him back even with all my power

Though it’s our darkest moment, today we must resolve anew.  

I say: Let Us Continue.​