TAPPER: Welcome back. A time of revolution in the streets with young people demanding change. I'm talking about the U.S. during the 1960s. It was quite a time with the civil rights movement in full force and a raging Vietnam War. We are marking 50 years since the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Our new film, "The '60s, The JFK Assassination" premiers tonight. Actor Tom Hanks is one of the film's executive producers. Hanks was just a boy when Kennedy was killed. He remembers his teacher breaking down into tears when the news was announced. Here, Hanks tells our Christiane Amanpour more about that horrible day.</s>TOM HANKS, ACTOR & PRODUCER: I remember thinking this doesn't happen in the real world. A president doesn't get shot in front of everybody the way John F. Kennedy was. Now, at 7 years old, I was barely even a socially conscious being, but the overwhelming sadness of every adult I came across was rattling.</s>CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT: What will the film show us?</s>HANKS: Well, the stuff we're doing for CNN is really taking how television covered these great moments, both of history and sort of like society, everything from news reports to like the British invasion of rock bands. And it's how this medium that was really just coming into its first great technological muscles, and how it now looks so incredibly primitive that we almost wonder how we hung so much importance on the truth that television told us, when really it was dictated by copper wire and innuendo almost.</s>TAPPER: We'll look at new insights from the day JFK was shot and killed, and see how the world has changed. You won't want to miss our special premiere of "The '60s, The JFK Assassination." That's tonight at 9:00 eastern, 6:00 pacific. That's it for me. I'll be back at 4:00 eastern, 1:00 pacific, on "The Lead." NEWSROOM continues with Zoraida Sambolin and John Berman right after this quick break.
Tom Hanks Remembers JFK Assassination.