1. Jackie Wouldn’t Let Them Take Kennedy Inside
Clint Hill, the US Secret Service agent was the first who knew Kennedy had passed away. As the limo rushed toward Parkland, Hill gave a sign to the agents in the follow-up car, letting them know the gravity of the situation.
Eight minutes after the shooting, the limo arrived at the Parkland receiving area. They were ready to take JFK inside. However, Jackie Kennedy refused to let her husband go. “Please let us help the president”, Hill recalls telling Mrs. Kennedy, but there was no response. She had ahold of him without any sign of letting go. “I pleaded with her again, but without success”.
In fact, Jackie Kennedy was fully aware that her husband was either already dead or unsavable. A good portion of JFK’s brain had been blown out, so she didn’t want the media to capture every detail of that gory image.
Hill continues: “I understood what was happening, so I took off my suit coat and covered up his head and his upper back. Once I did that, she let go.”.
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It is so sad the first a Great President was assassinated , and that his would be killer killed, so that no one would really know who was responsible for this tragedy even after all these years
Regardless of circumstances these many years later, still the biggest travesty in our wonderful country’s history. Beyond sad…power politics greed and ultimately murder of one of the most caring and brilliant man in the world. Johnson really wanted that Presidency and look what he did. Despicable.
How can we believe any of this when you don’t even know the date that he was killed?
I know the day. I was only 250 miles away and watching on my TV.
I was in class at St. Patrick elementary school when Sister Angela came in and told us of the horror!
Thank you for this information that i am pretty sure no one really knew That was a day that I REMEMBER WAS HORRIBLE. That was a day for History and it was History.
i REMEMBER THAT DAY LIKE IT WAS YESTERDAY. The next 3 days were like everyone in the world was surrounded by fog. The TV proceedings were in Black and White because the colored TVs were very expensive. I really truly believe that it was the first time in my life that the TV stations were on all night. Back then most stations were only broadcasting until 1:00 am. It had just been a few months earlier that we had all as families gathered to watch the intervention of the US and Russia deal in Cuba. Tensions were high, and almost everybody we knew had thought that the assassination was directly related to the Cuba incident. Tensions were high and everyone thought we were going to go into a nuclear war with Russian. I had read a story later in life that in fact it had almost happened, but there was a senator from I believe North Dakota that had a cooler prevailing thought, and he along had saved the earth from nuclear devastation. Trying times for a man who loved by many, many Americans and still to this day.
No surprise to most Americans
I was small at that time but I remembered the shock
I think we watched it a school.The funeral,
We watched on the little black n white portable tv in our first tiny apartment as newly weds (3 months).
I was in High School in class ( History I think ) when the news came over the P A system and the entire school was let out. Everybody was like ” WTF ” , I had never seen the school that still. That’s something I’ll never forget.
I remember I was at my sister’s house and holding my baby while coming down the stairs. We were watching TV and saw it happen. We just sat there and cried. We were in shock as was the rest of the world. Every November 22 we would be together and pray. My other daughter (by marriage) was born that day and the joy we would have shared was completely overshadowed by this horrible event. My sister just passed away, but I still secretly go off by myself and pray. It will never be forgotten. Also seeing Walter Cronkite cry is something that remains in my mind.
Back in 1960 Kennedy was in broomal, pa. at lawrence park shopping center on his campain when my dad and I were stopped in trafic because of his motorcade. I was only 8 at the time when dad said get in back of the pickup’s bed so I could see him pass by. It was a 2 lane road, sproul rd. well he went by and I sheepishly peeped out of the pickup’s bed and saw Mr. Kennedy and his wife wearing those pill box hats! I will never forget that day . He did have flaming red hair unlike some photos. Dad’s truck was an old ’51 Dodge pickup with those big fenders and running boards. Neat times back then!
I think it was all a government plan. No way a man gets shot from behind and the wound is bigger on entrance than exit.