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 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.