Leaving Parkland Hospital after the death of the President. Several times Jackie was offered a washcloth and a change of clothes, but she said, “no. Let them see what they’ve done to Jack.”
President Kennedy’s body lying in repose in the East Room of the White House, in a similar fashion Jackie sought to mirror after the Lincoln assassination. Next to her is brother-in-law Robert F. Kennedy, and other Kennedy family members are lined up as well. Notably missing is US Senator Edward Kennedy, who actually took a plane back to Hyannisport to break the news to his ailing father.
An equally disturbed Attorney General and brother-in-law Robert F. Kennedy escorts Mrs. Kennedy off of the plane and into history - the remnanets of the dream-like post-war era of Camelot halts to an end.
Robert Croft took this up-close picture of the President and First Lady after the limousine had made its fatal turn onto Elm Street. Jackie Kennedy, probably to the photographer’s immense delight, was looking directly at Mr. Croft when he clicked the shutter on his camera.
This photo was snapped by Croft at the equivalent of approximately Frame #161 of Abraham Zapruder’s home movie, which was almost exactly the same time that Lee Harvey Oswald fired the first of his three gunshots from the Texas School Book Depository Building (the first shot missed the car and its occupants completely).
A rare aerial few of the motorcade as the Kennedy couple embark on what would later be a staple American “Day of that lives in Infamy”.
Before hopping into the 1961 navy blue, infamous Lincoln Continental, the President and his wife sign autographs for a few minutes.
The above photograph was taken just seconds after Jackie Kennedy was handed a bouquet of red roses by Mrs. Earle Cabel.
Jackie noted that throughout her stops so far throughout the Presidency, she had never been handed red roses before. She would later take this as neglected symbolism for the rest of her life, as seen in later interviers she had with biographer William Manchester.
On November 22, 1963 - President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy arrive at Love Field in Dallas.
A very real handbill that circulated on November 21, 1963 in Dallas, Texas
Sound familiar?
Later, the entourage attended a LULAC function at the Rice Hotel before heading to a dinner honoring U.S. Rep. Albert Thomas at the Sam Houston Coliseum. Next to them are Lady Bird Johnson and vice-President Lyndon Johndon.
Beaming, Jacqueline Kennedy told the group in Spanish: “I’m very happy to be in the great state of Texas.”
46 year ago today, President Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy flew from Andrews Air Force Base to San Antonio, then visited NASA in Houston and on to Ft. Worth for a Chamber of Commerce breakfast the next day. It was a short flight to Dallas and the motorcade through Dealey Plaza - the next day would be a motorcade through Dallas.
