assassination


Friday, November 22, 1963 John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. His wife, Jackie, sat next to him in the limo where he died. Her pink suit was stained with her husband's blood. 

The film to the left is the best to be found of what happened that day in Dealey Plaza. It does show everything, including Jackie desperately trying to get the Secret Service agent on the back of the limo to help her dying husband.


Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as 36th President of the United States on Air Force 1, with Jackie Kennedy in attendance. She refused to take off her bloodstained Chanel suit she was wearing when John was shot. Instead she wanted everyone to "see what they had done... see what they had done to her husband."

 John's funeral was set up like Abraham Lincoln's. The image of Jackie's long black veil, and John Jr. saluting his father's casket will stay with all those watching forever. 

This event truly tested the power of Jackie's strength and won the admiration of people around the world. In the week following her husband's death she went on to compare her life with him like that of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere from Camelot. This comparison stuck and is the phrase tagged with their life together. Her widowhood sparked media speculation in all kinds of ways, but Jackie focused on her children and putting herself back together during this "post-Camelot" mourning period.

"CAN ANYONE UNDERSTAND HOW IT IS TO HAVE LIVED IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND THEN, SUDDENLY, TO BE LIVING ALONE AS THE PRESIDENT'S WIDOW?"

- jacqueline kennedy onassis -

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