Just after JFK was shot the second time, the car speeds away with Jackie crouched down along with Clint Hill, part of Secret Service, on the back of the car
Why was JFK in Dallas?JFK had been campaigning in order to win over Texas along with Florida. He knew that the feud of the parties in Texas could jeopardize his chances to carry the state in 1964.
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Timeline of That DayMoment by moment of the horrific day. From the his last public speech to the Chamber of Commerce Breakfast to the actual assassinaton
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YouTube video of the trailer for a movie called, "Seven Seconds"
The Aftermath His funeral rites were a profoundly public affair and was broadcast on all of the nation's television networks. His funeral witnessed in 93 percent of the country's television-viewing households. "America wept tonight," New York Times columnist James Reston wrote, "not alone for its dead young President, but for itself. The grief was general, for somehow the worst in the nation had prevailed over the best."
Jackie Kennedy and daughter go up to JFK's casket
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