The LuLac Edition #5, 243, January 28th, 2025

 

MAYBE I’M AMAZED

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JFK ASSASSINATION EDITION

Editor’s note: With the announcement from President Trump that he was going to release all the files in the JFK investigation of the President's killing we thought it might be a good idea to do a little bit of a wrap up of some of the little-known facts of that particular time. Now historians have said that there is all there needs to be known with the recently released files.  Plus the new files would only confirm and probably just add a little bit of detail,  if you will,  to the remaining documents. But we shall see when the final report is released.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED………that on Nov. 11, 1963, President Kennedy laid a Veterans Day wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. He would be buried at the cemetery exactly two weeks later.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..that on The morning of the assassination, the president’s mother, Rose Kennedy, played golf in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, alongside her neighbor, baseball player Jimmy Piersall.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED……that the last time JFK saw his father was in October in Hyannis Port. After saying goodbye, JFK said to his friend Dave Powers about his dad, who was wheelchair-bound after a stroke, “He’s the one who made all this possible, and look at him now.”

MAYBE I’M AMAZED……. JFK’s brother Bobby Kennedy called the family to tell them what happened to JFK. He told his mother, Rose, that JFK’s condition was serious and that he wasn’t expected to live. Rose Kennedy wrote, “I had a mixture of reactions. Worry about Jack, of course, instinctively. But then a rejection of the idea that it could be something terribly serious because, after all, he had been through so much.”

MAYBE I’M AMAZED….that the  President’s younger brother Ted Kennedy was presiding over the Senate when JFK was shot. The senator tried to call his family after hearing the news but phone lines were jammed. He finally went to the White House to get a secure line.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED….that Ted and his sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver flew to Hyannis Port after the shooting to tell their father JFK was dead.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..that  Jackie Kennedy refused to take off her pink Chanel suit, stained with her husband’s blood. She told Lady Bird Johnson, “I want them to see what they have done to Jack.” Jackie did, however, remove her wedding ring and put it on her husband’s finger to be buried with him.  Later, she had an aide retrieve it.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED….that Jackie’s suit has never been cleaned and lies in the National Archives.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED…..that at the time, assassination of a president was not a federal offense; Oswald would have been tried in Texas.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED……..Dallas businessman Abraham Zapruder caught the assassination on his 8 mm home movie camera. His secretary had urged him to go home and get it for the presidential parade.  Zapruder’s film was later bought by Life magazine for $150,000.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED…… on the day of the funeral, In Washington, dignitaries from more than 100 countries arrived for Kennedy’s funeral. At the time, it was the largest gathering of its kind on U.S. soil. An unexpected 250,000 people paid their respects to the former president as he lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda. Tens of thousands were turned away, some having waited through a near-freezing night in a line that stretched for more than two miles.

MAYBE I’M AMAZED……..with help from Bobby Kennedy and Robert McNamara, Jackie chose the burial site at Arlington National Cemetery. Jackie requested an eternal flame be put by the grave.  Although she would remarry, she is buried next to the president.  Two of the Kennedys’ children, an infant son and daughter, are also buried with their parents.  Near midnight that night, she and Bobby Kennedy paid an unplanned visit to Kennedy’s grave.