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Continued From Page A-1 been shot and brought there, York newspaper, the World there was an almost total col- Journal-Tribune. lapse of discipline, according to As Manchester describes the Manchester. Fourteen doctors gruesome scene at Parkland crowded into Trauma Room No. Hospital in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1, when only three were essen- 1963, the disarray among the tial, and patients wandered Secret Service squad was part of through the halls trying to get a a general pattern of confusion glimpse of the President or his that might have cost the Presi- wife. dent's life if he had been criti- Manchester's controversial cally but not mortally wounded. book is to be published in April. When the car carrying the The Look serialization contains dying President and the serious- 60.000 words taken from the 300,- ly wounded Gov. John Connally 000-word book. arrived at Parkland, Manches- The second installment begins ter says, there wasn't a hospital with the President awakening in WILLIAM MANCHESTER attendant in sight. his suite in a Fort Worth hotel Although the Warren Report and Lee Harvey Oswald heading said the hospital had been for work with his rifle and alerted, Manchester says the telescopic sight and ends with Book Cites hospital didn't get the word the new president, Lyndon because of a malfunction in the Johnson, ready to leave Park- Disunity in Dallas police radio system. land for Air Force 1, the presi- As the news swept through the dential plane. hospital that the President had Manchester's account of the Agents Ranks assassination itself is excruciat- By ORR KELLY ingly vivid. SLar Staff Writer After the first bullet hit him, a quizzical look came over the Secret Service agents were President's face — the same thrown into confusion within I expression he had when search- seconds after John F. Kennedy ing for an answer to a tough was shot, and "anarchy" was question at a news conference, Manchester says. the result among the men guarding the President, William Starts to Raise Hand Manchester says. Kennedy started to raise his The "split between loyalists hand as though to brush hack and realists began to tear the his tousled chestnut hair. Secret Service asunder," "But the motion faltered. The Manchester writes in his book, hand fell back limply. He had "The Death of a President." been reaching for the top of his "Thus the Secret Service, , head. But it wasn't there any which should have been a sym- more ..." bol of continuity, was driven by It was in that moment be- disunion. The agents were as tween the first shot and the fatal leaderless and perplexed as the one, Manchester implies, that rest of the presidential party. the Secret Service might have saved the President's life. No Over-all Plan Of the two Secret Service "Most were following personal agents in the presidential limou- loyalties. There was no over-all. sine, Manchester says, the plan, no design. and the inevitak, driver, William Greer was 54, ble consequence was anarchy." '- and Roy Kellerman was 48— Manchester's description of although the agents themselves the assassination in Dallas is consider a man assigned to published in the Jan. 24 issue of guard the President old if he's Look magazine, due on news- over 40. stands tomorrow. News stories "They were in a position to telling of this second installment take evasive action after the of Look's serialization had been first shot, but for five terrible embargoed for press release seconds, they were immobil- tomorrow, but the restriction ized," Manchester says. was broken today by a New In the time they hesitated. See ASSASSINATION, Page A-6 Agent Clint Hill sprinted from the car behind and got a foot and a hand onto the Lincoln dead. Let me alone." limousine. Hands Coat to Her Agent Called Back Realizing what was troubling As the car sprang forward. her, Hill handed her his suit- Manchester says, Mrs. Kennedy reached for Hill and their hands coat and she wrapped it around locked. It is impossible, he says, the President's head. But as they to say who saved whom. The started to lift his body from the Warren Commission credited Hill with saving Mrs. Kennedy car, the coat began to slip and from falling from the rapidly Mrs. Kennedy again grasped accelerating car. her husband in what Manchester At the very. moment that Hill describes as a "formidable reached the limousine and the struggle." bullet tore open the President's head, Manchester says, Agent The "anarchy" in the Secret Emory Roberts, in the backup Service squad became increas- car, made an instantaneous ingly apparent at the hospital, switch of allegiance from the Manchester says. dying President to Vice Presi- dent Johnson. Even though Johnson might Roberts called back Agent have been the next target in Jack Ready, who was beginning a plot against the United States, to follow Hill, and ordered two Manchester says, Johnson was other agents to take over John- son's protection as soon as the taken to one of the most exposed car stopped, Manchester says. rooms in the hospital—and the According to the Warren Report, shades were lowered, calling Roberts called Ready back attention to that room. because it was obvious he Agent Kellerman was still couldn't catch the presidential, technically in charge, Man- car. chester says, but Agent Roberts

In describing the assassina- shielded his head and wouldn't bad already defied him by re- tion, Manchester firmly rejects let Secret Service agents take assigning other agents. But few the theory that there was more him from the car. of the agents bothered to tell than one assassin. When Agent Hill touched her Kellerman anything, he writes, In fact, be describes only two' and that was probably just as shots: One which went through ; shoulders, she trembled convul- sively and when he told her they well because it avoided a mean- the President's neck and hit ingless showdown. Connally, and a second, which had to get him to a doctor, she he says caused the massive. replied: Other Confusion "No, Mr. Hill. You know he's fatal head wound. The Warren The Secret Service agents Commission said three shots had were by no means alone in their been fired, but only two found their mark. confusion, however. Four ex- Manchester says several amples: 1. Manchester says the Presi- dent's senior military aide, Maj. bystanders saw Oswald with his Gen. Ted Clifton, managed to rifle at the six-floor window of get through to the White House the Texas School Book Deposito-. by phone—and asked that his ry building, but indicates they wife be informed that he was apparently thought he was part not injured. Only after that mes- of the police and Secret Service sage had been passed along did forces guarding the presidential he try to find out if the assassi- motorcade. nation was part of a plot against Manchester also says, how- the country, Manchester says. ever, that a policeman or Secret 2. Agent Hill, who had given Service agent could have seen his coat to Mrs. Kennedy, sud- Oswald. denly became acutely conscious Although it has been told of his shirtsleeves and borrowed before, the description of Mrs. a coat from the hospital's public Kennedy's attempts to shield relations man. the shattered head of her hus- 3. Lawrence F. O'Brien, a key band is heart-wringing. Kennedy aide, walked up to a In the moments after the fatal desk in the hospital, where a shot, she crouched over him, woman handed him a form and cradling his shoulders in her a ball-point pen. Dutifully, he arms and holding his head with began to print his name—until her gloved bands. She couldn't the idiocy of what he was doing bear the thought, Manchester suddenly struck him. says, that others might see what 4. In the hallway between she had seen. Trauma Room No. 1 and Trau- And when they reached the +1/ ma Room No. 2, Mrs. Kennedy hospital. Manchester says. she and Mrs. Connally stood a few feet from each other. BOBBY KENNEDY

drove through the White House soutnwes: gates, as sA.c regularly did on weekdays, to pick up her daughter and some of the other children attending the Kennedy White House school. This day was a little different for her car pool because for the first time she was going to take Caroline away too. "Agatha and Caroline were best friends—they're only a month in age apart—and Agatha was always going to Caro- line's house to play, to the White House or Camp David or wherever. "We could never seem to return the hospitality because on weekends, the President wanted to be with his children. This weekend seemed ideal because the Kennedys were going to he away," Mrs. Pozen said. She left the White House, she recalls, with six youngsters. See CAROLINE. Page A-6

Caroline at play in 1963.

ON WAY TO CHEVY CHASE DidCarolineHear News As Car Radio Blared? By ROBERTA HORNIG Star Staff Writer Caroline Kennedy was riding along Rock Creek Parkway on her way to her first weekend away from home at the moment her father was shot to death in Dallas. The account of what Caroline, 6, was doing the afternoon of President Kennedy's assassination appears in the second installment of Look Magazine's serialization of William Man- chester's book, "The Death of a President." The President's daughter, whose whereabouts at the time of the assassination had never been revealed before, was to have spent the weekend in Chevy Chase with one of her best friends, Agatha Pozen. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Pozen. Pozen is administrative assistant to Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Pozen's wife, Liz, who had been interviewed by Man- chester at dinner here at the Lawyer's Club last spring, re- peated her story to The Star. It differs slightly from Man- chester's account. Around 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 22, 1963, Mrs. Pozen recalls. she Continued From Page A-I because he had no orders other- cars, and—as it turned out—with Caroline and Agatha sat in the wise. reason. last seat of her three-seat black Mrs. Pozen then drove 12 Manchester describes a Ford station wagon. An un- blocks farther, to drop off an- other girl, Lissa, the daughter of harrowing chase back to the marked Secret Service car, White House for Wells, when a driven by ' Agent Tom Wells, U.S. Steel executive Philip followed. Wright. motorist, ". .. a burly man in Just as she was about to drive -One of the things she planned his early 50s, wearing a hat and off to the next and last house, what appeared to be a lumber fot entertaining Caroline was to Wells came to her car door and take her and Agatha to Lord & said he had orders to take jacket . ." spotted Caroline. Taylor's for tea after dropping Caroline back to the White The motorist, Manchester the other youngsters off. House. He reached into the car says, ". • . decided to give As she was driving up Connec- for Caroline and told her, ticut Avenue, Mrs. Pozen said, chase, and the agent immediate- "Come on Caroline, you have to ly began trying to shake him." the children, all 5 or 6 years old, go back to your house," Mrs. were cross and arguing, appar- Pozen reports. Manchester describes the ently worn out from a long "The poor child was standing frightening trip through Rock school day. there looking bewildered, hold- Creek Parkway, with the un- "I turned on the radio—WGMS ing a pink stuffed toy. It was the known motorist pursuing Wells, —because I knew there was first time she had ever been bumper-to-bumper and Wells usually a Broadway show on away from home without some skillfully weaving in and out of around that time of day, and I member of her family or her traffic and finally losing the thought it might keep them nurse, and she had been excited pursuer at the parkway's Vir- amused." about it." ginia Avenue exit. After switching the radio on, "Caroline wanted to know Manchester speculates that she 'heard eight words that made why. Wells—and I—we both told the man might easily have her instinctively switch it off. her mother was coming back concluded that the President's, The words were ". . . shot in and that she wanted her home." daughter was being abducted.) the head and his wife Jacque- Manchester in his account Wells, on the other hand, had line . . . ." says that Liz Pozen "was even no means of determining the Her first thought, Mrs. Pozen more stubborn" about not motives of his pursuer, who, he said, was that the words were returning Caroline to the White thought during those minutes of part of a play, like Orson House than Wells thought she confusion, could be part of a' !Welles' newslike treatment of might be. coup. ':War of the Worlds" which Mrs, Pozen acknowledges this. Mrs. Pozen says that after anicked listeners in the 1930s, "I was standing there arguing Caroline left the car she still did er second thought which fol- very foolishly with Mr. Wells," not turn the radio on because of lowed in an instant, was the she admits. "My feeling was Agatha. "I made up a vague truth—something, she did not that Caroline would be safer in story of why Caroline had to go know what, had happened to my house than in the White home," she reports. the President. House, and that until her mother came back, she was better off Rejoins Caroline The first thing she did, Mrs. away from all that confusion." It was a good thing Agatha Pozen said, was to check Caro- had no hint of something being line and Agatha through the No Alternative wrong, Mrs. Pozen continues. rear view mirror. They were "It's not my decision. I have because shortly after they behaving naturally. She was no alternative," Mrs. Pozen said arrived home in Chevy Chase, sure they hadn't heard. Wells told her. So she reluctant- the White House called and Next she looked in the mirror ly gave in. asked if Agatha couldn't return to see if she could spot any Manchester's account says there to play with Caroline. reaction from Agent Wells. She Mrs. Pozen, while driving Another Secret Service agent got none. She also tried to spot Caroline around in her car, came to pick up Agatha, whc passing motorists to see if she "recognized one danger: A then went from the White House could glean any reaction from stranger in a passing car, with Caroline to the Georgetown them. None she saw showed any hearing the news on his own home of Mrs. Kennedy's mother, sign of having heard the news. radio, might see Caroline, Mrs. Hugh Auchincloss. Caroline "So I just kept driving," she recognize her from her pictures and Agatha ate supper at the recalled. In Chevy Chase she and act rashly." Manchester Atiebincloss home and, after made her first stop, at the home says Mrs. Pozen "peered out dinner, Agatha was brought of Washington attorney Mrs. furtively at . drivers." back to her own home, Mrs. James R. Worsley, to drop off Mrs. Pozen disagrees with this Pozen says. their two daughters, Nelia and description and also denies Julia. Up to that time, she says, she Manchester's story that her first is sure that Caroline knev Mrs. Worsley, Mrs. Pozen confrontation with the Secret nothing of the assassination, de said, came outside to greet her Service agent after hearing the spite Manchester's version. girls, and "she made eyes at radio report was at a green light Mrs. Pozen said that she me. She knew that something on Connecticut Avenue where, never told the story about was wrong, but we couldn't say the author says, both ". . . flung Caroline before talking tc anything because of the chil- open their doors and met be- Manchester, because she triec dren." tween the two cars." She also to be discreet in her White Mrs. Pozen said she walked doesn't remember, she said, House associations. back to Wells' car and asked Caroline telling Wells, "Yes, I Last spring, she said, a mem- know what it's about" when he him what was wrong, and what ber of Mrs. Kennedy's staff told her she had to return to the telephoned and told her that to do. Wells said the President White House. Mrs. Kennedy had authorized a had been shot, that he didn't The Manchester account does book on the events of the assas- know how badly and that Mrs. make it clear, however, that sination and asked her to grant Pozen might as well go on Wells was worried about passing Manchester an interview.

Continued From Page A-1 But despite the painful memo- Kennedy told Mrs. John F. Ken- controversy came in a series of ries it recalled, Kennedy still nedy, then vacationing at Hyan- Manchester interviews with the New York saw humor in the situation. nis Port, Mass., about the pay- Times at his home in Middle- Adapting one of his favorite ments she "was concerned over town, Conn., and with News- jokes, he used to tell friends: the sum of money and what she Answered on week magazine, prior to his "The three most overrated felt was commercialization." leaving on vacation—and prior things in the world are the state Manchester said that his to publication today of a portion of Texas, the FBI and mounted agent predicted that his own Book Cuts of the book. deer heads," Manchester says. share might be "in the area of NEW YORK (AP) — The first Writing in the second install- In the interviews, Manchester $1.5 million." After taxes and chapter of the book, "The Death ment of Look's magazine's said Robert Kennedy "is sur- legal expenses, Manchester of a President," was killed serialization of the book, Man- chester tells of the hinting rounded by people who have said, "I may come out with at the insistence of advisers to hitched their wagon to his star." something in the range of $500,- the Kennedy family because it incident: 000." Eight days after his election, "They all think in terms of pictured President Johnson as another Kennedy administra- Manchester said 3,600 words "a man of violence," a source Kennedy visited the Johnson ranch in Texas and was invited tion," he said. were deleted from the 360,000- close to the family said today. to take part in a dawn hunt. word book—one percent. He The source made the state- Denies Diatribe said he had a letter from Mrs. ment as the controversy over To Kennedy, all killing was senseless, and he tried to de- Manchester did not speculate Kennedy asking for 27 deletions the book about the assassination on precisely how his book might of material she considered too of President John F. Kennedy cline. But Johnson, intent on showing his guest a good time, affect Robert Kennedy. He de- personal. flared anew after author Wil- nied that it was a diatribe liam Manchester charged that insisted. "The first six I encountered against Johnson. in the galleys," Manchester said, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy wanted Haunted by Memory to "shred and emasculate" the He said that Theodore C. Sor- "involved Ll3J and had nothing book simply for political rea- Kennedy "squinted down the ensen, one of the Kennedy ad- to do with her or her children. sons. barrel of a high-powered rifle visers, had advised Sen. Kenne- My recollection is that 17 of the into the face of the life he was dy to file suit to block publica- Manchester was not immedi- 27 changes she asked for were about to take ... fired and tion of the book because of Ken- made." ately available for comment on quickly turned back to the car." nedy's own political future. Man- the countercharge made by the Mrs. Kennedy filed suit last "Yet," Manchester says, "he chester said he was told this December to block both the source close to the Kennedy couldn't rid himself of the by Kennedy. family. The author was reported serialization of the book in Loo recollection. The memory of the "It all finally comes down to magazine and publication of the on an extended vacation at an creature's death had been undisclosed location. the fact that Mr. Manchester book next April on grounds thafi haunting, and afterward, he bad gave his word and then broke Manchester had invaded he"I The Kennedy source said: relived it with his wife, trying to it," Kennedy's reply said. "No "The whole first chapter was ai privacy in his use of her per- heal the inner scar." statement or interview, or de- sonal recollections which she deer hunting scene in Texas. It Early in the new administra- scription of events, however showed Johnson as a man of gave him in 10 hours of taped tion, Johnson had the deer's dramatic, can alter that plain interviews. violence who loved to kill deer , head mounted and carried it fact." and would force others to do thel under his arm to the President's Johnson "Was Strong" same. Sees 1500,0000 Earnings office. Kennedy ordered the She eventually withdrew the head put away and forgotten, Manchester said he had no Unfair Overtones Manchester says. suit after reaching agreements problems with the Kennedys with Look, and with Harper & "It seemed to set symbolic But Johnson, Manchester until they learned Look maga- overtones which were unjust says, kept asking when the head Row on modification of passages zine was paying him $665,000 for she considered too personal. and inaccurate. It seemed an was going up. Finally, it was the serialization rights. attempt to make this (the chap-1 hung in the Fish Room. Manchester said Mrs. Ken- ter) the symbolic framework for He said that when Sen. nedy did not read the book until the whole book, which was un- just and disastrous. "It had nothing to do with the assassination since it occurred three years before the assassi- after she filed the suit, but did printable. He was editing large- top adviser on the book, issued nation, right after the election sit up with an adviser, Richard ly for political reasons—mate- a statement in San Francisco of President Kennedy, It pic- N. Goodwin, until 5:30 a.m. one rial about Bobby and Johnson." last night saying in part: tured President Kennedy as a night to read it. The Times said Manchester "Mr. Manchester's account man reluctant to do this (kill In denying the book was anti- wrote to Mrs. Kennedy that he bears no relationship to the deer), a much more gentle Johnson, the author said: had tried to purge himself of actual course of discussion and figure." "I think he behaved well. We political and personal preju- controversy surrounding his It was learned that the Kenne- were all slobs that afternoon. dices while he wrote the book. book. Reading it. one is struck dy family and other persons He was trying. He was strong, "Although I tried desperately by the enormous difficulty of close to the family felt so effective. I am distressed that to suppress my bias against a answering statements made in strongly about other passages there have been so many anti- certain eminent statesman who complete disregard of the which Manchester refused to Johnson stories attributed to the always reminded me of some- truth." discard that they insisted their book. They are not true and one in a grade D movie of the Goodwin said that when Man- names be deleted from the au- late show," he wrote, "the prej- chester delivered his manu- not in the book at all." udice showed through. This thor's list of acknowledgments Manchester said Goodwin script in March 1965, "the pub- of persons he had contacted for was cheap of me, but I suppose lishers wrote representatives of "tried to emasculate the Look there is a little meanness in the Kennedy family that the vital information. This was galleys." all of us." book is 'in part tasteless and done. "At one point," Manchester He did not name the "emi- gratuitously insulting to Presi- Manchester's views on the continued, "nearly 50 percent nent statesman." dent Johnson and, for that mat- of the third installment was See BOOK. Page A-6 Goodwin, an aide to the late ter, to the memory of the. late edited. It would have been un- President and Mrs. Kennedy's President Kennedy."