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didn't reach Ofegon until two months after John Wilkes Booth's act in Ford's Theater. But in our new world, its slain leader ar- riving at Andrews Air Force Base from the unlikely lati- tudes of Dallas, we all at once and as a nation knew and felt—were made in this age of media to know and feel, to participate in—a martyrdom for the hand- some, bright, brash Presi- dent who was so brutally murdered right before our eyes. For four days, a great national catharsis swept us

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H:77- clean of any dream that we were immune to this horror. It filled us with pity for the Olt lovely First Lady, with fear • 1-20a. for the future. We wept. • . t: ,27.1 Most of us, that is. A few did not, were glad John was dead. A few were brought to thoughts of vengeance, notably a strip- joint operator in Dallas itself. A few stopped mourn- ing to realize the martyr im- age was only one, a bluish picture that altered John Kennedy as much as the embalmer's cosmetics. Dis- torted the tough Irish poli- tician, the whiskey baron's progeny, the philanderer. Covered over achievements like the Test Ban Treaty, the Missile Crisis, the as- sault on organized crime,

Almost immediately, a 24-year- old mon named Oswald was charged with the crime. Two days later, he was shot to death on live television by , the owner of a sleazy night club. Moscow's Patrice Lutriumba Friend. END OF CAMELOT (continued from page HO) 0 University, unfortunately reserved . the President, right there he'd he riding these defianctm didn't icitisfy, any more citizens of the '1 bird World). In general. OG :thing in an open car. There were 211,000 titan did geographical changes. They he lived what for most Russians would he windows along the motorcade's path, too kept moving, on to New York, then a -pampered life. His pay, as was custom- 4 many to watch, and when on November hack to New Orleans. Though he was ary with defectors, was supplemented. lie 18 the Secret Service's advance man, smart (1.Q. of 118), he quit school after was given a good apartment. But he Winston Lawson, rode it in company the ninth grade and enlisted in the didn't like the authoritarianism of Russia IL with the Dallas office's Forrest V. Sorrels manly Marine Corps, as had his brother. any -better than Marine Corps discipline, and Dallas police.chief . all Robert. Even in that homogenized perhaps. felt insufficiently rewarded for his three remarked how they'd be sitting milieu. something in him turned people secrets (nothing that threatened U. S. ducks, Toward the end of the ride, turn- Fellow Marines called him "Ozzie security) or his devotion to Marx's cause. ing from Main Street into Rabbit," and thought he was intelligent The difficulties of obtaining exit visas Street, Lawson saw an ungainly tan-brick and well-informed but strangely with- vexed him and he wrote to Senator Julio building with concrete latticework mark- drawn and secretive. Yet. he did his Tower for help. He beseeched his brother ing its first floor and windows marching duties (albeit . court-martialed twice— and mother for financial aid (Marguerite tip Last a ledge and final story to a big. once for possession of an unregistered suggested capitalizing on the story of his blinking-time Hertz Item-a-Car sign. He private firearm, a .22 derringer that as defection—after Ken It's heath1 asked, "What's the School Book cidentally went oil and wounded him, fully remarked. “Moneywise, I got took"). 'repository:" and once for gross insubordination. With their help. patience and $4.35.71 in could have told which included spilling a drink on an borrowed State Department funds. Lee him. It was where, since mid-October, he officer—a trick that helped earn him Harvey Oswald. with wile and child. re- made $1.25 an hour as a clerk (not four weeks in the stockade). He acquired. turned to the United States on June 15, enough to buy a rifle. be later told bask military skills. He qualified as 1962. pnlice). which meant pulling books out Sharpshooter with the M-1, became a As we shall see detailed in the second of boxes to match order forms and send- private. first .class—aviation electronics part of the Kennedy story. the days from ing them downstairs to the offices of his operator. which meant he tracked aircraft then until November 22, 1963, spun away boss, Roy Truly. who disliked Ken- on radar and scanned their radio signals. from Oswald in a downward spiral. For nedy. Inside, the warehouse wasn't notably from the Atsugi base in Japan. now, it is enough to see their gross three- what you'd expect of a repository of where some U-2 flights over Russia orig- time Items: A succession of plebeian jobs, learning. Drab offices, a tawdry second- inated. Lee liked Russia. or the idea of the best of which was as a photopriut Hoot lunchroom. two grimy freight Russia. He'd discovered Marxism at 15, trainee for -a graphics company. Between elevators, claustrophobic storage space and two perceptions stuck with him: It jobs, unemployment checks—some ob- crammed with cartons, lit by 60-watt was for the downtrodden, he saw, and tained on spurious grounds. Increasing bulbs, surrounded by brick walls that hence antiestablishment; and it was tension with Marina, who lound him in dropped scabs of paint to the buck- taboo in America. Of Marx's complexity. his native laud to be irritable, reclusive, ling wood Boors. Up in the sixth story, of the moral subtleties of the dialectic. sexually inactive, tyrannical and cruel they were relaying the floor, and the Oswald spoke little, though he diet study Lee beat her and discouraged her attempts 1)01(t!, were moved to the southeastern the Russian language and profess ad to learn English--tussian ma% base been coiner ,JI the building, close to the win- nauseam to the gyrenes the Wonders of their only remaining bond. Separa- dows oterksoking 's mock- the Soviet system. tions front Marina, then feverish rec- Grecian peristyles and pagodas. Oswald After nearly three years. Oswald-sought onciliations. The interventions of their worked up there sometimes. From the and was granted, oat September I I, 1959. southeast window. von could see straight an early "hardship" discharge to go to fete friends, first in the Russian-speaking out to where Main turns into Houston Fort Worth and take care of his impov- community of Fort Width and Dallas Street, then directly below where Houston erished and disabled mother, now a res- (who, for example, paid for Marina's turned into Elm Street, then travers- ident there. Marguerite was not disabled dental work and once helped her leave ing right, Elm Street curved to go long, apparently, since by October 16 Lee Lee). And last. Mrs. , who in through a triple underpass, the railroad Harvey Oswald was in Moscow trying to suburban Irving sheltered Marina and tracks on top, and on out to the ramp defect to Russia and become a Soviet cit- her two daughters (the second born up to Stemmuns Freeway; the way to the izen. As it turned out, he was successful October 20, 1963. at Parkland Memorial Trade Mart. A superb view from an at neither. Although he ranted to the U. S. Hospital) during the Oswald? intermit- ugly building, where Lee did his menial Embassy and wrote letters forsaking his tent separations from April until Novem- job. He'd been born in New Orleans on citizenship. he never forfeited his pass- ber. Mrs. Paine was herself estranged October 18. 1939, two months after his port or completed the papers necessary from her leftist husband and, before Nla- father's death, to Marguerite Oswald, a to terminate his citizenship. He didn't rita moved in, the two women often hulking, pinny woman •who resented become a Soviet citizen, either, since. lie wrote loving letters. There were annoying mightily the demise of this. her second tired of their system within 18 months and interviews with the FBI, who were inter- husband. Lee grew up alone in, then out wanted to come home. He was delayed. ested in the Oswalt's' Russian connec- of orphanages and relatives' hums. however, by bureaucratic tangles until tions, particularly midway in 1963, when because his another worked. But even June 1962. In between, he made an in- -Mariva began writing (at Lee's request. though he slept with her in their various sincere attempt at suicide (to dramatize homes in New Orleans and Fort Worth his sinctgity about wanting to be a RIM-. she said) for visas to re-enter Russia and Lee went to New Orleans. then Mexico. until he was II, that didn't fill him with sian). He was then assigned work at a apparently plumping for Castro and seek- love. Marguerite's third marriage, in radio and IA' factory ill Minsk, where he 1945. provided a temporary father until fell in love. was jilted and then rebound- ing permission to traverse Cuba on their divorce ended it in Hut then ed to many a pharmacist. the unhappy way back to the U.S.S.R. And coloring all his mother worked again. Lee protested niece of a Minsk M.V.D. official and to in Oswald, the day-to-dayness of bootless - her neglect by skipping school. Once he father a daughter. lie bought a shotgun work, of reading Marxist texts and peri- chased his half-brother with a knife. and and hunted a little, talked Marxism and odicals, of shifting, from one rented another time threatened the half- continued fitful attempts At higher edu- quarters to another, with and without 142 brother's wife with a blade. It scents cation (including a try at enrolling in (continued on page 193) 0 END OF CAMELOT (roatinued from page 142) Why is Tareyton better? Marina as his-marriage turned sweet and 41111111,31~-411~1111EIT sour. of watching war nn on tele- vision. of penning letters—to the Soviet embassy- pleading for a visa. Of to the 111•210111111:lekledideibloillIkik Communist Party pleading fur maim, don of his talents—and far from least.. oC tfUnking up other names for himself, of photographically fabricating identifi- cation for these Limes, maybe [or a dark purpose. maybe to alleviate the incon- g,ruity he telt amid these circumstances. Indeed, flipping through that calen- Others dar. Lee Harvey Oswald could have re- called only a few luminous times. There was January 27. 1983, when, using the name A. J. Hided. he put ten dollars down on a mail-order snub-nosed remove. Smith k Wesson .38 revolver ("the equalizer." Te.xatis used to call the revolver) front a Los Angeles firm. The pistol was paid off in March. There was March 12. 1961. when, as A. llideII, he ordered for SI9.95 Al( ad 91/38 MannliclierCarcano carbine (an ,Tareyton Italian Woi Id Win' TWO surplus weapon. this one numbered C2766) and an ord- nance Optics Japanese-made four-power scope to be shipped to P.O. Box 291'1. Dallas, Texas. Oswald did not order an improves. 3.1.1 advertised on the same page of the American Rifleman by Klein's Sporting Charcoal is why. While plain white filters reduce Goods of Chicago, despite his familiarity tar and nicotine, they also remove taste. But Tareyton with the weapon. perhaps because the M-1 cost S78.88 and his mother bad tinc- has a two-part filter—a white tip on the outside, tured hint forever with frugality. There were the days after March 20, activated charcoal on the inside.Tar and nicotine are when the weapons were shipped, that reduced...but the taste is actually improved by Lee, his wife said. sat alone with the rifle and practiced working the bolt. fur charcoal.II Charcoal filtration is used to freshen air, hunting, he told her. She says she took two pictures of him. posed with title, re- to make beverages taste better. Charcoal in Tareyton voker and copies of The Worker and smooths, balances and improves the The Itililant. -1'itt:re was April 10, when. Marina re- tobacco taste. And that's why ported. Lee took. his rifle from a con- cealed place near General Walker's Tareyton is better. home and fired a shot through a window at the general, who seemed to Oswald like Hitler and, therefore. fair big game. There were those occasional days in New Orleans. from Late April to Sep- Join the tember, when he and Marina seemed unswitehabie5 reconciled. when he became obsessed and ice why... with Ceiba, when, after first seeking anti-Castro men. he formed under 31i.kNiS a chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba C nit minee. himself sole member, and passed out leaflets. and got arrested, and was Celebrated in the papers. on radio and TV, became a media man. There was his nip to Mexico City. from September 23 to October 3, when Tareyton is America's best-selling he called on the Soviet and Cuban dele- gations for visas to Russia via Cuba, but charcoal filter cigarette. was rejected. in effect sentenced to the United States, to his renewed marital dif- Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined COI rage at the latest FBl inter- King Sim: 21 mg. -rar".1.4 mg. nicotine: 100 min. 20 mg.-tar. 1.4 mg_ mconne: That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Heahh. rogation of Marina, and to the needs of av per cigarette. FTC Report Nov. '15. P. his child and eooneo-be-horn d.aughrer, added in free association, "Pain know, excited cries and squeals as the motor- 0 Kindly Ruth Paine led him to the job at last night would have been a hell of a cyclists swept past "The President the Texas School Book Depository. After flight to assassinate a President." he's coming ... Jackie, she's with him pt another marital scrap, he went to that Two hours later. SS 100 X made the the President . . here he comes. . . ," job the morning of November 22 carry- Lure, slowly.. ponderously. from Main Anti there be was, passing the faces, the

ing a heavy brown-paper package. He onto Houston, approaching the Deposi- mouths open to cheer, waving as he told fellow employee Buell Wesley Fra- tory, and the President - waved at the came. Past the windows of 11, L. Hunt,

zier (a neighbor of the Palms), who Dalksites. The weather had cleared (the who looked down from his high office on 0. would drive him there, that it contained temperature was up to 6R degrees—" Ken- the President. - Past FBI agent lames Curtain rods fur his hermetic rented room nedy weather," his aides called it) and the Hasty, who'd wattled a glimpse . of the in Dallas' Oak Chili section. bubble top was off. Behind the car Bose and whose burdensome case load

was Love Field, the encouraging wel- included a couple named Oswald. Near- In their rented rooms, John and Jackie come there ("Jackieee," they called, and by, at the Dallas News, a short, Kennedy prepared for a big day. Yester- the President shook hands by the fence), paunchy man born Jacob Rubenstein but

day had been sweet Imt exhausting. First and the unprecedented fervor along the now named Jack Ruby sat discussing the

the Washington departure, then the con- route. "You sure can't say Dallas doesn't ads for his night clubs, oblivious to the

stain business on Air Force One (for Love you, Mr. President," chirruped Mrs. President slipping by below. Past the en-

instance, keeping up with the - progress Connally from Kennedy's left front, thusiastic mobs on Main Street, the ob-

of the six Cabinet members eying to next to her husband on the jump- Sears. vious dangers there, all the Secret the Far LASE for wide-ranging discussions "No, you can 't," John Kennedy replied. Service necks craning up and around like with our allies, including South Viet• No one could. As politics, the trip Was spaceship antennas, scanning windows nant), the roaring welcome iii San working. The crowds along the route had and faces until the Lincoln reached the Antonio, where the crowds screamed grown bigger and more friendly. At one right turn onto Houston, with the

"jackieee" and made the President place,- the President had ordered his lead car just now turning off Houston

the hop to Houston fur more adulation driver, , to stop so he onto Elm, thecrowds spinet here, some and a perfunctory dinner speech and. could get out and greet school children. tension gone, spread out, and the motor- throughout. the strain among Yar- The Secret Service agents winced. But cycles at slow speed, their cylinders pop-

borough. Connally and Johnson. but end- the President stopped a second time to ping like firecrackers among the cheers, ing at last with the flight to Fort Worth talk with some 111.111S. A - priest. Father while the young President and his wife

and its rainynight welcome and the Oscar Huber, had hurried to see hint, wave and SS Ion X makes its languorous aging Hotel Texas. Friday, predictable waved madly and thought the President torn onto Elm by the Depository . into as wind-up dolls, Jack would say a few responded. Almost everyone believed the ?Dom lens of a Bell k- HoWdl movie ri words to the blue-collar faithful who'd the waves, the smiles of John and Jackie camera held by a New York garment assembled outside the hotel, and they'd were especially for them. The motorcade manufacturer as out of place in his

have this chamber of commerce break- reached the commercial heart of Dallas adopted Dallas as John Kennedy. Abra-

fast, and then leap the few miles to by 12:20. proceeding in designated order: ham Zapruder held the camera steady on

Dallas for the motorcade, the speech, the three motorcycle cops: a pilot car: more the limousine to film his President and

flight to Austin, to Lyndon's cinch and motorcycle police; a white Ford leed so filmed his President's murder. by then they would be at the end of car with Chief Curry, agents Lawson and It wasn 't a difficult shot. 'Thousands things, at the dose of this November - 22. Sorrds and Sheriff. Bill Decker in it: of tourists have eye-tneasured the distance Jackie chose a pink wool suit with a then SS 100 X with Greer driving and front the southeast sixtlefloor window of

navy collar. a matching pillbox hat and , chief of j.F.K.'s guards. the Texas School Book Depository to the

short white gloves for the day. beside him. and behind 'diem the Core spot On the pavement, about the fourth

The morning counted down. After the eallys anti, in the rear seat. the Ken- road stripe down front the corner. just

breakfast (such a triumph for Jackie it nedys—a wo motorcycles flanked each pest e live oak tree fronting the Deposi-

caused one reporter to ask J.F.K.'s assist- side of the limousine's trunk: next came tory, where the Lincoln was when the

ant David Powers, "NA'Itett are you going the Cadillac convertible backup car, President was first hit. TiLoosands have to have her come out of a cake?"), the crammed with Secret Service men. four looked up as did Howard Brennan and

Kennedy s enjoyed that rarity of political more riding the running boards, all Amos Lee Euins that day in rear and trips, an unscheduled period. The Presi- armed, one with an AR-15 automatic expectation of seeing the gunman there,

tknt surveyed the -allies News. Stories rile that was disturbingly dose to Presi- the one the Secret Service - didn't see, the

about the "frees Democratic rift. A quote dential aides Powers and Kenneth long rifle barrel barely visible out-

horn Nixon, just then airborne from O'Donnell, who perched on the jump side the window, then disappearing_ They

Dellas to New York, predicting that seats: behind them the Vice- President's look, and nod. and look .again, and the rented couvertible. with L.B.J. J.F.K. would drop L.B.J. from the 1964 • and Semi- Dallas cops watching mutter about the ticket. And an ad, signed by the Ameri- tor Yarborough and the Secret Service goddamned Yankees out there getting ee can Fact-Finding Committee (Bernard detail headed by and their tonsils sunburned. No, it wasn't a Weissman. chairman). that pilloried behind them L_B.J.'s backup ear: and hard shot. About 190 feet when the lim- Kennedy for abrogating the Constitu- behind that the Dallas mayor's car: ousine cleared the oak tree and came tion, for substituting the "Spirit of Mos- anti then the first press car, the "pool into the scope. cow" for the Monroe Doctrine and, in car," carrying Assistant Press Secretary 'I -1,, Rightthen, if you were somebody who general. for leading the Country to Mac Kilduff on the right, with Merri- liked technical things, guns and eke; eacialist ruin: to wit, allowing his brother man Smith, dean of White cronies, say, you would have thought it "Bobby. the Attorney General to go soft House correspondents, facing the radio- all out. or had it stored in memory cells on Communists. fellow travelers and ul- telephone in the center of the dashboard, ready for use. You'd know that at 190 tra leftists in America while permitting and an A.P. reporter, a Dallas. News re- feet (or 63 yards), him to, persecute loyal Americans." porter and an ABC correspondent riding the four-power cross

Seemingly, that last meant people like in hack. Trailing afterward were the pho- hairs made the target appear only about

Jimmy Hoffa, awaiting trial on charges tographers' car, the vehicles of lesser 50 feet away—a mere 17 yards, nothing

of jury tampering. The President ex- dignitaries. the V.I.P bus and assorted compared with the MO-plus-yard rangy

plained no "Oh, you know, we're extras in the motorcade's placid progress. over iron sights used for repel-fire train- 196 heading into nut core:try today." and Down Main Street they'd come. The ing in the Marine Corps. You might 01) Ilw bum with a quick rabbitlike intelli- pass on through. their velocity decreas- the weapon out of the brown-paper bag O gence, lots of technical things. That the ing, especially if the velocity was low to and assembled it. If that hull was left Nfamdidter-Carcatto was accurate at begin with, and probably start to tumble there carelessly it could have been the one $4 short range. That the Italian NATO rifle end over end and do strange things, Any shucked out, to be found with a deal on 1m team still used tin: carbine for meets. It policeman could tell you store s. about the neck that held the slug, the sort of tLa was called "humanitarian" DOC fecattse. bullets. Like about rite .38 the would-be flaw you get loading an expended Car- as its critics. later -salt:Lit missed. but be- suicide fired against his right temple that tridgecase to practice dry firing and bolt cause it put slugs where you wanted them. entered the skin, glanced all the skull and manipulation_ but you can dent a live 0. either to wound or to kill, Small slugs. tumbled around the forehead beneath romul, too, not using a clip. so the about a quarter- of an inch, a the skin. finally ripping utit over his left spring forces the round up at the wrong link bigger than a .22.- traveling. if the ear. leaving him dazed. :1[1(1 liteloving. angle before the bolt pushes the round charge was fresh. at about 2200 feet per All the rounds for this Manalicher- into the chamber. If that round was live seen at 140 vards. Not extremely fast. Carr:oat had mundnosed, copper-jacket- and dented in the chambering process, Mat slow. either. If the round wasn't ed bullets weighing between l60-161 the dent might well cause the projectile fresh. the velocity could be less-The slug grains. One was in the chamber as the to tumble born the start. doing (add would tend to wobble or "go to sleep" target came into slew. At least two more things to whatever it hit, as a certain within the first 1110 yards. a t roubling that live ones lay in the mapline, probably bullet in this instance was said to do. would be exaggerated if the slug hit any- in :t dip. [honk they could. if you were Anyway, the rifleman had at least three thing. The slugs themselves could vary. sloppy or rushed, just be - jammed in the live rounds. Or he could have had four. .5[cl:1-jacketed, or "Solid," with round magazine and forced up by the follower Whichever, the first now lay awaiting noses. they'd blow through thin* 'leaving spring.. third might have been in the its moment. 4; a nice than hole. Copper-,jacketed (lead magazine, since three cartridge cases and IC COtt° as the Hertz dock blinked thinly coated with coppery. the round- one live round were Later found. Or. if 12:3o C.S.T. It came with the cross hairs nosed bullets were capricious. If they hit you believe only two shots were fired, low and a bit left. The cheap scope, un- something hard. they'd likely deform. If one expended round might have been in matched to the rifle, threw the aiming something soft was encountered, they'd the rifle's chamber when the shooter took point high and right_ Any trained marks- man experienced with that rifle would adjust for the error. a MaKinillni of five inches high, three right at this range. The shooter would hold his sight pict ure down. too, because he was taught that with :my target below aud going away. the tendency seas to shoot too high. The limousine's speed—only 11.2 tniles per hoar as tater cakulated—was no oh- stade—the picture stayed the same and there wasn't much traversing to do. The pavement's slight declination toward the underpass would_ help - the shooter, if anything. the litilousine's downhill prog- ress correcting a high slant. An - Ilia c was needed now was a good "wdd" of right- hand thumb to cheek, a shott -sipping" breath. hold it. anti then tartieeze. so gently the explosion startled even the rifleman. Witnesses likened the first report to a firecracker. Man!, 01,,t0tr it was backfir- ing- from the morotcyelm but the suddeO. sharp pap' announced the Mantificher- CarCatio's slug. kilainiiiing how and a trifle right into the President's nether neck, so that his tight arm, raised to wave, suddenly cramps talmilike and, - joined by his left, claws for his. throat. Zaproder's bunt, as the Lincoln glides [coin behind an obstructing street sign. see we: iii the distention!: of two planes and camera speed, his agonized molt:la:1u and, in our agony ul attention. Kennedy's movements are so slow to us, it seems we might to see everything. Sec behiOd the President in the back- up car, the Secret Service nten scowl- ing at the noiSe, poised but uncertain, some looking backward, while the motorcycle outriders peer at the Pres- ident, and Howard Brennan, a 1.1- year-cdd steamfitter, come to see his President, and Amos Lee Loins. a l5- "Do I look like a person who knocks people down for no year-old black sdloolboy, Look up from across Elm at the sixth-floor southeast reason? That WaS 198 a cry for help." window, a floor above and to the right PI future appraisal of the murder. Nevada movie theater, whose manager shots were fired, a bulletin is broadcast: brought up the lights and announced "Attention all squads. the suspect in the O In the back seat, the only fact was the horror, the great gouts of blood John that the President. Vice-President, pry- shooting at Elm and flouston is reported Kennedy's heart pushed out through his ernor of Texas and a Secret Service man to be an unknown white male, approxi- IN skull and onto his widow's dress, her had been murdered in Dallas and "We mately thirty. slender build, heiglit five will now continue with our matinee teen. six, weight one hundred sixty-five ▪ stockings and gloves. across the red roses • sInAl been given at Love Field (Texas feature." Except the feature was the pounds. . . ." In his car, Olhcer J. 0. hail run out of yellow roses for her). murder of President John F. Kennedy Tippit hears the call and, soon after, 121 And suddenly Jackie is on the trunk of and the - reels were Crazily playing sit the order to patrol the Oak Cliff section. the Lincoln. probably in shock. scram- once bus and rumors, and resonances At Parkland slemori.iI Hospital. Jackie ?Al hling after a 6014)01y-white piece of her of. both. stands watching the hopeless attempts to husband's skull that's skittering aCrotic resuscitate her - husband. Site knows. On the polished black surface, as though she At Dealey Plaza. amid the confusion. the way. Clint Hill had heard her cry. f could Guth it and Band-Aid it hack as motorcycle officer Manion L. Baker looks "tie's dead, they've killed him—oh, Jack. with a sctatdied child. Or perhaps she tip. dismounts and runs into the De- oh, Jack. I love you." He recalled how was terrified and escaping to Clint pository, convinced the sniper is on its she hesitates! to leave the gory SS DM X who now has made it to SS 1011 X. has roof. lie encounters Superintendent Roy until coat was draped over the grasped one of the welded handholds Truly and asks which way is up. Using President's exploded head. Then there'd and is pulling himself up against the the stairway, because the elevators are been the run with the stretcher (God! belated acceleration of the Lincoln as somewhere above, the two men arrive at Her roses were Oil his (hest!) into Trauma Greer finally reacts and Kellerman harks the second-floor landing 90 seconds after Room: Number One, in this dun-colored into his- mike. "We AM hit. Get us to a the first shot. in time to see Lee Harvey tailitna.,s-heap complex called Purl-Jam:I r7' - hospital." Hill struggles up and psishes Oswald hurrying into the lanthroom. Memorial Hospital. There, for the next Jackie into the seat and looks at Lancer, Drawing his revolver, Baker summons 90 minutes, nothing made sense. his Boss. and as the car screams away for Oswald. and asks Truly. "Do you know In the gray-tile sterility of the trauma Parkland Memorial Hospital, lie ham- thisis man, does he work here?" Truly -fis- room, she doctors looked at the body of mers his fist on the trunk in rage and sures the cop Oswald is an employee, and the President. They see .3 White Male pa- frustration and loss. Inc -and Baker continue upstairs to the tient, number 2•1710, gunshot wound, who It has taken six seconds. it's now roof. Oswald, many believe, then buys a is lean, tanned, 1711 pounds, six feet, aged 12:•0:06 C.S.T. Panicked pigeons rise Coke. walks downstairs and exits the 46. back-braced and doomed. They try front the Dei)ository's roof- and see mad- Depository at 12:33. leaving behind hint fluids and external coeliac massage and ness below. Officer Hargis rams a curie the .1fAillilicher-Carcano, complete with a perform a tracheotomy- by enlarging a flips off and charges with drawn pistol liye chambered rotund, stuffed between wound at the base Oil his throat. but they, up an incline toward the grassy knoll, two 101.i`S Of boxes. the three spent car- too, know it is usels.s. No one could live pergola and stockade fence west of the tridge cases, the brown-paper bag. his with so massive a head wound. Dr. Mal- Depository. Faces turn toward the De- palm prints•and a tuft of fibers from his colm Perry—the surgeon u ltra Was soon to pository. . who has shirt wedged in the metal Butt plate of raise suspicion by telling reporters the filmed the Lincoln until it went beneath the carbine. He walks east on Elm Street. throat wound could have been an en- ei • the underpass. is screaming, "lltey killed will walk for seven blocks and by 12:40 trance hole--earls the cardiac massage at him, they killed him!" will board a bus but, taking a transfer one P.SF. and, as,a matter of record, In the press "pool ear," Merriman (to thriftily), will soon leave it in the Dr. William Kemp Clark pronounces die Smith has the radiotelephone. fle shouts unusual traffic and ride a cab from the President dead. Lancer is unhorsed.- and to the U.P.I. Operator,l--- 1,nee shots were Greyhound bus station to Oak Cliff near Camelot is finished. Jackie Kennedy fired at President Kennedy's motorcade his tented room. He'll walk. E0 his room, kneels in the blood, the debt is. out the in downtown Dallas.' He will hold onto too. By I:01, he will leave. carrying -his floor, and trembles in anguish, its prayer. the phone, onto his greatest coup, keep- revolver in his waistband. but dots not cry. ing it from the A.P. reporter for uncial In that time at the Plaza. some order In a nearby room. sequestered by minutes, but that is not important. Nor begins to Come out of the .chaos. The the Secret Service, paces the 36th is the fact that soon after came Dallas police—all the Secret Service are PresidenE of the 1. inked States. Ile ABC Radio, then CBS's Cronkite inter- with the motorcade. racing toward Park- is shocked and fearful to realize that 35 ff; '7 rupting. fittingly. the Woad Tunis, land—have begun roestioning witnesses. minutes ago he could not even sway or bat, the favorite, NBC's /hanky and Eventually. over 190 Plaza spectators will events in his native state—now he is the Brinkley. What is important is that, testify. offering various ear- and eye- leader of the world's most powerful within 15 minutes after the event. most witness reports: of the number of shots; country. He knows that thought is in of us knew the President had been shot, of men running out of the Depository. many mind.;, twinned if you were a and that, henceforth, the events wools! be ClOWO the street or into station wagons: Kenoult•ite, with the odious but irre- as much what the media reported as what of smoke—gun smoke?--(Mm sewers and pressible feeling that this man Johnson had happened. That fact will hatillt all from behind fences: of shots from site (this Texan!) was a usurper. His words the murder's investigators. Smith's -three grassy knoll, other buildings, the railing of condolence seem awkward to hint. His shots." for example. Though moil people above the underpass. But the consensus wife tells Mrs. Kennedy, "I wish to God in the acoustical nightmare of Dealey at 12:34 is. as the Dallas police radio log- there was something I could do." Fur Plaza reported three shots. some said shows. the Depository (but, queerly, one the Johnsons, however. there is nothing four or five, even six. Mrs. Kennedy. of the two police radio channels is gar- to be done, except what the Secret Serv- Clint Hill. Zapruder reported only two, bled—in the melee, a mike button is stuck, ice suggests. The agents, those who have and the third bullet has been impossible or, as critics say Liter, somebody is inten- not, out of loyalty or irrationality. stayed to identify. Thus. in the reports that tionally jamming those wave lengths). with the slain President, fear a plot, followed front the separate worlds of At 12:35. - Howard Brennan tells what maybe even a coup. What better time Dallas and Washington, of investigation he saw. At 12:36, Sergeant D. V. Hark- titan with the Vice-President in Dallas, and grief, we should have acknowledged ness speaks with Amos Lee Euins. The too, and most of the Cabinet out of the that no picture, however conscientiously schoolboy tells about the man in the country? Rufus Youngblood tells the new projected. was complete or-accurate. window. The Depository is ordered President • they must go at. once to the 200 We Were all like the audience in a sealed. At 12:44, 14 minutes after the security of Mr Force One and then as Co' of three black people watching the pro- dumfounded or a pa•ruli.tr man with an Patrick buried in August. of Jack's cession from the Depository. and think umbrella or those in buildings, like the wounding love affairs, of their poignant they see the rifle and the shooter, pre- blacks in the Depository, one of whom anniversary just two months ago. paring for the last shots. of her thinks he hears after the shot the tinkle own flights for rest and succor to the We could see , holding of the cartridge cases on the floor above Greek islands, not even of What a his Stetson. turn quizzically to his left, them. triumph .she, the First Lady. has then jerk back right in the start of a been We could watch the cops look up and on this journey, how much for all his slump. while his month opens. cheeks around. see Roy Kellerman in SS 100 X charm. in the cud he puff, hair Hies, as something hits him needed her. There twisting in wonder and driver William is only the hurt, and while the President behind him begins her hand on his Greer owl-eyeing the road, and Clint elbow, and the confused image of the sliding leftward toward his puzzled wife. Hill lurching off the back-up car and tanned face contorted. and then there a leftward slide oddly stiff, until you re- running for the Lincoln. while Dave is no more time. member he is wearing a surgical corset Powers and Ken O'Donnell see the It is Zapruder frame number 313. The [or his chronic had back, and an Ace President falling toward Jackie, and, at Mannlicher-Carcano slug. bandage twisted in a figure eight over his high and right the same time in L.B.J.'s convertible, again, hits, hips. so fragments, blows a list-sized that he is propped upright like Special Agent Rufus Youngblood is turn- hole in the tipper-right side of John a shooting-gallery silhouette. ing to the Vice-Prcident. pushing him Fitzgerald Kennedy's head, and he is That was good, he's hit, now the bolt down. dead, at the speed of light, of brain up, back. forward, down, good, smooth Bolt it again, move that picture up, neurons disconnected. and quick, just trark a little tight, up a that one looked low, there! Hold it there described it as "like hit, there, hold . . . squeeze . . . Christ, on the head, a little left with the ones spent buckshot falling all over us, and where (hid it go? hairs ... tiow,squeeezze.... then, of Mine, f could see that it was We could sec the crowd's faces change Lastly. near the end of our time we matter, brain tissue." Dave Powers said from enthusiasm to confusion to fear. could concentrate on NIrs. Kennedy. She it "took off the top of the President's their cheers to screams. their hands from is staring doe-eyed at her husband, know. head, and had the sickening sound of a applause to grotesque stop motion, as ing he is hurt, reaching for him, un- grapefruit splattering against the side of another shot scents to sound, this one conscious of John Connally's moaning a wall." The rain of blood, tissue, bone shattering. maybe on the roadway or "Oh, no, no, no." from the jump seat. shards fell on both sides of the limou- curb, a fragment hitting James 'fugue. of the crowd's shrieking disintegration, sine: It splattered motorcycle patrolmen who stands 270 feet away, near the under- of Clint Hill rushing toward her, of Bobby W. Hargis, and B. J. Martin to pass—and although later it can't be everything except this hurt in jack's the left rear of the Lincoln, and dotted proved that this shot missed (or even throat. There is now no consideration of spectators beside and right of the car, was fired, though S3 percent of the wit • the heat, of cloying Texans, of fatigue, and the Connallys, Greer. Roy Keller- nesses reported three shots). people flit ow no recollection in sorrow or joy of her titan in front- of the stricken .Presidene thentselve.s down for cover, except the living children, of her poor dead baby Such facts were to be impotrant in the

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Father Hither asaltres. Mrs, Ken- ter. 'Telephone links are made with the nedy that Jack's soul was st ill in his body, ‘Vhite House communications agency in that the rite was eller r i‘r. The widow Washington. and through it, with the thanks him. Outside .e.;.sin, Huber an- SATIN SHEETS world. Jack Kennedy's Gaelic brigade— swers reporters' questions. hinting the Nationally advertised — now at O'Donnell. Powers, Lawreuife O'Brien— President is dead. Manufacturer's Low Mill Price. - try to du what must be done to comfort • At 1:211, President Johnson, Isis wife. MACHINE WASHABLE. 225 thread count with 150 denier thread. 11 exciting colors: Midnight Jackie. to arrange matters for their dead Chief Curry and the Secret Service detail Black. Scarlet Red, Sunflower. Royal Blue, Avocado Green. White. Florida Orange. Deep Purple. chieftain. Secret Service men and mili- break out of Parkland, that possible trap. Bronze. Gold, Silver. tary aides seek to impose order, codling and race to Love Field and Air Force Each Entire Set includes: I straight top sheet key officials. They worry that L.B.J. One. They arrive seven minutes later. I fitted bottom sheet doesn't know the code keys that will • At 1:30, a Dallas undertaker named 2 matching pillowcases plement various defensive reactions, Vernon Oneal arrives in response to or those carried around in the metal suit- Clint Hill's behest with his best bronze 2 straight top sheets 2 matching pillowcases case by a President's shadow—the "hag- casket (a Britannia model, eventually Twin Sets $19.50 Queen Set $25.00 Man," whose various packets contain billed to the Kentusks at S39)5). Jackie Double Sets $23.00 King Set $29.00 codes to set up hotlines to world leaders has said. "I'm not giiitig to leave here full size bolt letter monogram on 2 cases S2.50 or to implement nuclear attacks of sev- without Jack,- and so John Kennedy's WE PAY POSTAGE eral magnitudes. This "man with the body is swaddled in plastic, his ruined Sena clank or money order or use credit card. Bank Americard. I■lastercharge. American E4Pre-- satchel." Ira Gearhart, had been sepa. head wrapped and cushioned with ntli- accepted. Include Signature. Account number and rated from both J.F.K. and L.B.J. for her bags until. mmumvlike, he is closed Expiration Dale. Direct Retail Sales 104. Mon. Lbw Fri. some time ill the strung-out chase to in his coffin.' On his finger is Jackie's Parkland. He was with L.R.J. now, but wedding ring, put there to keep him Rolle Trpatimis, Et. 1.-11.J. hadn't been briefed. Suppose the company on the last flight home. Dept P4 330 Fifth Ave-, New York. N. T. 10001 assassination signaled an attack? In • At 1;33, Assistant Press Secretary 'Washington. Secretary of Defense Mc- Mac Kilduff Illat the Presi SENSUOUS Namara had placed U. S. bases on alert dent of the United States is dead. In CONTRAC as soon as he heard of the shooting. The hysterical bulletins, the confirmation is Cabinet plane, bearing Secretaries Rusk, flashed around the world. Reactions of BY MAIL! Freeman, Dillon, Hodges, Wirtz_ and all kinds come. Fidel Castro says, "Eves y- Udall, was contacted (they have turnecl thing has changed," and today we wonder back after confirming U.P.I. reports). what, exactly, he meant. A high school Soon after his brother arrives at Park- student in Amarillo shouts, "Hey, great, land, Attorney General Robert Kennedy J.F.K.'s croaked!" A retired Marine Corps is reached at. his home in Virginia by J. general in Washington. unwittingly echo- Edgar Hoover. Steely-pale, Bobby then ing some Southerners after Lincoln: "It telephones his mother, Rose. The chill- was the hand of God that pulled the trig- TODAY'S ULTRA-THIN CONDOMS PROVIDE ing word 14S.K. throughout the Kennelly ger that killed Kennedy." 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jacket. dark slacks and his .38 Smith ft: tory circumstances, to arrest this Lee his dubs in alternating currents of funk. O Wesson Special-71hr cylinder may, like Harvey Oswald in Irving. But Oswald's and tawdry business entIntsiasins, until— the rifle, have one expended round in it already there. His interrogation begins. he tvill claim he is overcome with pile and the bullets are standard .38 Specials. Secret. Service agent Sorrels is there and tut the Kennedys. At I :21. St Imlay,

slightly small for the .38 Smith & Wesson the FBI 's James Ilosty (who, according November 21. Ruby gut-shoots Ice Ilat- et Special, which has an odd-sized barrel to a lieutenant in Dallas' intelligence yet USWald to death in the. Dallas police- diameter, a detail that would make section. has just confided that the FBI had building basement with a nickelpiated

slug identification difficult. At 1:13. less information "that this subject was capa- ott live television, as the atillSrel

O. than a mile Irons the rooming house, ble of committing the assassination of assassin is being let! away for transfer to

Officer J. Tippit sees Oswald. who President Kennedy"--slut assertion lies the county jail. that development, too

matches the radined description of the buried for years). (how did he get in? why? who is he?), wilt

Dealey Plata stispect. NVhat happens next The networks identify the suspect at fester in the nation's - wounds. The

is verified finally by nine witnesses. in- 3:23. and conunentatms immediately wounds that Jackie Kennedy, en route

cluding NVilliam Scoggins and Eden link Kennedy. Tippit and ' Oswald. In home on Air Force One (code-named

Markham. who see the first act. They die hours to come, they'll have muds Angel, appropriately enough) resolved

see Tipples car roll up from lid l the more to report. Oswald will say, "Now, would be haralaged in the ceremonies of

young man and stop next to him. The everyone will know me." He will he ar- the three days to follow. That rinse. front

pedestrian goes to the right door, and raigned for Tippies, then for the Presi- the departure at Lute Field until John the cop opens the driver's side and steps dent's murder. He will try to reach a New Kennedy was laic! to rest in Arlington

out, starting an runt the flow of the car. York_ lawyer active in .\.C-L.U. cases and National Cemetery on Monday, Notens. As before, ears it nes,. ace ni tits of the si ism- bail. Hr will see his wife. And Marina will bur 25, comes back to its as a series of

her of shots differ. But the young, slight. tell police she's found Lees wedding ring vignettes, like figures on a frieze telling

darkhaired man soon identified as Oswald in it cup at the Paints. where he'd left it of an ancient tragedy. autopsy did. showed. put four early that Friday morning, along with There is hackie Kennedy. on she air- rounds into the cop. One done a uniform almost all his money and, yes, they'd had plane, vowing that America must realize

button into his chest, another nicked the another fight the night before. She'll what's happened. Another dress? "No,

aorta. a third penetrated his torso and know about the rifle in the Paines' garage let them see wham they've done." She

the fourth ripped into the falling police- and about the pictures of Lee and his guns, said that often. stipulating with the

M111.; temple. - filen the killer runs for thus drawing tighter the lengthening chain plural pronnust that Lee Harvey Oswald

several blocks.lieempties four cartridge of cinnmstantial and physical evidence [or her was surely stniholic of the hatred

cases in some bushes as people watch. around "A. Hidell." She'll intimate he that had killed her husband. That tnoti- jogs past a mill -cat Int. discards- a aetna guilty by the look in his eyes. His yated her des is' to take the bronze

jackc.t. Behind hint, a witness is calling in mother, Marguerite, hearing over the casket off publicly. "We'll go out the the murder tin Tipples radio. Immedi- radio of her son 's arrest, will call Bob regular way." she said. "I want them to

ately, sirens rend the Oak Cliff quiet. The Sehieffer, then a Fort Worth reporter (now see what they have done." And she Pallas police have had enough. A shoe- CBS White House reporter) and tell him wanted i t known that she had sat 1)% her store 111211Agtx 112 ntcd Johnny Brewer. on site wants to sell her story of Lee. And, husband all the way to Andrews Air

West Jefferson Boulevard. watt lies a young with plans already hatching for a lawyer Force Base. that site at the end possessed

man duck into his doorway until a prowl (who'll turn out to be Nfark. Lane). she him totally. "Suppose I hadn 't been

car passes. then walk quickly into the will jour Marina in Dallas, their lodgings there with hint?" she asked. There could I eve; Theater (Tony Russell, starring in courtesy of Life magazine (which is also be no anstt er, perhaps because is scented War is /fell). &ewer later said, "He acquiring Abe Zapruder 's to irrelevant in die divided atmosphere of looked funny so me .. . like he had been whom Marguerite will also say, "Pa s. Air F., e One, where the Kennedy- fac-

running, and he looked scared." Brewer I 'll give you is story for money)." Oswald tion felt deracinated by the lniltrison

asks the ticket seller about the man and will become the star of his own show, people, by the new PreSident, who was

learns he didn 't pay, and the ticket seller. appearing before reporters to state his doing what he must: take over the Ad-

like Brewer, thinks about the assassination innocence ("I didn't kill anybody, no ministration of the conntry. "The Gov-

,ilitl site sirens and calls the police. sir"), while Isis prosecutors prejudice the ernment must go forward," he was to

At 1:13. while at Parkland the haute case by saying, as district attorney Hairy say.

of the body rages. the Dallas police-13 Wade did, "1 figure we have sufficient Never was that division lietter demon- strong—tan through the theater. - finger- evidence to convict, him." Indeed. just as slimed than in the next picture, the inn•

painted by the flickering heroics, until a matter of law— ignoring the con- age that told us it had really happened.

Brewer points out Luc Harvey Oswald. sequences—the case will become one of There at Andrews. we saw it through the Officer al. X. McDonald strides to Os- the most convoluted in American history, camera 's eye--the casket shoved into die wald, codas him to stand and begins a instanced at once by the discovery U.S. lift. and Jackie and Bobby (who'd boarded -search. "Welt it 's all over now," Oswald Attorney Barefoot Sanders made that no site plane a liniment earlier to com- sighs and, hitting _McDonald with his- fort tier) descending while the assembled Federal law forbade assassinating a Presi- left hand, snatches for the revolver with dignitaries, shadowy figures beyond the dent. Thus. Lee Harvey - Oswald, if guilty, his right. McDonald slugs the suspect. floodlit airplane. watched or moved in was just a plain old Texas murderer. grapples for the gun. and the rest- of hesitant strides to greet the survivors of All that will occur and all along Os- the cops pile on. In minutes. Lee I larvey Dallas. and a team al military into went wald seems to enjoy the game_ Baiting uswald is liamiculluni and on his way to forward to take the burden and put it into the police, vuudenafing little. eating well police headquarters. Ile has a contusion the ambulance. It was true. Jack Kennedy and sleeping soundly. Happily for him, on the right side of his forehead. He com- was in that thing. That was What we saw one supposes. h-e doesn't know he, too, plains about police brutality, claims he and remembered, not the new President is doomed. Jack Ruby has attended one knows nothing about Tippit, about the who, his pride hurt, did not even emerge President, seems wise to his rights and of the press briefings. Jack is a police from what was now his flagship until after huff, with inferiority feelings born of canny (surely enough. police la ter think. the Kennedys had left for Bethesda Hos- failure. Adulation of guns and cuffs and for aliases. [or knowing .something of im- pital, not the tall man who mumbled

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headquarters, the homicide captain has he is. on Friday and Saturday, aruising Cod's before the stations began playing 204 meanwhile derided, based on the Deposi- police headqua rtos. radio stations and the InOth recapitulation of the Kennedy- sand's." and so the casket would stay 0 closed for the obsequies. That, like every- thing else, caused speculation. is he dis- figured? Shot in the face? Is he really dead. or a vegetable someplace? But it was Jackie's will, as so much was, and it was cOnsistem with her decision. reached at Bethesda. that John Fitzgerald Ken- o. nedy's funeral would be like Abraham Lincoln's. It was. -.\h" 1:1 i .s.m. Washington time, Satur- day. November 23. the dead President went at last back to the White House. 'Fite dawn promised and would deliver a rainy. blowy, maudlin day. A Marine honor ,gitard escorted the widow, still in the same pink, blood-covered suit, and the dead Commander in-Chic I brother. and the flag-draped coffin to the Last Room, where Kennedy would lie that morning, surrounded l,y the deathwat ch sentinels, by four tall tapers. by the win- dows garlanded with Walk CRTC. stark against even a lowet ing sky. Outside, thou- sands gathered to stare in silence at the Whim House and the black windows. n- sitle. Jackie looked again at her husband and murmured, "It isn't Jack." "Ceez, Miss Campbell, I could sit here all 'The world knew it was. NIrestminster day and watch you erase." Millet's bell tolled each minute, as it had done only for fallen monarths. De Gaulle mused, "I am stunned. 'They are crying all over France." Italians marched years. Vet that man was the President more than one gun, of plots, of front in mourning. In Berlin, where Kennedy now. While Jack Kennedy went to the entrance wounds—circulated au air of had announced, "ic Is bin ein Berliner," autopsy room, Johnson and the advisors skepticism around the official version. candles lit every Wind- iw. The U.S,S.R.'s would go by helicopter to the White Yet the gross findings were clear then and Andrei Gromyko wept. The world lead- House lawn, then to the Executive Office are why. One wound about five-and-one- ers came. sonic to visit the East Roont. Building for meetings and briefings (and half inches below the bony point behind sonic as the President lay in state on Sun- Caroline and John John, unaware yet, the right car, and about the same dis- day in the Capitol's rotunda, all to walk- had heard the helicopters earlier ferrying tance from the right shoulder joint. This on Monday behind die Kennetlys, be- VIPs to meet Air Force One and had opening, although it was difficult to hind the caisson from the White House rushed to the windows. crying. "There trace to its end, led between two strap to tit. Matthew's Cathediai, then to rids• to they are. Mummy and Daddy are muscles to the throat wound, apparently lington for the burial. There were home. ... Daddy's here!"—their nanny an exit for the slug, which continued on eight heads of state. ten print(' ministers, tells Caroline later). to Connally. Unfortunately, the exit had runt of the world's remaining royalty. The autopsy itself should, it seems been obliterated by Dr. Perry's desperate Ninety-two nations sent delegat ions. now, have been the neat picture, at least tracheotomy in the resuscitation a (- Sill Ile 250.00(1 Americans came in person for those qualified. But because it was tempts. About the second wound. the to file by Kennedy's body in their Capitol. not pretty, Robert Kennedy asked that fatal shot, there was little doubt. Inward- (inc million flanked the route of the the autopsy photos not be unnecessarily beveled bone, metal fragments driven funeral cortege, the procession to Ar- disseminated. (The forward (like the ball that killed Lin- lington. Countless millions watched it never saw diem.) Thus, although Ken- coln) into the orb of the right eye. Mas- all on television. We saw, and taw re- nedy's body was X-rayed. photographed, sive, downward-slanting cerebral damage. peatedly so that it became imprinted in us probed, examined. for hours, the resu Its— Each Fact clearly indicative of a shot almost genetically, the last images of as we shall see in detail in the second Ken- from above and behind. the Kennedy era. nedy installment—have been in dispute But we saw only the -revised autopsy The riderless horse. Black Jack, ea- ever since, largely because: (a) there report, not the pictures, and when the h.,orting so that the saber, the boots re- were discrepancies .among the physi- autopsy was done and the new .casket ar- versed in their silver stirrups, jangled cians' working notes. the FBI's initial rived at Bethesda—a plain African-ma- and Hashed—it was as though he were autopsy report (written by laymen) and hogany model to replace the Britannia, possessed, or mounted by a presence only the doctors' final report, (b) based on the damaged in the escape front Dallas— he could feel. Kennedy autopsy arid the time required embalmers went to work to create the Those drums, accompanied by the 100- to fire Oswald's carbine, an odd explana- beautiful memory picture of the under- to-the-tninute mourning pace of the mili- tion lead to be advanced for Connally's taker's trade. They-dressed lite hotly in a tary units, moving !militia the caisson wounds—that a bullet (the one found on blue-gray suit, put mesh and artificial to the band's slowed dirge of Hail to the Parkland's stretcher) passed_ through hair over the awful wound, brought color Chief. and to the melancholy skid of Kennedy's neck and on through the to the ashen flesh. They put a rosary in the Black Watch pipers, on the way to governor's chest, and out, to fracture the the folded hands. Jackie Kennedy would the Capitol, to the cathedral, to Arlington. Texan's wrist and end by wounding his not like it, would say, "It was like some- Cardinal Cushing, the high priest him- 206 thigh, and (c) rumors from Dailas—of thing yuti would see at Madame This-- self. breaking from Lain into English at the Mass to say, "May the angels, dear Director Allen W. Dulles, and the states- THE MOST SENSUOUS Jack, lead you into Paradise," and the man John J. McCloy—world in its find- CONDOM IN veiled widow weeps, until Caroline ings. if possible, preserve as a political THE WORLD sa)s. "Don't cry. I'll take care of you." necessity the respect for our institutions Nacken The Arlington moment when, the that was so vital in it period of transition 5.1111.0.11 ha-saddler. Conk. last ritual words uttered in the echo of lanes all Me hew lexures of con. and turmoil. The commission was also diatainronnesernationalcondnint Air Force One's wing-waggling last fly- told to get it done fast. Unfortunately, Nacken a unique becalm. If u set. mend i0 pawn& the 11110111M1.1 by. the bugler who's blown taps thousands the panel was insufficiently equipped for for hnls,4 you. Nicken's of times reaches for die highest, ultimate any of these tasks. Its members. perforce, X-isat-INO delicatelk nbiwal. surface gents the ukansinwhilsithe 11000, and breaks, the sound like or catch were busy men unable to devote full i"="forrnik provides the neut- er terainsiev ior the man urn the itt our throats, Jackie receives the cover- time to the investigation (some attended Swedish revolution for the mini- ing flag. And then she stoops to light as few as 20 percent of the hearings). It mum m pleamitc Niklien -rho ec.ii the flame that's to burn forever. had no investigative staff, instead exclu- Poindinans Planning plume., mu, anwrom Finally, the midnight visit to the sively relying on the FBI (who had things wst jwww rein Rawl, nal, 400 Carrrbolo. 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In painstaking detail through Seal that now rest with Jack beneath millions of words,' it laid out its proof the ground, like him, against the coffin's that Lee Harvey Oswald and Lee Harvey silky lining where she'd put them. Then Oswald alone had murdered John F. site looks up. turns to go—for the mo- Kennedy. It described how he had done ment a secular saint. But one who will live it. It assessed Jack Ruby as a disturbed another life, and return from it to mourn man, a crazed avenging angel, who had the murder of the brother-in-law so stern acted alone. It recommended that killing next to her. For them, it is not finished. a President be made a Federal crime. It "THE GREATEST For Jack Kennedy, it is. criticized the FBI's handling of crucial Neither is it finished for us. Despite information and witnesses. 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