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It was just a frightening noise, and it came from the right. The family patriarch Joseph Kennedy relied on a few well-placed connections to help his second eldest son. Kennedy had come back into the room, and most of the people were beginning to leave because they felt like this was such a grief-stricken and private affair that they should not be there.I was still there as the rites were performed, and a prayer was said. Connally. Their stories and others exploded in newspapers, with dramatic accounts of Kennedys exploits. On November 16, 1944, the 29th Division joined in one of the largest U.S. Army offensives of the war to date as a component of theNinth Army. By this time Mrs. Connally had raised up, and the governor is lying in her lap, face up. They were about to send her to the hospital or something and we needed that identification real quickly, and she got to feeling all right after using this ammonia. Bill Newman: He straightened up and brought both arms up.But, as the car got closer to us, I felt that something was wrong. Although his gas tanks were not even half full, Kennedy roared out to rescue more than 50 Marines trapped on a damaged landing craft that was taking on water. The poor man looked at me and he said, I know who you are, I cant help you out. I said: All right, sir. But then I happened to look to the right and I can see the casket coming on rollers, and I just left the room and let it out through the emergency entrance and we got to the ambulance and put it in, shut the door after Mrs. Kennedy and General [Godfrey] McHugh and Clinton Hill got in the rear part of this ambulance. The symbolism wrought through the use of the same catafalque and caisson that bore the body of Abraham Lincoln contributes to a sense that while a leader falls the Republic marches on, its ideals inviolate. This set him up for his big chance he had so longed for where he could contribute and command as an officer. It was a calling based on his skills and passions from a life of growing up on Cape Cod among the sleek and fast luxurious wooden hulled motorboats effortlessly skimming across the waves on weekends. I found out that as soon as I said that they immediately took it back to New York, and Cronkite, my dear friend Walter, said: You know, that aint us, folks. No voluntary movements, only the spasmodic respirations. The PT boats were the US Navys concept for quick attacks and for close in shore support. As one historian put it, Kennedys fragile health meant he was not qualified for the Sea Scouts, much less the U.S. Navy. When I first saw it, he had the revolver in his hand pointing it toward McDonald, and thats when I tried to get just as close to him as possible, trying to grab for the weapon. Leaning toward the side of Jacqueline. By September, Kennedy had recovered from his injuries and was panting for action. by Joseph Balkoski. Finally they had found shade, food with the coconut meat and hydration with the coconut milk. For a moment I thought it was, you know, like you say, Oh, he got me! when you hear a shotyouve heard these expressions and then I sawI dont believe the president is going to make jokes like this, but before I had a chance to organize my mind, I heard a second shot and then I saw his head opened up and the blood and everything came out. And I squeezed between twoI saw the expended shells, and the boxes that were stacked up looked to be a rest for the weapon. About 3 a.m., on the trip back to Vella Lavella, the boats gas tanks ran dry. The Soviets were establishing missile bases in Cuba 90 miles from the tip of Florida. It was lying in the rear seat of the car. Bob Shieffer: I was sound asleep when it happened, and Tomcame in and waked me up, and he said: You better get up. Detective Bentley: I was assigned to the corner of Main and Harwood, and I was at that particular location when the presidential parade passed and made a right turn onto Main. Well, the first thing that happened to methere was a guy there with a trench coat on. Still, Kennedy apparently couldnt shake the deaths of his two men in the Solomons. Symbolism: In 1919, when shoulder sleeve insignia were first authorized, the . I lost my footing, and I had to run about three or four more steps before I could get back up in the car. When a civil rights crisis erupted in Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963, Kennedy considered shifting ground and pressing for congressional action. Among others, Special Agent William Greer and motorcycle policeman Willie Price help take President Kennedy into the emergency room. As the chaos and short lived ensuring flames doused by the destroyers wake subsided, Kennedy and 4 of his sailors clung to some wreckage of the 109. The attorney general said that he would like to look into the matter of whether the oath of office as president should be administered to me immediately or after we returned to Washington, and that he would call back. Reflecting on his battle experiences Kennedy did ballistics tests on heavy armor plating he had mounted along with his gun positions to ensure his crews survivability. I ran in front of him, got three feet in front of him and I got the neatest shots of him shaking hands with people. The senior Kennedy persuaded Kirk to let a private Boston doctor certify Jacks good health. I produce mine. Deputy Mooney: By that time there was a number of officers up there.And we were searching, trying to find the weapon at that time. Looked to me like I was trying to show the thing off, whichwas a poor way of handling evidence. My plan was to get a shot there and then back up the ramp on my side of the car. And the next thing I know, theyre ushering her and his wife and me into this holding room next to the jail, and Im just kind of sitting there thinking, When is this going to end?At this point, not one person there had asked me who I was.Finally, one of the officers said, Who are you with? And I said, Who are you with? And he said, Are you a newspaper reporter? And I said, Well, arent you a reporter? I believe thats when I got the first serious death threat as an adult because I think he would have killed me. But his fury and grief at the loss of two men sent him on a dangerous quest to get even. But he seemed to be going along with the joke, you know. What happened? It seemed that they had heard a shot but they didnt know exactly what had happened as the car sped away, and I kept on just yelling: They killed him! I dont know whether to report it or not. Because I had another one or two out then. Connally. Connally was yelling, Oh! So, he says, Youll have to stand behind me and hold onto me. I says, Its no problem at all. So we both got up there, and I stood behind him, and I held onto him. After the Hersey story came out, a friend congratulated him and called the article a lucky break. The locals of Naru must have been stunned when they witnessed the two American men wade ashore. Young Kennedys nation was now at war. No time to waste for the young Kennedy as he skippered the 109 with several other PT Boats away from the Solomons towards the Russel Islands as the US Navy prepared for the invasion of New Georgia. I said, Is the White House doctor there? And I got him on the phoneI said, The only thing is, weve got to have some doctor testify that a gunshot wound caused his death. And he said: Well, were going to take him to Bethesda. About a half-hour later, I asked someone to find out if Mrs. Kennedy would stand with us during the administration of the oath. They didnt stop. Kennedy offered a two-pronged defense of continuing caution. Well, I saw him coming down with that pistolso I got loose from his [Oswalds] arm and grabbed his pistol before he could get the second shot off. Gov. I think that all of that had a tendency to keep him upset. Connally and President Kennedy had been shot. I was bent over under the weight of Agent Youngbloods body, toward Mrs. Johnson and Sen. [Ralph W.] Yarborough. Kennedys intervention in a meeting with Democratic and Republican House leaders on October 23 produced a compromise bill that passed the Judiciary Committee by 20 to 14 on November 20. He believed that the Republicans would turn a crusade by the administration into a political liability for the Democrats among white voters. I was there on that balcony at the Trade Mart, waiting for the president to come there to the luncheon. Police Dispatcher: Attention all squads. Fellow PT skipper Ensign George Ross with his boat out of commission joined Kennedy aboard the 109. I used the powder on them and didnt find any prints there, which is not unusual on a cartridge case or bullet.While we were working with that, Captain Fritz sent word for me to come to thenorthwest corner of the building.They had found the gun. He had two 40-millimeter anti-aircraft guns installed along with an additional array heavy machine guns. Bob Jackson: I positioned myself there, I pre-focused.So, they said, Hes coming down. And we were all ready, and I could see when he came out the door. I sat down to make out a report at one of the desksand thats when Inspector Putman came over and advised me that there was something wrong with my right ankle, and I looked down and it was swollen. He said, Nobodys going to be shooting at me.I said, Well, in case they do, you know what to do, dont you? And he said, Well, Captain Fritz has told me to follow you, so Ill do whatever you do. And I said, Well, in that case, if anybody starts shooting at you, you will be on the floor in a hurry.. The gist of [what I said] was thatshots had been fired, and that the motorcade had gone by, it did not stop. I saw Kennedy get hit. Worried that McMahon might die from his burns, Kennedy left his crew near sundown to swim into Ferguson Passage, a feeder to Blackett Strait. The Americans and Soviets greeted each other enthusiastically, exchanging hats, weapons, and other items of military memorabilia. We could hardly get this car outwe heard several people rolling their windows down and saying, Kill that S.O.B! We were not aware that we had arrested the person who had assassinated President Kennedy and wounded Gov. He recounts his amazing afternoon. And then the thirdrang out. To keep alive the spirit that never knew defeat; to glorify our dead, and to further keep before our country, the record of the 29th Division in all wars. "Any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction, 'I served in the United States Navy,'" wrote President John F. Kennedy in August 1963. OSWALD IS SHOT 11:21 A.M. Eddie Barker: I was going on with this endless chatter, and this doctor that I recognized came up to me and just kind of whispered in my ear, he said, Eddie, hes dead. I said, How do you know? And he said, Well, I just called the emergency room at Parkland. Someone is trying to fire a 21-gun salute with a rifle. It was obviously a rifle shot, and obviously the shots were from the same rifle. And my husband never made any sound. On November 2, Kennedy saw perhaps his most dramatic action on PT-59. They motored away from Lumbari at about 6:30 p.m., heading northwest to Blackett Strait, between the small island of Gizo and the bigger Kolombangara. And Roy Kellerman received word from headquarters to bring it back to Washington for an autopsy at Walter Reed or Bethesda Naval.And thats when Roy Kellerman and some other agents and myself formed sort of a flying wedgeand we flew out that door and put the casket in the ambulance and took off and went to Love Field. I heard other explosions. While Kennedy tried to ease the problem with executive actions that expanded black voting, job opportunities and access to public housing, he consistently refused to put a major civil rights bill before Congress. He sort of put his hands up and sort of was looking around the crowd, and you know, thoughts just sort of flash through your mind. We telephoned Judge Hughes office. In the two years after he became president, John F. Kennedy faced no more daunting domestic issue than the tension between African Americans demanding equal treatment under the Constitution and segregationists refusing to end the Souths system of apartheid. Of course, they didnt realize yet, I guess, where the shot came from.I didnt even remember how I got down from that abutment but there I was, and I was walking back toward my office and screaming: They killed him! [Mrs. Kennedy] came in and leaned over and asked him, Have you given him the last rites? And he said, Ive given him conditional last rites. She grimaced a little bit then, as if she didnt much like to hear that. Would you carry us to WFAA? We jumped in this strangers car and went to WFAA. Kennedy discovered along with the provisions a letter from the coast watcher commander of the New Zealand camp. My left arm was handcuffed to his right.And the reason for that was, since the threats had been that they were going to take him away from us and do all kinds of bodily harm to him, Cap figured somebody ought to be handcuffed to him, so if they took him, they had to take me, too. Jacqueline Kennedy in the presidents car and Vice President Lyndon Johnson two cars behind react. Jim Wright: As we turned, heading westwe looked and saw pandemonium in the cars and Jacqueline Kennedy on her knees in the back seat, looking out behind, and we couldnt imagine what was happening. You could hear the cheers, the crowd, the noiseI felt an excitement, you know, because the president was getting close. A Video History of the 29th Infantry Division Watch on The men begged him not to take the risk, but he hoped to find a PT boat on a night patrol. P.T. She was an Elco type. Byron Whizzer White, was selected as one of two officers to investigate the collision. He was almost across Patton Street.walking up 10th, away from me. I could hardly see the shoe it was swollen so bad. Eyewitnesses struggle with the incongruity of the moment; the mundane mingles with the unimaginable. And she stood right next to him as he was sworn in as our president. She was not there, but she returned the call in a few minutes and said she would be at the airplane in 10 minutes. I have nothing to lose." But there is evidence that he felt enormous guiltthat Joes questions struck a nerve. He had slow agonal respiration, spasmodic respirations without any coordination. MOTORCADE INTO DOWNTOWN DALLAS 11:45 A.M.12:29 P.M. The natives were trusting towards Americans after witnessing poor treatment at the hands of the Japanese. Weeks earlier, Joe Kennedy had taken Bulkeley to lunch and made it clear that command of a PT boat would help his son launch a political career after the war. Other officers blamed Kennedy for the failure of the 109s engine when the Amagiri loomed into sight. John F. Kennedys strength of character and leadership was influenced by many aspects of his life. Jacqueline Kennedy: I was lookingto the left, and I heard these terrible noises. A near miss showered the boat with shrapnel that slightly wounded two of the crew. It was an old Cadillac where they had put running boards on the sides so that they could stand. What do you want to do? It was the PT-109. Lyndon Johnson had opposed herappointment to the federal bench as a federal district court judge. I reached over and grabbed Ruby byhis left shoulder and shoved back and down on him, but by the time that happened, the officers had swarmed on him and crushed him to the ground, and so I released him and returned my attention to Oswald. . We had representatives of the labor unions as well as of the professions and the large businesses. We were kind of laughing, you know, at how he had to chase my film across the street, and we had already made the turn as this was taking placeonto Houston, which put our car directly facing the Book Depository. There was so much blood you could not tell if there had been any other wound or not. The crew of the 109 also found themselves on patrol in and around the remote islands serving as lookouts for the larger more formidable Japanese destroyers and cruisers that may attempt to attack US warships or US Marines on beach heads in the New Georgia-Rendova area. The Navy crew loaded all Marines aboard, including several wounded. And then he sort ofput his hand to his forehead and fell in my lap. Both she and Sen. Yarborough had crouched down at Agent Youngbloods command. Squad Leader Lieutenant Commander Thomas Warfield, an Annapolis graduate, was in charge at the base on Lumbari. in two in ten seconds. Twice, other PT boats had signaled that the Tokyo Express was headed north to where the 109 was patrolling. Just as the policeman gottowards the front of the careven with the wheel on the drivers side, this man shot the policeman. Surrounded by Japanese ships in the area and facing the uncertainties of the sea Kennedy pondered "fight or surrender". I can hardly talk about it. AMBULANCE CARRYING JFKS COFFIN ARRIVES AT WHITE HOUSE 4:35 A.M. Captain Fritz: I asked him what he thought of the president, about the family he said he didnt have any particular comment to make about the president. He did have a mouse on his eye. Weve seen the assassin! Some men had drifted a hundred yards into the darkness. Hes got a microphoneand he slapped it right up in my face and began to try and talk to me. Cannons from these ships could blast the PTs into splinters. They got her a chair out there for a little while, and then she insisted on coming in, and she got in the corner for a little while and stayed there a little while. The crowd at this point had become somewhat spotty. How does he look? I think one broadcastersaid that Lee Harvey Oswald is in custody of the police departmenthe looked all right when he went in there, they wouldnt guarantee how he would look after he had been in custody of the Dallas police for a couple of hours, which intimated to me that they thought we were mistreating the prisoner. With financial backing from his father and the help of New York Times columnist Arthur Krock, he had turned his 1939 Harvard thesis into Why England Slept, a bestseller about Britains failure to rearm to meet the threat of Hitler. Mr. Kellerman came out of the emergency room about that time, took the telephone, and told Special Agent in Charge Behn that we had had a double tragedy; that both Gov. But the story that would define the young officer as a hero ran much later, after his return to the States in January 1944. Dr. Jenkins: However, for a period of minutesafter we knew he was dead, we continued attempted resuscitative maneuvers.I think as we pronounced the president dead, those in attendance who were there just sort of melted away. Nellie Connally: Then I dont know how soon, it seems to me it was very soon, that I heard a noise, and not being an expert rifleman, I was not aware that it was a rifle. I took it back to the City Hall and locked it up. Mrs. One of the crew, 25-year-old Andrew Jackson Kirksey, became convinced he was going to die and unnerved others with his morbid talk. . So, as he stepped into the clearing, Im ready to shoot, I see a figure step out very quickly. So when they left, well, I did too. Agent in Charge Kellerman opened the door of the presidents car and stepped out on the street. Because of the crowds in the street, the presidents driver, Special Agent Greer, was running the car more to the left-hand side of the streetto keep the president as far away from the crowd as possible, and because of this the motorcycles on the left-hand side could not get past the crowd and alongside the car, and they were forced to drop back. And Ill furnish your doctor when he does the autopsy for the trial. And I got Ward back on there and I said, Tell him to take him on back.. I said: Carousel Club? Captain Fritz: I also asked Lieutenant Day to bring the rifle down after I sent after [Marina] Oswald, and had her look at the rifle. Ensign Kennedys next big break came when he was able to attend Officers Training School in the late summer of 1942. They had shared a few adventures in Berlin and Munich. The first shot was fired, and boy, it just reverberated around the Dealey Plaza something terrible. Go ask Johnson. So, I went across the hall into a trauma roomand I walked in and I didnt know what to call him. It was impossible for me to tell the direction from which the explosions came. Authorities contest control of the presidents body, as recounted by Agent Roy Kellerman and Henry Wade, Dallas district attorney. Without breaking radio silence, he charged off to engage, presuming the others would follow. Stripped to his underwear, Kennedy walked along a coral reef that snaked far out into the sea, perhaps nearly to the strait. It will remove the [incentive] to mob action. On June 11, Kennedy made the decision to give a televised evening speech announcing his civil rights bill proposal. There were people scattered throughout the entire park. Lieutenant Hank Brantingham, a PT veteran who had served with Bulkeley in the famous MacArthur rescue, led the four boats in Kennedys group. The division began incessant training in central and southwest England, which would continue for twenty consecutive months. Arriving in July 1942, he plunged into two months of studying navigation, gunnery, and strategy. When Plum Puddings coconutstheir only foodran short, he moved the survivors to another island, again towing McMahon through the water. And we thoughtwell, I didboy, hes got a good sense of humor, you knowto react like that. But more than moral considerations were at work in Kennedys decision. I had a Triumph sports car in those days, and I thought, My God, I cant bring her over to Dallas in that. And so, I went to the auto editor, Bill Fosterthe car dealers always gave him a car and gas to drive for a week or two.I said, Bill, what kind of car do you have this week? And he said, Ive got a Cadillac, actually., I explained what had happened, and so the two of us went out to Arlington Heights and, sure enough, standing on the curb at the address she had given us was Lee Harvey Oswalds mother. A few minutes after midnight, with all four boats lying in wait, Brantinghams radar man picked up blips hugging the coast of Kolombangara. Judge, do you know who I am?. At the time of the crash, 28-year-old Joe Kennedy Jr. was a navy bomber pilot stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, waiting for deployment to Europe. It was ready to fire again.I told Captain Fritz this is not the place to try to work on this gun. Most unnerving were the enemy destroyers running supplies and reinforcements to Japanese troops in an operation the Americans called the Tokyo Express. In March 1945, the 29th Infantry Division was ordered to attack in the industrial sector of the Ruhr, where the Germans resisted fiercely despite being surrounded. 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