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January 30, 2008
The Kennedy Assassination
and the Transfer of Power
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) |
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- November 21, 1963.
- Texas Democratic Party feuds. Senator Yarborough, Governor Connally, and LBJ.
- November 22, 1963.
- JFK to Jackie: “we’re heading into nut country today.”
- Around 11:30 a.m. CST,
- Around 12:30 p.m.
- Approx. 12:45 p.m.
- Approx. 1:00 p.m.
- JFK pronounced dead, but not announced immediately.
- Approx. 1:33 p.m.
- Approx. 1:38 p.m.
- Approx. 1:42 p.m.
- 2:38 p.m.
LBJ being sworn in by Judge Sarah Hughes, 2:38 p.m.
- ~3:15 p.m., CST.
- ~3:30 p.m., CST.
- 6:05 Eastern.
- 6:14 p.m.,
- LBJ: "This is a sad time for all people. We have suffered a loss that cannot be weighed. For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help and God's."
Reactions:
- James Reston, New York Times columnist, “What was killed was not only the president but the promise. . . . the death of youth and the hope of youth, of the beauty and grace and the touch of magic. . . . He never reached his meridian: we saw him only as a rising sun.”
- Mary McGrory to Pat Moynihan, "We'll never laugh again." [read]
- Moynihan:"Mary, we'll laugh again, but we'll never be young again."
- Jacqueline Kennedy, to an author: “He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. It’s—it had to be some silly little Communist.”
- Malcolm X: “Chickens coming home to roost”
- November, 27, 1963.
- LBJ speech to Joint Session of Congress.
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- LBJ and Martin Luther King on the Kennedy Legacy, November 25, 1963. (web)
- LBJ to Doris Kearns, after leaving the presidency: “We were like a bunch of cattle caught in the swamp, unable to move in either direction, simply circling ‘round and ‘round. I understand that; I knew what had to be done. There is but one way to get the cattle out of the swamps. And that is for the man on the horse to take the lead, to assume command, to provide direction. In the period of confusion after the assassination, I was that man.”
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Materials for this course were developed by the Presidential Recordings Program at the University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs. Site design and Flash transcript+audio design by David Coleman. Flash transcript+audio files by David Coleman, Marc Selverstone, and the Presidential Recordings Program. Audio courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration and the Presidential Libraries of Roosevelt, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon. For more resources on the White House tapes see www.whitehousetapes.org or click here or here. |
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