Thats all I heardbut the timing of the thirdthe cadence was just off a fraction of a second enough to let me know, Uh-oh, no, this isnt a salute., Tom Dillard: and it was loud, and I said, Theyre throwing torpedoes at him! I guess, in my mind, those things we threw as kids that hit the sidewalk and exploded. After a short rest behind the front, the 29th joined in the destruction of the enemy in the Falaise Pocket by advancing southward from St. I went to the 17th floor with Mrs. Kennedy, and I remained with Mrs. Kennedy except for one time when I was requested to come to the morgue to view the presidents body. You know, then, there were pictures later on of me climbing out the back. John F. Kennedy summary: John F. Kennedy was the 35th president of the United States. And he was pushing people out of the way. The crowd at this point had become somewhat spotty. It was speed or nothing. He said: You get out of here! Photographer Jackson and newsman Pappas are there among the crowd. The 29th Infantry Division is one of Americas most illustrious military units. Kennedy, a champion swimmer from his time at Harvard made his way to his forlorn crew pulling them all to the relative safety of the floating wreck of the 109. This is the president of the United States and there should be some consideration in an event like this. And I told this gentleman, You are going to have to come up with something a little stronger than [the] law that this body cant be removed., Shortly he leaves this little room and it seems like a few minutes he is back and he has another gentleman with him, and he said: He is a judge here in Dallas. Connally] was conscious. They killed him! and the people that I met on the way didnt even know what happened, and they kept yelling: What happened? 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. Just moments later I saw a young motorcycle policeman run up to the building, up the steps to the entrance of our building. Although Kennedy delivered part of the talk extemporaneously, it was one of his best speechesa heartfelt appeal in behalf of a moral cause that included several memorable lines calling upon the country to honor its finest traditions. But the Rules Committee remained a problem. Also while at Fort Polk the division's missile unit became the first Army National Guard unit to fire the Honest John nuclear-tipped surface-to-surface missile. The only real weapon the PT boat had when facing off with the venerable much larger and heavier destroyers was speed, the quick release of torpedoes and a rapid exit before the large guns of the destroyer could attempt to fix their targets. After 4 days with no food or water and exhausted, the crew of the 109 led by Kennedy crawled on to a beach of a second larger island where they found coconut palm trees. The young officer was deeply pained by the death of two of his men in the collision. Division alive. As Oswald is shot in Dallas, Kennedys body is moved from the White House to the Capitol Rotunda, where a brief ceremony is held. I was to help get the president outI was going to catch hold of him and help pull him out, and one put a coat in my hands and said, Put this around his head. And by the time I got around to put that coat around his head, Mrs. Kennedy walked between me and his head and she put her hands on the back of his head, and then I saw this Secret Service man and II started to push her hands away, but I got to thinking, those guys might be a little gun-happy, so therefore, I better let them do it. He was making no voluntary movements. And we thoughtwell, I didboy, hes got a good sense of humor, you knowto react like that. I returned to the 17th floor and remained with Mrs. Kennedy until we departed the hospital. He had two 40-millimeter anti-aircraft guns installed along with an additional array heavy machine guns. But Captain Fritz and his men spread them out, and I walked on through holding the gun over my head so nobody would touch it. Kennedy discovered along with the provisions a letter from the coast watcher commander of the New Zealand camp. After these initial observations we opened his shirt, coat, listened very briefly to his chest, heard a few sounds, which we felt to be heartbeats, and then proceeded with the remainder of the examination. And when the ambulance pulled in, we loaded him in the ambulance, and I crawled in there with him and so did the doctor, and we rode to Parkland with him. And then he sort ofput his hand to his forehead and fell in my lap. From within these accounts emerges a textured and detailed picture of those stunning hours, sometimes revealing bits of information and simple whys long submerged in volumes of testimony. For more great articles, subscribe to American History magazine today! Detectives Leavelle and L.C. I took a little powderand put it on the knob of the bolt, that you pull the bolt back to eject the shell. The boat was a wreck. Kennedy countered by suggesting that the civil rights leaders pressure the Republican Party to back the fight for equal rights. I have nothing to lose." Hidell, Oswald, and I think a couple other aliases, and I gave this all to the dispatcher. With that, the two American boats made a hasty retreat. The following day, the problem would be Lyndon Johnsons. 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. Mr. Dealey had written an unkind editorial about him, saying he ought to be riding Carolines tricycle or something like that. It was delivered to the Navy on . Returning to duty in command of a new breed of PT boat, he lobbied for dangerous assignments and displayed a recklessness that worried fellow officers. I can remember his protruding eyes. McMahon was almost helpless. That is all I can do. The problem was Jack had a bad back and it was doubtful the Navy would take him. How do we get the story out? Well, as the evening wore on, they brought Oswalds wife in and finally, Mrs. Oswald, the mother, asked Captain Fritzif he could arrange for her to see her son, and he said hed see what he could do. 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. 29 Oct. . Asst. No, no, no!, Bill Newman: We were there just a few moments probably less than five minutes before the presidents limousine came down Main and made a right onto Houston. After six long days, their skipper came through and they were going home. The men begged him not to take the risk, but he hoped to find a PT boat on a night patrol. On February 3, 1941, President Roosevelt called up the 29th Divisions component National Guard units from Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia for one year of active service. The 29th Division in World War II In World War II, the 29th Infantry Division played a decisive role again when it successfully assaulted Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944, as part of the greatest amphibious invasion in history. The family patriarch Joseph Kennedy relied on a few well-placed connections to help his second eldest son. We were put on the air shortly thereafter. Hes got to get up on that flatbed trailer and speak to that crowd in the rain. [Then] the clouds disappeared, the sun came throughbright, beautiful, sun-shining day. I picked it up by the leather strap. They had written other unkind things. The 29th Division joined with the 1st Division to assault Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. He said that he was not sure but that he had learned that the motorcade was going to the hospital. POLICE BROADCAST SUSPECTS DESCRIPTION 12:45 P.M. I did have my revolver in my hand at that particular time.Once I got to the balcony I could see several officers coming in from the stage or back entrance. He was wrestled to the floor. We were both sitting on the back of the convertible as we got to the canyon of the big buildings downtown. I produce mine. In three weeks of brutal combat, however, Gerhardts men only managed to advance nine miles and were halted on the west bank of the Roer just short of Jlich. They have shot my husband! And I love you, Jack! I remember I was shouting. The bigger of the two variants by about 10 feet complete with a formable array of torpedoes, heavy machine guns and depth charges. Read More. It had a telescopic sight, but there was no name on that gun. As a grieving world gazes upon her, the slain presidents widow braces the nations fallen spirits with her fortitude and grace on this crisp, sun-soaked November day. The gist of [what I said] was thatshots had been fired, and that the motorcade had gone by, it did not stop. Worried that McMahon might die from his burns, Kennedy left his crew near sundown to swim into Ferguson Passage, a feeder to Blackett Strait. Then I really got into just an endless narrativeI had to stay on the air. And apparentlywhen I said that to him was the first solid information that he had that he was the de facto president. The PT boats were the US Navys concept for quick attacks and for close in shore support. Ensign John F. Jack Kennedy was finally was at the helm of his own boat with the salt air spray in his face and the ocean chop bouncing him and his crew across the waves aboard the roaring PT 101. No one else in the car saw the rifle, and I dont think I could have reacted fast enough to get a picture even if I had film in the camera. He had no choice but to order a naval blockade and stand firm, Americas cold war enemy was placing missiles in Americas backyard. CBS Radio reporter Ike Pappas recalls speaking with Ruby. Thanks to Herseys evocative portrait and Joe Kennedys machinations, Hellman writes, the real-life Kennedy would merge with the Kennedy of Herseys text to become a popular myth.. Confident that his crew was safe and secure, Lieutenant JG John Kennedy and his friend Ensign George Ross knew they had one more exhausting swim to make. Malcom Kilduff: I heard this first noise, and Merriman Smith said, What the hell was that? And I said, Well, it sounded to me like a firecracker. And then, the second shotby that time, I had noticed that Clint Hillhad jumped off the Secret Service follow-up car and was running towards the presidents car. Tom Dillard: The third shot, I said, My God, theyve killed him! Bob Jackson said, Theres a guy with a rifle up in that window. I said, Where? I had both cameras around my neck, loaded, focused, cockedBob says, In that window up on that building right there, its that top window. I shot a picture with the wide-angle camera. He would later undergo back surgery as a young U.S. In the hallway we had some 200 news reporters and cameramen with big cameras and little cameras and cables running on the floors to where we could hardly get in and out of the officeand each time we went through that hallway to and from the jail we had to pull him through all those people, and they, of course, would holler at him and say things to him,and I dont think that helped at all in questioning him. I swung my camera up, too, just so I could see better with the long lens and zoomed in and no one was visible in the window. And then the thirdrang out. We all carry it. I thought, The luck of the Irish.. So I hollered.I whistled a time or two before I got anybody to see me. HistoryNet.com is brought to you by HistoryNet LLC, the worlds largest publisher of history magazines. Seven times in the next two weeks, 109 left its base on Lumbari Island, a spit of land in the Rendova harbor, to patrol. By that time, we [Star-Telegram] had 17 reporters on the scene. Connally was yelling, Oh! My eyes went on up to the next floor, and there was the rifle. During his presidency, Kennedy gave many inspiring speeches; these speeches, rather than his legislative accomplishments, became his legacy. And then I just remember falling on him and saying, Oh, no, no, no! I mean: Oh, my God! I told [him] that I had a boy missing over here, I dont know whether it amounts to anything or not. And I gave him his description. Glen Gatlin: We had a very good view of the parade route. Charlie Company, First Platoon, Second Squad (9) Lucas W. Pinto. Two members of the 29th, T/Sgt. You could hear the cheers, the crowd, the noiseI felt an excitement, you know, because the president was getting close. American History presents a chronology of those November days based almost entirely on eyewitness accounts and accompanied by searing imagery. The planes often appeared without warning, dropped a flare, and then followed with bombs. Free at last! Kennedys analysis of congressional resistance moved Randolph to ask the president to mount a crusade by going directly to the country for support. They were willing to help. On April 14, 1943, having completed PT training, Kennedy arrived on Tulagi, at the southern end of the Solomon Islands. The tiniest shard of hot metal might ignite the 3,000-gallon gas tanks. Go ask Johnson. So, I went across the hall into a trauma roomand I walked in and I didnt know what to call him. His life and death have been the subject of numerous books, documentaries and feature films. But I cannot recall any change in expression of any kind on his face. Still, Kennedy apparently couldnt shake the deaths of his two men in the Solomons. They had a torrid affairmany biographers say she was the true love of Kennedys lifebut the relationship became a threat to his naval career. We were on the 12th floor, and so we were kind of watching [Commerce Street]. Chief Curry: The news media, a number of them, had continued to say: Let us see him. Hersey proposed doing a PT-109 story for Life magazine. Young Kennedys nation was now at war. Bill Newman: I remember a flash of white and then a flash of red, and President Kennedy going over across the car seat into Mrs. Kennedys lap and her hollering out, Oh my God, no! Everything he did up until he was in the water was the wrong thing.. I held the gun by the strap, and Captain Fritz got a hold of that bolt and pulled it back and opened it, and a live round fell out. At about 2:30 a.m., Lieutenant Potter in PT-169 saw the phosphorescent wake of a destroyer. But he seemed to be going along with the joke, you know. TV reporter Eddie Barker covers the event live. The division was there for the duration of the ill-fated campaign. Eisenhower decided to abandon Brest and use other harbor facilities much closer to the front, which by that time had reached the western frontier of Germany. He was the youngest man and first Catholic to hold that office. Our intent is to convey as accurately as possible from the view of those who were therea true sense of the minutes and hours of the events that consumed the nation during four days in November 1963. memo: review of selected items in the lee harvey oswald file regarding allegations of castro cuban involvement in the john f. kennedy assassination. The 29th Division served on the Gallipoli peninsula, a point in the strategic Dardanelles straits between the Black Sea and the Aegean Sea (and thus the Mediterranean ). In what is perhaps the most intensely and painstakingly examined murder in history, nearly every fact is fodder for debate, and every nuance leads critics to yet another truth. Doubts about the Warren Commission findings led to an extensive reexamination by a select congressional committee more than a decade laterwhose own conclusions were hardly conclusive. I thought somebody behind me was doing the firing, and because I thought that, well, I fell down, I hit the ground. 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. I said so, but I agreed that we would board the airplane and wait until Mrs. Kennedy and the presidents body were brought aboard the plane. The cops are beating him up because he killed the president. So, they were demanding of Will Fritz and the other detectives and Chief Curry that they produce Oswald. An estimated 250,000 mourners line up to pay their respects. I was there on that balcony at the Trade Mart, waiting for the president to come there to the luncheon. I was worried about the children. Authorities contest control of the presidents body, as recounted by Agent Roy Kellerman and Henry Wade, Dallas district attorney. FIRST BROADCAST REPORT THAT KENNEDY IS DEAD 12:40 P.M. Then the officers gathered around there had piled on him and pushed him to the ground. For more than a month, the division engaged infrustrating positional warfare as the weather deteriorated sharply and an ammunition shortage worsened to a critical level. King asked if an appeal to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower might help enlist Republican backing generally, and the support of House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck in particular. And I said: They killed him! Purple Heart POLICE ENCOUNTER OSWALD 12:32 P.M. Ruby was then taken away toothen, a detective came out, and I said, Who was that? And he said: It was Jack Ruby. I told someone that we preferred for Mrs. Kennedy to use these quarters. Cluster shared Jacks sardonic attitude toward the protocol and red tape of the Big Navy., On May 30, Cluster took PT-109 with him when he was ordered to move two squadrons 80 miles north to the central Solomons. A Patrol Torpedo (PT) Boat skipper had arrived ready for duty. He would approach the dock at top speed, reversing his engines only at the last minute. The events that began unfolding around midday on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, have cast a long and lasting shadow across the intervening 40 years. Eddie Barker: It was going to be quite an affair. For his service in World War II, John F. Kennedy received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal (the highest non-combatdecoration awarded for heroism) and the Purple Heart. They liked even more the ice cream and treats that the lieutenant bought them at the PX. I said, Im going to have to announce President Kennedys death., And he said: Well.We dont know what kind of a conspiracy this might be.But I think Bird and I ought to get out of here and back to Air Force One before you make the announcement. And I said, All right. So, he said, Come on.Lets go on back to the plane.. He had slow agonal respiration, spasmodic respirations without any coordination. McMahon, the machinists mate, was in the engine room. Gayle Newman: As the car came closeras it got directly in front of us, the third shot rang out and the side of his head was hit, and you saw bits of red flashing up and then some white matter come out of his head, and Mrs. Kennedy screamed, Oh my God, no! Recognizing human fallibility in the perception of any given event, these eyewitness accounts provide a mostly unvarnished real-time narrative from citizens, officials participating in the events and newsmen covering it. 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. Sounded like an elephant rifle to me. Graves was on his left, holding onto his left arm, and we had a couple officers behind usand there were detectives lined up along the wall just outside the double doors. This was the break young Jack needed to get his foot in the door and he was soon assigned as an ensign in the Naval Reserves serving in intelligence. Agent Kellerman: I am looking around for Mr. Greer and I dont spot him directly because I want to get out of here in a hurry, and I recognize Agent Berger and I said, Berger, you get in the front seat and drive and Mr. Stout, you get in the middle and I will get on this side. As we are leaving a gentleman taps on the drivers window and they roll it down and he says, I will meet you at the mortuary. [I replied,] Yes, sir. We went to the airport. (When King asked if the president had heard Walter Reuthers excellent speech, which had indirectly chided Kennedy for doing more to defend freedom in Berlin than Birmingham, Kennedy replied, Oh, Ive heard him plenty of times.) Almost euphoric over the size of the turnout and the well-behaved, dignified demeanor of the marchers, Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph and Reuther expressed confidence that the House would pass a far-reaching bill that would put unprecedented pressure on the Senate to act. PT-59 had to be towed to base by another boat. Liebenow fired twice and also missed. So then, the car proceeded on, rather jerkily, toward the intersection. My plan was to get a shot there and then back up the ramp on my side of the car. Kennedy prevailed. I left the emergency room and asked that two of our agentsclear all the corridors, and I checked the closest and most immediate route to the ambulance. Getting young Jack into the navy took similar finagling. I said, Which window? He said, Its the one on the right, second from the top. By that time, I had the 100mm camera up, shot a picture of that window. The natives were trusting towards Americans after witnessing poor treatment at the hands of the Japanese. JFK calls Dallas Times Herald publisher James Chambers; Secret Service Agent Clint Hill, assigned to Mrs. Kennedy, describes the morning activity; Jim Wright on the flight to Dallas. He persuaded Undersecretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal, an old friend of his father, to get him into Midshipmans School at Northwestern University. Confident that his crew was safe and secure, Lieutenant JG John Kennedy and his friend Ensign George Ross knew they had one more exhausting swim to make. I thereafter talked with McGeorge Bundy and Walter Jenkins, both of whom urged that the return to Washington should not be delayed. I have worked [the slaying of] two other officers, and they had said, Well, I didnt shoot the cop, or I didnt shoot the policeman. But Oswald didnt say that. 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. I think it was Sergeant Hill who was talking to the dispatcher and we gave him the names.The dispatcher advised us then that we were to bring this suspect directly to Captain Fritzs office, that he was a prime suspect in the assassination of President Kennedy and the wounding of Gov. The last elements of the division did not depart Europe until late 1945 and finally arrived in New York City in January 1946. The collision was part of a wild night of blunders by 109 and other boats that one historian later described as the most screwed up PT boat action of World War II. Yet American newspapers and magazines reported the PT-109 mishap as a triumph. Instructors warned that in a war zone, PTs must never leave harbor in daylight. Within the command ranks of the navy, however, Kennedys role in the collision got a close look. They had just been introduced to the market. So I turned to the right. So I unloaded the camera and put the film in an envelope. OSWALDS CAPTURE AND ARREST 1:50 P.M. Mrs. Kennedy and the attorney general got into the rear of the ambulance with the body. No voluntary movements, only the spasmodic respirations. Malcolm Kilduff: And then I noticed that the Secret Service car and the presidents car had started to speed up. Joe Kennedys friend James Forrestalwho helped Jack win transfer to the Pacificbecame secretary. I showed him a picture of him holding a rifle and wearing the pistolhe said: [Someone has taken my picture and that is my face and put a different body on it. His restraint, however, did little to appease Southern legislators, who consistently helped block his other reforms. [Gov. Ten minutes after landing, President Johnson addresses the nation. Kennedy won handily. 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