Jackie Kennedy wrote to Marie Tippit
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But Kennedy wasn't the only victim that day. As the alleged murderer fled the scene, a heroic police officer named J.D. Tippit intercepted him. Oswald shot Tippit four times, killing him on the spot and leaving yet another woman a widow.
As her husband's and Kennedy's death anniversary approaches, Marie Tippit, now 85, has opened up about the sorrow that brought her and Jackie Kennedy together -- and how the former first lady comforted her in her time of grief.
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In an interview with NBC Nightly News, Tippit described how Kennedy wrote her a moving letter in the days after their husbands' deaths. The handwritten note reads:
What can I say to you -- my husband's death is responsible for you losing your husband. Wasn't one life enough to take on that day? […]
I lit a flame for Jack at Arlington [Cemetery] that will burn forever. I consider that it burns for your husband too and so will everyone who ever sees it.
With my inexpressible sympathy, Jacqueline Kennedy
I watched the story on NBC news, and realized, again, what a classy lady Jackie was.
See the handwritten note
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/20/jackie-kennedy-letter-widow_n_4311773.html
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To write such an amazing letter in the midst of her own unbearable grief...
That takes a special person.
