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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI really can't imagine what Jackie was going through when JFK was shot.
That poor woman. Just an awful, awful moment. I pray we never have to experience anything like it again.
As much as we remember Kennedy, it's hard not to remember Jackie, too, who, like her husband, was far too young when she left us.
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)So she might have lived longer except for that.
I do respect her greatly for her dignity through that horrendous experience that the whole country was traumatised by. And that she supported the arts & culture. Pablo Casals played at the White House when he was the world's greatest cellist.
Liberty Belle
(9,532 posts)form of cancer most often found in hair dressers. He was so shaken by it he started a line of hair products wtihout all those harmful chemicals. Lamas is the line.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)The fact that she managed to keep her shit together over the following few days as well as she did, is an incredible testament to her resiliency.
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)Jackie was actually quite young at the time of the assassination.
cilla4progress
(24,713 posts)she actually really helped keep America together with her dignity, and sense of purpose. She insisted on keeping on the pink blood-spattered Chanel suit so "they can see what they've done to him." She orchestrated the funeral to recollect something of Abraham Lincoln's funeral. And of course, those 2 young children. How she kept it together for them, one can never know.
I hadn't realized, the assassination was a mere 3 months after she and the President lost their young baby, Patrick, at 39 hours of age!
OwnedByCats
(805 posts)only 3 months prior they lost a baby. I can't even begin to imagine what she went through. All I can say is she must have been a very strong woman.
MADem
(135,425 posts)She wisely didn't give a shit, and kept to her own path.
She was a chain smoker, and she also wore wigs and pieces in the WH--her actual hair was kind of crappy. Her clueless sister in law, Joan, chattily spilled the beans regarding this State Secret, and she got the Big Freeze for opening her mouth.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=888&dat=19630212&id=IbZPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=2FIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3678,657683
I suppose it is easier than having to constantly get one's hair done in those sixties styles:
vankuria
(904 posts)were within days of the assassination I think John-Johns was the day of the funeral and Caroline's a few days after that. With everything going on she still managed to give her kid's birthday celebrations. She was one very strong lady.
nyquil_man
(1,443 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Beautiful little speech.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)and could not remember why she had done so.
Most speculate she was trying to retrieve the part of the president's head that was blown off.
It's impossible to even begin to comprehend what going through something like that could do do a person.
ScreamingMeemie
(68,918 posts)When everything happened with my husband, a frozen shock took over. I only remember snippets... something stupid a police officer said to me, wondering if I had left the coffee pot on...all while trying to dig a hole (literally) through the cement flooring so that I could disappear.
The nightmares started a month later.
cilla4progress
(24,713 posts)I can only imagine...
Blessings.
cilla4progress
(24,713 posts)Such a tragic family - with other losses to follow. Rose (mater familias) as well.
I was always "glad" Jackie was already gone by the time John Jr. met his untimely death.
Sweet Caroline...