Police immediately rush to the School Book Depository. And thenhe jumped back on his bike, and then he took off along with the car.I stayed there justa few secondsuntil all the commotion went by, the other cars, a lot of screaming, a lot of going on.lots of people was running aroundrunning down toward therailroad track down there, and I, again figuredthe power of suggestionI thought, they saw him and theyre catching him down there. Eddie Barker: It was going to be quite an affair. $13.00 - $16.00. Twice, other PT boats had signaled that the Tokyo Express was headed north to where the 109 was patrolling. In addition to others in the press cars were Dallas Morning News photographer Tom Dillard and the presidents assistant press secretary, Malcolm Kilduff. 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. As a sailor aboard the light cruiser Topeka (CL-67) in 1945 and 1946, this writer and his shipmates were trained in the art and science of night vision. I noticed a police car coming. By that time a medic comes into the room from President Kennedys section, and he asks if anybody knows the blood type of President Kennedy. Jacqueline Kennedy: I was lookingto the left, and I heard these terrible noises. Joe Kennedy, who hoped to secure his son a Medal of Honor, loved the idea. The men begged him not to take the risk, but he hoped to find a PT boat on a night patrol. Then I really got into just an endless narrativeI had to stay on the air. On November 2, Kennedy saw perhaps his most dramatic action on PT-59. I know that the world shares the sorrow that Mrs. Kennedy and her family bear. It was one of those moments he learned you do what youve got to do. And of course, when it did, Kennedy was kind of casually waving to people, Jackie sitting next to him, looking so pretty and prim. OSWALDS RIDE TO WORK I didnt realize I wasnt supposed to be here. And I got out of there. They turned the corner and they started coming downand the first thing I remember hearing was what I thought was firecrackers because Kennedy threw his hands up, and I heard bang, bang. There could have been a third bang, I cant swear to that one. We left the room and were ushered by a cordon of agents to cars which were awaiting us. Sounded like an elephant rifle to me. I noticed directly behind his car, very close behind his car, was the Secret Service limousine. But I dont remember that at all. On May 2, the 175th Infantrys 3rd Battalion encountered elements of the Soviet 6th Guards Cavalry Division on the Elbe River. Lieutenant Day: We were working on the fingerprints and so forth of the area where the shooting occurred. [Gov. At 2 a.m. Kennedy noted a vague silhouette of vessel approaching in the darkness. But even so, gosh, in those days, it was rare when the president of the United States was in your town.I said, Look, in my hometown, I want a public meetingwe can go right outside the Texas Hotel where hell be spending the night, we will assemble the crowd in that big parking lot out there., Boy, the night before, it rained. What I really want to know, he wrote, is where the hell were you when the destroyer hove into sight, and exactly what were your moves?. The march marked a memorable moment in a century-long crusade for black equality. Kennedy eventually broke up with Arvad, but the imbroglio left him depressed and exhausted. I was just answering the phones on the city desk when we got this call, and this woman said, Is there somebody there who can give me a ride to Dallas? And I said, Well, you know, lady, this is not the taxi, and the presidents been shot. She said, Well, I heard it on the radio, and they say my son is the one who shot him. And it was Lee Harvey Oswalds mother. The Tokyo Express steamed through Blackett Strait and unloaded 70 tons of supplies and 900 troops on Kolombangara. Kennedy, they said, was hell-bent on redeeming himself and getting revenge on the Japanese. There was a very slight crease in the box, where the rifle could have lain at the same angle that the shots were fired from. Agent Hill: I jumped from the car, realizing that something was wrong, ran to the presidential limousine. The alternative to civil rights legislation was civil strife that would injure the national well-being, embarrass the country before the world and jeopardize the Kennedy presidency. In mid-October, the 29th loaned the 116th Infantry to the 30th Division, and it joined in the American effort to capture Aachen against a resolute enemy defense. One of them told me I could help them. I was bent over under the weight of Agent Youngbloods body, toward Mrs. Johnson and Sen. [Ralph W.] Yarborough. 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. She had on a little white practical nurses uniformand she had these big, black horn-rimmed glasses. He did help to further the civil rights movement, but most of the legislature he initiated did not become law during his presidency. In his remarks to the massive audience, which was nearly exhausted by the long afternoon of oratory, King had spoken for five minutes from his prepared text when he extemporaneously began to preach in the familiar cadence that had helped make him so effective a voice in the movement. And if I wrapped the thing up, its likely to mess up the powder or prints that are on there. 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. After a five-day break, he ordered the 29th with two other divisions to race into Brittany to seize the port of Brest, one of Frances largest harbors. Mary took the picture and fell on the ground and of course there were more shots. I took her down to where the president was speaking, remained with her during the speech and accompanied she and the president back up to thefifth floorremained on that floor until we left, went downstairs, got into the motorcade, and departed the hotel for the airport to leave Fort Worth for Dallas. Squad Leader We were on the 12th floor, and so we were kind of watching [Commerce Street]. But his fury and grief at the loss of two men sent him on a dangerous quest to get even. Corporal. Assigned in March to a cushy post in Miami, he joked, Once you get your feet upon the desk in the morning, the heavy work of the day is done.. Arriving in July 1942, he plunged into two months of studying navigation, gunnery, and strategy. But then suddenly Gov. It was delivered to the Navy on . Overloaded, the gunboat struggled to pull away, but eventually it sped off in classic PT style, with Marines clinging to gun mounts. 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. John F. Kennedy's PT-109 Disaster By Thomas Fleming The most famous collision in U.S. Navy history occurred at about 2:30 a.m. on August 2, 1943, a hot, moonless night in the Pacific. 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. The family patriarch Joseph Kennedy relied on a few well-placed connections to help his second eldest son. The president and his attorney general brother, Bobby, discussed what he should say in an extemporaneous talk should no text be ready. Captain Alan Goodrich Kirk, head of the Office of Naval Intelligence, had been the naval attach in London before the war when Joe Kennedy had served as ambassador to the Court of St. Jamess. When other civil rights leaders at the meeting explained that the August 28 march would occur regardless of White House support, the Kennedys tried to ensure its success. 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. Stripped to his underwear, Kennedy walked along a coral reef that snaked far out into the sea, perhaps nearly to the strait. [2] So I just picked it up bythe strap and the stock, and I decided Id carry it like that down, and go through a few reporters and show it to her. As we got in the lobby, almost on the inside of the first floor, this policeman asked me where the stairway is. 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. Everything he did up until he was in the water was the wrong thing.. Letter From MHQ, Spring 2011. I came over the backs of the seats, and I hung my right ankle in between the seats and in scuffling with him to get him under controlI pulled a leg muscle in my right ankle. 29th Div Association Frosted Beer Glass with Handle. Well when I got off at the third floor, I was shocked. I called the switchboard in Dallas, asked for the line to be open to Washington and remain open continuously. We found one good palm print on top of that box, which Oswald was sitting on. Now, Im saying: Im the luckiest guy in the world. On April 14, 1943, having completed PT training, Kennedy arrived on Tulagi, at the southern end of the Solomon Islands. John F. Kennedy was born in the master bedroom on the second floor of 83 Beals Street, Brookline, Massachusetts. (Signaling his unaltered conviction that the bomb throwersas Vice President Lyndon Johnson called uncompromising liberalswould do more to retard than advance a civil rights bill, Kennedy jokingly advised against including Reuther in the delegation that would see Ike.) 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. by Joseph Balkoski. Their stories and others exploded in newspapers, with dramatic accounts of Kennedys exploits. Agent Hill: As we came out of the curve and began to straighten up, I was viewing the area which looked to be a park. On April 24, 1944, it was the first US division to cross the Elbe River. We will have to take it down there to the mortuary and have an autopsy. I said, No, we are not. And he said, We have a law here you have to comply with it., With that Dr. [George] Burkley walked in, and I said: Doctor, this man is from some health unit in town. [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. P.T. Bill Newman: We were just on the ground probably twothreefour minutes. About 9:25 I received word from Special Agent Duncanthat the president requested Mrs. Kennedy to come to the mezzanine, where he was about to speak. Kennedy and crew on the 109 stayed in reserve with a few other boats to protect against counterattack by lingering as the attacking boats withdrew. Pulling strings, Joe persuaded the magazine to let Readers Digest publish a condensation, which the tony New Yorker never did. Among the sixty-plus U.S. Army divisions that participated in the campaign, only one other division had more losses. Before that, the militia units comprising the 29th Division had performed valorous service in all of Americas wars, from the renowned Maryland 400 at the Battle of Long Island in 1776 to the Stonewall Brigade in the Civil War. With allegations of police mishandling of the suspect swirling, Chief Jesse Curry brings Oswald to meet the media. Come back towards me, turned around and went back.towards Patton. He signed the medal certificate on the same day that he was sworn in. Special Agent in Charge Kellerman came outside and said, Get the White House. I asked Special Agent Lawson for the local number in Dallas of the White House switchboard, which he gave to me. I didnt think nothing about it; you know, the police are nice and friendly. OSWALD INTERROGATION BEGINS 2:20 P.M. Sherwood Hallman of Company F, 175th Infantry, gained the Medal of Honorboth posthumously. 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. I turned to him and I said, Did you shoot President Kennedy? And he said, You find out for yourself.. In 1960, Kennedy won the presidential election by a very narrow margin but carried the electoral college 303219, beating Richard Nixon to become the 35th president of the United States. Life turned down Herseys literary experimentprobably because of its length and novelistic touchesbut the New Yorker published the story in June. And that maybe he had thought, Gee, I better duck. You know, playfully, playing a little game in conjunction with the motorcycle backfire, but then when the second shot rang out, that canceled any thoughts I had of a motorcycle backfire. The first part of that film shows me walking up towards him. An estimated 250,000 mourners line up to pay their respects. You know, then, there were pictures later on of me climbing out the back. The next thought that I had isthis is history and upon these words youll be judged as a reporter and as a human being. Harold Marney, stationed at the forward turret, was the first to see the destroyer. So then, the car proceeded on, rather jerkily, toward the intersection. Older brother Joe joined the Navy and was training to be a pilot. An officer who leads from the front and takes care of his men, Kennedy gave one of his wounded sailors a life jacket and then proceeded to tow the hapless sailor whereby Kennedy had to secure the tow rope in his teeth so he could have his arms free to swim. THE MOTORCADE HEADS TO PARKLAND With dawns early light Kennedy was able to finally survey the extent of the chaos from the night before. We integrated it. I said, I want to talk to Henry Wade, but I need a telephone. He said, Ill get you a phone. So, he goes over to Henry Wade and he said: Hey, this guys from New York. Kennedy ordered everyone back aboard the part of the PT-109 still afloat. Small arms rounds were hitting the wooden boat and bouncing off the armor plates Kennedy had installed. The journey took five exhausting hours, as they fought a strong current. Why wasnt Kennedys radioman below deck monitoring the airwaves? 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. 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. The presidential party touches down in Dallas at 11:40 a.m. We broke and all ran up there, and then President Kennedy headed straight for the fence and started walking along the fence shaking hands with people.I was always a little quicker than other guys. They were saying: We think that theyre beating the hell out of him, you know. This man kept walking, and the police car going real slow now, real slow. 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. 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. Around 0200 with. Malcolm Kilduff: We went back to Air Force One, and by that time, Lyndon Johnson had contacted the attorney general, of coursethere was no love lost between Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy. The tremendous impact had thrown Kennedy into the cockpit where he landed on his bad back. The 29th was reconstituted in the National Guard in 1921, assigned to the III Corps, and allotted to the states of Maryland and Virginia, and the District of Columbia. But I know there were two bangs very close together, and I thought they were firecrackers because his arms were going into the air, and it was way off to my left and above. I can remember seeing the car turn right onto Houston Street off of Main, going the one short block and turning left on Elm. 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. One of his officers argued that this was suicide; the Japanese would fire on them from both banks. I put my right foot on the left rear step of the automobile, and I had a hold of the handgrip, when the car lurched forward. There was a large amount of blood in the lower abdominal area. 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! Connally was yelling, Oh! In early 1941, the "Blue and Gray" division was reactivated for service and became part of the first Allied assault on the Normandy beaches on D-Day (June 6, 1944), the massive invasion of western Europe . Im in the district attorneys office. And I figured this little guy, Jack Ruby, is really pretty connected.I did the interview, I hung up the phone, and I went about my business. And I said: They killed him! 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. People were scrambling to get telephones. Ship at two oclock! Marney shouted. But he seemed to be going along with the joke, you know. We had representatives of the labor unions as well as of the professions and the large businesses. Jacqueline Kennedy: You know, there is always noise in a motorcade, and there are always motorcycles beside us, a lot of them backfiring. Homicide Captain Will Fritz and Lieutenant Day confront Marina Oswald with the rifle. Wesley Frazier recounts the ride to the Texas School Book Depository, departing at 7:20 a.m. Wesley Frazier: I was sitting there eating my breakfastmother just happened to glance up and saw this man, you know, who was Lee looking in the window for me and she said, Who is that? And I said, That is Lee. He just walked around there on the carport right there close to the door and so I told her I had to go, so I went in there and brushed my teeth right quick and come through there and I just walked on out and we got in the car.When I got in the car I have a kind of habit of glancing over my shoulder and so at that time I noticed there was a package laying on the back seatand I said, Whats the package, Lee? And he said, Curtain rods, and I said, Oh, yes, you told me you was going to bring some today. so I didnt think any more about it. It was too small to do anything with, there was no print there. And I just remember seeing that. The vice-presidential car was then about three car lengths behind President Kennedys car, with the presidential follow-up car intervening. As president, Kennedy would appoint White to the Supreme Court. Kennedy would later embrace the myths of PT-109 and ride them into the White House. Detective Bentley: Captain Talbert and I went to the Texas Theatre. We are hit! I have driven that car many times, and I never cease to be amazed even to this day with the weight of the automobile plus the power that is under the hood; we just literally jumped out of the goddamn road. I jumped from the follow-up car, ran up and got on top of the rear portion of the presidential automobile to be close to Mrs. Kennedy in the event that someone attempted to grab her from the crowd or throw something in the car. He was helped from the automobile to the stretcher. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last! As the marchers dispersed, many walked hand in hand singing the movements anthem: We shall overcome, we shall overcome, We shall overcome, some day. And then I asked for Special Agent in Charge Jerry Behns office. I said, Governor, dont worry; everything is going to be all right. And he nodded his head.By this time the stretcher is there. And everybody agreed: Oh yeah, no questions. Within the command ranks of the navy, however, Kennedys role in the collision got a close look. LBJ IS INFORMED KENNEDY IS DEAD AND RETURNS TO LOVE FIELD Lo, freeing the U.S. First Army to launch a devastating breakthroughof the German lines in Operation Cobra. He later said that he, too, radioed a warning. Besides, it was a mild transgression compared to the blunders committed by other PT crews, whom Annapolis grads called the Hooligan Navy. And then he sort ofput his hand to his forehead and fell in my lap. I didnt know he was living away from his family. Agent Hill: Between Love Field and downtown Dallas, on the right-hand side of the street there was a group of people with a long banner which said, Please, Mr. President, stop and shake our hands. And the president requested the motorcade to stop, and he beckoned to the people and asked them to come and shake his hand, which they did. 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. The 116th Infantry landed in the first wave at 0630 hours on the western half of the beach and met unexpectedly fierce resistance from German troops entrenched on the coastal bluffs. The 29th was made up of the 115th, 116th, and 175th Infantry Regiments, the 110th, 111th, 224th, and 227th Field Artillery Battalions, and the 121st Engineer Combat Battalion. One of the crew, 25-year-old Andrew Jackson Kirksey, became convinced he was going to die and unnerved others with his morbid talk. He had been running on only one engine, and PT captains well knew that abruptly shoving the throttles to full power often killed the engines. Connally and President Kennedy had been shot. He would later go on to state, "There's nothing in the book about a situation like this. It is on wheelsand I stayed inside the door of the emergency room most of the time while the doctors were working on the presidents body. Arvad had spent time reporting in Berlin and had grown friendly with Hermann Gring, Heinrich Himmler, and other prominent Nazisties that raised suspicions she was a spy. 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. Among the tricks to try out: telling the story from the perspective of the people involved and lingering on their feelings and emotionssomething frowned upon in journalism of the day. 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. 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 lost my footing, and I had to run about three or four more steps before I could get back up in the car. Defended by thousands of fanatical German paratroopers,the Americans took more than three weeks to subdue the enemy and seize the port, but by then the Germans had destroyed all the port facilities and rendered the harbor useless unless the Americans could commit months of repair work. Herseys narrative devoted remarkably few words to the PT-109 collision itselfat least in part because the writer was fascinated by what Kennedy and his men did to survive. I was there on that balcony at the Trade Mart, waiting for the president to come there to the luncheon. The 11 men leaped into the water, including McMahon, who had been badly burned as he fought his way to the deck through the fire in the engine room. I can hardly talk about it. At about 15 minutes before he was scheduled to appear, I looked out and people were already gathering in rain gear, some with umbrellasand I thought: Oh, what a mess. Police locate the rifle on the 6th floor of the Depository, and Police Lieutenant Carl Day inspects for fingerprints. I think I described it in my statement as though someone was shooting a revolver into a hard object it seemed to have some type of an echo. But Kennedys response was more than visceral. Young John F. Kennedys future was one of privilege and opportunity with his graduation from Harvard University in 1940. The 101 was a 78-foot Higgins boat which was one of two variants the Navy was fielding along with the slightly larger Elco PTs. Detective L.C. Ike Pappas: I was trying to get to Henry Wades office and up comes this guy in a black pin-striped suitand a little fedora.little stubby little guy.He comes up to me, and he says, Are you a reporter? I said: Yeah, Im a reporter. Back and stomach pain made sleep impossible. 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. Deputy Chief [George] Lumpkin of the Dallas Police Department was standing a few feet from me. In the seconds after the motorcade turns left onto Elm St. and before the triple underpass, the assassin strikes. The city editor had sent all the reporters to Dallas and there wasnt anybody to answer the phones, and thats when this unbelievable thing happened to me. 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. John F. Kennedy was promoted to Lieutenant and continued as the skipper of the PT-59 but by 1944 the injuries sustained with the collision with the Japanese destroyer sent him stateside to receive treatment and physical therapy at Castle Hot Springs, a military hospital in Arizona. Now, Ruby steps out from behind this officerhe steps out, he makes one long step.and coming down with that pistol. Kennedy, whod been on the Harvard swim team, took charge of him and pulled him back to the boat. He had previously attended the London School of Economics and was entering graduate school at Stanford University in California when he paused, with all of America to intently listen to President Roosevelts galvanizing declaration following the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor ending with a date which will live in infamy. 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. The navys task: Stop enemy attempts to reinforce and resupply these garrisons. 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 ). It was just a frightening noise, and it came from the right. He said people will forget that within a few days and there would be another president. memo: review of selected items in the lee harvey oswald file regarding allegations of castro cuban involvement in the john f. kennedy assassination. 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. He said, Well, we better do it anyway. I picked the phone up then and called Mr. Aiken, at the warehouse, and got the boys name and general description and telephone number and address at Irving. I said: Carousel Club? The end was in sight; for the next five weeks, the 29ers mopped up scattered pockets of German resistance and exerted administrative control over thousands of displaced persons fleeing westward into the U.S. Armys operational area. When you do that, that stops the pistol from firing. 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. My plan was to get a shot there and then back up the ramp on my side of the car. So I leaned out the window, the same window from which the shots were fired, looked down, and I saw Sheriff Bill Decker and Captain Will Fritz. He was the youngest man and first Catholic to hold that office. The motorcade just went by. And that was the first that I knew, and by then, I was getting a message from the newsroom that there had been shots fired. 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