Jacqueline kennedy death photos
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Written By: Ben Cosgrove
Many decades after the grisly fact, the assassination of John F. Kennedy remains one of the few unmistakably signal events from the second half of the 20th century. Other moments some thrilling (the moon landing, the fall of the Berlin Wall), others horrifying (the killings of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, the Challenger explosion) have secured their places in the history books and in the memories of those who witnessed them. But nothing in the latter part of &#;the American century&#; defined an era as profoundly as the rifle shots that split the warm Dallas air on Nov. 22, , and the sudden death of the year-old president.
Here, features photographs (some never published in LIFE magazine) from the funeral held three days after John F. Kennedy was killed: Nov. 25, , which was also his son John Jr.&#;s third birthday.
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&#;A woman knelt and gently kissed the flag,&#; LIFE magazine reported of the scen
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In the final months of her life, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis received a Valentine’s note from a former lover, architect Jack Warnecke. The former first lady had rarely been out of his thoughts, he told her.
According to a new biography — Jackie: Public, Private, Secret by J. Randy Taraborrelli, which was exclusively excerpted in this week's issue of PEOPLE — the note led to a reunion at her apartment several months before her death on May 19, , from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at age
Three decades earlier, Jackie had fallen in love with the architect, who designed the memorial grave site for President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery.
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Years later, Warnecke shared his memories with Taraborrelli — with one caveat. Out of loyalty to the famously private Jackie, Warnecke asked that everything remain under wr
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Written By: Ben Cosgrove
&#;Now in the sunny freshness of a Texas morning,&#; LIFE magazine wrote in its Nov. 29, , issue, alongside the first photo in this gallery, &#;with roses in her arms and a luminous smile on her lips, Jacqueline Kennedy still had one hour to share the buoyant surge of life with the man at her side.&#;
It was a wonderful hour [LIFE wrote, just a week after JFK&#;s assassination]. Vibrant with confidence, crinkle-eyed with an all-embracing smile, John F. Kennedy swept his wife with him into the exuberance of the throng at Dallas&#; Love Field. This was an act in which Jack Kennedy was superbly human. Responding to the warmth his own genuine warmth evoked in others, he met his welcomers joyously, hand to hand and heart to heart. For him this was all fun as well as politics. For his shy wife, surmounting the grief of her infant son&#;s recent death, this mingling demanded a grace and gallantry she would soon need again.
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