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THE MAKING OF A JIMMIE 2,
By G. Macleod Ross
Aftermath ,
This book, "The Death of a
PPresident': olds a fa c tin
esid unf sd �a g
r ►
study of human psychology; of
the differing, reactions of a var.
iety of characters following the
shock at the devastation .which
fro : bullets --could contrive. At
arklarid HosPitel• there was
chaos! Some lost their heads
completely; shine: acted as though
they, head pRen l oleTaa xed•, 'scene
became anaemic; sore c�mniit..
ted acts of which they retain,
ed no memory a few hour.t
later; others cony red25.ounces
of hard liquor an( remained stone
sober;, for some, sedatives com-
pletely lost their potency. «Foy
three days men were to become
tr sparent". All were to div
cover that.a man under stress
can really be many men.
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tho..se, .nn
ostly 1ren, but ut
some women, one.waitransmuted
intoheroine. a "ue
a r . Ja line Bou.
Vier , Kennedy knew at once what •
she • would and what she' would.
not de. Thi tically unaop,
h1 ticated girl, brought up in
.a. sheltered way of life, sudden---
;; ly transforined herself into ins
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flexiblesteel. It Was as though
she suddenly .remised that, the
mantle bad fallen on her, as .
First Lady,auid that the dignity
n,of the highoffice: of President
must `i? uP c
. eheI unfl
h
d
...
y
This was 'to be her finest hour.
The ' i"inmediate effect of. her,
fit sthand invalyement in the Wo•
0
d. 'ic 1 • WO -
Mortal w . ed om
411x1 � t
`her husband was to eat w ;her
with a belligerent defiance.
She had come Prepared• tear
possible violence in Dallas and
it Was but natural• that, for the
inhant, she 'should hold the. pee•
plea of Dallas responsible:. For
in- the midst of this absolute
breakdown of mental coherence.
by ,all and sundry around, her.'
-no one l ineW the xtent of thie
dastardly ambush and this, was,,
hardly the moment for an, en
quiry. The President had come
bringing peace. "They" had dar.
ed. him -to =come:.".They" had
shot him ,down as he rode de-
fenceless in r their midst. So,
let them ,'see her in all" her,.
gory majesty. .Let them see and..
let them ponder. It was as
.though, by her insistence not
to change her blood -caked clo-
thes; in Dallas, on Airforcp.One',
or in Washington, she would' ex-
tract some modicum of shame,
some tittle of remorse from the
stony hearts of the people of
Texas and Dallas in particular,
and from those charged with
preventing such an act, .11t gen-
eral. Let them see what they
have done!
While Jacqueline Kennedy
clung close beside her,.husband's
body, refusing to leave it •until
uA
•A
FW
rpside
it was finally brrought Koine,- the
scene at, Parkland Hospital in
'Dallas, beggared description.
SHOCK O� AND -STRESS
Shock and stress aftect...inen
in varying ways. For the .niaj
ortty It .should have stirred the
brain t.o adumbrate
towith
ot
c m
• promishig•de ston But the
t
afternoon of November 2214 it
Titas a surprising faet that no
single 'deader was' thrown up..No
'one man steppectinto the breach
and took charge, --It: was unques.
tiona'blx ,the -second in command
who should • have risen to the
occasion; brought' succour to the
bereaved,and improvised a plan
On the spot to deal, with , the
sudden change in the course of
events.' But leader 4 was :there
none! .
As the seconds seeped away
in the aseptic rooms and cor-
ridors of the hospital, factions
were spawned.' Among,',the -re-
tainers, the Secret Service men,
the official family, there was an
immediate division of the loyal-
ties. Those who reasoned they
had pledged their lives to the
office of the President of the
United: States, formed a clique
around L.B.J. Him they virt.
ually incarcerated in a darkened
room, until it- was decided by
the S.S. men to spirit him away
to Airforce One in ah unmarked
car. Arrived there, the emerg-
ing President so far forgot his
lines = so -.little had he ever
remotely considered, the sudden
accession of the Vice President
,to President - that, though he
e MQ
'tut
had, ass viee, already taken the
Qath of allegiance to- the United
States, he pow basted himself
finding the appropriate leggy.
authority to�ear
himself in
a
second time,
The others of his 'family),
whom:. John Kennedy had bound
to his person with; bonds of at
,,,ection and admiration, theyn
ow
r 8 Y
refused to acknowledge an other•
. ,
.
Master until 'their' President
had been decently, removed to
Washington and buried. .•
There was another unforeseen
occurrence when, after the first'
tinned Press flash at 1.04 p.m.
had alerted the ,cduntry and the`
world, eves; y 'telephone'line be..
came' overloaded and it was bin.
possible tocommunicate either,,
into. or , nut of any of the 'lines,
at •Parkland' hospital. This was
a phenomenon which no one had
anticipated, yet there had been
set up a most elaborate comm.
untcations system, predicated on
the President nevereing more
than five Minutes from a live
phone. There can be little doubt
that it was this sudden comm-
unicational dislocation, so esst
ential to the ,,only man empow-
° ered to. press -the 'button', which
increased the alarms and des-
pondency of those aware of the
ever present need to safeguard
the integrity of the Country.
• '* * * *
r Something must be added for,
those who "wonder why". Why
did J.B.K. refuse to .change her
clothes? Is, it reallynecessary
to analyse her agonised rebel-
lious mind? "They-" had killed
her husband in an ambush.
What could . be more craven?
The assault had been cunning;
something which only thedregs
of .humanity, well on the way
to reversion to the animal,
would have done. Let ,"thein"
see her. Covered in gore. Let
"them" realise the enormity of
what "they" had done. ,Twelve
hours later, the Mood would be
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Now, all the massive protective
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Now her' electtorifiedthein brain could
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and precision how her le.st.fleet.
Ing moments as First Lady
might ,be employed to ensure .a
fitting tribute to ,her beloved.
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count, so brutal Haat all warts
showed? She may have been Mo-
tivated by a desire to "show
the world" exactly how this
atrocity against society had oc-
curred and thus forestall'' apo•
cryphal fables.
But , how strange you say, She
never troubled to read the book
when completed, though she com-
missioned it; chose the author
because her husband had spok-
en well of him on one occastof.
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