Bob Jackson: The scene at the police station was just bedlamyou couldnt movethere were so many people in the hallsit was hard to shoot pictures. He had no palpable pulse. After these initial observations we opened his shirt, coat, listened very briefly to his chest, heard a few sounds, which we felt to be heartbeats, and then proceeded with the remainder of the examination. I reached over and grabbed Ruby byhis left shoulder and shoved back and down on him, but by the time that happened, the officers had swarmed on him and crushed him to the ground, and so I released him and returned my attention to Oswald. Later, floatplane bombs bracketed another PT boat and sent the 109 skittering away in frantic evasive maneuvers. The ambulance was there in a matter of minutes, and also, the intern from Parkland that we had down there every weekend working Saturdays and Sundayswas there immediately and started working on him. And I was just so nervous, they took me offwith the children, and Julie Benell fixed both of the boys a ham sandwich and tried to calm me down with coffee, and I didnt drink coffee. No one else in the car saw the rifle, and I dont think I could have reacted fast enough to get a picture even if I had film in the camera. I noticed that Lee Oswald was not among these boys. He jumps out, shoots him right in front of me.I heard footsteps, and then boom! During that time, Lieutenant Commander John Duncan Bulkeley visited the school. Jean Lollis Hill: We were standing on the curb, and I jumped to the edge of the street and yelled, Hey, we want to take your picture! to him. 29 Oct. . And it was his fathers media savvy that helped turn an embarrassing disaster into a tale worthy of Homer. Hit the ground! So, we hit the ground, covered our two children, thinking that we were in danger. Dallas County Deputy Sheriff Luke Mooney describes finding the 6th-floor snipers nest. That key city, which Gerhardts men had been within sight of for three months, fell to the29th on the first day of the assault. MOTORCADE INTO DOWNTOWN DALLAS 11:45 A.M.12:29 P.M. After the Hersey story came out, a friend congratulated him and called the article a lucky break. I asked him what had happened. He was lauded a hero for which he said "it was involuntary, they sank my boat". Patrol Torpedo boat 109 was idling in Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. Kennedy couldnt risk attempting to canoe with the natives for fear of being seen by a Japanese patrol boat or plane. TO PERPETUATE THE FRIENDSHIPS WE CHERISH; TO KEEP ALIVE THE SPIRIT THAT NEVER KNEW DEFEAT; TO GLORIFY OUR DEAD, AND TO FURTHER KEEP BEFORE OUR COUNTRY, THE RECORD OF THE 29TH DIVISION IN ALL THE WARS; WE ASSOCIATE OURSELVES IN AN ORGANIZATION KNOWN AS THE 29TH DIVISION ASSOCIATION, THE STONEWALL BRIGADE MUSEUM (116th Infantry Regiment). No, no, no!, Bill Newman: We were there just a few moments probably less than five minutes before the presidents limousine came down Main and made a right onto Houston. The 29th entered Germany on October 1, 1944, holding an extended front north of the historic city of Aachen. So, that was the decision made by the attorney general, that he should be sworn inby Judge Sarah Hughes, which, of course, was another slight irony. 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. The goal was to smash through the German lines in the Rhineland, cross the Roer River at Jlich, and drive on to the Rhine by Christmas 1944. Kennedy won handily. Though the boats patrolled at night, no evidence suggests they were trained to see long distances in darknessa skill called night vision. Kennedy left for a political trip to Dallas on November 21, without providing an answer to their question. After V-E Day, the 29th Division garrisoned the German port of Bremen, the point from which thousands of American troops eventually returned to the States. How does he look? I think one broadcastersaid that Lee Harvey Oswald is in custody of the police departmenthe looked all right when he went in there, they wouldnt guarantee how he would look after he had been in custody of the Dallas police for a couple of hours, which intimated to me that they thought we were mistreating the prisoner. Moreover, winning agreement for a route running from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial precluded the demonstration at the Capitol that the president feared would antagonize Congress. Jacqueline Kennedy: You know, there is always noise in a motorcade, and there are always motorcycles beside us, a lot of them backfiring. Willie Price: The president was laying forward. Aside from a 17-year hiatus between 1968 and 1985, the 29th Division has existed continuously since 1917 as a component of the National Guard. And Ill furnish your doctor when he does the autopsy for the trial. And I got Ward back on there and I said, Tell him to take him on back.. Abraham Zapruder: As the car came in line almost I believe it was almost in line, I was standing up here and I was shooting through a telephoto lens.I heard the first shot, and I saw the president lean over and grab himself. Description: Upon a disc with a 1/8 inch (.32cm) green border 2 1/2 inches (6.35cm) in diameter overall, a taeguk, the curves being circles of half the radius of the disc, with the heraldic dexter half being blue and the sinister half gray. 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. We wanted to be sure it was over. Still, Kennedy apparently couldnt shake the deaths of his two men in the Solomons. He later went on to serve three terms in House of Representatives, followed by a term as senator from 1953 to 1961. I heard Connally say, Theyre going to kill us all! or shoot us all. And then, I heard Jackie Kennedy scream out, Oh, God! organization dedicated to keeping the history of the 29th Infantry Fifteen days later, he took command of PT-109. By the time Kennedy launched his political career in 1946, he clearly recognized the PR value of the PT-109 story. Darkness and time took the place of a mind in his skull.. Warfield had to answer for mistakes of his own from that wild night. Kennedy gave the order to abandon ship. I was not aware of that at the time. 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 . 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. The following day, the problem would be Lyndon Johnsons. Their rescue took time to engineer, but at dawn on August 8, six days after the 109 was hit, a PT boat pulled into the American base carrying the 11 survivors. The planes often appeared without warning, dropped a flare, and then followed with bombs. 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. Connally always looked very, very handsome, and Kennedy, of course, was a guy that could have been a male model and sold clothes very nicely. After leaving the Navy, Kennedy worked as a journalist for several years. I contacted the administrator of the hospital and asked him to take me where I could telephone the nearest mortuary, which I did, requested that their best available casket be brought to the emergency entrance in my name immediately. Kennedy concluded that he now had to ask Congress for a major civil rights bill that would offer a comprehensive response to the problem. Joe and Jack were bitter rivals. Aboard PT-109, however, there was no sense of imminent danger. And I said: They killed him! She said: That is the man that I saw shoot the officer. She pointed out Oswald. 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! Gayle Newman: I was just numbI was just trembling. On November 16, 1944, the 29th Division joined in one of the largest U.S. Army offensives of the war to date as a component of theNinth Army. 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. Weve got, you knowget some of your friends and come by and you know, we have anything you need there, you know. Here is this guy trying to hustle me into his nightclub. Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald.. The president and his attorney general brother, Bobby, discussed what he should say in an extemporaneous talk should no text be ready. He said he had a nice family, that he admired his family, something to that effect.At one time I told him, You know you have killed the president, and this is a very serious charge. He denied it and said he hadnt killed the president. In May 1962, the division staged the large-scale Exercise Iron Dragoon, still remembered among National Guard armor exercises. I showed him a picture of him holding a rifle and wearing the pistolhe said: [Someone has taken my picture and that is my face and put a different body on it. Except for the executive officerEnsign Leonard Thom, a 220-pound former tackle at Ohio StatePT-109s crew members were all as green as Kennedy. I ascertained that Mrs. Johnson and Sen. Yarborough were all right. I said, Im going to have to announce President Kennedys death., And he said: Well.We dont know what kind of a conspiracy this might be.But I think Bird and I ought to get out of here and back to Air Force One before you make the announcement. And I said, All right. So, he said, Come on.Lets go on back to the plane.. Mr. Campbell is standing there, and I said: I have a boy over here missing. I remember seeing a bewildered look on President Kennedys face, and I can remember seeing Gov. I went to the 17th floor with Mrs. Kennedy, and I remained with Mrs. Kennedy except for one time when I was requested to come to the morgue to view the presidents body. But the Rules Committee remained a problem. Life turned down Herseys literary experimentprobably because of its length and novelistic touchesbut the New Yorker published the story in June. And then I asked for Special Agent in Charge Jerry Behns office. In the PT fleet, some blamed Crash Kennedy for the collision. Patrol Torpedo boat 109 was idling in Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands. When Joe read Herseys story, he sent his brother a letter laced with barbed criticism. And he said, Hell, he said, dont ask me. I was there on that balcony at the Trade Mart, waiting for the president to come there to the luncheon. What a tragedy what have we got him into? Then the officers gathered around there had piled on him and pushed him to the ground. She went into the private quarters of the plane. I was inside the door. Ive learned to duck, he wrote, and have learned the wisdom of the old naval doctrine of keeping your bowels open and your mouth shut, and never volunteering.. Moreover, Kennedy feared that as many as 30 Southern cities might explode in violence during the summer. The description was derived from eyewitness reports at Dealey Plaza. It was ready to fire again.I told Captain Fritz this is not the place to try to work on this gun. In fact, [at WFAA studio] Julie Benell, they interrupted her cooking show and she was cooking a Hormel Cure Eighty-one ham. The Navy crew loaded all Marines aboard, including several wounded. With only six hours to prepare, it was uncertain that his counselor and speechwriter, Ted Sorensen, would be able to deliver a polished text in time. I had a Triumph sports car in those days, and I thought, My God, I cant bring her over to Dallas in that. And so, I went to the auto editor, Bill Fosterthe car dealers always gave him a car and gas to drive for a week or two.I said, Bill, what kind of car do you have this week? And he said, Ive got a Cadillac, actually., I explained what had happened, and so the two of us went out to Arlington Heights and, sure enough, standing on the curb at the address she had given us was Lee Harvey Oswalds mother. Although only a handful were invited to attend PT training school in Melville, Rhode Island, Kennedy was among them. Among the sixty-plus U.S. Army divisions that participated in the campaign, only one other division had more losses. Ironically the Japanese destroyer didnt even realize that they had struck an enemy vessel and kept motoring forward soon out of earshot. 29th Infantry Division. (His interest in how men and women react to life-threatening pressures would later take him to Hiroshima, where he did a landmark New Yorker series about survivors of the nuclear blast.) I returned to the 17th floor and remained with Mrs. Kennedy until we departed the hospital. Kennedy, whod been on the Harvard swim team, took charge of him and pulled him back to the boat. Larry OBrien and Ted Sorensen asked the president how they could possibly get the bill past committee chairman Howard Smith, a Virginia segregationist who was determined to stop it from getting to the House floor in the 1963 session. Well, as the evening wore on, they brought Oswalds wife in and finally, Mrs. Oswald, the mother, asked Captain Fritzif he could arrange for her to see her son, and he said hed see what he could do. Theyre headed for the airport. This downgrade hinted that those high up in the chain of command did not think much of Kennedys performance on the night of August 2. Hes got to get up on that flatbed trailer and speak to that crowd in the rain. [Then] the clouds disappeared, the sun came throughbright, beautiful, sun-shining day. I think he wanted to recover his self-esteem., At least one member of the 109 felt humiliated by what happened in Blackett Straitand was surprised that Herseys story wrapped them in glory. P.T. PT-59 had to be towed to base by another boat. I lost my footing, and I had to run about three or four more steps before I could get back up in the car. The 15 boats that had left Lumbari that evening fired at least 30 torpedoes, yet hit nothing. Lyndon Johnson: When Mr. [Kenneth] ODonnell told us to get on the plane and go back to Washington, I asked about Mrs. Kennedy. Pulled out of the line for its first significant period of rest and recuperation during its time in combat, the 29th set up a headquarters in Schloss Rheydt, a castle owned by Joseph Goebbels, the notorious Nazi propaganda minister. His ability to make quick decisions under stress with the welfare of those around him would be put to the test like no other on a fateful August night in 1943. We left the room and were ushered by a cordon of agents to cars which were awaiting us. Perfect spot for them to get him. That was part of the tension that somebody would try to do something to Kennedy. Malcolm Kilduff: And then I noticed that the Secret Service car and the presidents car had started to speed up. 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. Kennedy, they said, was hell-bent on redeeming himself and getting revenge on the Japanese. I had only taken a few steps in when I saw Officer McDonald come up in the row in front of the suspect. That is all I can do. He had two 40-millimeter anti-aircraft guns installed along with an additional array heavy machine guns. But he didn't. His eyes are open and he is looking at me, and I am fairly sure he is alive. Special Agent Ready, who was working the forward portion of the right running board, did the same thing, only on the presidents side, placed his back toward the car, and viewed the people facing the president. Henry Wade: Aaron Ward was a justice of the peace at Parkland. He had slow agonal respiration, spasmodic respirations without any coordination. Senator 8 years later. The family patriarch Joseph Kennedy relied on a few well-placed connections to help his second eldest son. Agent Kellerman: I just leaned sideways to [the driver] and said: Lets get out of here! Subscribe to receive our weekly newsletter with top stories from master historians. It wasnt the best place to find a fingerprint to start with. Kennedy, of course, was the protagonist. And every one of them left to go there. And just as I turned and looked at him, I could see a piece of his skull and I remember it was flesh colored. [On the second floor] I saw the officer almost directly in the doorway of the lunchroom facing Lee Harvey Oswald. Mr. Kellerman came out of the emergency room about that time, took the telephone, and told Special Agent in Charge Behn that we had had a double tragedy; that both Gov. All of the dignitaries in the city were going to be on hand for the speech. 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. They had shared a few adventures in Berlin and Munich. But they were not the only patrol stumbling around in the dark. In a few minutesthis man put his arms up, leaned over, and he drew back, and he stepped back about two steps. I ask for your help and Gods. For a moment I thought it was, you know, like you say, Oh, he got me! when you hear a shotyouve heard these expressions and then I sawI dont believe the president is going to make jokes like this, but before I had a chance to organize my mind, I heard a second shot and then I saw his head opened up and the blood and everything came out. Another gentleman came into this little doctors roomhe represented himself to be from the Health Department or commission. Hewanted to pay the Japanese back. Kennedy described those weeks as packed with a great deal in the way of death. According to the 59s crew, their commander volunteered for the riskiest missions and sought out danger. The attorney general said that he would like to look into the matter of whether the oath of office as president should be administered to me immediately or after we returned to Washington, and that he would call back. Dr. Jenkins: However, for a period of minutesafter we knew he was dead, we continued attempted resuscitative maneuvers.I think as we pronounced the president dead, those in attendance who were there just sort of melted away. And he said, Can you get me some Macanudo cigars? He loved a good cigar occasionally. That was followed by a breakfast at the hotel in the big dining room with a large crowd of people there, local people, and the president, after introducing Mrs. Kennedy and having a few remarks, made his speech. She didnt express much interest in what was going to happen to her son. He pulled the revolver from his waist. The 29th Division sailed for England in September 1942 aboard the famous Cunard liners Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth. And police were saying, Freeze! I went down on one kneeto continue broadcasting. American Campaign Medal That brought the number of men aboard to 13a number that spooked superstitious sailors. Jack also made friends with his squadrons commanding officer, 24-year-old Alvin Cluster, one of the few Annapolis graduates to volunteer for the PTs. I asked him did he have fun playing with them babies and he chuckled and said he did. He said people will forget that within a few days and there would be another president. Just as the policeman gottowards the front of the careven with the wheel on the drivers side, this man shot the policeman. 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. The 29th Division crossed the historic Rhine River on March 31, 1945, and joined in the Allied Expeditionary Forces blitzkrieg across central Germany. 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. Now, Im saying: Im the luckiest guy in the world. He tells me we cant remove this body. The doctor became a little enraged; he said: We are removing it. There had been some nasty statements from people in Dallas about Kennedy. The presidents been shot. Mr. Dealey had written an unkind editorial about him, saying he ought to be riding Carolines tricycle or something like that. Kennedy discovered along with the provisions a letter from the coast watcher commander of the New Zealand camp. He instead cut a message on a coconut that read. Then, we heard two more shots closer togetherI just looked straight up ahead of me because thats the direction the sound came from, and I saw two black men leaning out of the window of the fifth floor, looking directly up above them. Ignoring enemy fire from shore, Kennedy and his crew pulled alongside and dragged the Marines aboard. 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. COFFIN BEARING JFK ARRIVES AT BETHESDA NAVAL HOSPITAL 5:25 P.M. (6:25 P.M. EST). We could hardly get this car outwe heard several people rolling their windows down and saying, Kill that S.O.B! We were not aware that we had arrested the person who had assassinated President Kennedy and wounded Gov. John whom friends and family called Jack, wanted in on the action too. Instructors warned that in a war zone, PTs must never leave harbor in daylight. He was wheeled immediately into, I think, emergency room No. I took a little powderand put it on the knob of the bolt, that you pull the bolt back to eject the shell. Motorcade recollections from the governors wife, Nellie Connally, in the presidential limousine; Agent Hill, directly behind the presidential limousine; and TV cameraman Couch and newspaper photographer Bob Jackson in a press pool convertible eight cars behind. Such missions took a toll on Jacks weakened body. I saw all of that in a flash. No one aboard PT-109 knew how to use night vision. At 2 a.m. Kennedy noted a vague silhouette of vessel approaching in the darkness. As we rounded the corner, I tossed it to Jim Featherstone, a reporterhe reached for it and the wind caught the envelope and blew it out of his hand or away from him, and he had to kind of chase it. The goal was to smash through the German lines in the Rhineland, cross the Roer River at Jlich, and drive on to theRhine by Christmas 1944. About 3 a.m., on the trip back to Vella Lavella, the boats gas tanks ran dry. Jim Wright: President Kennedy and I and John Connally had a discussion on Air Force One.There had appeared in the Dallas News that morning a scurrilous ad calling him a traitor and other unflattering things.He had seen that. Graves are assigned to escort Oswald to the county jail. We radioed the dispatcherthat we had a suspect in the shooting of Officer Tippit. I produce mine. Thanks to Herseys evocative portrait and Joe Kennedys machinations, Hellman writes, the real-life Kennedy would merge with the Kennedy of Herseys text to become a popular myth.. Thats when the switch in the caskets was made. Marilyn Sitzman: As I came down that street Mr. Zapruder and a couple of the other women were standing up on the [grassy knoll]. As we got in the lobby, almost on the inside of the first floor, this policeman asked me where the stairway is. By that time, we [Star-Telegram] had 17 reporters on the scene. It was too small to do anything with, there was no print there. The miniscule German towns through which the 29th foughtSiersdorf, Drboslar, Aldenhoven, Bourheim, Koslar, and otherswould be remembered by the 29ers as some of the most brutal fighting they experienced in World War II. He jumped back into the nightlife scene and assorted romantic dalliances. We found one good palm print on top of that box, which Oswald was sitting on. One of his officers argued that this was suicide; the Japanese would fire on them from both banks. On November 2, Kennedy saw perhaps his most dramatic action on PT-59. And then the thirdrang out. In the afternoon, a frantic plea reached the PT base from an 87-man Marine patrol fighting 10 times that many Japanese on Choiseul. Dr. McClelland: About the time that Dr. Baxter and I were gonna walk around the head of the gurney and leave the room behind everybody else, the door came open, and Father Hubert came inso we just kind of melted back up against the wallwhile he gave the president his last rites. Further, as cold and wet weather set in, the 29th Division lost hundreds of men due to exposure andtrench foot. As I first got over in front of the White Plaza Hotel the people of course were jamming the sidewalks. Police Dispatcher: Attention all squads. The man, he just walked calmly, fooling with his gun. They didnt stop. In May, as black demonstrators, including many high school and some elementary school children, marched in defiance of a city ban, police and firemen attacked the marchers with police dogs that bit several demonstrators and high-pressure fire hoses that knocked marchers down and tore off their clothes. I knew theyd put him in one of those vehiclesI thought that probably at the most, I might get three frames or two. If the 109 assumed that order banned radio traffic, why bother monitoring the radio? I can hardly talk about it. 29th Div Association Frosted Beer Glass with Handle. Kennedy made a pivotal decision by ordering the U.S. Navy to create a blockade around the Caribbean Island of Cuba. Warfield dispatched 15 boats, including PT-109, to intercept, organizing the PTs into four groups. And for that reason, they got another casket from Gawlers Funeral Home in Washington, but that was not until after they had taken the body to Bethesda Naval Hospital. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. The wrong kind of demonstration at the wrong time will give those fellows [on the Hill] a chance to say that they have to prove their courage by voting against us. Joe Kennedys friend James Forrestalwho helped Jack win transfer to the Pacificbecame secretary. The first part of that film shows me walking up towards him. [2] Once in Melville, Jack realized that Bulkeley had been selling a bill of goods. The 29th paid a severe price in the triumph against Nazi tyranny: during the European campaign, more than 20,00029ers fell in battle; several thousand more became non-battle casualties. After a few months of healing up in the rear but still wanting to stay in the fight, Lieutenant JG Kennedy requested another PT boat. I could hardly see the shoe it was swollen so bad. Kennedy prevailed. The gist of [what I said] was thatshots had been fired, and that the motorcade had gone by, it did not stop. We brought him in there in front of the screen and kept him there as I recall only about four or five minutes. Lahey doctors as well as specialists at the Mayo Clinic diagnosed chronic dislocation of the right sacroiliac joint, which could only be cured by spinal fusion. 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 elder Kennedy was the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain and good friends with Captain Alan Kirk who was the Director of Naval Intelligence. I thought it sounded like a rifle shot, but I couldnt imagine that it could be a rifle shot. When Plum Puddings coconutstheir only foodran short, he moved the survivors to another island, again towing McMahon through the water. Or commission this was suicide ; the Japanese would fire on them from banks... 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