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Ruby's deathbed recording had brought him some $2,000 from Capitol Records-just enough to pay for his bronze casket, the $77 shipping charge for sending the body back to Chicago, and a burial service at a cemetery plot next to the graves of his parents. The only real legacy left by the would-be big shot from Big D was one of confusion, futility and frustration-a legacy that would nonetheless impress his name on history...
...Casket. Even these heroic efforts, over two years, failed to win the Montagnards' confidence. Then one evening Dr. Smith chugged into a village and saw, outside a long house built on stilts, a twelve-year-old girl in shock from diarrhea and vomiting. "Her father and brothers were so sure she was going to die," Dr. Smith recalls, "that they were hollowing out a log for her casket." Dr. Smith pulled out her infusion kit, hung a bottle from a bamboo overhead, and stayed up all night dripping fluids into the girl's veins...
...words: "She cried." There was considerable paraphrasing where Jackie's own words had been used. Direct quotes from two letters that Jackie had written to Jack-one while she was holidaying in Greece a month before his murder, the other written after his death and placed in his casket-were reworded and trimmed drastically. Cuts were made in all four installments of the Look serial, the bulk of them in the last two, which deal with the immediate aftermath of the assassination, the flight to Washington and the funeral...
...Manchester, that after Air Force One landed at the capital, Kenny O'Donnell, one of the late President's oldest friends, literally blocked the exit when Lyndon Johnson tried to leave with Jacqueline. A fork lift was rolled up to the plane to remove Kennedy's casket, and Jackie stepped aboard with other members of the late President's party. O'Donnell prevented Johnson from riding down with the group...
Jackie wanted at least three other things deleted from the manuscript. One is an emotionally charged account of how the children, Caroline, then 5, and John, 2, learned of their father's death. Another was a letter that she had placed in her dead husband's casket before it was sealed. A third was a series of letters she had written, often in conjunction with her daughter Caroline, to Jack; she was particularly upset at the inclusion of a letter that she had sent him from Greece the month before his death...