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...Treasury Department Building, Jackie, expressionless, watched Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon award the department's citation for "exceptional bravery" to Secret Service Man Clinton J. Hill. It was Hill, assigned to protect Jackie since the day she became First Lady, who ran to the rear of the presidential limousine in Dallas after Kennedy had been killed, clambered onto the bumper and clutched Jackie's hand as she pulled him aboard...
...cradling the President's head in her lap, and the Lincoln bolted ahead as if the shots themselves had gunned the engine into life. Spurting to 70 m.p.h., it fled down the highway, rounding curves on two wheels. A Secret Service man, who had jumped onto the rear bumper of the car, flung himself across the trunk, and in his anger and frustration pounded it repeatedly with his fist...
...plane's sweltering, gold-carpeted "living room" was crowded with 27 people. At Johnson's right was his wife Lady Bird. Behind them ranged White House staff members; Larry O'Brien and Kenneth O'Donnell were in tears; the shirt cuffs of Rear Admiral George Burkley, President Kennedy's personal physician, bore bloodstains. Federal District Judge Sarah T. Hughes, a trim, tiny woman of 67 whom Kennedy had appointed to the bench in 1961, pronounced the oath in a voice barely audible over the engines. Johnson, his left hand on a small black Bible...
Johnson did what he could to help Jacqueline, discovered that she wanted only one thing: to remain at the side of her husband's bronze casket in a rear passenger compartment. There, crewmen had hurriedly removed two rows of seats to provide space. Four White House aides-Kennedy's longtime friend Dave Powers, his Air Force Aide Brigadier General Godfrey McHugh, O'Brien and O'Donnell-sat with...
When the aircraft landed at Andrews at dusk, the MATS terminal was blazing with floodlights. President and Mrs. Johnson waited inside while a yellow cargo lift lumbered out to the plane's rear door. Uniformed pallbearers struggled to shift the heavy casket from the plane to the lift. Robert Kennedy met Jackie at the door, helped her to the ground. Officials motioned Jackie toward a black Cadillac, but she insisted on staying with the casket. She got into a grey military ambulance, refused to sit in front, climbed in back near her husband's body. Bobby joined...