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The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

On November 22nd, 1963, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy set into motion a series of events that irrevocably changed American politics and culture. The media frenzy spawned by the controversy surrounding the death of JFK has since given way to a powerful public memory that continues to shape the way we understand politics, the 1960s, and the nation.

In The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: Political Trauma and American Memory, Alice George traces the events of Kennedys assassination and Lyndon B. Johnsons subsequent ascension to the presidency. Covering both the political shifts of the time and the cultural fallout of the national tragedy, this book introduces students of the twenty-first century to both an iconic event and to the context in which that event was heralded as iconic. Drawing on newspaper articles, political speeches, letters, and diaries, George critically re-examines the event of JFKs death and its persistent political and cultural legacy.

For additional documents, images, and resources please visit The Assassination of John F. Kennedy companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/criticalmoments

Alice L. George is an independent scholar and the author of five books on twentieth century American history.

Critical Moments in American History
Edited by William Thomas Allison

The Battle of the Greasy Grass/Little Bighorn
Custers Last Stand in Memory, History, and Popular Culture
Debra Buchholtz

The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Political Trauma and American Memory
Alice L. George

Freedom to Serve
Truman, Civil Rights, and Executive Order 9981
Jon E. Taylor

The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

Political Trauma and American Memory

Alice L. George

First published 2013
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the UK
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The right of Alice L. George to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
George, Alice L., 1952

The assassination of John F. Kennedy: political trauma and
American memory/Alice George.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 19171963Assassination.
2. Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 19171963Influence.
3. United StatesHistory19611969. 4. United States
Politics and government19631969. 5. United StatesSocial
conditions--19601980. I. Title.
E842.9.G46 2012
973.922092dc23

ISBN: 978-0-415-89556-9 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-415-89557-6 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-12078-1 (ebk)

Typeset in Bembo and Helvetica Neue
by Florence Production Ltd, Stoodleigh, Devon

To Clois Williams, who has always been on my side

Contents

Series Introduction

Welcome to the Routledge Critical Moments in American History series. The purpose of this new series is to give students a window into the historians craft through concise, readable books by leading scholars, who bring together the best scholarship and engaging primary sources to explore a critical moment in the American past. In discovering the principal points of the story in these books, gaining a sense of historiography, following a fresh trail of primary documents, and exploring suggested readings, students can then set out on their own journey, to debate the ideas presented, interpret primary sources, and reach their own conclusions just like the historian.

A critical moment in history can be a range of things a pivotal year, the pinnacle of a movement or trend, or an important event such as the passage of a piece of legislation, an election, a court decision, a battle. It can be social, cultural, political, or economic. It can be heroic or tragic. Whatever they are, such moments are by definition game changers, momentous changes in the pattern of the American fabric, paradigm shifts in the American experience. Many of the critical moments explored in this series are familiar; some less so.

There is no ultimate list of critical moments in American history any group of students, historians, or other scholars may come up with a different catalog of topics. These differences of view, however, are what makes history itself and the study of history so important and so fascinating. Therein can be found the utility of historical inquiry to explore, to challenge, to understand, and to realize the legacy of the past through its influence of the present. It is the hope of this series to help students realize this intrinsic value of our past and of studying our past.

William Thomas Allison
Georgia Southern University

Figures

Acknowledgments

Both the Harvard University Archives and Heyden White Rostow provided permission for me to quote from Theodore H. Whites papers, which are not in the public domain.

I also received permissions from private individuals I interviewed Margaret Glose, Robert Cromey, Janet Fishburn, Karel Ramsey, Adrianne Carr, Frank Schwiegert, Patricia C. Kathy Connally Lux, Michael Ensley, Richard McGowan, and Dennis Hatchell.

No other text permissions were necessary. All material was taken from archival sources that are in the public domain, from published works, or from interviews with public figures.

I would like to thank James W. Hilty for sharing his expertise, and I also want to express my gratitude to the staffs of the John F. Kennedy Library archives, the Lyndon B. Johnson Library archives, and Archives II. I am grateful to those individuals who shared their recollections with me in interviews. Furthermore, I am indebted to Rebecca Novack and Bill Allison for their feedback in the editing process and to Elliot Blake for his many errands on my behalf. Finally, I offer heartfelt thanks to Lou Oschmann, my life partner, sounding board, and proofreader.

Timeline

Friday, November 22, 1963
11:55 a.m. Central Standard Time
Motorcade leaves Love Field.
12:30 p.m.	John F. Kennedy is shot twice, once in the upper back and once in the head; Governor John Connally is also wounded by rifle fire.
12:38 p.m.	Television networks begin reporting the shooting.
12:58 p.m.	Priests arrive at Parkland Hospital to perform last rites for president.

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