Our culture will become like it was during the medieval times when there truly was a cultural elite. The rest of the people will just watch television, which will be their only frame of reference.


Much has been written about the elegant and beautiful first lady of the United States so we will just look at a few items of interest for the events of November 22, 1963.

When she was a child, George de Mohrenschildt, was a friend of the Bouvier family. She played with him and called him Uncle George. Ironically he was considered by many to be the CIA handler or Lee Oswald.

The Zapruder film shows Mrs Kennedy crawling back on the trunk lid of the Lincoln limousine. At the time, some thought she was trying to get away from the shooting. Secret Service agent, Clint Hill, jumped on the car and helped her back into the seat.

In reality she was retrieving a portion of her husband's brain. She held this in her hand for the trip to Parkland Hospital. She still held on to it as she wandered in and out of the emergency room as doctors attempted to save the life of her husband.

When she returned to the plane for the trip back to Washington, her aides laid out a clean outfit for her to change into. She refused saying she wanted people to see what they did to her husband. The iconic picture shows Mrs Kennedy standing next to Lyndon Johnson in her blood stained suit as he takes the oath of office.

Jacqueline Kennedy did what she believed was best for the country to show an orderly transition, even though she harbored suspicions the Lyndon Johnson was somehow involved in killing her husband, John.

Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life
by Karen M. Dunak

When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she stepped into the public spotlight. Although Jackie is perhaps best known for her two highly-publicized marriages, her legacy has endured beyond twentieth-century pop culture and she remains an object of public fascination today.

Drawing on a range of sources– from articles penned for the women’s pages of local newspapers, to esteemed national periodicals, to fan magazines and film– Our Jackie evaluates how media coverage of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis changed over the course of her very public life. Jackie’s interactions with and framing by the American media reflect the changing attitudes toward American womanhood. Over the course of four decades, Jackie was alternatively praised for her service to others, and pilloried for her perceived self-interest. In Our Jackie, Karen M. Dunak argues that whether she was portrayed as a campaign wife, a loyal widow, a selfish jetsetter, or a mature career woman, the history of Jackie’s highly publicized life demonstrates the ways in which news, entertainment, politics, and celebrity evolved and intertwined over the second half of the twentieth century.

Examining the intimate chronicles of this famous First Lady’s life, Our Jackie suggests that media coverage of this enigmatic public figure revealed as much about the prevailing views of women in America– how they should behave and whom they should serve– as it did about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis as an individual.

Mrs. Kennedy and Me
by Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill

In those four years, Hill was by Mrs. Kennedy’s side for some of the happiest moments as well as the darkest. He was there for the birth of John, Jr. on November 25, 1960, as well as for the birth and sudden death of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy on August 8, 1963. Three and a half months later, the unthinkable happened.

Forty-seven years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the one vivid image that never leaves Clint Hill’s mind is that of President Kennedy’s head lying on Mrs. Kennedy’s lap in the back seat of the limousine, his eyes fixed, blood splattered all over the back of the car, Mrs. Kennedy, and Hill as well. Sprawled on the trunk of the car as it sped away from Dealey Plaza, Hill clung to the sides of the car, his feet wedged in so his body was as high as possible.

Clint Hill jumped on the car too late to save the president, but all he knew after that first shot was that if more shots were coming, the bullets had to hit him instead of the First Lady.

Mrs. Kennedy’s strength, class, and dignity over those tragic four days in November 1963 held the country together.

This is the story, told for the first time, of the man who perhaps held her together.