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The Aftermath of the JFK Assassination

John F. Kennedy - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
John and Jackie Kennedy and the Connallys in the presidential limousine moments before the assassination. Victor Hugo King / US Library of Congress / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain
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JFK assassination portrayed in the documentary “American Media and the Second Assassination of President John F. Kennedy.” Mary Evans / Ronald Grant Archive / Everett Collection / LA Times.

19. After She Heard The Shot, Jackie Tried To Flee The Vehicle

The truth of the matter is, no one is entirely sure if Jackie tried to leave the vehicle she and JFK were in or not. When the police questioned Jackie immediately after, she told them she couldn’t remember trying to crawl out of the vehicle by getting on top of the trunk but being pulled back in by Secret Service Agent Clint Hill. Hill has always believed that Jackie was trying to retrieve pieces of her husband’s skull, which had been shattered by the third shot.

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