JACKIE THANKS PUBLIC FOR CONDOLENCES
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) Fifty-four years ago, January 14, 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy made her first public statement after the death of her husband John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States.
Mrs. Kennedy's remarks were video taped in the office of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at the Justice Department here in the Nation's Capital. The Attorney General was by Mrs. Kennedy's side during the taping along with Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy.
Mrs. Kennedy acknowledged the receipt of more than 800,000 cards, messages and letters of condolence. 45,000 arrived on the day of the President's funeral.
Mrs. Kennedy said...
"The knowledge of the affection in which my husband was held by all of you has sustained me. When I can bear to, I read them. All his bright light, gone from the world. It is my greatest wish that all these letters be acknowledged.
Each and every letter is to be treasured...so that future generations will know how much our country and people in other nations thought of him"
SOURCES
"Jackie Kennedy Thanks Public for Letters of Sympathy: Transcript", NBC Learn K-12, www.archives.nbclearn.com/
"'Letters to Jackie': A snapshot of a nation's grief after the JFK assassination", by Vicki Hyman, November 22, 2013, www.nj.com/
JFK & Jackie in Motorcade
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) Fifty-four years ago, January 14, 1964, Jacqueline Kennedy made her first public statement after the death of her husband John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States.
Mrs. Kennedy's remarks were video taped in the office of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at the Justice Department here in the Nation's Capital. The Attorney General was by Mrs. Kennedy's side during the taping along with Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy.
Mrs. Kennedy acknowledged the receipt of more than 800,000 cards, messages and letters of condolence. 45,000 arrived on the day of the President's funeral.
Mrs. Kennedy said...
"The knowledge of the affection in which my husband was held by all of you has sustained me. When I can bear to, I read them. All his bright light, gone from the world. It is my greatest wish that all these letters be acknowledged.
Each and every letter is to be treasured...so that future generations will know how much our country and people in other nations thought of him"
SOURCES
"Jackie Kennedy Thanks Public for Letters of Sympathy: Transcript", NBC Learn K-12, www.archives.nbclearn.com/
"'Letters to Jackie': A snapshot of a nation's grief after the JFK assassination", by Vicki Hyman, November 22, 2013, www.nj.com/
JFK & Jackie in Motorcade
Dallas, Texas
November 22, 1963
Photo by Victor Hugo King
Library of Congress Image
