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In the hallway we had some 200 news reporters and cameramen with big cameras and little cameras and cables running on the floors to where we could hardly get in and out of the officeand each time we went through that hallway to and from the jail we had to pull him through all those people, and they, of course, would holler at him and say things to him,and I dont think that helped at all in questioning him. Throwing firecrackers at the presidents car. In fact, [at WFAA studio] Julie Benell, they interrupted her cooking show and she was cooking a Hormel Cure Eighty-one ham. POLICE ENCOUNTER OSWALD 12:32 P.M. The symbolism wrought through the use of the same catafalque and caisson that bore the body of Abraham Lincoln contributes to a sense that while a leader falls the Republic marches on, its ideals inviolate. Agent Hill: We didnt really hit the crowds until we hit Main Streetwhere they were surging into the street. Kennedy kept his speed to a crawl hoping to keep the wake and noise to a minimum in order to avoid detection. The president and his attorney general brother, Bobby, discussed what he should say in an extemporaneous talk should no text be ready. I did not want to go and leave Mrs. Kennedy in this situation. The tiniest shard of hot metal might ignite the 3,000-gallon gas tanks. Ill never forget because there had been a lot of tension in Dallas politically. Other officers blamed Kennedy for the failure of the 109s engine when the Amagiri loomed into sight. As I was grabbing for the weapon that Oswald had pulled out, I came down on the side of Oswald. Although Kennedy delivered part of the talk extemporaneously, it was one of his best speechesa heartfelt appeal in behalf of a moral cause that included several memorable lines calling upon the country to honor its finest traditions. I dont ever want to see you again. You know, the first rule of reporting is its better to apologize than to explain, so I said: Well, I apologize. Someone is trying to fire a 21-gun salute with a rifle. It was obviously a rifle shot, and obviously the shots were from the same rifle. He was now touring the country promoting war bonds and touting the PT fleet as the Allies key to victory in the Pacific. We were on the 12th floor, and so we were kind of watching [Commerce Street]. The 29th was made up of the 115th, 116th, and 175th Infantry Regiments, the 110th, 111th, 224th, and 227th Field Artillery Battalions, and the 121st Engineer Combat Battalion. You better go to work.by the time I got to the First National Bank building where we parkedand just as I parked my carit came over my car that the president was dead. He also put a stop to his fathers efforts to bring him home. Lieutenant Hank Brantingham, a PT veteran who had served with Bulkeley in the famous MacArthur rescue, led the four boats in Kennedys group. Aside from a 17-year hiatus between 1968 and 1985, the 29th Division has existed continuously since 1917 as a component of the National Guard. And everybody agreed: Oh yeah, no questions. Kennedy and his crew roared in with guns blazing long enough to provide suppressing fire as the Marines made their way to the 59. I saw all of that in a flash. King asked if an appeal to former President Dwight D. Eisenhower might help enlist Republican backing generally, and the support of House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck in particular. The journey took five exhausting hours, as they fought a strong current. Still, Kennedy apparently couldnt shake the deaths of his two men in the Solomons. The couple came to be regarded almost as American royalty; he was popular due to his charm, good looks, and vitality, and Jackie became an icon of fashion and grace who was active in promoting the arts and historic preservation. . Detective Graves: We were told the car would be backed up there right in position where all wed have to do was walk out and get in it. THE MOTORCADE REACHES PARKLAND 12:36 P.M. I didnt know he was living away from his family. AMBULANCE CARRYING JFKS COFFIN ARRIVES AT WHITE HOUSE 4:35 A.M. Captain Fritz: I asked him what he thought of the president, about the family he said he didnt have any particular comment to make about the president. That key city, which Gerhardts men had been within sight of for three months, fell to the29th on the first day of the assault. His time aboard the 101 was only for training with the Navys Motor Torpedo Squadron Four located in Melville, Rhode Island and later for testing in the tropics in Panama, but it gave the young officer the thrill of commanding a roaring wooden hulled boat across the sea but this time with a compliment of torpedoes and heavy machine guns. Weve seen the assassin! Ensign John F. "Jack" Kennedy was finally was at the helm of his own boat with the salt air spray in his face and the ocean chop bouncing him and his crew across the waves aboard the roaring PT 101. A lot of you men have families and some of you have children. First, while recognizing this doesnt have anything to do with what we have been talking about, he urged the organizers to exercise their substantial influence in the Negro community by putting an emphasis, which I think the Jewish community has done, on educating their children, on making them study, making them stay in school and all the rest. The looks of uncertainty, if not disbelief, on the faces of the civil rights leaders, toward a proposal that, at best, would take a generation to implement, moved Kennedy to follow on with a practical explanation for restraint in dealing with Congress. After hours of swimming in the open Pacific Ocean, the crew of the 109 had finally made it to dry ground. Around 0200 with. They got her a chair out there for a little while, and then she insisted on coming in, and she got in the corner for a little while and stayed there a little while. I turned over my right shoulder and looked back, and saw the president as he had both hands at his neck. I yelled to the agents, Go get us two stretchers on wheels. I turned right around to the back door and opened it. Kennedy and crew on the 109 stayed in reserve with a few other boats to protect against counterattack by lingering as the attacking boats withdrew. Before that, the militia units comprising the 29th Division had performed valorous service in all of Americas wars, from the renowned Maryland 400 at the Battle of Long Island in 1776 to the Stonewall Brigade in the Civil War. No one aboard PT-109 knew how to use night vision. It wasnt the best place to find a fingerprint to start with. Two men standing on each side, on the running boards, and three or four of them inside the car. Abraham Zapruder: As the car came in line almost I believe it was almost in line, I was standing up here and I was shooting through a telephoto lens.I heard the first shot, and I saw the president lean over and grab himself. I showed him a picture of him holding a rifle and wearing the pistolhe said: [Someone has taken my picture and that is my face and put a different body on it. It was just a frightening noise, and it came from the right. They had written other unkind things. He might have shrugged off the putdowns of other PT skippers, but it must have been harder to ignore the biting words of his older brother. I said, Which window? He said, Its the one on the right, second from the top. By that time, I had the 100mm camera up, shot a picture of that window. What are you doing to him? No matter how many people are down there, you wont have anybody blocking your view. And so, he saidhe had vertigo, though. AFTERMATH ON DEALEY PLAZA Well when I got off at the third floor, I was shocked. Agent Kellerman: I just leaned sideways to [the driver] and said: Lets get out of here! He was lauded a hero for which he said "it was involuntary, they sank my boat". Between the end of September and the third week in November, House Democrats and Republicansliberals and conservativesentered into self-interested maneuvering over the administrations civil rights proposals. And I just remember seeing that. His eyes were open, pupils were seen to be dilated and later were seen not to react to light. Captain Fritz: I also asked Lieutenant Day to bring the rifle down after I sent after [Marina] Oswald, and had her look at the rifle. Without breaking radio silence, he charged off to engage, presuming the others would follow. His search provided little and he returned to his crew. But his fury and grief at the loss of two men sent him on a dangerous quest to get even. After a five-day break, he ordered the 29th with two other divisions to race into Brittany to seize the port of Brest, one of Frances largest harbors. In addition to others in the press cars were Dallas Morning News photographer Tom Dillard and the presidents assistant press secretary, Malcolm Kilduff. Now, Im saying: Im the luckiest guy in the world. He had already been covered up with a sheet at that timehis right foot was sticking out from underneath the sheet.And as she passed by, she kind of, almost as an afterthought, she leaned over and kissed his foot, and then she walked out of the room. They were saying: We think that theyre beating the hell out of him, you know. And they said, Would you go with us over to WFAA studios? And we said, Sure. So we started walking in that direction.He just walked up to a man in a car and said: These people saw the president get shot. The collision was part of a wild night of blunders by 109 and other boats that one historian later described as the most screwed up PT boat action of World War II. Yet American newspapers and magazines reported the PT-109 mishap as a triumph. Kennedy mused about luck and whether most success results from fortuitous accidents., I would agree with you that it was lucky the whole thing happened if the two fellows had not been killed. That, he said, rather spoils the whole thing for me.. At about 1:45 a.m., the four destroyers set out for the return trip to Rabaul, speeding north. With allegations of police mishandling of the suspect swirling, Chief Jesse Curry brings Oswald to meet the media. The men begged him not to take the risk, but he hoped to find a PT boat on a night patrol. I said: Carousel Club? Twice, other PT boats had signaled that the Tokyo Express was headed north to where the 109 was patrolling. For me, it is a deep personal tragedy. Police begin to scour the building, and manager Roy Truly discovers Oswald is gone. The 109 joined fifteen PT boats on patrol on a dark night in early August 1943 to intercept Japanese warships in the straits. I think it was Sergeant Hill who was talking to the dispatcher and we gave him the names.The dispatcher advised us then that we were to bring this suspect directly to Captain Fritzs office, that he was a prime suspect in the assassination of President Kennedy and the wounding of Gov. Nellie Connally: We had just finished the motorcade through the downtown Dallas area. There was also the matter of the radio warnings. Pulled out of the line for its first significant period of rest and recuperation during its time in combat, the 29th set up a headquarters in Schloss Rheydt, a castle owned by Joseph Goebbels, the notorious Nazi propaganda minister. I kept the door closed most of the time, let doctors and nurses in and out while they were working on him. Gayle Newman: I had no idea that it was gunfire. Put him on the phone, and Ill be in in a minute. So, Jack Ruby takes me into Henry Wades office. He had no palpable pulse. He did help to further the civil rights movement, but most of the legislature he initiated did not become law during his presidency. But he didn't. Read More. But the story that would define the young officer as a hero ran much later, after his return to the States in January 1944. And wed go look at this place, and wed go look at that place. It also would eliminate discrimination in all places of public accommodationhotels, restaurants, amusement facilities and retail establishments. Kennedy, they said, was hell-bent on redeeming himself and getting revenge on the Japanese. After a tense discussion, Cluster shelved the expedition. So I leaned out the window, the same window from which the shots were fired, looked down, and I saw Sheriff Bill Decker and Captain Will Fritz. Lyndon Johnson: We were ushered into the private quarters of the presidents plane. POLICE OFFICER J.D. Unclear motives and a virtual labyrinth of peculiar circumstances, coincidences and seemingly inexplicable actions leave even the most rational inquisitor much room for speculation. He was bitter that other PT boats had not moved in to rescue his men after the wreck, Cluster said. In March 1945, the 29th Infantry Division was ordered to attack in the industrial sector of the Ruhr, where the Germans resisted fiercely despite being surrounded. We all carry it. Lo during the Normandy Campaign and then fought through France, Holland and Germany until VE Day in 1945. Within the command ranks of the navy, however, Kennedys role in the collision got a close look. The crew of the 109 also found themselves on patrol in and around the remote islands serving as lookouts for the larger more formidable Japanese destroyers and cruisers that may attempt to attack US warships or US Marines on beach heads in the New Georgia-Rendova area. It was the PT-109. You know, it never even occurred to me that the president had been shot. In fact the receptions had been so good every place thatI could resist no longer. Description: Upon a disc with a 1/8 inch (.32cm) green border 2 1/2 inches (6.35cm) in diameter overall, a taeguk, the curves being circles of half the radius of the disc, with the heraldic dexter half being blue and the sinister half gray. Posted at 14:25h in 116th, 29th Division, Bedford, Bedford Boys, Company A, D-Day, . Just as all of this is going through my mind, the car passed directly in front of us. Thats that hotshot down there in Dallas saying hes dead. We radioed the dispatcherthat we had a suspect in the shooting of Officer Tippit. Tippit, killed in the line of duty. He was a radical right-winger. But it was not to be. At about 2:30 a.m., Lieutenant Potter in PT-169 saw the phosphorescent wake of a destroyer. HistoryNet.com is brought to you by HistoryNet LLC, the worlds largest publisher of history magazines. He said, I didnt shoot anybody. But I also told him, I said, Well, Lee, you strike me as a pretty intelligent individual. I said, You know, of course, that we can take the bullets in the officer and use the pistol that you had on you at the time you were arrested and run ballistics on them and prove that the bullets that killed the officer came from your pistol, dont you? He said, Yeah, I know that, but youll just have to do it. I dont know what was going on inside of him, but he struck me as a very calm individual, and he answered my questions very clearly and everything. Agent Hill: I jumped from the car, realizing that something was wrong, ran to the presidential limousine. I used the powder on them and didnt find any prints there, which is not unusual on a cartridge case or bullet.While we were working with that, Captain Fritz sent word for me to come to thenorthwest corner of the building.They had found the gun. Senator 8 years later. organization dedicated to keeping the history of the 29th Infantry She looked at these people very carefully, and she picked him out and made the positive identification. They set out from the 109 around 1:30 p.m. Kennedy towed McMahon, gripping the strap of the injured mans life jacket in his teeth. In the report, White and his coauthor described the collision matter-of-factly and devoted almost all the narrative to Kennedys efforts to find help. Then, the car shot forward.As we passed the crowd on the grassy knoll, the look of sheer horror in their faces told me that they had just witnessed a traumatic event. Detective James Leavelle describes questioning Oswald. It was transparent to more than the civil rights leaders that Kennedy saw a compromise civil rights measure as his only chance for success. The 29th Infantry Division is one of Americas most illustrious military units. Ernest Brandt: Everybody was quiet and just standing there waiting until the motorcade came along. He was born in 1917 into a wealthy family with considerable political ties. After we got the pictures taken, I reached down and picked the rifle up. The birthplace became a unit of the National Park Service in 1967 and opened to the public on May 29, 1969. Soon Kennedy and his crew of eleven sailors were conducting nightly attacks on Japanese barge traffic frantically attempting to resupply their isolated garrisons in New Georgia. By September, Kennedy had recovered from his injuries and was panting for action. On July 15, three months after Kennedy arrived in the Pacific, PT-109 was ordered to the central Solomons and the island of Rendova, close to heavy fighting on New Georgia. When I heard the shots, I went out on this front porch. The following week, on June 19, Kennedy requested the enactment of the most far-reaching civil rights bill in the countrys history. After V-E Day, the 29th Division garrisoned the German port of Bremen, the point from which thousands of American troops eventually returned to the States. But Captain Fritz and his men spread them out, and I walked on through holding the gun over my head so nobody would touch it. The Amagiri, a 2,000-ton ship four times longer than the 109, emerged out of the black night on the starboard side, about 300 yards away and bearing down. Deputy Mooney: By that time there was a number of officers up there.And we were searching, trying to find the weapon at that time. You know, then, there were pictures later on of me climbing out the back. The boats speed allowed for a quick exit before counter attacks could be a serious threat. We broke and all ran up there, and then President Kennedy headed straight for the fence and started walking along the fence shaking hands with people.I was always a little quicker than other guys. About a half-hour later, I asked someone to find out if Mrs. Kennedy would stand with us during the administration of the oath. Mary took the picture and fell on the ground and of course there were more shots. Kennedy offered a two-pronged defense of continuing caution. The president came by and shook my hand and told me how much he and Mrs. Kennedy appreciated the reception they were receiving in Texas. Our intent is to convey as accurately as possible from the view of those who were therea true sense of the minutes and hours of the events that consumed the nation during four days in November 1963. Machinists Mate Patrick Pop McMahon warned that the boats war-weary engines might conk out, but Kennedy paid no heed. It is as old as the scriptures and is as clear as the American Constitution. We are going to move it. The next morning the natives returned with food and supplies. I believe I caught up with him inside the lobby of the building, or possibly the front steps. Connally. Connally and President Kennedy had been shot. The young officer was deeply pained by the death of two of his men in the collision. I did ask him some questions and he told me that he shot him, told me that he was all torn up about the presidential killing, that he felt terribly sorry for Mrs. Kennedy. Malcolm Couch: A fella from Channel 4, KRLDwas next to me.
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