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Austin American-Statesman WORLD & NATION Saturday, November 22,2003
JFK: Author, friend trod painful ground in writing book
Continued from Al
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witness recollections, of the
minutiae of official medical,
government and telephone rec-
ords, but also full of scenes from
an American family’s life.
Manchester interviewed more
depository, his murderous en-
counter with patrolman J.D.
Tippit and on into the Texas
Theatre, where he was captured.
Manchester stood in the
basement of Dallas police head-
quarters, where Jack Ruby
lurked Nov. 24 while waiting for
Oswald to be transferred to jail.
Ruby had simply wandered
down a ramp from the street. He
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witnesses — police officers, Se-
cret Service and FBI agents,
Dallas doctors, Kennedy aides,
ballistic experts and, of course,
Jackie Kennedy — than the
Warren Commission did.
He walked every floor of the
Texas School Book Depository
and every foot of Dealey Plaza.
He retraced Lee Harvey Os-
wald’s Nov. 22 route from home
to work, his escape from the
Monday-Friday 10-8
Saturday 10-7
Sunday 1-5
Kennedy were friends. They had
known each other since the late
1940s. Both were New England-
ers: Kennedy from buckets of
money, Manchester from a pau-
city of it. Both had fought in the
Pacific: Kennedy on PT-109,
Manchester with the Marines on
Okinawa. Both were wounded.
Each would reach the top of
his chosen career: Kennedy as
youthful leader of the free world,
Manchester as journalist and
biographer.
--•'xAfter Dallas, Manchester
knew that America had lost
something moreTEan its presi-
dent. It had lost its optimisnu—
Jacqueline'Kenhedy knew that,
too. Although the Kennedy
family was approached by nu-
merous writers who wished to
write the story — Manchester
wasn’t one of them—Jackie and
the president’s brother Bobby
thought Manchester would be
the one to write not just the facts
but the meaning of it all.
The Kennedys also thought
Manchester would prove
“manageable.” It was an as-
sumption that was to prove
incorrect.
“The president was assassi-
nated,” said Manchester, now
81. “But Jackie’s husband had
been murdered. She was a young
widow, the mother of two young
children. A victim in the true
sense, not in the overblown
sense the word is used today.
This was personal....
“She was angry, angry with
Dallas. She was angry with the
gun culture of America. She
didn’t care about Oswald. He
was nothing.”
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the Sixth Floor Museum at the book depository.
Bottom right: Tourist Windell Wallace visits Dealey
Plaza the day before the 40th anniversary of the
assassination. The depository is background left.
himself in the story, something
historians usually avoid. Jackie
wanted perspective and context
as well as facts.
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Above: President Kennedy greets Dallas about a
minute before being shot. With him are wife Jac-
queline and Gov. John and Nellie Connally.
Top right: Tourists can see what Oswald saw from
The Warren Commission
would write its official report on
the assassination in legalese.
Jackie wanted another story,
just as factual but imbued with
the pathos universal to families President” is full not only of
who fall victim to fate. She
wanted future readers to know
the characters.
She also told Manchester, at
their first meeting in April 1964,
that she wanted him to put
Those forever images
Almost everyone who was
alive at the time has a vivid
memory oFNov. 22,1963.
It could be the image 'oTThe
coffin being pulled from the
president’s plane, or Jackie, still
dressed in jacket, skirt and
stockings soaked with her hus-
band’s blood. Because most TVS
were black and white, an-
nouncers had to tell us the outfit
was pink.
We will always see Walter
Cronkite removing his glasses
and brushing a hand under his
eye after announcing on CBS
that the president had died. The
days that followed burned with
images: Ruby lunging, the crack
of his shot.
Then the funeral, with John .
Jr. saluting his 46-year-dld feT1
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Reid, Paul. [Clipping: 40 years ago, world lost a man, a dream], clipping, November 22, 2003; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1596959/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.