European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 25, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse 6 the stars and strikes november 1964 the Warren commission testimony lady Bird saw anyone so alone9 Washington up and went around the i think u was the shades were As she said things to the transcription of a puled up to u the operating said that we were going july its Good recording on which up and saw it said think of in for Kennedy and weve always liked you two Don Johnson dictated her recollections of the events at she dictated the mule rial on to and 1 and and sent the Only then did i believe that this might be what ii was Yarborough kept on saying in an of called have they shot the president i said us being pro to cod she was quite 1 dont think f Ever saw anyone so much alone in my i went up to put my arms there discussion about when Lyndon should be sworn in us there was a Telephone Call to believe to the she what if i had not Leon there in o glad 1 i looked at Kennedy dress was stained Tion to the Warren it cant and said something la ii was decided that her right Glove we on july we ground to u sure was sort Hong be sworn in in Tinl immaculate woman it All began so still the third car help us because As possible because of it was raked with her Ter a drizzle in the men began to for her were too and she always wore Sun came out Bright and and Hustle us i to put into we did not know How loves like she was used to we were going into in the Lead president am John and Nellie and then a secret service car full of and then our car Lyndon and me and senator Ralph the streets were lined with people4ot and lots of the children All smiling confetti people last Irak Over my shoulder and in the presidents a bundle of just like a Drill of blossoms lying on the Back i think it was Kennedy lying Over the presidents they led us to the the and Onward into a quid room in the Hospital a very Small it was lined with White i then 1 went in to Sec there it was different because Nellie and i have gone through so Many things together since i hugged her tight and we both cried and i its going to he All and Nellie yes Johns going to be All right among her Many other Fine ills incident was As to intended judge Sarah a Federal judge in Dallas and i am glad it was she was rolled in come in a took the somehow that was one of the poignant sights Exquel Sicly dressed and caked in 1 a skid her if i get someone to help her and she perhaps later ill ask Mary but not right said a lot of other what if i had not been Kennedy had arrived by this Lime and the and Thorp in the very narrow from one last apr moment i had was looking and seeing Mary Griffith Ica Nii out of a window waving at Mary for Many years had been in charge of altering the clothes which i purchased at a Dallas then almost at the Edge of on our Way to the Trade Mart where we were going to have the we were rounding a going Down a and suddenly there was i turned and went Back to the Small White room where Lyndon Killduff and Kenny Odonnell were coming and 1 think it was from Kenny face and Kenny voice that i first heard the words the president is Killduff entered and said to ii was decided that we would go immediately to the Quick plans were made of the plane with Jackie on his left with her hair falling in her but very and then and i was on his judges Hughes with the Bible in front of her and a Cluster of secret service people and congressmen we had known for a Long Lime Lyndon took the oath of its Odd at a time like that the Little things that come to your mind and a moment of deep in so glad i was and a lot of other things that made it so much easier for lady weve always liked you both so i tried to express something of How we i you know we never even wanted to be vice president and dear its come to i would have done and thing to help but there was nothing i could do to help so rather quickly i left and went Back to the came and Kenny Odonnell a special assistant to the congressman Homer congressman Jack always there was Ruf right Emery Jerry Lem Ond Woody there was talk about where we would Back to to the to our loud report a it seemed to me to come from spoke of How to gel to the who to ride in it was Lyndon who you have for people who arc really not at the Center of part of the air plane where everyone was right above my from a then a moment and then two More hots in rapid there had been such a gala air that i thought it must be firecrackers or some tort of in the Lead the secret service men were suddenly i heard Over the radio lets get out this May through it Lyndon was remarkably Calm and every face that came you searched for the answers you must i think the face i kept seeing it on was the face of Kenny who loved him so so much should go to the plane in unmarked getting out of the Hospital into the cars was one of the swiftest walks i have Ever we got Lyndon said to Stop the we drove along As fast As we i looked up at a building and there already was a Flag i heard a secret service Man say in the most desolate voice and i Hurt for we never lost a president in the and then police chief of came on the glane and said to believe we did everything we possibly ride to Washington was strained each with his own one of mine Vris something i had said about Lyndon King time ago that hot a Good Man in a Light i Ever remember one Little thing he said in that Hospital Tell the children to get a secret service and our secret service Inan who wot with Ruf i believe it vaulted Over the front seat on top of threw him to the and get senator Yarborough and i ducked our we Cor accelerated terrifically Foster and then suddenly they put on the brakes so hard that i wondered if they were going to make it As we was Lyndon As usual who thought of it although i want going to leave without doing he you had or try to see if you can see Jackie and we didst mow what had happened to the secret service men f i could be taken to they began to Lead me up one Back and Down suddenly i found myself face to face with Jackie in i think that is when the enormity of what had happened first struck when we got to the we entered air plane 1 Lor the first there was a to set and the commentator was Lyndon now president of the United they were saying they bad a they were not sure he was the the president Hod been hot with a 9010 on the with with got to with a Cluster of people Many Bright the Cosie went off first then the family had come to pin Ond then we Lyndon made a very very Brief Andi thin Strong Alk to the folks onto about four i we we dropped him off at the White and i came i we All sat around the we had at first been ushered into the main private presidential Cabin on the plane but Lyndon quickly no and immediately led us out of there we Felt that u where Kennedy should the casket was in the i went in to see Kennedy though it was a very hard thing to she made it Felt like Washington a the split second that John i just people in the but says Connolly of Texas heard a to the thought flashed through his mind that a Rifle and this is an assassination attempt but be do gravely wounded and wondering u he were he Lay in his Lfeo arms while president Kennedy in the eat behind was hot to still Consul or Beard the final shot hit Kennedy it was o very loud and Beard the cries of Kennedy of my and i was because once i heard the hot in my own mind i identified it As a Rifle and i immediately the Only thought that crossed my mind to that this is on assassination i was turning to look Back Over my left shoulder into the Back but i never got that if and then 1 fit Uke someone Hod hit me in the the governor said o i heard the hot very i heard it hit it was o very loud just that very immediately i could see on my my i could see on the Interior of the car As i woo a pole brain which i immediately and i recoil very on my trousers there was one chunk of brain tissue As big As almost i he Aid had hot when he they Nave killed my she i heard her say one Connally recalled that Kennedy repeated Thio exclamation several pictures of the presidential car Token moment after the Ihnot tag How Kennedy onto reaching toward the Back of the Cor anything Bock that you that be been reaching fort i thought i a something cannot say there i do know it was found in the Street it was turned i believe by recovered from his gave come of the most graphic testimony As the Warren commission gathered volumes of evidence on which it based its report made Public sept Brief pan of time elapsed Between his hearing the first hot did Reeung himself he immediately thought that ills that i had been hot and again i did not we the president at any Lime either after the second or third but i assumed always that it was he who was hit Ond no one agent Clinton who or someone in commission report sold wot during the autopsy Peruf find on Kennedy at the now medical Center in some of these volumes have now become available to the it when i just looked Down and i was covered with i when i was i of gave the runs sons three pieces of Bone re cited in testimony Given in Wuhan ton april related Tejad just Mode the the thought immediately massed through my mind that there were either two or three people involved or More in i my they Ore going to kill us Nellie Connally when she pulled me Over Kennedy had jumped up from the seat and was it appeared to reaching for so Meinung coming off the right automobile these accounted for about three fourth portion of the into the Stemmons someone was shooting with an automatic Rifle i Lap dont be you Are going to of the when she noticed that i was trying to climb when appeared was a i heard this because of Hill had been in s Volun which i immediately took to be a Ruie i instinctively turned to my right because the sound appeared to come from Over my right of i turned to look Bock Over my right and i saw nothing unusual of in f a c hat it had obviously passed through my that i had probably been fatally so i merely doubled and Connally pulled me Over o her i reclined with my Lead on her conscious said he lost consciousness the car pulled out of the cavalcade and raced for he where he recovered by asked whether the pred Dent or Kennedy had Aid Connally said behind turned toward me and i grab cd her and put her Back 6at and Lay he was questioned about this you say that it appeared she reaching at u to take off his shirt and j j5 members observe his he said he feels sure in was not struck by the but by the Whiteh he said he never heard i was in either a state of Shock or Impact was such that the didst even Register on 3
