What Jackie Kennedy's Life Was Like The Year After JFK Died

On November 22, 1963, John and Jackie Kennedy visited Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed President Kennedy. Jackie became the world's most famous widow. While she was praised for her strength in public, in private she was devastated. Here's what Jackie Kennedy did the year following JFK's death.

Although John F. Kennedy was likely already dead when he arrived at Dallas' Parkland Memorial Hospital, doctors whisked him into Trauma Room 1 and tried chest compressions. Jackie refused sedatives, and insisted on being with her husband. As a priest administered the last rites, she slipped her wedding ring onto his finger. A few weeks later, LIFE Magazine reported that President Kennedy's assistant Kenny O'Donnell had retrieved the ring and returned it to Jackie, correctly believing that she might regret being without it.

Kennedy's body was taken to Air Force One at Love Field Airport in Dallas, where new President Lyndon Johnson was waiting. He'd been advised to fly back to Washington, D.C. to be sworn into office officially, but refused to leave without Jackie, and she refused to leave without Kennedy's body. Johnson's wife, Lady Bird Johnson, gently asked Jackie if she'd like to change out of her blood-spattered clothing. Jackie told her no, saying,

"I want them to see what they have done to Jack."

It was her idea to stand beside Johnson as he was sworn in.

According to Esquire, when O'Donnell asked her if she was sure, she told him,

"I think I ought to. At least I owe that much to the country."

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Attended Lyndon Johnson's swearing in | 0:17
She meticulously planned JFK's funeral | 1:23
Tried avoiding the White House | 2:32
Grief did not come easy | 3:27
The move to New York | 4:28
Bobby Kennedy supported Jackie | 5:30
JFK Presidential Library | 6:29
The Warren Commission | 7:44
Participated in secret tapes | 8:49

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