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The love story between John F. Kennedy and
his wife, Jackie, was far from perfect and was tragically cut short in 1963 by
a sniper's(狙击手) bullet.
On November 22, 1963, President
John F. Kennedy was seated beside his smartly dressed wife, who was wearing a
pink Chanel-like suit and matching pillbox hat and holding an armful of red
roses that had been presented to her by fans. They were seated in the back seat
of a dark blue 1961 Lincoln with John Connally, the Governor of Texas and his
wife, Nellie.
And then came the dark moment.
As the motorcade(车队) passed the Texas School Book Depository on Elm
Street, a loud noise—like the sound of a firecracker—cracked the air. President Kennedy slumped(耷拉) forward, Jackie putting her arms around him.
The look on her husband's face
after he was shot would haunt Jackie for the rest of her life. The last words
she ever got to say to him were, "I love you, Jack. I love you,"
according to Anderson, although Jackie herself recalled it slightly differently
in a 1963 interview. All the way to Parkland Hospital, where President Kennedy
would eventually be pronounced dead, as she recalled it, she was bent over him,
asking "Jack, Jack, can you hear me? I love you."
Jack Kennedy's final words to
his wife of 10 years were far more mundane, of course. He had no way of
knowing what was about to happen. It's been reported that Jack's final words
were, "My God, I've been hit," but physicians have said this was
impossible given Jack's injuries. Well, historians have now clarified that the
last words Jack spoke before the fatal shot were, "No, you certainly
can't."
No, you certainly can't?
He was making small talk
in the car. "You certainly can't say that the people of Dallas haven't
given you a nice welcome," the Texas Governor's wife had just remarked to
Jack, referring to the huge, adoring crowd. "No, you certainly
can't," Jack replied, milliseconds before the bullet from Lee Harvey
Oswald gun struck.
John F. Kennedy never spoke
another word after that fateful day, but many things he said during his
lifetime are incredibly inspiring.