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Jackie Kennedy's 'particular brand of silence'

Jackie Kennedy's 'particular brand of silence'

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Jefferson Morley
Nov 01, 2015
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Jackie Kennedy's private thoughts about Dallas

In a finely reported piece for Esquire last November Chris Jones recreated the scene on Air Force One on the afternoon of November 22, 1963.

Here's the first meeting of now former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and Lady Bird Johnson, now the wife of the President of the United States.

"I don't know what to say," Lady Bird says. "What wounds me most of all …

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