KENNEDY, Jacqueline (1929-1994), First Lady . Autograph letter signed ("Jackie") to General Godfrey McHugh (1911-1997), Washington D.C., 1 December 1963. 2 pages, on an oblong White House card (3 7/16 x 4½ in.) , fine condition. MRS. KENNEDY THANKS THE PRESIDENT'S AIR FORCE AIDE ONLY NINE DAYS AFTER HER HUSBAND'S ASSASSINATION: "WE SHARED HOURS...THAT WILL HAUNT US ALL OUR LIVES" An very poignant letter written in the immediate aftermath of the assasination of the 35th President, and recalling the momentous events which followed that cataclysm. After the President had been declared dead, his body was transported to Air Force One at the Dallas Airport, accompanied by his widow. While the plane climbed from the runway at Love Field, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as President with a somber, stricken Jacqueline Kennedy at his side. Eight days later and six days after Kennedy's funeral, Jacqueline writes a moving note to McHugh, Kennedy's Air Force Aide, responsible for planning the Presidential itinerary on Air Force One, who was present on the return flight: "Air Force One, that you worked so hard to make so beautiful--and that the President was so proud of--all blue and silver. We shared hours on it that will haunt us all our lives, those last hours. At his funeral when it flew over so low--I will never forget it. I want you to have this picture--and the stray cufflink which he kept in the little stud box where he kept the things he loved most. I cannot find the other--but George Thomas seems to have had a genius for losing one of a pair of cufflinks. I can only find one of the pair I gave him on a wedding anniversary. So you can wear it in your buttonhole sometimes. I thank you for your loyalty to him always." An exceptionally personal letter.
KENNEDY, Jacqueline (1929-1994), First Lady . Autograph letter signed ("Jackie") to General Godfrey McHugh (1911-1997), Washington D.C., 1 December 1963. 2 pages, on an oblong White House card (3 7/16 x 4½ in.) , fine condition. MRS. KENNEDY THANKS THE PRESIDENT'S AIR FORCE AIDE ONLY NINE DAYS AFTER HER HUSBAND'S ASSASSINATION: "WE SHARED HOURS...THAT WILL HAUNT US ALL OUR LIVES" An very poignant letter written in the immediate aftermath of the assasination of the 35th President, and recalling the momentous events which followed that cataclysm. After the President had been declared dead, his body was transported to Air Force One at the Dallas Airport, accompanied by his widow. While the plane climbed from the runway at Love Field, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as President with a somber, stricken Jacqueline Kennedy at his side. Eight days later and six days after Kennedy's funeral, Jacqueline writes a moving note to McHugh, Kennedy's Air Force Aide, responsible for planning the Presidential itinerary on Air Force One, who was present on the return flight: "Air Force One, that you worked so hard to make so beautiful--and that the President was so proud of--all blue and silver. We shared hours on it that will haunt us all our lives, those last hours. At his funeral when it flew over so low--I will never forget it. I want you to have this picture--and the stray cufflink which he kept in the little stud box where he kept the things he loved most. I cannot find the other--but George Thomas seems to have had a genius for losing one of a pair of cufflinks. I can only find one of the pair I gave him on a wedding anniversary. So you can wear it in your buttonhole sometimes. I thank you for your loyalty to him always." An exceptionally personal letter.
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