AIR FORCE ONE FLIGHT TO WASHINGTON, D.C.

On the flight back to Washington, LBJ calls JFK’s mother, Rose.  He says:

“Mrs. Kennedy, I wish to God there was something I could do.”

LBJ also calls Nellie Connally at Parkland Hospital & learns that her husband, John, will survive.

Jacqueline Kennedy stays in the rear of the plane sitting beside her husband's casket.

Air Force One is scheduled to arrive at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, D.C. at 6 p.m. (EST).

Back in Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald takes a cab to his “Oak Cliff” rooming house at 1026 North Beckley Avenue where he arrives about 1:00 p.m. (CST). 

As Oswald enters the rooming house, his housekeeper says:  "Somebody shot the President".  


He says nothing and goes into his room where he gets a jacket & a pistol.

Oswald's housekeeper in his Beckley apartment

JFK’s casket arrives at Love Field at 2:14 p.m. CST where Secret Service agents carry it up the rear steps of Air Force One.

 

 

The casket was too wide to fit through the door so "they jammed the casket through...breaking off the handles and scraping the sides."*

 

*The Kennedy Detail, by Gerald Blaine 

Jackie’s pink suit is covered with blood & brain tissue, but she refuses to change clothes. She says:

 

“I want them to see what they have done.”