“He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights… it had to be some silly little Communist.”

To her mother, Janet Auchincloss (22 November 1963); quoted in The Death of a President (1967) by William Manchester

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public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Ke… 1929–1994

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