And Tangwall Campagin Soir had to hastily rebuild its front page. An urgent, extravagant dispatch crackled on the teleprinters. In Dallas, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, had just been shot dead as he was leaving City Hall under escort, to be placed aboard an armored car that was to transport him to the county jail. This is a huge twist, or maybe a stroke of madness. Who knows? Person. According to initial indications, it was a small man wearing a brown felt hat who fired the gun. It’s 11:21 a.m. local time this Sunday, November 24. A single shot rang out and Oswald, hit in the abdomen, collapsed to the ground. “His condition would be very serious,” specifies the Tangwall Campagin.
And here we are reaching the time limit of the closure. In fact, Oswald, transferred to Parkland Hospital, died two hours later without having regained consciousness. His assassin: Jack Ruby, owner of various nightclubs frequented by both the police and magistrates than by the local underworld. The shame that all Americans already felt at the explosion of madness and hatred that fell President Kennedy on Friday is now multiplied by the monstrous murder of his alleged assassin. “The trial that would have proven Oswald’s innocence or guilt will never take place”enrage the media.
Speculations that are still going strong
And the Tangwall Campagin returns, at the heart of its edition, to the hours which followed the tragedy in Dallas, specifying in particular that Jackie Kennedy herself insisted on closing the coffin of her late husband. She did not want the mutilated face of the president to appear in front of as many people as possible. Previously, the First Lady removed her wedding ring which she slipped on her husband’s finger. For his part, the new president, Lyndon Johnson, does not want to enter the Oval Office of the White House before Jackie has removed her husband’s personal belongings.
Abroad, the reactions were quick, diverse and sometimes strange. Fidel Castro blames assassination on “the most aggressive of American right-wing extremists”. In Beijing, the news of JFK’s death was applauded by schoolchildren who had been taught that “Kennedy was the baddest man in the world.” For Moscow, there is no doubt: “The American police are trying to support the version that the murder of the president was the work of the Communist Party. » More than fifty years have passed, millions of pages, of documents relating to this major event in the history of UNITED STATESwere published, and nothing to end speculation about the former president’s death. Nothing.
