Assassination of John F. Kennedy Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Kennedy declared dead; Johnson sworn in=== [[File:Lyndon B. Johnson taking the oath of office, November 1963.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|alt=Lyndon B. Johnson raises his hand above an outstretched Bible as his is sworn in as President as [[Air Force One]] prepares to depart Love Field in Dallas. Jacqueline Kennedy, still in her blood-spattered clothes (not visible), looks on.|[[Cecil Stoughton]]'s photograph of [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] being sworn in as President as [[Air Force One]] prepares to depart Love Field in Dallas. [[Jacqueline Kennedy]], still in [[Pink Chanel suit of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy|her Chanel suit]] (the blood spatters not visible here), looks on.]] At 12:38 p.m., Kennedy arrived in the emergency room of [[Parkland Memorial Hospital]].<ref>[[#Bugliosi2008|Bugliosi (2008)]], p. 85.</ref> Although Kennedy was still breathing after the shooting, his personal physician, [[George Burkley]], immediately saw that survival was impossible.<ref>[[#Arlington|"Biographical sketch of Dr. George Gregory Burkley". Arlington National Cemetery.]]</ref><ref name="hub"/><ref>[[#Bugliosi2008|Bugliosi (2008)]], p. 93.</ref> After Parkland surgeons performed futile [[Cardiopulmonary resuscitation|cardiac massage]], Kennedy was pronounced dead at 1:00 p.m., 30 minutes after the shooting.<ref name="hub">[[#Huber|Huber (2007)]], pp. 380β393.</ref> CBS host [[Walter Cronkite]] broke the news on live television.<ref>[[#Cronkite|"Walter Cronkite On The Assassination Of John F. Kennedy". NPR.]]</ref><ref>[[#Daniel|Daniel (2007)]], pp. 87, 88.</ref> The Secret Service was concerned about the possibility of a larger plot and urged Johnson to leave Dallas and return to the [[White House]], but Johnson refused to do so without any proof of Kennedy's death.<ref name="boyd">[[#Boyd|Boyd (2015)]], pp. 59, 62.</ref>{{efn|group=note|At the time of Kennedy's assassination, most of his cabinet was on a trip to Japan.<ref>[[#Ball|Ball (1982)]], p. 107.</ref>}} Johnson returned to Air Force One around 1:30{{nbsp}}p.m., and shortly thereafter, he received telephone calls from advisors [[McGeorge Bundy]] and [[Walter Jenkins]] advising him to depart for Washington, D.C., immediately.<ref name="Esquire; September 16, 2013">[[#Jonesesq|Jones (2013)]]</ref> He replied that he would not leave Dallas without Jacqueline Kennedy and that she would not leave without Kennedy's body.<ref name="boyd"/><ref name="Esquire; September 16, 2013"/> According to ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'', Johnson did "not want to be remembered as an abandoner of beautiful widows".<ref name="Esquire; September 16, 2013"/> At the time of Kennedy's assassination, the murder of a president was not [[Federal crime in the United States|under federal jurisdiction]].<ref name="kurtz2"/> Accordingly, Dallas County medical examiner [[Earl Rose (coroner)|Earl Rose]] insisted that Texas law required him to perform an autopsy.<ref name=Munson>[[#Munson|Munson (2012)]]</ref><ref name=Stafford>[[#Stafford|Stafford (2012)]]</ref> A heated exchange between Kennedy's aides and Dallas officials nearly erupted into a fistfight before the Texans yielded and allowed Kennedy's body to be transported to Air Force One.<ref name=Munson/><ref name=Stafford/><ref name="bug110">[[#Bugliosi2007|Bugliosi (2007)]], p. 110.</ref> At 2:38 p.m., with Jacqueline Kennedy at his side, [[First inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson was administered the oath of office]] by federal judge [[Sarah Tilghman Hughes]] aboard Air Force One shortly before departing for Washington with Kennedy's coffin.<ref>[[#Oath|"President Lyndon B. Johnson takes Oath of Office, 22 November 1963". John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.]]</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page