On November 22, 1963, Connally was sitting in the jump seat of Kennedy's open-topped limo as the president visited Dallas. When shots were fired, Connally was hit by a bullet that passed through Kennedy. The governor was wounded on his back, chest, wrist and thigh, and drifted in and out of consciousness for days. He finally became alert as he watched television coverage of Kennedy's funeral.
For a time, Connally was convinced that Kennedy's alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, had intended to kill him instead. The reason, he said, was that Oswald had once petitioned Connally, when he was Secretary of the Navy, to upgrade his discharge from the Marines. Connally had never responded to the request.
The last two decades of Connally's life were a bit of a roller coaster. In 1974, he was indicted for accepting a $10,000 bribe (he was acquitted of the charges). A few years later, he spent a considerable amount of money in an attempt to secure the Republican presidential nomination, but lost to Ronald Reagan. Connally was forced to declare bankruptcy in 1988 after falling $93 million into debt as a result of poor real estate and oil investments.
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And here is a picture that I'm almost positive I put on the Blog several years ago but am re-posting in honor of Uncle Lynn's 85th birthday. Congrats Uncle Lynn! It seems to me that Grandma's kitchen was about the busiest room of the house in those days. Everybody hung out there!
But I've never been able to figure out the identity or meaning of those weird floor tile markings.
6 comments:
GREAT pics. Thanks so much for posting them. You may remember that not quite two years ago, Ada, Judy, and I visited Rhoda, and we went to the Texas Book Depository and saw the sight where that tragic event took place. It's a great destination for anyone to see.
And as to the pattern of the tile - Yes, it was different!! But is one of my strongest memories of that kitchen!!
I don't remember ever seeing the bottom picture. I may be embarrassed for asking this, but who is the girl in the middle front?
I was quite young when Grandma moved out of that house, but I do remember that tile seeing the picture.
I thought the girl in the front was Mary Sue, so that would make the little one in Aunt Mim's lap you, Rhoda? And Mark would be
the boy flopped backwards in someone's lap at the end of the table? But that is all guessing. Aunt Mim might recognize those little girls!
Mary is sitting on Mom's lap. I don't think that looks like Ann in the front. Mom also doesn't think it's Mark all flopped out like that.
My guess is Ann in front and Mary on her mom's lap. The picture, based on the appearance of me and Ada, would be about 1961 or 62. The flopped-out boy is being held by someone else, so he might be Stan or David?
That may be me in the front although I'm not sure. And I think the year may be more like 1964. Mary was born in 1961, and that is definitely her on Mom's lap.
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