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[accessed November 15, 2011]. Audio excerpts from the Clifton tape can be found at

http://www.raabcollection.com/kennedy-air-force-one-tape/

[accessed November 15, 2011].

31. "JFK: Inside the Target Car, Part 1," Discovery Channel, YouTube,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e246B581jHo

[accessed April 20, 2011]; Blaine with McCubbin, Kennedy Detail, 24345.

32. "Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, Appendix 8: Medical Reports from Doctors at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Tex.," 52930. JFK Assassination Records, National Archives and Records Administration website,

http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report/appendix8.html

[accessed March 11, 2011]; Gerald Posner, Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (New York: Anchor Books, 1994), 28788.

33. Blaine with McCubbin, Kennedy Detail, 229; Posner, Case Closed, 287.

34. Although based on the Eisenhower-Nixon succession agreement (or "Disability of President Memo"), the JFK-LBJ agreement included a telling addition: "There is no provision of the Constitution or of law prescribing any procedure of consultation, but the president and vice president felt, as a matter of wisdom and sound judgment, that the vice president would wish to have the support of the Cabinet as to the necessity and desirability of discharging the powers and duties of the presidency as acting president as well as legal advice from the attorney general that the circumstances would, under the Constitution, justify his doing so." In other words, JFK and RFK revised the Ike-Nixon agreement in order to rein in LBJ and give RFK more power over the succession. The memo that Eisenhower sent to Nixon is friendlier and less formal: "However, it seems to me that so far as you and I are concerned in the offices we now respectively hold, and particularly in view of our mutual confidence and friendship, we could do much to eliminate all these uncertainties by agreeing, in advance, as to the proper steps to be taken at any time when I might become unable to discharge the powers and duties of the president." Undated memo from JFK to LBJ, Vice Presidential Papers, 1961 Subject File, Box 119, Folder, "Vice President, Office of," Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, Texas; Louis Galambos, Daun Van Ee, Elizabeth S. Hughes, Janet R. Brugger, Robin D. Coblentz, Jill A. Friedman, and Nancy Kay Berlage, eds., The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower: The Presidency: Keeping the Peace, vol. XIX (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001), 71114.

35. Gillon, Kennedy Assassination, 6064; "U.S. Constitution: Article II, Section 1," Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy,

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/art2.asp

[accessed March 14, 2011].

36. Personal interview with Robert McClelland, January 14, 2011, Dallas.

37. Posner, Case Closed, 291.

38. G. Paul Chambers, Head Shot: The Science Behind the JFK Assassination (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2010), 38; Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, 8384; Posner, Case Closed, 29293.

39. Cronkite was not the first journalist to report Kennedy's death on the air. That sad distinction belonged to Eddie Barker, news director of KRLD television in Dallas. Barker's unconfirmed report was based on a single but reliable source who worked at Parkland Hospital. Interview with Eddie Barker, November 20, 2003, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/white_house/kennedy/barker.html

[accessed March 5, 2012].

40. "Top 125 Most Memorable Political Moments," Museum of Broadcast Communications website,

http://www.museum.tv/exhibitionssection.php?page=440

[accessed March 15, 2011]. Some of those closest to the president were unaware of his passing until later that evening. Gerald Blaine, one of the Secret Service agents assigned to protect Kennedy, first heard the news when his plane touched down at around seven P.M. "The flight contained all of the agents in Austin and also John Bailey, the Democratic Committee chairman," Blaine told me. "All Air Force [planes] were put on radio silence. It was only after we landed at Andrews Air Force Base that we found out the president was dead." E-mail from Gerald Blaine, January 9, 2013.

41. Max Holland believes that Lee Harvey Oswald may have had as much as eleven seconds to fire three shots. Other researchers disagree. See Dale K. Meyers and Todd W. Vaughn, "Max Holland's 11 Seconds in Dallas," Secrets of a Homicide, June 25, 2007,

http://jfkfiles.blogspot.com/2007/06/max-hollands-11-seconds-in-dallas.html

[accessed November 21, 2011]. Holland also believes that the first bullet that missed Kennedy may have struck the "mast arm" of a traffic light on Elm Street, but he admits that further tests are necessary to confirm his theory. See "The DeRonja-Holland Report," November 20, 2011, Washington Decoded,

http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2011/11/the-.html

[accessed November 28, 2011].

42. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., Robert Kennedy and His Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002), 609.

43. Robert Caro, the award-winning LBJ biographer, says that it was RFK, not one of Johnson's aides, who called Katzenbach for the oath. See Robert Caro, The Passage of Power (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012), 328.

44. As time passed, LBJ and RFK would bicker over the details of their conversation. LBJ gave the impression that taking the oath in Dallas had been Bobby's idea, which is doubtful on its face. RFK certainly rejected this version of events. Kennedy and some other family loyalists portrayed LBJ as a power-hungry politician who needed immediate control and who perhaps feared that if he didn't take the oath in Dallas that the Kennedys would somehow find a way to keep the presidency from him. A more neutral appraisal-while not denying that these motives may have played a role-would certainly admit the importance of reassuring a shaken nation of continuity in the Oval Office. Nothing could do that like the visible swearing-in of the next president. And Johnson was already legally the president, oath or not. The Constitution was clear on that point, even before the ratification of the Twenty-fifth Amendment regarding presidential succession in 1967. Gillon, Kennedy Assassination, 11415.

45. Bishop, Day Kennedy Was Shot, 23144.

46. Ibid., 210.

47. Bugliosi, Reclaiming History, 10.

48. Amanda Hopkinson, "Cecil Stoughton: Kennedy's In-House Photographer, Best Known for Capturing the Swearing-in of LBJ," The Guardian, November 20, 2008,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/20/photographer-obituary-cecil-stoughton

[accessed March 16, 2011]; "President Lyndon B. Johnson Taking the Oath of Office: November 22, 1963 and Beyond," Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum website,

http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/kennedy/index.htm

[accessed March 16, 2011]; Bishop, Day Kennedy Was Shot, 243.