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Bolo Boffin

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13. McHugh's oral history from 1981 - released by JFK Library in 2009.

Tue Nov 19, 2013, 12:56 AM

Nov 2013

http://archive1.jfklibrary.org/JFKOH/McHugh,%20Godfrey%20T/JFKOH-GTM-02/JFKOH-GTM-02-TR.pdf

Page 36 of that PDF:

McHUGH: She was asked, “Mrs. Kennedy, the President wants you to attend the ceremony, the swearing-in ceremony.” She turned to me and said, “At least you don’t leave him. Don’t leave him. Stay with him.” So I’m the only one on board that airplane that stayed with the casket. Never left it.

STERN: You weren’t in that picture?

McHUGH: I’m not in that picture, because I’m…. The door is right there. I see them doing it, but I did not go in. I stood with the casket. I felt I was his military honor guard, that I should stay with him.

I'm wrong in one respect. McHugh left the coffin before the plane took off to speak to the pilot face to face. But Jackie was in the breakfast nook just opposite the coffin along with the people accompanying her. McHugh never left the coffin at any other time.

So between Jackie and McHugh, JFK's coffin was always accompanied - all the way from Parkland to Bethesda. And it was clearly a concern of Jackie's that the coffin never be unattended. McHugh wouldn't even leave for the autopsy.

Shall I go on?

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This is a very cogent explanation Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #1

This is the usual inflammatory remark. MrMickeysMom Nov 2013 #2

The only way it could have been done is if Jackie Kennedy was in on the plot. Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #3

More insults… and no referenced accounts ... MrMickeysMom Nov 2013 #4

I am happy to kick this thread, MrMickeysMom. Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #5

I'm happy you kick it, too... MrMickeysMom Nov 2013 #6

Let me get this straight: you are actually asking me for links on McHugh? Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #7

You've taken this many posts to talk trash... MrMickeysMom Nov 2013 #8

So when I produce the links and citations to all of this evidence Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #9

You're presented with a good deal of evidence, and yet... MrMickeysMom Nov 2013 #10

Because the evidence presented (uncited, I might add) in that video Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #11

I'll do what I've always done... MrMickeysMom Nov 2013 #12

McHugh's oral history from 1981 - released by JFK Library in 2009. Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #13

Yes, more arm waiving …. MrMickeysMom Nov 2013 #15

McHugh's is a firsthand account, MrMickeysMom. Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #16

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There is no question there. His body was never unattended from Parkland to Bethesda Bolo Boffin Nov 2013 #23

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