After JFK’s Death, Schoolboy Writes Jackie: “Some mean man killed my dady too”
On this day 48 years ago, President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas.
At 12:30 pm local time, a car carrying JFK, his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally and his wife Nellie, rode through Dealey Plaza when gunshots rained down on the presidential limo.
Nine days later, a nation in deep mourning, a young Texas schoolboy named Monroe Young III wrote a heart-wrenching letter to JFK’s distraught widow: “Some mean man killed my dady too – here in Dallas – my dady was a soldrer,” the note read. Here’s what the letter looked like:
Transcript of Young III’s letter, taken from Letters to Jackie: Condolences from a Grieving Nation.
in 1962 September 23,
Some mean man killed my dady too – here in Dallas – my dady was a soldrer.
Sanda Clause diden get my letter
i hope he will get my letter. i wont a bicycle-
when you write him- tell him my name-
Monroe Young Jr. III
1838 Nomas. Street
Dallas, Tex.
Here is that young man in all his glory:
We sure hope Young III got that bicycle from Sanda Clause.
In 2010 it was revealed that Jackie Onassis received 1.5 million condolence letters after the assassination of her husband. More than 40,000 of them arrived on one day alone.
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