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Hello and welcome to the show! We are going to jump right into part two of our coverage of Jackie Kennedy,

but first a very quick recap of part one. Jackie was born in Southampton, New York in 1929,

to parents who divorced when she was about 10 years old. Her mother's second husband's money and connections

assured that Jacqueline Boogie grew up with a life of material wealth. She graduated college and was working as a journalist when she met Senator John F. Kennedy.

They married and had children and eventually Mr. Kennedy was elected the 35th president of the United States.

As first lady, Jackie charmed the world and her own country. She restored the White House and made it into a museum of American history.

She became a patron of the arts and a leader of fashion. The Kennedy's marriage was not smooth due largely to the president's relentless infidelity.

But after the death of their fourth child Patrick in 1963, the couple were beginning to rely upon each other, even to genuinely love each other at last.

The president asked for Jackie's help during some tough campaigning in Texas and Mrs. Kennedy, as we left part one, had just written the word Dallas over three pages of her planner for November 1963, which brings us up to speed. And so we continue.

Okay, so Texas was going to be tough. Then you were looking at a Democratic legislature, Democratic governor, you'd think it would be a slam dunk.

Everyone's like, what a Democratic majority in Texas. Oh yes, friends. Oh yes, Texas used to be a solidly Democratic state.

But that was the whole problem. You see the Democratic party was splintering all over the South due to civil rights issues.

There was a conservative side to the party that was not so keen on this racial equality, including Texas governor Connolly, who was going to meet them there, and a progressive wing of the party that was pulling for change.

And if the Democrats could not put themselves back together, there was a real chance that Texas might just turn Republican for good.

But as we join the Kennedys on the plane, there's still some hope that some hard campaigning and I guess PR because you know, the Kennedys are magic, especially Mrs. can keep the party together.

And since Jackie had worked her magic in Europe, you know, we're going to deploy her here too. Republicans in Texas were all fired up.

Someone had spit on the vice president's wife not too long ago. The papers in Dallas called Kennedy a namby pamby weak sister who just rode around the White House on his daughter's tricycle like mature stuff like that.

Nice. So they're not exactly headed into friendly territory from either side. The Republicans don't want him there.

And the Democrats are in their own sort of pickle. The governor in fact, wish the Kennedys hadn't come at all. He had advised them not to come that it would just throw fat on the fire.

And he just hated the thought of a motorcade, I guess, all that publicity. Can we not just spirit you from the airport to this luncheon in kind of secret and not bring all these people into the situation.

But no, the motorcade route had already been published in the newspapers. Note that by the way, the route of the motorcade had been published for two days in the newspapers. That is not very wise.

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