Dean Rusk on the Assassination of JFK by RussellLibraryOralHistory

On November 22, 1963, Secretary of State Dean Rusk was traveling to Japan with six other cabinet members for a joint meeting with the Japanese cabinet. It was on the plane to Japan that Rusk and the other passengers learned that Kennedy had been shot in Dallas.

In this excerpt from the Dean Rusk Oral History Collection, Rusk describes announcing Kennedy's death to the plane's passengers, the reactions of the other passengers, and his own inner anguish upon hearing the news of Kennedy's death.

Recorded c. 1985

From the Dean Rusk Oral History Collection, Interview JJJJJJ, at the Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies.

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