# History that must have happened: The Kennedys after 11/63 **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 3, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-that-must-have-happened-the-kennedys-after-11-63/703549 "2014-11-03T20:17:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-that-must-have-happened-the-kennedys-after-11-63/703549/1 "2014-11-03T20:17:00Z")
So after JFK was put to rest…Not only has Jackie lost her husband, but she’s lost her home. Did LBJ say, “Stay as long as you want.”? Is there room for two families there? Did she already own a home somewhere else she could readily move into? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-that-must-have-happened-the-kennedys-after-11-63/703549/2 "2014-11-03T20:24:06Z")
I would think that any President has a residence in their home state. They don’t sell that to move into the White House. I’d think Jackie would want out of D.C. as soon as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-that-must-have-happened-the-kennedys-after-11-63/703549/3 "2014-11-03T20:31:54Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Did she already own a home somewhere else she could readily move into? I’m sure she could live at the Hyannis Port compound as long as she needed to. ---
**Author:** ![Frazzled](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frazzled/32/3368_2.png) [@Frazzled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frazzled)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-that-must-have-happened-the-kennedys-after-11-63/703549/4 "2014-11-03T20:42:45Z")
She moved out 2 weeks after the assassination. It seems a little cruel but the White House is a working home for the President and his family, and Jackie was no longer related to the President. And as others said, the White House is always a temporary residence so leaving isn’t the same as becoming homeless. This is an interesting article talking about Jackie’s last day at the White House: [http://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/12/06/jackie-kennedys-last-white-house-days-what-she-found-in-jfks-desk/](http://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/12/06/jackie-kennedys-last-white-house-days-what-she-found-in-jfks-desk/) ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-that-must-have-happened-the-kennedys-after-11-63/703549/5 "2014-11-03T20:51:45Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > She moved out 2 weeks after the assassination. It seems a little cruel but the White House is a working home for the President and his family, and Jackie was no longer related to the President. And as others said, the White House is always a temporary residence so leaving isn’t the same as becoming homeless. > > This is an interesting article talking about Jackie’s last day at the White House: > > [Jackie Kennedy’s Last White House Days & What She Found in JFK’s Desk - Carl Anthony Online](http://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/12/06/jackie-kennedys-last-white-house-days-what-she-found-in-jfks-desk/) Thanks all. ---
**Author:** ![ZPG\_Zealot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e47c2d/32.png) [@ZPG\_Zealot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZPG_Zealot)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-that-must-have-happened-the-kennedys-after-11-63/703549/6 "2014-11-03T21:14:47Z")
> [@Dale\_Sams](#): > > Did she already own a home somewhere else she could readily move into? She was a woman from a wealthy family that married into an even wealthier family, I imagine she had a number of houses and/or luxury apartments at her disposal. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-that-must-have-happened-the-kennedys-after-11-63/703549/7 "2014-11-03T22:24:40Z")
There was always Grey Gardens. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-that-must-have-happened-the-kennedys-after-11-63/703549/8 "2014-11-03T23:13:29Z")
> [@Frazzled](#): > > She moved out 2 weeks after the assassination. It seems a little cruel but the White House is a working home for the President and his family, and Jackie was no longer related to the President. And as others said, the White House is always a temporary residence so leaving isn’t the same as becoming homeless. > > This is an interesting article talking about Jackie’s last day at the White House: > > [Jackie Kennedy’s Last White House Days & What She Found in JFK’s Desk - Carl Anthony Online](http://carlanthonyonline.com/2013/12/06/jackie-kennedys-last-white-house-days-what-she-found-in-jfks-desk/) And from that article: > [@](#): > > Mrs. Johnson assured her that there was no need to feel pressured to vacate quickly, but rather that she take all the time necessary to find the place she wanted to next make a home for herself and her children. > > Although she and President Kennedy owned a house among those famously known as the “Kennedy Compound” in Hyannis, Massachusetts, it was a summer home, relatively isolated and not winterized. > > They had sold their Georgetown home following the 1960 election and move to the White House. Despite having no home to go to just yet, Jacqueline Kennedy wanted to vacate the White House as quickly as was humanly possible, setting a target date of December 6, 1963. She and the children stayed at the home of Ambassador Averell Harriman after they left the White House. She then bought a home in Georgetown but moved to New York City several months later. ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-that-must-have-happened-the-kennedys-after-11-63/703549/9 "2014-11-04T01:09:51Z")
One of the sadder images I remember from that time was a picture of a mover hauling Kennedy’s rocking chair out of the WH (IIRC, it was within a week of the assassination). It was an especially heavy “he’s really gone” gutpunch. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/history-that-must-have-happened-the-kennedys-after-11-63/703549/10 "2014-11-04T01:43:12Z")
LBJ was an almost total jerk. However, he did treat Jackie fairly. He told her to take as long as she needed to move and to not feel pressured. He and Lady Bird semi-adopted her, which is a redeeming point in his favor and keeps me from calling him a total jerk.