What is left in the still classified JFK assassination files?

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I would like to know what Jackie Kennedy was carrying in her handbag that we saw her with when she stepped out of the airplane at the Love Feild airport in Dallas, Texas.

Does anyone know if she actually revealed this to any news outlet in an interview anytime after the assasination?

If not, the contents of her handbag may be listed in some of the JFK files that have not been released.

It probably has nothing to do with the assasination, but I am sure that law enforcement officials have to have had at least some interest in what she was carrying in that handbag due to it’s proximity to JFK when he was shot.

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That seems unlikely to the point of absurdity. What could Jackie Kennedy have possibly had in her purse that would interest law enforcement?

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Well, I think it would be standard police protocol to check everything in a car that someone has just been murdered in.

The trunk, under the hood, the glove compartment, or any bags or containers that may be laying on the seats or the floorboards.

Again, this is just a curiosity, and I do not believe it is germain to the assasination investigation.

But one of the frames of the Zapruder film does show what appears to be a silver metalic object in Jackie’s hand.

Now, it may not be an object at all.

It could just be lense flare, or some kind of reflective glare.

But if it is a object, it’s plausable that it may have been in Jackie’s handbag.

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For what? What sort of evidence do you think they could have found? What sort of evidence do you think a sniper firing into a car is going to leave in the car, let alone in Jackie Kennedy’s handbag?

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Simply takeing an inventory of all objects that are concealed in a car that someone has just been murdered in is common sense police procedure, and it does not mean that any or all of these objects will be interpreted as and presented in court as evidence.

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That’s your assertion. I’m asking what they’d be looking for. What item of interest to the Kennedy assassination do you think would have been found in Jackie Kennedy’s handbag?

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I told you that I do not believe what may or may not have been in Jackie’s handbag played any role in the assasination.

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If you don’t think it was related to the assassination, why do you care what she had in her purse?

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To me it’s just one of the many details about the JFK case that are in the periphery that may or may not be connected to the assasination.

Jackie Kennedy was idolized around the world by countless millions of women because of her fashion and style choices.

And when she stepped off of the airplane in Dallas, a great many of those women were watching and were commenting among each other about it.

Not only were they commenting on her handbag, they were also probably speculating about what was in it.

So. I am not the only one who is interested in what was in the handbag.

Who knows, mabey it was empty, and Jackie was just carrying it for show.

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If you believe what you say in quote 1 here, why post what you say in quote 2? Indeed why post in this thread at all if her handbag contents had no relevance to the assassination whatsoever?

Personally I think you DO believe what was in her handbag has something to do with the assassination, despite your denals. In fact I suspect you believe she shot him:

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That’s why most women carry a handbag. Pure show, nothing in it. Not utile at all, just a prop. That’s why they won’t let go of it, because someone might notice it’s empty. What could a woman possibly be keeping in a handbag?

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No, I do not believe Jackie shot her husband, because that is a fringe conspiracy theory.

But If the object was a pistol, there might be a rational explanation for this:

Jackie knew that the limousine was not going to be covered, and that presented an increased risk to her safety, and the others as well.

So just in case some nut among the spectators was able to get past the secret service and bumrush the motorcade, Jackie would have some way to protect herself and the others.

Jackie heard the first shot, and as soon as she realized the second shot hit JFK, she simply pulled the pistol out of the handbag not to shoot JFK, but what proved to be a futile attempt to protect him.

If this is what really happened, this has to be in a JFK file that will never be released.

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You do realize that there is a visual recording of the incident, right?

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Besides the Zapruder fim, what other visual recordings were there?

Here is another point that supports my self defense theory:

Many of JFK’s advisors did not want him to go to Texas in the first place, because there were alot of right wing nuts that were not fond of the Kennedy’s, and that in and of itself was too risky.

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Then what possible relevance is their to even the question of whether Jackie had a gat in her purse???

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Like I said, any object that Jackie may or may not have had in her hand and/or handbag had nothing to do with any intent on the part of the shooter or shooters, or the assasination itself.

But if Jackie was carrying a pistol for protection, the reason why this is relevant to any conversation about the JFK case is self explanatory.

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Yet, here I am not finding it, in any way, self explanatory…

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Let’s say the self defense theory is true, and the JFK file on this is actually released to the public via the mainstream news media.

Everybody in the country is going to be talking about it, and this conversation will be trending on social media.

This makes it relevant.

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Whether JFK was wearing boxers or briefs, or ‘going commando’ could be trending on social media.
How that makes it relevant to his assassination is a set of dots you’ve failed to connect.

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I have no idea, but that film shows Jackie’s actions, and they do not include reaching into her purse.

So your theory is that Jackie fired the fatal shot in a misguided attempt at self defense?

Have you ever seen another politician (or the spouse of one) take it upon themselves to utilize deadly force when they are traveling with scores of bodyguards?

Can you provide a cite for this claim that many of JFK’s advisors didn’t want him to go to Texas because it was too risky? In 1962, he gave a pretty famous speech at Rice University in Texas (“we will go to the moon, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard”), so such travel wasn’t unprecedented.