Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1963-12-01
A NEW CHAPTER
Attempts at Praise Fail
BY RAYMOND ]. CROWLEY
Associated Press STAN Writer

"Profiles in Courage" the title reads.
And before the next edition of John F. Kennedys
book comes off the press should prepare
chapter-a chapter leading all the rest.
This the world would agree-Should bear the
simple title: "Jacqueline."
Only who shall write it9 Aeschylus, sophocles,
Euripides are dead these two mlenia and more.
We must one feels search out q new master Of
tragedy-a man privy to the souls Of noble personalities
erect under the bludgeoning Of fate.
writer in London newspaper tried, and fell
short For he seemed to relinqush reluctantly the
ton that only those who wear visible crowns queens
Something We Lacked
"Jacqueline Kennedy" he said, has given the
American people from this day on one thing they have
always lacked-majesty."
Some said only little while ago that she was
merely high echeon glamor girl. This winsome girl
who:
Born of wealth. became lnquist, an inuuiring
photographer for a newspaper, horsewoman, q water
SKIER lover of the arts new and old, person who
gazed long at the Mona Lisa while her husband
champed to be off to his high duties, q woman who
only last month sailed through the tabled Isles Of
Greece dreaming "the dream Of my life"
She Is automatically woman, too, for she some
times has tsrred over her toilette
4 As on Friday, the black 22d of November 1863
The President and she had been transforming
Texas-she making perhaps deeper impression than
he. Coming out in drzzIe from their Fort Worth
hotel the President made little speech to q street
crowd.
He was sorry his wife was Late he said with
grim "She is organizing herself and it takes little
longer for her. but Of she looks lot better
than we do"
Before Breakfast
When she appeared for breakfast of the Fort
Worth Chamber Of Commerce, she wore a woolly two
piece fuchSia sut-and this was the garb that was to
be stained by an assassn's infamy.
The world knows now how when the shots struck
nDalas, she Graded his head and cried out: "Oh no!
JackI Jack!"
That was the last public lament she was to utter
though the beautiful cheeks have become slightly swol-
len from weeping in private.
1t was well known, too how she accompanied her
fa IN husband every tragic step-to the Dallas hospital
the Jet plane bearing the corpse back to Washington
down the yellow cargo lift to the concrete of Andrews
An Base while the purple lights of the runways seemed
to blink in horror.
81 everyone knows too how-garbed in black-she
walked behind the coffin from the White House to st
matthew's Cathedral, followed by many of the worlds
great Inis was the kind of procession the martyred
Lincoln had had, and this the kind she felt was
due to the nation and the world
And she visited the bier and the grave again and
again bringing the children-Carone to kiss
the flag and John-John to give the scarcely compre
lending milAary salute of three-year
As to bring order out of woeful chaos, she found
time to attend to many things:
Belonged to Nation
She consented to her husbands burial in Arlington
National Cemetery rather than Brooklne Mass as II
10 emphasize that he belonged to the Nation She de-
signed the memorial cards for the mass of REQUIEM.
asked that his most loved passages from scripture be
rected that his inaugural speech be quoted
She suggested that she herself receive the foreign
leaders who came from beyond the seas to do homage
ana when the new President, Lyndon 3. Johnson as
Sueo Latin American diplomats that the Alliance for
Progress would 60 forward she too spoke to them tan
Ing them in Spanish for their sympathy