Jacqueline Kennedy on the assassination and her struggles with her religious faith

[Joseph McBride]

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/i...-1.1792737


After her husband's assassination in 1963, she confided to Fr Leonard how she became "bitter against God" and struggled to find comfort in her deep Catholic faith.

"I have to think there is a God or I have no hope of finding Jack again." She added, with bittersweet humour: "God will have a bit of explaining to do to me if I ever see Him."

[Drew Phipps]

It is very hard for people of faith to reconcile a belief in a loving God with the existence of death, loss, and other form of pain and suffering, especially when it happens to us. Although He doesn't owe us an explanation, it is my belief that there is an explanation, whether we want to hear it or not, and regardless of our ability to comprehend it.

[Joseph McBride]

A quote from Robert Kennedy:
Something about the fact that I made some contribution to either my country, or those who were less well off. [B]I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering.[/B]

• In an interview shortly before he was killed, responding to a question by David Frost about how his obituary should read.
  

When RFK was in despair in 1964 over his brother's death, Jacqueline Kennedy recommended he read
Edith Hamilton's THE GREEK WAY. That is where he found the quote from Aeschylus's AGAMEMNON that he revealingly
revised before a mostly African American audience in Indianapolis when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. died
and that is carved in stone at RFK's grave in Arlington:

"My favorite poem, my my favorite poet was Aeschylus," Robert Kennedy said, "and he once wrote:

Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget
falls drop by drop upon the heart,
until, in our own despair,
against our will,
comes wisdom
through the awful grace of God.

"What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black."

See this about his revision of Aeschylus:


http://morec.com/rfk.htm

[Tracy Riddle]

"...this country, where everything is done to prove life isn't tragic..." Albert Camus on America during visit here, Newsweek, Aug. 10, 1987

[Joseph McBride]

ww.edithwharton.org/film/a-tragedy-with-a-happy-ending/


The first stage adaptation of Edith Wharton's bestselling novel The House of Mirth was not a success. In A Backward Glance when Wharton describes the reaction of William Dean Howells, who had come at her invitation to see the performance, she writes of "the lapidary phrase in which, as we left the theatre, he summed up the reason of the play's failure. Yeswhat the American public always wants is a tragedy with a happy ending.'"

[Peter Lemkin]

Aristotle Onassis paid for his own private investigation of the JFK Assassination. This is fact, but little talked about. I've never seen any mention of where that 'investigation' is now - but I'm sure it was shared with Jackie - and likely is part of her estate to her children. Others close to JFK, who were in contact with Bobby and Jackie, though not stating so publicly, believed there was a large and high-level conspiracy involved. Mary P. Meyer (JFK's last lover and LSD/grass/political confident) paid with her life for knowing too much about JFK's murder. As the number of 'Kennedys' [and their friends] dead [or politically assassinated] from unnatural causes grew, I'm sure so did the firmness of their belief in this grand conspiracy. ::fortuneteller:: I can't imagine that after several [to many tens of] millions of Onassis' money thrown at very competent PIs and investigators, he got a report that 'LHO did it alone'....I'd bet my life it showed what most of us here know, and can be found in books such as JFK and the Unspeakable, et al.

Further, Jackie was, of course, right there in the crossfire; she saw his wounds and likely how he was hit and from where. She KNEW there were many rifles and many shooters!!! She learned more later from Bobby and later still via Aristotle. By the end of her life, she must have had a clear and rather complete picture. I believe this is why she chose to live outside of the USA and protected by a billionaire.