From Love Field: Our Final Hours with President John F. Kennedy

New York: Rugged Land. Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. Abrasion on cover from sticker removal that blends into photo. . Black & White photos. First Printing November 2003.. . 209 pages. "I awakened early on Friday morning, November 22, 1963. The day was gray and somber. Rain was falling....I asked John if I could ride with him to Dallas, and his reply was 'certainly.' We got in the jump seats right behind the driver and secret service man in the front. I was on the driver's side. Mrs. Kennedy was behind me. The President sat directly behind John. We were a happy foursome. I had my yellow roses; Jackie had red ones. I turned to the President as the formation of cars turned onto Elm Street and said, ' Mr. President, you certainly cannot say that Dallas does not love you.'"Nellie Connally, wife of the late governor of Texas John Connally, shares her personal diary of the JFK assassination. While a seminal document in our nation's history-the original document is to be archived at the University of Texas-<I>From Love Field</I> is, at heart, one woman's account of a personal tragedy. Written for her children and grandchildren forty years ago in November 1963, the diary details what it took as a wife, mother, and friend to cope with an unimaginable personal and public ordeal. With the twenty-six-page original document expertly reproduced in its entirely and an additional narrative detailing the days before and after the fatal shots, <I>From Love Field</I> also includes many major newsbreaking revelations that further delineate Mrs. Connally's longstanding dispute of the Warren Commission's findings. Along with Mickey Herskowitz, a longtime family friend and coauthor of John Connally's autobiography, <I> In History's Shadow</I>, Nellie Connally has, at last, broken her silence and given the country a personal point of view of the most controversial and disturbing chapter in its history. .