Jacket photographs: First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy greet the crowd after deplaning from Air Force One at Love Field in Dallas, Texas, November 22, 1963. Photographs taken by John H. Titmas, © Mary Anne Titmas, courtesy of the John H. Titmas family of Dallas, Texas.

Letter reprinted with the permission of Mr. Charles B. Wade. Envelope reprinted with the permission of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.

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Jacket design by Allison Saltzman