Archbishop Hannan on Jackie Kennedy.

This story is reassuring for those of us who lived through the assassination and had a special love for the Kennedy's.  I think every American was very proud of the First Lady and the courageous manner in which  she conducted herself throughout those terrible days.
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Hannan, a young auxiliary bishop in Washington, D.C., at the time of the assassination had delivered Kennedy’s eulogy, at Jackie Kennedy’s request. Ten days later he had presided over a second Kennedy interment at Arlington National Cemetery, in which she quietly re-buried two of their children next to her husband, a daughter stillborn in 1956 and their son, Patrick, who had lived only three days after his birth four months before the assassination.
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“If only I could believe that he could look down and see how he is missed and how nobody will ever be the same without him,” Kennedy wrote of her husband on Dec. 20, 1963, a few days after the re-interment of the children.
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“But I haven’t believed in the child’s vision of heaven for a long time. There is no way now to commune with him. It will be so long before I am dead and even then I don’t know if I will be reunited with him....
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“Please forgive all this -- and please don’t try to convince me just yet -- I shouldn’t be writing this way,” she concludes. - Source

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Archbishop Hannan said he included the Kennedy note in his memoirs to dispel the notion that because of  rumors of Jack's infidelity, the Kennedy marriage was a loveless one.  Hannan believes “theirs was a relationship grounded in deep, emotional conviction until the very end."