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Upon hearing the news, style icon Jackie Kennedy pushed for her husband to hire Loewy to design the Air Force One livery. The light robin's egg blue he devised become known as Jackie Kennedy Blue.
Jackie left her bloody suit on to 'let them see what they've done' Jackie stayed next to her husband's casket as they drove to Air Force One, where Johnson ? now the president ? and his wife.
Kennedy's body was taken to Air Force One at Love Field Airport in Dallas, where new President Lyndon Johnson was waiting. He'd been advised to fly back to Washington, D.C. to be sworn into office officially, but refused to leave without Jackie, and she refused to leave without Kennedy's body.
Jackie Kennedy climbs stairs into Air Force One shortly after her husband's coffin was loaded on board the plane. Capt. Cecil Stoughton, U.S. Army, Courtesy John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library, Boston. Kennedy Assassination Photo Gallery.;"