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Fact check: Did Jacqueline Kennedy continue to wear her bloodstained clothes after her husband was shot?

Checked on October 9, 2025

Executive Summary

The materials provided for analysis do not contain any contemporaneous or authoritative evidence that Jacqueline Kennedy continued to wear her bloodstained clothes after President John F. Kennedy was shot; every source excerpt reviewed focuses on her wedding dress or unrelated site material and explicitly lacks information about the assassination or her actions afterward [1] [2] [3]. Because the available documents are off-topic and do not include primary accounts, photographs, archival records, or credible secondary reporting about the assassination event, the claim cannot be verified or refuted on the basis of the supplied sources [4] [5].

1. Why the provided sources fail to answer the core question — a forensic inventory of content gaps

All supplied excerpts are about Jacqueline Kennedy’s wedding attire, site privacy notices, or commercial listings and therefore omit any information relating to the events of November 22, 1963, or to Kennedy’s attire following the shooting. The texts flagged as relevant were dated between September 2025 and June 2026 but are explicitly described in the analyses as privacy notices, wedding-dress retrospectives, or fashion catalog entries; none contain eyewitness testimony, forensic inventories, or archival photographs documenting Jackie’s clothing state immediately after the assassination [1] [6] [2]. This absence means the dataset lacks the primary

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