The Kennedy Life: Back to the Future

The Kennedy Life: Back to the Future: Ch.12

Chapter 12

Are you saying that we can affect what happened in the past? That we can change it?

Michelle Madow, Timeless (Transcend Time, #2)

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November 1963

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The Cuban Missle crisis was a success for the United States.

As Caroline had said, the Soviet Union had backed down but there were still atomic bomb testings. The crisis in Vietnam had expanded and President Kennedy was struggling over how to fix it. His percentage rate was dropping and even Caroline could see how close he was to not getting reelected for his next term.

President Kennedy, after the grueling things coming from the presidency, finally decided to go to Texas. Caroline was panicked.

She had cornered her father in the Oval Office, pleading him to not go go Texas but his descion was final. She realized the only way to stop her father from getting killed was to go with them.

She managed to convince her father to let her go with him along with the several other Kennedy cousins. He was quite reluctant of it but he finally agreed.

When he'd agreed, Caroline and Rory had gone to Texas six days earlier. It wasn't because she wanted to it was because she was scared.

She got Rory a new doll and she continued to scout around Dealey Plaza. She saw the picket fence that could suppose lone shooters. She looked up from the grassy knoll and saw the Texas school book depository. She stared at the sixth window.

Caroline snapped mulitple pictures of the fence and the building and sent them back to her uncle, Bobby. He examined them and told her he would make sure police guards and secret service agnets were there.

Caroline's next idea was to spy on Lee Harvey Oswald.

She knew it was dangerous so she sent Rory back to the hotel with Kara who had come with them. Kara still had recovered from her shoulder accident and was cool at it.

Caroline now followed Lee Oswald, the suspected assassin of her father's killer, toward his house. She took a dive in a spot of spiky brambles when Oswald almost spotted her. She followed Oswald to a bar. Caroline was 19 and it didn't matter your age in this decade so she followed.

Oswald ordered a beer and she was very careful to steer clear of him. He went and sat down with a group of men and chatted with them. The men were very strong and muscular, more muscular then her uncle, Bobby. Her stomach churned.

"What can I get for you?" The person at the desk asked. He had noticed Caroline was staring at Oswald.

She snapped out of her gaze and turned to him. "Yes please. One coke. Little on the ice."

Caroline's stomach was still churning. She listened to Oswald talk with his friends. She had good hearing she kept her ears perked up.

"...so we meet up on the 22...kill the president...once we are done with him..."

Caroline would have passed out if she hadn't been holding the table so hard. She excused herself and said she was going to the restroom.

Once she was in the restroom, she contacted Bobby through the walkie-talkie. He was alarmed by her calling.

"Caroline, what is it? Can't you see I'm in a meeting with your father?"

"Uncle Bobby." She spoke the words pathetically. "I think I've found father's assassins."

There was an awkward silence, Caroline thought her uncle had passed out but then again she didn't hear the thump.

"What?" She heard her father in the background. "Bobby, give me that."

She heard a small buzz on the end of the line. Her father was talking.

"Caroline, where exactly are you?"

"I'm in a bar." The answer burned in her throat. "In the restroom. I followed Oswald in. He was talking to a group of men. Those men have a lot of muscle. Father, they scare me."

She heard Bobby swear foully in the background. She was shaking and leaning against the wall. Sweat was running from her forehead.

Her father's reply was muffled again. "Get the hell out of there, Caroline. You've done your job. Now we just need to find if this is a conspiracy theory."

Caroline nodded. "Okay. I'll go back to the hotel. Kennedy out." She put the walkie-talkie in her pocket.

She came walking out of the restroom, sweating from her armpits. She was so nervous she drank her coke quickly and got the hell out of there without any suspecting she had heard the men's conversation.

When she got to the hotel, Rory was sleeping on the bed. Kara was reading a book. She looked up as Caroline walked into the room.

"What did you find?" Kara asked putting the book down. She saw that Caroline was pale white and she was shaking, sweat dripping from her forehead. "Geez, Caroline. You're really pale. What happened?"

She leaned against the wall for support. "Kara, I found Father's killers."

Her cousin looked at her shocked. "Who? What? Where? When? How?"

"They're this muscular men," Caroline spoke really rapidly. "They scare me. And Oswald was involved. There's no lie in that."

"Slow down." Kara gestured for Caroline go sit down. "Calm down, Caroline. And first start taking a deep breath. Be calm."

She took deep breaths but it didn't calm her down that much. She was still shaking with fear. "I am trying to be calm. Kara, they're going to kill him."

"I'm not going to let that happen," her cousin looked at her in the eye. "As long as I live, they will not lay a hand on my uncle."

Caroline was still shaking with fear. Kara sighed and looked at her. "Go to bed, Caroline. You'll feel better in the morning."

It was dark outside, Caroline noted shocked. It had to be at least 11 pm. She took a shower and finally collapsed in the bed at 11:45 pm.

Caroline's worries were finally evaporated when she fell to the sleep for the rest of the night.

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I'm trying to finish the book for next week. Next chapter will be when David and the others land in Dallas, three days before November 22 💙

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