An outpouring of sympathy for the widowed-First Lady.
Jazz musician Duke Ellington.
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The wife of civil rights leader Medgar Evers, who was assassinated earlier that year.
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Civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King.
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Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev (translation below).
It was with deep personal grief that I learned about the tragic death of your husband, President of the U.S. John F. Kennedy. All people who knew him greatly respected him, and I shall always keep the memory of my meetings with him. Accept my most sincere condolences and expressions of wholehearted sympathy with your grievous bereavement. N. Khrushchev.
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