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AUSTIN, Texas - Nellie Connally, the last remaining survivor who was riding in President Kennedy's limousine when he was assassinated, has died, a family friend said Saturday. She was 87. Connally, the widow of former Gov. John Connally, died in her sleep late Friday at Westminster Manor in Austin, said Julian Read, who served as the governor's press secretary in the 1960s. "Total surprise," he said. "She has been extremely active and vital the past few days and weeks. ... It's a shock to all of us." Connally had said the most enduring image she had of the Nov. 22,...

Connally donates items to LBJ library AUSTIN (AP) — Former Texas first lady Nellie Connally donated to the LBJ Library and Museum on Monday her handwritten notes of President Kennedy's assassination and the suit she wore the day he was killed in Dallas. The widow of former Gov. John Connally wrote 26 pages of notes 10 days after the Kennedy assassination. She and her husband, who survived the shooting that day, were riding in the limousine with the president and his wife on Nov. 22, 1963. Nellie Connally recently published those memoirs in the book "From Love Field: Our Final...

For all the coverage generated by the 40th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination this past weekend, the media managed to miss the only genuine news to emerge from the commemoration. Nellie Connally, wife of former Texas Gov. John Connally and the only person still alive who rode in the presidential death limousine, publicly disputed for the first time the Warren Commission's "magic bullet" theory, a scenario absolutely essential to its finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was Kennedy's lone assassin. A year after the assassination the Commission concluded that Kennedy and Gov. Connally were both wounded by the first shot fired...

Nellie Connally authors book on assassination of Kennedy SAN ANTONIO — (AP) A week or so after President John F. Ken nedy was assassinated, Nellie Connally grabbed a legal pad and a couple of pens and found a quiet place in the gov ernor's man sion to write down what she remembered about the tragic event. Over the next few hours, the then-first lady of Texas scribbled out 22 single-space pages about gunshots and her pink tweed suit being splattered with blood, about trying to protect her wounded husband, about the futile attempt to save the president and the successful...