the public until 2009), McHugh provided detailed statements that once Kennedy's body was back on board Air Force One he did not know that Lyndon Johnson was also on board. Due to safety concerns that there was a conspiracy, Jacqueline Kennedy's repeated requests, and the fact that the plane's interior cabin was quite warm, McHugh had requested that the plane take off. When the plane still had not taken off, McHugh went forward to again ask pilot James Swindal why the plane had not taken off and he was told that Johnson did not want the plane to take off yet. McHugh went to find Johnson and he soon found Johnson in a bathroom with Johnson saying repeatedly, "They're going to get us all. It's a plot. It's a plot. It's going to get us all." According to the General, Johnson "was hysterical, sitting down on the john there alone in this thing." In a documented interview the previous week in 1978 McHugh had also stated to the House Select Committee on Assassinations investigator Mark Flanagan the same basic account of what he witnessed. Jordan Marsh incident In the summer of 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy was at the Kennedy family compound in Massachusetts while she was pregnant. Air Force personnel became concerned that if Mrs. Kennedy were to deliver the child at the Otis Air Force Base hospital, that the maternity ward furniture would be unsatisfactory for the newborn child of the President and First Lady. The Air Force then spent $5,000.00 ($44,000 in 2021) of taxpayer money at Jordan Marsh & Company to purchase new furniture, and allowed media photographs of a U.S. Navy aide standing next to the purchase. After the photos made their way into the Washington Post, an irate President Kennedy telephoned McHugh and ordered him to have the furniture returned. Kennedy's profanity-laden phone call with McHugh is now public. Later years McHugh married Lillian Triplett Fall in 1967. The couple retired to Palm Beach, Florida in 1986. General McHugh died in Palm Beach in 1997 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Awards Legion of Merit Air Force Commendation Medal Army Commendation Medal American Campaign Medal European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal World War II Victory Medal Army of Occupation Medal National Defense Service Medal with star Air Force Longevity Service Ribbon with four bronze oak leaf clusters Dates of Rank References Further reading The Death of a