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John F. Kennedy's assassination was the first of four major assassinations during the 1960s, coming two years before the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and five years before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. [309] For the public, Kennedy's assassination mythologized him into a heroic figure. [310]
City Cemetery South Bend: Indiana: 18 Henry Wilson [69] November 22, 1875 [c] Old Dell Park Cemetery Natick: Massachusetts: 19 William A. Wheeler [70] June 4, 1887: Morningside Cemetery: Malone: New York
Pall bearers carrying the casket of President Kennedy up the center steps of the United States Capitol Building, followed by a color guard holding the flag of the president of the United States, and the late President's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy and her children, Caroline Kennedy and John F. Kennedy Jr., on November 24, 1963.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), also known as JFK, was the 35th president of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, and his state funeral took place on November 25, 1963, in Washington, D.C. As President Kennedy lay in state, foreign dignitaries—including heads of state and government and members of royal families—started to arrive in Washington to attend the state funeral on Monday. [ 1 ]
The John F. Kennedy Memorial was the first memorial by famed American architect and Kennedy family friend Philip Johnson, and was approved by Jacqueline Kennedy.Johnson called it "a place of quiet refuge, an enclosed place of thought and contemplation separated from the city around, but near the sky and earth."
John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway, a stretch of Interstate 95 in Delaware along the Delaware Turnpike, running from the Maryland border, where the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway continues south to Baltimore, north to Newport. The road had been dedicated by President Kennedy on November 14, 1963, eight days before his assassination.
This list of cemeteries in Oklahoma includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.