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Jacqueline Kennedy, accompanied by her brothers-in-law, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Edward Kennedy, walking from the White House as part of the funeral procession accompanying President Kennedy's casket to Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington D.C. on November 25, 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]
Black Jack in John F. Kennedy's funeral procession. A 15.1 hands (61 inches, 155 cm) black Morgan-American Quarter Horse cross, [1] [2] [Note 1] Black Jack served in the Caisson Platoon of the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard).
Kennedy's casket was transported down Pennsylvania Avenue on the same caisson that carried Abraham Lincoln after he was assassinated a century earlier, and a riderless horse was included in the procession. Kennedy’s was the first presidential funeral to be widely televised. “Technology has made mourning in a way more accessible, more ...
Three days after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, a state funeral was held in Washington, D.C. on November 25, 1963, the same day as John F. Kennedy Jr.'s third birthday. As the funeral ...
The next day, he was one of an estimated 1 million people who lined up on the funeral procession route, watching as world leaders such as French President Charles de Gaulle and Ethiopian Emperor ...
The presence of elements of the British and Irish armies at the state funeral of John Kennedy was requested by Jacqueline Kennedy, shown here during the funeral procession. In late 1963, the band of the Black Watch Regiment conducted a three-month performance tour of the United States.
This month marks 60 years since JFK's assassination. The memory of that day and the ensuing funeral procession are still strong for Kathryn Ross.