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The John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame is a presidential memorial at the grave site of assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy, in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. This permanent site replaced a temporary grave and eternal flame used at the time of Kennedy's state funeral on November 25, 1963, three days after his assassination.
Among the most frequently visited sites in the cemetery is the grave of President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy, who is buried nearby along with their son Patrick and their stillborn daughter Arabella. Kennedy's remains were interred there on March 14, 1967, a reinterment from his original Arlington burial site, some 20 feet (6.1 m ...
John F. Kennedy [43] November 22, 1963 [G] Kennedy gravesite, [R] Arlington National Cemetery: Arlington: Virginia: 36 Lyndon B. Johnson [45] January 22, 1973: Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park: Stonewall: Texas: 37 Richard Nixon [46] April 22, 1994: Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum: Yorba Linda: California: 38 Gerald Ford ...
FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013 file photo, visitors stand near the eternal flame at the grave site of U.S. President John F. Kennedy at the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va.
English: This was what John F Kennedy's Arlington Cemetery grave looked like in May 1964 before redevelopment of the grave and Eternal Flame. The Eternal Flame is clearly visible, as is the Honor Guard in the corner.
There are over 300,000 headstones and hundreds of memorials at Arlington National Cemetery. Arlington House itself is a memorial to George Washington.The son of Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, John Parke Custis purchased the 1,100-acre (450 ha) tract of wooded land on the Potomac River north of Alexandria, Virginia in 1778.
The suddenness of President Kennedy’s death meant that his initial grave, prepared for his funeral just three days after his assassination on November 22, was a hastily designed temporary one: a ...
Memorial Day Ceremony at Arlington Cemetery – ArlingtonCemetery.org – unofficial website (archived page) National Park Service site; Interment.net – interment Information; ArlingtonCemetery.net – unofficial website; U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: List of burials at Arlington National Cemetery