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  2. State funerals in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The state funeral was the first in the television age, covered live from start to finish, nonstop for 70 hours. [20] [21] Kennedy's body was brought back to Washington after his assassination. Early on November 23, six military pallbearers carried the flag-draped coffin into the East Room of the White House, where he lay in repose for 24 hours.

  3. List of largest funerals - Wikipedia

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    300,000 (State funeral) [12] Funeral of Sholem Aleichem: May 13, 1916 United States: New York City: at least 250,000 [13] Funerals of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht: June 13, 1919 Weimar Republic: Berlin: 200,000 [14] Funeral of Michael Collins: August 28, 1922 Ireland: Dublin: 500,000 [15] Funeral of Rudolph Valentino: August 30, 1926 ...

  4. Funeral - Wikipedia

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    A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with the attendant observances. [1] Funerary customs comprise the complex of beliefs and practices used by a culture to remember and respect the dead, from interment, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.

  5. Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia

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    King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to retrieve the body and prepare it for viewing.

  6. Military funerals in the United States - Wikipedia

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    A casket team from the 1st Special Forces Group carries the flag-draped casket of Sergeant First Class Nathan Chapman on January 8, 2002. A casket team from the United States Navy folds the flag covering the casket of NASA Astronaut and U.S. Navy Captain Laurel Blair Salton Clark , who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003.

  7. The First Funeral - Wikipedia

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    The First Funeral is an 1878 plaster sculpture by Louis-Ernest Barrias, first exhibited at the Paris Salon that year, where it won a medal of honour. He then produced a marble version for the Salon of 1883.

  8. State funeral of Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

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    Funeral services, a procession, and a lying in state were first held in Washington, D.C., then a funeral train transported Lincoln's remains 1,654 miles (2,662 km) through seven states for burial in Springfield, Illinois. Never exceeding 20 mph, the train made several stops in principal cities and state capitals for processions, orations, and ...

  9. Jimmy Carter funeral: What to know about the former ... - AOL

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    The nation will now see the first funeral for a Democratic president in more than 50 years. ... The state funeral is a formal ceremony that includes traditions of lying in state, processions ...