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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.
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. The ...
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. Film is Kodachrome, camera unknown.
Slate headstone and Eternal Flame marking the grave of John F. Kennedy. Prior to construction, which formally began in the spring of 1965, several design changes were made to the Kennedy grave site. The retaining wall behind the grave was removed, and the hill landscaped to allow an unobstructed view of Arlington House.
When it came time to create that permanent memorial at Arlington, over 150 proposals were considered before plans were finalized for JFK’s permanent grave—it seemed no design could perfectly ...
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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."
The burial services ended at 3:15 pm. EST, [134] when the widow lit an eternal flame to burn continuously over his grave. [135] At 3:34 pm. EST, [128] [136] the casket containing his remains was lowered into the earth, as "Kennedy slipped out of mortal sight—out of sight but not out of heart and mind."