By the time the doors finally closed on Monday morning, a quarter of a million people had filed past the casket. Getty Images Mrs. Kennedy was heavily involved in the funeral plans. One of the ...

First lady Jacqueline Kennedy had ... the majestic funeral procession began its long, elegant journey to Arlington National Cemetery, where the president’s casket was placed on the mechanical ...

Kennedy's casket emerged from the White House, along with Jacqueline Kennedy and her two ... is born away at 10 o'clock tomorrow." Kennedy's funeral, on Nov. 25, 1963, drew leaders and heads ...

Kennedy's half ... the tomb carrying a standard casket filled with sand. A week after the burial, on Thanksgiving Day, Bird was on duty at the gravesite when Jacqueline Kennedy unexpectedly ...

Kennedy’s funeral was a form of effective, profoundly moving stagecraft; Jackie modeled it explicitly ... watching the casket pass, was a kind of visual metonym for the brutalized country ...

Johnson waited for her and the casket. As Johnson took the oath of office, Jacqueline Kennedy was still in the ... alert to organize the details of the funeral. “People forget that first and ...