The State Funeral of President John F. Kennedy - November 25, 1963 - Color Film

This rarely-seen color film shows portions of the State Funeral of President John F. Kennedy on November 25, 1963.

The state funeral of John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, took place in Washington, D.C., during the three days that followed his assassination on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas. The body of President Kennedy was brought back to Washington soon after his death and was placed in the East Room of the White House for 24 hours.On the Sunday after the assassination, his flag-draped casket was carried on a horse-drawn caisson to the U.S. Capitol to lie in state. Throughout the day and night, hundreds of thousands lined up to view the guarded casket.

Representatives from over 90 countries attended the state funeral on Monday, November 25. After the Requiem Mass at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, the late president was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

The burial services ended at 3:15 p.m. EST, when the widow, Mrs. Kennedy, lit an eternal flame to burn continuously over his grave. At 3:34 p.m. EST, 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.” Kennedy thus became only the second president to be buried at Arlington, after Taft, which meant that, at that time, the two most recent presidents to lie in state in the Capitol rotunda were buried at Arlington. Kennedy was buried at Arlington exactly two weeks to the day he last visited there, when he came for Veterans Day observances.

We hope you enjoy this trip back to a simpler time, and when the assassination of JFK was a relatively recent event. For education, entertainment and enlightenment. We hope you enjoy and even learn something.

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