BABY PATRICK KENNEDY LAID TO REST
Brookline, Massachsetts (JFK+50) On August 10, 1963, the infant son of President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, was laid to rest at Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline, a suburb of Boston.
Patrick, who was born five and a half weeks premature on August 7, died in the early morning hours of August 9, only 39 hours after birth. The Kennedy baby died as a result of complications of hyaline membrane disease which is common in premature births.
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, recovering from the delivery at Otis Air Force Base Hospital, was unable to attend the service.
The funeral mass, celebrated by Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston, at his residence, was attended only by members of the immediate Kennedy family.
The gravesite at Holyhood Cemetery was only a short distance from 83 Beals Street where President John F. Kennedy was born. According to David Powers, JFK put a gold Saint Christopher's Medal, which had been a present given to him by Jacqueline, inside the casket.
At graveside, President Kennedy "tightly gripped" Patrick's small white coffin.
Kenneth O'Donnell and David Powers wrote...
"The loss of Patrick affected the President and Jackie more deeply than anybody except their closest friends realized."
A couple of months later, JFK left the Harvard-Columbia football game at halftime to visit Patrick's grave. The President asked Kenny O'Donnell and Dave Powers to make sure he wasn't followed by the press.
Standing in the cemetery looking down at the headstone marked "Kennedy," JFK said to Dave and Kenny...
"He seems so alone here."
After JFK's death and burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy's remains were placed next to those of his father.
SOURCE
"Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy," by Kenneth P. O'Donnell and David F. Powers, Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1970, 1972.
Brookline, Massachsetts (JFK+50) On August 10, 1963, the infant son of President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, was laid to rest at Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline, a suburb of Boston.
Patrick, who was born five and a half weeks premature on August 7, died in the early morning hours of August 9, only 39 hours after birth. The Kennedy baby died as a result of complications of hyaline membrane disease which is common in premature births.
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, recovering from the delivery at Otis Air Force Base Hospital, was unable to attend the service.
The funeral mass, celebrated by Richard Cardinal Cushing, archbishop of Boston, at his residence, was attended only by members of the immediate Kennedy family.
The gravesite at Holyhood Cemetery was only a short distance from 83 Beals Street where President John F. Kennedy was born. According to David Powers, JFK put a gold Saint Christopher's Medal, which had been a present given to him by Jacqueline, inside the casket.
At graveside, President Kennedy "tightly gripped" Patrick's small white coffin.
Kenneth O'Donnell and David Powers wrote...
"The loss of Patrick affected the President and Jackie more deeply than anybody except their closest friends realized."
A couple of months later, JFK left the Harvard-Columbia football game at halftime to visit Patrick's grave. The President asked Kenny O'Donnell and Dave Powers to make sure he wasn't followed by the press.
Standing in the cemetery looking down at the headstone marked "Kennedy," JFK said to Dave and Kenny...
"He seems so alone here."
After JFK's death and burial at Arlington National Cemetery, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy's remains were placed next to those of his father.
Grave of Patrick Bouvier Kennedy
Arlington National Cemetery
Photo by John White (2017)
SOURCE
"Johnny We Hardly Knew Ye: Memories of John Fitzgerald Kennedy," by Kenneth P. O'Donnell and David F. Powers, Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1970, 1972.
