CAISSON CARRIES JFK'S FLAG-DRAPED CASKET TO CAPITOL
"The only sounds you could hear...were the clip-clop of the horses' hooves and the...muffled drums."
SOURCES
"A nation says goodbye to President Kennedy," by Stephen Smith, November 22, 2013, CBS News.
"Jackie Kennedy's Secret Service Agent Remembers President Kennedy's Funeral," by Clint Hill, Town and Country Magazine, November 22, 2016, www.townandcountrymag.com
Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On November 24, 1963, the body of the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was transported from the White House to the Capitol. The flag-draped casket, carried by a military honor guard, emerged from the door of the North Portico followed by Jacqueline Kennedy, Caroline and John Jr.
The casket was placed on the same caisson that had carried the remains of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945. The caisson was pulled by four gray horses, one without a rider to symbolize the fallen commander-in-chief. The casket was followed by a sailor carrying the Presidential flag and a restless riderless horse accompanied by his military handler.
The procession from the Executive mansion to the Capitol building was flanked by 20 servicemen representing the five military services. As the procession moved slowly down Pennsylvania Avenue, Secret Service Agent Clint Hill, who had been with the President in Dallas, said...
The casket was placed on the same caisson that had carried the remains of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945. The caisson was pulled by four gray horses, one without a rider to symbolize the fallen commander-in-chief. The casket was followed by a sailor carrying the Presidential flag and a restless riderless horse accompanied by his military handler.
The procession from the Executive mansion to the Capitol building was flanked by 20 servicemen representing the five military services. As the procession moved slowly down Pennsylvania Avenue, Secret Service Agent Clint Hill, who had been with the President in Dallas, said...
"The only sounds you could hear...were the clip-clop of the horses' hooves and the...muffled drums."
SOURCES
"A nation says goodbye to President Kennedy," by Stephen Smith, November 22, 2013, CBS News.
"Jackie Kennedy's Secret Service Agent Remembers President Kennedy's Funeral," by Clint Hill, Town and Country Magazine, November 22, 2016, www.townandcountrymag.com
President Kennedy's Funeral Procession
November24 1963
Photo by Abbie Rowe
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