Word: arlington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arlington. The Battle Hymn of the Republic, that fierce old war song chanted tenderly by Andy Williams at the end of the funeral, was to be heard again and again during the afternoon as the special 21-car train bore the Senator and his family and his friends south to Washington. There were crowds and choirs at many of the communities along the right-of-way, more tears and dirges?and there was still more death. Two waiting mourners at Elizabeth, N.J., were killed by a train roaring in the other direction...
Long after nightfall, it arrived in Washington. Along the lamplit streets, past a luminescence of sad and silent faces, the cavalcade wound through the federal city and across the Potomac, where in a green grove up the hill in Arlington, John Kennedy's grave looks out over the city and the river. The moon, the slender candles, the eternal flame at John's memorial?47 feet away and the floodlights laved Robert Kennedy's resting place beneath a magnolia tree. It was 11 o'clock, the first nighttime burial at Arlington in memory. There was no playing of taps...
...churches and synagogues, that this country can see that the nation is now engaged in actions which are in violation of individual conscience." Soon after the film was shown at the court house, U.S. marshals dragged Robert A. Talmanson, 21, a convicted draft evader, from Boston's Arlington Street Unitarian-Universalist Church. A bloody melee ensued outside the church. Talmanson had gone to the church for sanctuary, an ancient tradition not legally recognized...
...draft card turn-in staged at Boston's Arlington St. Church last October 16 was among the draft-resistance activities cited...
...Harvard pediatricians--Dr. Allan M. Butler, professor of Pediatrics, Emeritus, and Dr. Samuel L. Katz, assistant professor of Pediatrics--each read statements of support for Spock yesterday at a press conference in the basement of the Arlington St. Church...