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...language newspaper Il Globo accused Victoria Market racketeers of all the shootings and prophesied that "the next victims will be at Muratore's funeral." At St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Muratore's body, clad in a Capuchin's robes, lay in a $1,575 casket with silver fittings, surrounded by floral offerings. Throngs of dapper Italians wearing black ties, dark tight-fitting suits with tapered trousers, and black pointed shoes escorted their wives in deep mourning. In a building opposite, Melbourne police focused binoculars and telephoto cameras on the 200 cars that made...
Died. Captain Michael Donald Groves, 27, of the Army's Honor Guard Company, who directed the mixed service detachment that stood vigil over President Kennedy's casket in the White House and at the Capitol; of a heart attack; at Fort Myer...
During the night, Jackie had come back again, slipped through the mourners. She knelt at the casket, brushed her lips against the flag. As she did so, Bobby Kennedy lingered brooding near the rotunda wall. When a reporter remarked to him of the crowds, Bobby managed a slight smile and murmured, "Fantastic. Fantastic." Then the couple left. Outside, Jackie said, "Let's walk a bit." Arm in arm, they moved almost like ghosts across the lawn below the steps and through the waiting line. As they turned to descend the hill at the Senate side of the Capitol...
Front & Center. On Monday, sunlight splashed the rotunda, and a million people lined the streets of Washington. Shortly before 11 a.m., nine servicemen slid the casket from its catafalque, bore it haltingly, laboriously down the 36 Capitol steps past the black-clothed ranks of John Kennedy's family. The drums began a muffled thunder. There was a gnashing of metal as the military men loaded it aboard the glistening black caisson, the same that carried the coffin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt 18 years...
...Chief-usually a tune of cheerful dignity, but on this day a doleful dirge. On the steps, Caroline brushed a tear from her eye. John-John, who was to have had his third birthday party that day, suddenly looked up and saw the flag on his father's casket. Jackie leaned over to whisper to him, and he saluted. The funeral procession began the last three miles to the cemetery...