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Earlier, he had climbed high to the top of the Capitol rotunda, and hung over the banister, to photograph the guard of honor around the casket. But his most memorable shot-among four pages of color in this issue-was taken at the grave at Arlington. There, from about 150 yards away and with a 500-mm. telephoto lens-he movingly pictures Jackie, Bobby and Rose Kennedy...
...stood for. She asked that a member of the Army's Special Forces, wearing the green beret distinctive of those guerrilla warfare specialists, be included among the honor guard. Because of Jack's love of the Navy, she requested that the Navy hymn be played as the casket was carried up the Capitol steps. She invited the Navy Choir and Tenor Luigi Vena, who had sung at her wedding, to sing at the cathedral. Recalling that Jack had recently marveled at an exhibition by Britain's Royal Highland "Black Watch" Regiment at the White House, had enjoyed...
...many, it was Jackie Kennedy, still athletic in her springy stride, walking behind her husband's casket. To others, it was Hail to the Chief, or the Navy hymn, or Onward, Christian Soldiers. To some, it was the ageless rituals of the Roman Catholic Church. But to others, it was the fact that those rituals are not changeless-as evidenced when Richard Cardinal Gushing, Archbishop of Boston, who had married John and Jacqueline Kennedy and baptized their children, neared the end of the Requiem Mass and cried in his strangely discordant voice: "May the angels, dear Jack, lead...
...Sunday, the body lay in state beneath the Capitol rotunda. The casket, draped in a flag and surrounded by a five-service military honor guard, was never to be opened because the President had been deeply disfigured. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield fought through sobs to read a eulogy that, although well-meaning, was cruel in its emotion: "There was the sound of laughter; in a moment, it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands...
...Walk a Bit." Outside the Capitol a multitude-possibly a quarter of a million people-waited to begin a hushed parade past the casket. Eight abreast, they lined up for 32 blocks outside the Capitol in such numbers that even at the rate of 6,000 an hour, there was no chance that those at the end of the line could get in before the funeral procession Monday morning. They never stopped. At 2 a.m., a wornan walked by the bier wheeling an infant asleep in a stroller. A blind man was led by the casket, his companion softly whispering...