Word: coffin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time was the ambulance out of sight of at least several hundred people, from its arrival at the center until the bronze coffin was unloaded at the morgue...
...shaven for the historically heated head-to-head battle, but the win still came as a shock to the 300 fans who crammed into Blodgett's humid confines to witness what they thought would prove the confirmation of Harvard's swimming dynasty, the last nail in Princeton's collective coffin...
Lifton tracked down all seven members of a military honor guard assigned to meet the coffin at Bethesda. As they watched the motorcade arrive at the front entrance and awaited orders, the gray Navy ambulance carrying the casket sat virtually unattended. Then at 7:05 p.m., Lifton relates, the ambulance suddenly took off at high speed. The honor guard tried to follow in a pickup truck but lost it. Seaman Hubert Clark recalls himself and his mates wondering "where in the hell" the ambulance had gone...
...Lifton has this triple entry of caskets (once by the gray casket and twice by the bronze) well documented, he admits to puzzlement at how the body got out of the morgue after its first entry, to rejoin the bronze coffin in which it had left Dallas. The report by the two FBI agents, which was never seen by the Warren Commission staff but had been sent directly to the National Archives, gave Lifton one clue. At one point, they wrote, "all personnel with the exception of medical officers needed in the taking of photographs and X rays were requested...
Lifton has no hard evidence to support this method of reuniting body and bronze coffin. But O'Connor did tell him that there was talk at the hospital afterward of a casket being rushed through the halls. Also several witnesses reported that the bronze coffin appeared damaged, including a broken handle, when it was carried into the morgue by the honor guard...