Word: coffined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Year cover I suggest three-year-old John-John saluting the coffin bearing his father's body. It would symbolize the eternal light, the resurrection of a new year, a new future, and new hopes in our children...
...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...
When it was over, the honor guard took the coffin into the sunshine. A band struck up Hail to the 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...
...pallbearers, their white-gloved hands moving in careful precision folded to a tight triangle the flag that had covered Kennedy's coffin for two days. Jackie took it and, hugging it to her breast, took a taper and lighted a blue flame at the foot of the grave-an "eternal light." Bobby and Teddy Kennedy touched taper to flame too, then they turned to go, and the funeral of John Kennedy was over...
...plain pine coffin was opened. Marina Oswald placed two rings on her dead husband's fingers and kissed him. The coffin was closed and lowered into a 6-ft.-deep vault, which weighed 2,700 lbs., was asphalt-lined and reinforced with steel bars. Said the funeral director: "It would be extremely hard for anyone to break into the grave...