Word: coffining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symposium on U.S. foreign policy -- led by Bishop Ambrose Reeves, recently returned from talks with Ho Chi Minh, Yale Chaplain, William Sloan Coffin, and Princeton professor Richard Shaull -- will be held today at 4 and 7:30 p.m. and tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. at Lowell Lecture Hall...
Manchester interviewed such historic walk-ons as the presidential baggage-master, J.F.K.'s White House French teacher and a soldier who carried a wreath in the funeral procession. He examined the coffin in which Kennedy's body was brought to Washington, studied Jackie's bloodied pink dress in the Georgetown attic where it has been stored since she took it off, walked the entire five-mile motorcade route in Dallas. In the end, he molded his mountain of minutiae into a highly dramatized reconstruction of the tragedy...
Orphan Annie's Eyes Peripheral actors, too, play poignant roles in Manchester's panoply. The eight-man military casket team that carried Kennedy's coffin up the 36 steps into the Capitol rotunda on Nov. 24 was astonished at its weight and nearly dropped it. That night they were terrified at the thought of the next day's funeral procession, when they would have to carry it down again. The officer in charge ordered a coffin from Fort Myer, had it filled with sandbags, and at midnight took his team to the Tomb of the Unknown...
Because of his unlimited admiration for the widowed First Lady, Manchester was also supposed to have created a mawkish, Camille-like Jackie Kennedy. Yet, she is presented fairly objectively in this version of the book-overcome by her loss, but not immersed in bathos. From the coffin she took a lock of Kennedy's hair, writes Manchester, and as she left the East Room she was "swaying visibly." She righted herself and, "beyond consolation, wrenched by a torsion of pain," she managed to retain "the sense of purpose which had kept her going for two days...
...Coffin's recent appeal was met with a great deal of enthusiasm by seminarians throughout the country. Some 250 students had plans to turn in their draft cards, confident that they would not be arrested because of the size of the group. "But we realized that they would just pick off the leaders," John E. Cuppels, second year Divinity student who is organizing the conference, said, and the movement lost strength...