Word: coffining
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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...
From the moment we wheeled the casket out of Parkland Hospital in Dallas and pushed it into the ambulance, I, who was Air Force aide to the President, never left the coffin except for a few minutes. I did so only to talk to the pilot of Air Force One, and this was at Mrs. Kennedy's request. She wanted to expedite our departure. During this time Mrs. Kennedy, along with Larry O'Brien and Dave Powers, remained at the side of the casket. To suggest that anyone could have taken the body of the President...
...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 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...