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Laced Jackets. At 9:45 a.m., as Big Ben struck the quarter-hour and cannon boomed, a gun carriage emerged from Westminster Hall, where Churchill's body had lain in state for three days and nights. The coffin on the gun carriage was shrouded with the Union Jack, on which rested a black velvet cushion bearing the diamond and gold regalia of the Order of the Garter. More than 100 sailors of the Royal Navy-Churchill's favorite service-drew the gun carriage and its burden forward at a measured 65 paces to the minute.* Each minute...
...Churchill's coffin was carried up the nave, the choir intoned I Am the Resurrection and the Life. There were no flowers, but many flags and banners from old campaigns. Between the bier and the altar rested Churchill's tokens of office: his black-draped sword, the great carved lion that is the Churchill family crest, sashes bearing the medals and honors of a lifetime of great achievement. The pallbearers-Churchill's old wartime colleagues and chiefs of staff-moved quietly to their seats...
Lyndon Johnson was poised for the biggest day of his life, his first pomp-and-ceremonial inauguration. The event would be all the more stirring because of the jarring contrast with his first inauguration 14 months before in the cramped and sweltering cabin of Air Force One, with the coffin-encased body of John Kennedy only a few yards away...
...afterwards reigned as Richard III. Many historians believe that it was not Richard "Crouchback," but England's next ruler, Henry VII, who murdered the princes; yet no one knew what had become of York's bride, Anne Mowbray. Last week the London Museum announced that her tiny coffin had been discovered on the site of a medieval nunnery near Westminster, where she died, apparently of natural causes, in 1481 at the age of eight...
...office should be administered at Dallas' Love Field. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach dictated the oath to a secretary aboard the plane. Dallas Judge Sarah Hughes, who was to administer the oath, arrived, and Lyndon recalled: "A few minutes later Mrs. Kennedy and the President's coffin arrived. Mrs. Johnson and I spoke to her. We tried to comfort her, but our words seemed inadequate. About a half-hour later, I asked someone to find out if Mrs. Kennedy would stand with us during the administration of the oath. Mrs. Johnson went back to be with...