Word: funerales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Kennedys went to Dallas on a political fence-mending trip in a state the Democrats had barely won in 1960. The shots rang out as they endured a hot motorcade trip across town. Afterward many people tried to persuade Jackie to change her clothes, but she insisted on wearing...
She moved to a house in Georgetown, but life there proved impossible. In that quaint, pricey village, houses are close to the street, and tour buses were soon belching smoke in her windows. She then sought out the relative anonymity and familiarity of New York City. She bought an apartment...
A nation watched, and would never forget. The world watched, and found its final judgment summed up by a young woman, a British journalist who had come to witness the funeral, and filed home: "Jacqueline Kennedy has today given her country the one thing it has always lacked, and that...
Funeral services were held Wednesday, May 18.
What really distinguishes these pieces is their sorrow -- particularly for the plight of American blacks and society's losers. Kempton measures leaders by their capacity for compassion, summing up the greatness of Martin Luther King Jr. with this pronouncement: "A great man is one who knows that he was not...