Word: kennedyism
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At Arlington, the pallbearers gave Jackie the flag from the coffin, which she embraced as if it were a small child. Then she took a taper and lit the flame at the foot of the grave - an "eternal light." Bobby and Teddy Kennedy touched taper to flame too. Then they...
John F. Kennedy's funeral was one of those events that shoved history around a corner. That was the day the '50s became the '60s, that new generation bearing its torch now using it to set fires. By the time of Bobby Kennedy's assassination in the early hours of...
This time the task of leading the country through yet another ritual of grief fell to Ted Kennedy. First he had to tend his family, shuttling between his stricken parents in Hyannis Port and Bobby's widow Ethel and 10 children in Virginia. He and his mother Rose taped a...
Eight of the Kennedy children carried the bread and wine for the Communion at the funeral Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Ethel made certain the priests wore purple, the color of hope, rather than black. She wanted the Mass to be joyful. Ted stayed up...
But then he quoted his brother's message, to all those he had sought to lead: "Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not." Then a funeral train carried his body to Washington; inside was a traveling Irish...