Word: rotundas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Earlier, he had climbed high to the top of the Capitol rotunda, and hung over the banister, to photograph the guard of honor around the casket. But his most memorable shot-among four pages of color in this issue-was taken at the grave at Arlington. There, from about 150 yards away and with a 500-mm. telephoto lens-he movingly pictures Jackie, Bobby and Rose Kennedy...
...Sunday, the body lay in state beneath the Capitol rotunda. The casket, draped in a flag and surrounded by a five-service military honor guard, was never to be opened because the President had been deeply disfigured. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield fought through sobs to read a eulogy that, although well-meaning, was cruel in its emotion: "There was the sound of laughter; in a moment, it was no more. And so she took a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands...
...held her face rigid as stone. Beside her were the children, Caroline and John Jr., dressed in matching powder-blue coats and red shoes. Caroline was solemn and open-eyed. But John-John capered about, tugging at his mother's hand, and had to be sent from the rotunda with his nurse. When he left the Capitol later he was clutching a small flag on a foot-long stick. He had spotted it in the office of House Speaker John McCormack and firmly announced, "I want that flag to take home to my daddy...
During the night, Jackie had come back again, slipped through the mourners. She knelt at the casket, brushed her lips against the flag. As she did so, Bobby Kennedy lingered brooding near the rotunda wall. When a reporter remarked to him of the crowds, Bobby managed a slight smile and murmured, "Fantastic. Fantastic." Then the couple left. Outside, Jackie said, "Let's walk a bit." Arm in arm, they moved almost like ghosts across the lawn below the steps and through the waiting line. As they turned to descend the hill at the Senate side of the Capitol...
Television networks covering Washington developments yesterday picked up a Harvard Glee Club-Radcliffe Choral Society concert as background music for several scenes of people filling past, the President's casket in the Capitol rotunda. The Glee Club and Choral Society, accompanied by 20 players from the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, were performing a previously scheduled concert in the Washington National Cathedral...