What Was JFK's Funeral Really Like?
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- As an entire nation mourned the loss of the 35th U.S. President, few truly knew all the details of what happened behind the scenes.
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Official funeral lasted for days | 0:00
The last three to see jfk | 1:17
Why the casket was closed | 2:19
Jfk's symbolic riderless horse | 3:05
The iconic photo of jfk jr. | 4:23
The nation went silent | 5:39
The irish funeral drill | 6:42
Meeting with leaders face-to-face | 8:00
Fears over funeral assassination attempt | 9:13
The eternal flame | 10:30
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What do you think the coverage of an assassination of a modern day president would be like?
Most people would find out on social media before they get confirmation of it from the news media, America would basically grind to a halt and everyone would be sad.
Much of the news media would be covering it nonstop and America would fall silent on the day of the funeral.
If it were Biden, there would be parties all over the world. I would have a big barbeque, with lots of cold beer, pinto beans, potato salad and dancing girls from the local strip joint.
@@tobiojo6469 : You are clearly a teenage Democrat. Hopefully you will grow out of it.
Unfortunately in the hyper partisan era that we live in, most of the coverage would be seen in a political context rather than bringing the country together during a horrible crisis.
I was born in 45. I remember the funeral. The whole country was in deep morning after his death. When John John saluted the coffin there was not a dry eye in the whole country.
Jackie Kennedy got a slew of mail sent to her to the White House telling her how badly they felt. She took it upon herself to answer each and every letter. She worked on it day and night.
Jackie was touched by a 12 year old girl who had thought that she'd (Jackie) would have financial trouble because of the loss of her husband. The kid wrote to her and stated she would babysit John John and Caroline for free. The kid got a personal handwritten letter back from Jackie. So did my mother.
What did Jackie say to your mother?
Do you this Oswald was the real killer? My grandpa was born in 45’ but I was too young to be able to ask him questions about history. Thanks 🙏
I was in Second Grade when Kennedy died, and I lived in a population which was 99.999999999 Mexican-American. They were very upset, because Kennedy started the Welfare State which has always been popular among these parasites. Most of them didn't even vote, and couldn't make it past the 9th Grade, and they didn't even know that Kennedy got us involved in the Viet Nam War, which claimed about 58,000 American lives. All they cared about were the government handouts.
John Kennedy turned the White House into a whore House. He was famous for bringing unknown women there for affairs. It drove the Secret Service guys crazy because they had no way of knowing whether these women were blackmailers, assassins, or Russian spies.
John Kennedy was irresponsible as hell, and dishonored his own wife quite frequently.
@@nitromartini1422, Seems you never got out of second grade. You did not learn to read or research to any extent. Your ignorance is so you do not see it . The America you have today is a result of the "success" of the people who now have America going down the slope made slippery by the blood of children. Murdering Kennedy was their "success." Your "parasite" quote is in keeping with the mass murderer Netanyahu who tells "America" how to jump.
RIP President Kennedy, was loved by the people. no one expected this, such a sad and unforgettable thing.
Why don't people scream at their congressmen to release the Warren report so we will know who killed him! Johnson hinted around sbout it earler. The mafia is keeping it silent!
I remember the entire procession. The single drummer and the unyielding horse along with the silence. The most dramatic scene was the procession turning a corner entering the gravesite and the military band starting to play the somber requiem. Outside our window , not a person was seen or a car on the road. Everything became a moment of silence.
I CAN STILL HEAR THOSE DRUMS PLAYING IN MY HEAD AFTER ALL THESE YEARS !
Still chokes me up thinking about JFKs assassination - horrible time for our country
Absolutely those were some cold hard days the whole country
The country has gone straight downhill since.
I was in fourth grade when it happened and will remember always. My principle went to our teacher, whispered in her ear, she broke down crying with the principle quietly telling us class was dismissed and to go home. When I got home my mom and dad were crying. When I asked what was going on, my dad told me the President was killed. It hit me like a sledge hammer even at that age.
@@luigi3964 Except between 2016 to 2020. It's a real poop bucket now.
@@heru-deshet359 : From 2016 till 2020 was the finest time for America. We had the lowest unemployment record in 50 years, a thriving economy, big businesses was coming back to America, no wars, inflation under control.
The only people who complained about Trump were communists and welfare beggars.
Compare the Trump years to this turdbrain Biden Regime.
I was 5 at the time, and I still can't think about it without tearing up. Sixty years later, the sound of the drums and the horses hoofs still haunt me. Those of us who were children during the 1960's will never forget that decade.
For those of us who lived through the multiple traumas of JFK’s assination & the days that followed, I believe we saw both the inside & outside stories of those awful days.
The country shut down in absolute mourning. There were no "party " distinctions ...the sense of lost innocence as a country was palpable and stunning. Still feel that sense of deep loss as I write this.
It seemed that way - but there were alot of people who cheered and celebrated when they heard … people don’t change , some can be vile and hateful …
These days no longer exist . The country is so divided that it would not come together like this.
9/11 was the last time this country was United. It’s so sad what we’ve become
@@therealhousewifeofballtown ur so right unfortunately.
@@soniatorres5227 it is so unfortunate because we remember a time that is so different compared to now . The last generation who will ever experience that I’m afraid.
@@therealhousewifeofballtown yes not that I’m the holiest but what happened to decency , wearing real clothes and respect for elders and each other .
@@soniatorres5227 like good manners I believe it’s a thing of the past . We didn’t know how good we had it until we grew older and saw the evil in the world . I miss those good old days so much
I remember it . Was in the 1st grade 6 years old .My teacher was very upset and crying. I ask Miss French what was wrong. She said, something bad has happened to the President ! We where released from school early. So started that long sad week end. Now I'm 66 years old. 60 years ago November 22, 1963 President John F. Kennedy was assassinationed. No lone gunman did this .This was a well organized and planned. And they got away with it ! Powerful people did this !
I too was six, in first grade. Our principal (who kept the radio on in his office while he worked, which was how he heard the news) came to each classroom and told each teacher, who in turn then told the students. (Our school apparently didn't use a PA system.) But I don't remember what our teacher said, how she worded it. It's all so long ago, and of course was so unexpected. We were dismissed from school early but I realize now that it was almost the end of the school day anyway. I went home and found my mother sitting at the kitchen table with a visitor, a friend of hers. They didn't know what had happened because when the visitor arrived my mother went into the living room and turned the volume on the TV down, so they were in the kitchen drinking coffee and chatting, not knowing a thing. I told them. My mother just smiled; she thought that one of the older kids had told me a "tall tale", which they frequently did just to see how much nonsense they could actually get us younger kids to believe. No, I told her, it wasn't one of the "big kids", it was Mrs. Smith, my teacher, who told us about the president. So my mother got up and hurried into the living room and turned up the volume on the TV, and it was all there.
Will remember this for the rest of our lives.I was 6 years old also.The older people and everyone was crying and visbly upset😢
Peace fully
Godloveyou much
JFK
Family and friends
250,000 viewed JFK's coffin lying in state over the less than 24 hours he was in the US Capitol. QEII had the same over 3 days...that's how much JFK was loved
I was 12. That weekend was the most traumatic event in my life to that point.
My mom went into labor with me while watching JFK’s funeral on T.V.!😮
Wow
I was born exactly one month after his death 22 December 1963. I will always remember the tragedy of his passing. I was able to see his gravesite along with RFK and Jackie Kennedy in 2001. Seeing the eternal flame was something I will never forget.
My family stood on the Arlington Bridge on the day of the funeral and the silence, the sound of drums, the sound of the clopping of the horses hooves on the bridge and the quiet sobbing as the caisson passed by are seared in my memory of that sad day. RIP President Kennedy.
That was the saddest part of that awful day - the sky was darkening as the procession wound towards Arlington - it was almost over and only loss and grief remained after the service was finished .
I remember when JFK died. It was terrible. From the time of announcement of JFK to being shot to that following Monday was terrible. So many years ago we still remember all details well
I’m 77 and remember everything. People remember what they were doing when the new broke. I cried for days. The whole country deeply mourned. 🇺🇸
Fried in my memory. Sitting in classroom. Grade eleven. Time stopped.🇨🇦😪
In the first minute of the video you forgot to mention that the Texas authorities tried hard to prevent JFK’s body from going back to Washington. They argued that Texas state law required a homicide must have an autopsy within the State.
The Secret Service wasn’t having it so they violently pushed JFK’s casket ⚰️ through the corridors of Parkland Hospital until a shoving match broke out.
The Secret Service won out and the casket was rushed to Dallas Love Field Airport.
The secret service even flashed their guns
I just finished reading all 124 pages of JFK's autopsy report (even though the National Archives has only ever published a five-page final summary). and that official version is riddled with clinical impossibilities. Three USMC Pathologists performed that autopsy at Bethesda, but the ballistics expert (Dr. Pierre Fincke) refused to initial the box marked "autopsy complete" until he was strong-armed by his superior officers. In addition all three outright lied during questioning by Arlen Spector of the Warren Commission who pigeonholed them into supporting the lone-gunman-magic bullet nonsense.
BTW: I was 13 on 11/22/63 and remember the assassination/funeral very clearly, even visiting Dallas one year later on a family vacation where I managed to talk my way into the Texas School Book Depository Building, climbing the same stairway Oswald used. Back then it was pretty easy to do since it was still nothing more than a shabby warehouse filled with shelves/cartons of old textbooks!
I've been chasing the truths behind that murder for the past 60 years and it's only been in the past decade that some very BIG pieces of the puzzle have dribbled out from Dorothy Kilgallen's supposedly "lost" JFK dossier. And although it doesn't name the triggermen, it does reveal why those rifles were loaded in the first place And make no mistake: if circumstances were the same today, assassination would again be the most expedient way to shield the guilty. There's a very GOOD reason why all the JFK files will never be released to the public...because if they were, even today there would be a public outrage like this country's never witnessed before.@@plezful
The Secret Service practically used JFK's casket as a battering ram to clear a path to get the body out of Parkland. They had just lost a president. They were not going to take any flak from a county coroner.
One detail I see missing here is that Mrs. Kennedy requested the Catholic Choir from the Naval Academy to sing at the White House on the day of the funeral.
🙏🏾🇺🇸Rest President Kennedy
3:10 Again another error . Boots were turned backwards to denote the rider had fallen in battle. Not about sacrificed ?
JFK JR'S SALUTE WAS DEFINITELY SHOW ON LIVE TV. I'LL NEVER FORGET IT. MY MOM WAS TEARY EYED ALL THROUGHOUT. BUT WHEN JOHN JR SALUTE WAS SHOWN SHE LOST IT.
I was 9 years old. It was devastating. I was in 4th grade at a Catholic grade school at the time, and the janitor came around to the classrooms to announce what had happened. It was awful, since JFK was the first Catholic president. #Disclaimer - I am now a recovering Catholic at age 70.
I was 9 and in 4th grade also , and also in Catholic grade school , remember every moment of it , very strange how we could look right back at that day , when it happened like it was yesterday , a fellow 4th grader from the class across the hall was told to knock on our door and tell our teacher to come out into the hallway, Mother Augusta was going to make announcement on the brand new loud speaker on the classroom wal above the clock , we were told to put the sign of the cross on our lips which meant be quiet while she stepped into the hallway with the Nuns and lay Teachers , then the announcement was made that the president was shot in Dallas and we immediately had to take out our Rosary and begin to pray , it seemed so long , then announced again the president was dead and I looked up at the clock , it was nearly 2 o clock , they then told us to pack up our books and go home , school busses were outback in the school yard , but most of us were walkers , every Nun Teachers and crossing guards was crying , it was a beautiful Sunny chilly afternoon , we were glad to get sent home , found my Mom and Grandmom who lived with us sitting on the soafa dabbing there eyes with tissues and drinking a cup of coffee, because in those days when a tragedy occurred my Grandmother made a pot of coffee.. Never ever forgot that day and the next week , than a quiet Thanksgiving day ..🙏💔
I was 9 years old and in public school in New York City in 4th grade. The funeral was on Monday. We were not Catholic but my parents family were big Kennedy supporters and deeply upset. I remember on the Sunday after the shooting, my grandmother had to go into Manhattan to Union Headquarters (the ILGWU- International Ladies Garment Workers Union) and she took me with her on the subway. What I distinctly remember is the look on everyone's face -- everyone was staring, emotionless, with a dead look on their face. Back then, people would smile at each other on the subways, especially at a nice grandmother taking her well dressed grandson (people dressed better back then) on a subway. Not that day. At Union Headquarters, which my grandmother took me too every so often (she was a local delegate), people similary talked in low voices, perhaps there was something they had to do before sending a union delegate to the funeral. It was as if someone in the family had died. I will never forget that day.
I don't believe the government, nor the media, have enough dignity to cover such thing today with any kind of honesty or respect.
I think you're correct!
I think it's really messed up that they had the funeral on JFK Jr's birthday. What, they couldn't have it the day before or the day after? He should have had his day at a nice little party, not saluting his father's casket
My brother’s birthday was on the day of my father’s funeral. There is no way to make sense out of it or to make it better. My family was wrecked and there was no way to put our lives back together again
My mother was burried on my birthday, naturally the sadness overtakes when ppl are trying to make u happy on the day..
John Jr was 3 I doubt he knew what day his birthday was actually on.
@@annkynaston3605 exactly.
@@annkynaston3605 he probably doesnt even know what a birthday is or what a funeral is ?
Great acting LBJ!
disliked him LBJ....I think he knew what happened
@@theprincess74000 Sure he did! Look at the interview with his mistress! She what LBJ told her the night before. Had lots of helpers.
Johnson had a history of conspiracies throughout his career. He was certainly complicit in the planning that resulted in him becoming president. Johnson was pure evil and wicked.
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country! His Inaugural Address!
I saw JFK's funeral Mass on TV. The day after we had a Solemn High Mass at my Catholic high school.
The whole world went into a state of shock when he was killed.
It will never be opened again because there was some seriously sketchy things going on with the autopsy 🤔
There are a lot of sketchy things…there had to be another shooter because his head went backwards from the head shot and the Book Depository was in the back of the car.
@@lastpme yeah that's what I'm talking about they were hurrying to cover up the other bullet holes on his body 👍
I had been crying since I heard that the world had been turned upside down for me and I sat in front of the tv until midnight on the day of the funeral. So much respect was given to my president, seeing all the heads of the world coming and matching for him was so awesome. I was a junior in high school and had been to his rally in Boston the night before he was elected. It still means so much that I can say that.
I was around 8 when Kennedy was killed. As I grew up I wondered what would happen if another tragedy would bring the nation to a screeching halt. I found out almost 38 years later - on September 11, 2001.
same here...I'll never forget the clip-clop of the horses, and my mom crying when John Jr saluted. The world permanently changed that day.
Didn’t the Challenger disaster bring the nation to a halt?
@@kevinmorris3200 Not in the same way. While TV news coverage of the Challenger was extensive, regular programming, for the most part, wasn't cancelled as it was for the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.And sporting or entertainment events still went on after the Challenger tragedy.
Pearl harbor, JFK, challenger, Oklahoma bombing, 9/11, and all crap since then.
It's extraordinary that they managed the funeral only three days after the shooting.
Most of us watched in black and white tvs .
Ten years old but I still remember.
Bad timing as Thanksgiving was approaching. Instead of celebrating it, America was mourning the death of JFK. I doubt the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade also went o without a reference to JFK.
The funeral is viewable on youtube.
The 1960s was probably the wildest decade in our country’s history. We were knee deep in Vietnam, anti-war protests, civil rights protests, widespread drug use, and of course the assassinations of JFK, Martin Luther King, and Malcom X. It felt like the country was breaking apart.
Mind numbing. Especially after seeing the Berlin Wall speech live on tv 5 months earlier. I was 11 years old in parochial school and remember it like it was yesterday.
RIP president Kennedy
As far as television was concerned, all US stations were in mourning. I was in the first grade when this happened and when we were told we were being sent home most of us thought we could spend the whole day watching TV. There were no cartoons, movies, series, or anything entertaining. All we could watch was biographical documentaries, historical documentaries, and appropriate musical performances. One image I remember was of a military band marching through the streets of Washington playing a funeral cadence. For months afterwards it was still echoing through my head.
It was a very sad day. I was there all day. Men and women were crying as if they had lost a family member. The number of funeral wreaths were into the thousands. They lined the hallway outside of the Rotunda they were stacked so deep you could hardly walk by. Many of the Capital police officers were in tears. Mrs. Kennedy was pitiful. Rest in Peace Mr. Kennedy.
The other reason is that Jackie and Bobby talked to each other about how it looked nothing like Jack. the head wound was so massive and disfiguring on his skull and side of head that the wax they used to restore made the final appearance look almost unlike Jack.
If the Secret Service had been on the cars two rear bumper foot stands with hand griips the shots would have been blocked. JFK did not want them there because he wanted himself and Jackie to be seen. It was always said that the rear bumper foot stands were not in the right place to protect the President anyway. This video clearly shows where the rear bumper foot stands were and would have protected the President.
Also, it was always very obtuse about how Clint Hill got onto the back of the car with Jackie. Earlier windows of the footage show him riding on the side of the back up car. Somehow he managed to run up and jump on JFK's car stepping onto the bumper footstand and leaping onto the back of the car. Many accounts had him somehow walking along. So many strange stories.
Strange these bumper stands were never brought up or revealed in the hundreds and hundreds of footage and photos I saw about the assasination. The bumper stands that were not there are there. Very mysterious. The hand rail to hang on is clearly visible on the right side of the car. More disproven conspiracy stories. It just goes on and on.
Emory Roberts rode shotgun in the back up car head of the Secret Service Detail that day at Dealey Plaza. When the President got shot, Emory Roberts was in charge thereafter. Nobody ever talks about that. He took charge of everything, and immediately got Johnson onto Air Force One to leave Dallas and be sworn in going to Washington or if necessary a safe place to protect him. Emory was my neighbor in Wheaton, Md. on Holdridge Rd.
Most of this is in Dealey Plaza - The End of Camelot
In the early morning it was scheduled to rain in Dallas and the Secret Service was setting up to install the canopy on the car. The forecast changed and the President wanted to be seen by the crowds, and besides the President did not want ir put on. So it was not put on.
So as to not make JFK negligent in his death, it was bandied about that there were no foot stands on the rear of the car for Secret Service to ride on. Clearly you can see two foot stands on the rear bumper of the car with handrails to hang on. Clint Hills is stepping on one to get onto the back of the car to be with Jackie. There is just bogus story after bogus story surrounding JFK's assasination.
Hill claimed the reason he got off the back of the car , is due to the fact that the freeway was coming up and no agent would be on the back of the car at a high rate of speed .
This was a very sad day. I cried when during the funeral.
We had just got to Dallas Texas to see my Grandfather and Grandma from San Francisco Ca . I was ready to get back to Cali. What a Very Sad Day and 😢😢.
I was 10. All I knew was that our 3 TV stations were showing the funeral for 3 days. And my mom crying...a lot!
Horrible time. Still not over it. Probably never will.
well since i watched it on tv it was a moving moment in history and i was only as old as Caroline
RIP JFK
Coming up to 60 years My parents told me they couldn't believe it i pay me respect for this incredible human being by driving around with my JFK PERSONAL number plates there's definitely no other President i would go to this trouble Rip JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY (JFK)🍀🙏🕯️🗽🦅🐴🍀 THE 35TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 🗽🗽🦅🤠⭐ cheers Stephen 🤠✌️🍀
I will never forget the shock,the TV filming of everything, we were glued to the TV for 4 days-It was the coldest November -the Sunday watching the live killing of Oswald-the most outstanding funeral which he so richly deserved--the sadness of the nation-and the question What is wrong with us? Why did this happen?Where do we go from here? How do u make sense of this? It was so hard to witness this at such a young age--It changed our nation forever for the worst-this is when the cancer of America started and never ended!
THANK U EXCELENT VIDEO AMERICAN NEVER FORGET HIM JFK
LBJ wanted to take over so bad 👹 smh
HE WAS CROOKED
I disagree with George Ball's assessment of the funeral. Cobbled together in only a very few hours, with Mrs Kennedy (who was in her thirties!) calling the shots, they created an unforgettable spectacle whose somber, dignified plainness was superbly consonant with the spirit of American republican democracy. Thank God, nothing about it was showy or smacked of fantasies of quasi-royalty. Watching this video all these years later (I was 10 when the president died) confirms me in this perspective.
There was people from both parties loved him, unlike today in our country. Sad
Very well done for our President.....
I was a kid then and it was really something to see
I remember how brave Jackie was
I was 7 yrs. old. Navy brat; and was on Adak, Alaska where my dad was stationed. Very small island in the Aleutian Islands. Closer to Russia; than main land Alaska. The month before we were woken up at 2:00 AM and taken to the Adak airport. Cuban missile crisis; and Russian submarine circling the island. Fortunately did not have to leave. A month or so later was getting on the school bus and the Sailor driving the bus had tears streaming down his face. Never will forget it. Was always in Awe of the grace and dignity that Jacqueline Kennedy possessed.
How is it possible that you didn’t even mention his funeral Mass at St. Matthew’s Cathedral.
Sixty years ago and it seems like yesterday. I was ten years old at the time and the thing I remember most were the drums of the military bands and how angry they sounded. I've never heard military drums sound quite the same since then.
I also remember taking a break from the TV Sunday afternoon, going outside, and how quiet everything was, there were none of the noises you'd expect from a sububan neighborhood. Honestly it was downright weird.
Rip JFK and Jackie
🌺💐🇺🇸♥️🇺🇸
I watched the funeral procession on tv. I was in 7th grade. I even remember what the weather was like that day where I lived in CT.
I HAD THE GREAT PRIVILEDGE OF SEEING HIM IN MY HOMETOWN CORK CITY IRELAND 🇮🇪 ON JUNE 28TH 1963 I WAS WORKING FOR WILLIAM JONES PAWNBROKERS AT THE TOP OF SHANDON STREET I WAS GIVEN TIME OFF TO GO SEE HIM IWAS STANDING ON THE SOUTH MALL STREET AS HE PASSED BY HE WAS SMILING AND WAVING TO THE MASSIVE CROWD THAT TURNED OUT TO SEE HIM HE WAS LIKE A MOVIE STAR ALL TANNED AND HANDSOME HE WAS ON HIS WAY TO CITY HALL TO MEET THE LORD MAYOR OF CORK CITY SEAN CASEY AND OTHER DIGNITARIES A WONDERFUL SPECIAL HAPPY GOLDEN MEMORY FOR ME THEN CAME THAT TERRIBLE DAY IN DALLAS TEXAS U S A BLACK FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22ND 1963 WHEN HE WAS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD BY A PERSON OR PERSONS ???? WHO ARE NOT WORTHY OF MENTION JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY 1917 TO 1963 R I P AMEN ❤
Watching my mom cry at the B&W TV 📺and l was, too.😢 Like l am now.
my mom too.
Cold.
Even that horse was grief stricken and apparently angry
Blackjackwasshowinghisemotions❤
Seriously EVERY time I watch something about this that dramatic song from the movie "JFK" goes through my head.
You know, they talk about "Four Days." Actually it was practically 72 hours from the time he was murdered until he was buried.
Today is November 22 2023 .60 years ago President Kennedy was killed .I was 13 years old and I will never forget the day he was killed and the following days of news and his funeral so sad .I miss JFK..
Like it was yesterday...
❤😢rest in peace my love
RFK JR. 2024!!!!!!
im afraid for him they kill Kennedys
@@chris-uh2xo that 56 60 years ago
@@chris-uh2xo this is not the 60s anymore
I would be more inclined to think Kennedy's casket remained closed simply because 2/3rd's of his head was blown off and the gaping hole in his head was filled with plaster of Paris and wrapped in gauze. Not sure that's the final lasting image you would want the U.S President to have.
Terrible, Terrible, Terrible. Such horror we are born to!!!
You can see his face,you can tell how he is honest and respectful to all human beings. The greatest man killed by coward evil.
RIP
The NFL played their games that Sunday. Commissioner Pete Rozelle and press secretary Pierre Salinger attended the same university and Salinger encouraged the games to be played, saying JFK would have wanted that.
His Funeral was held a few days before Thanksgiving. I wonder what people did that Thanksgiving Day
I was 5 when this happened we lived on Long Island and we were going to my mom’s brothers house in Kings Park for Thanksgiving. As if the past week wasn’t bad enough my cousin Steve who was 12 was playing with his friends in the woods behind my Uncle’s house in the morning. While climbing a trees with his friends he fell and landed on a sharp stump. Steve opened up a gas above his knee and on his thigh. My Uncle rushed him to the hospital. After getting stitched up in the ER he and my Uncle gat back to the house for Thanksgiving dinner not at 3 as was planned but well after 5PM. That was our Thanksgiving which we all agreed was our worst ever.
Ate turkey and listened to news about the murder and speculated about what probably actually happened. I was there. Listening to the adults at the table. I was in 4th grade. Just wanted the television programming to get back to normal 🤷♀️
“No one would’ve expected the following week it would be taken over by his funeral….” Mmmmmmnnnot necessarily. Johnson DEFINITELY knew and so did the Secret Service
Agreed! I have always believed that Johnson knew what would go down that day !! I hope he’s burning in hell
THE ROYAL FAMILY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
We never did get a straight answer on what happened.
Terrible.
We will not tire we will not scare 1 of us is dead of all of us shall live Free 2
You are absolutely full of it stating that Stan Stearns and Dan Farrell were the only two photographers to record John Jr.'s salute. There are easily a dozen versions from different angles, including one in the National Geographic which was a slightly different angle than Stan Stearns in color, as well as some by foreign journalists. There is also a color photo taken after John started to lower his hand as well as film footage. This was also said on the NBC News when Stearns died, lyin' Brian Williams stated that Stearns was the ONLY one to get the picture and had to eat his words on the next broadcast. Oprah was also full of it when she had John Jr. on her show and asked why he saluted. If you look at the films or even the full frame uncropped version of Stearns's photograph, everyone in uniform is saluting and John was imitating them.
2:20 it remained closed because of the injuries he sustained.
The Chopin music.
I was only about 3 years old and my mom was sick 🤢🤧 and I and Dori 😮😮😮😮😮was a hard time. My Dad walked down the street from the cars along of the honor guard 😁 in a the cemetery 🪦🪦🪦🪦😉😉🎉😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
The hypocrisy of the assassin.
There were two units one from Ireland and one from Scotland the only time units from other countries have been part of a state funeral
8:59 President Johnson with PH President and First Lady Macapagal
It must have been terrible, I personally can only vaguely remember the assassination being so young at the time. But I can tell you, there are people out there who know at least some of what happened, and when you understand some of the background, the Z film despite it's problems can tell you much especially when viewed with an specially enhanced version of the Nix film, with the latter confirming what you "think" you are seeing in Zapruder, as difficult to believe as it is. I'll tell you this,- one of the assassins is in plain view with some of his colleagues watching on. All are/were guilty of high treason. To me , the circus is kept going partly because some folks still make money out of the "mystery" and partly to maintain the illusion of a democracy that was and still further is , rotten to the core. Part of the answer is there, blatantly obvious, staring you directly in the face as unbelievable as it appears.
Nice history, but the person being sworn in was not LBJ, that is Hubert Humphrey as VP much later. A significant error.
I recall getting out of school early to watch the funeral. A local mother was in a hospital after giving birth. It was a sober time. Killing Uncle Jack was downright wicked.
I think school was cancelled on the day of his funeral - it was declared a national day of mourning …
Witnessed the funeral as a 10 yr old kid...imagine the recent funeral of Her Majesty but on a grander scale....
The Queens funeral was on my birthday and my mother was buried on my birthday, may all who we've lost rest in peace...I try n look at it as a day great women left us 😢
Do people think that Oswald was the actual killer?