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Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, and his state funeral took place on November 25, 1963, in Washington, D.C. As President Kennedy lay in state, foreign dignitaries—including heads of state and government and members of royal families—started to arrive in Washington to attend the state funeral on Monday. [1]
After the funeral, the foreign dignitaries attended a White House reception to pay their respects to Mrs. Kennedy, [162] [163] followed by a reception at the State Department hosted by Secretary of State Rusk.
The caisson bearing the casket of John F. Kennedy moving down the White House drive on the way to St. Matthew's Cathedral on November 25, 1963.. In the United States, state funerals are the official funerary rites conducted by the federal government in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., that are offered to a sitting or former president, a president-elect, high government officials and ...
Three days after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, a state funeral was held in Washington, D.C. on November 25, 1963, the same day as John F. Kennedy Jr.'s third birthday. As the funeral ...
Death and state funerals of Kalākaua Foreign military units at the state funeral of John F. Kennedy List of dignitaries at the state funeral of John F. Kennedy
During the state visit of the United States to Ireland in June 1963, John Kennedy was invited to participate in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arbor Hill Cemetery where leaders of the Easter Rising were interred. The ceremony involved the performance of the Queen Anne drill, an Irish military drill performed during funerary rites, by a contingent ...
President Joe Biden capped a somber yet celebratory funeral for Ethel Kennedy on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., echoing the thoughtful remarks from dozens of other mourners who were touched by her ...
Carter’s funeral is the first for a president since George H.W. Bush’s in 2018, bringing a rare moment of civility to politics as all of the remaining U.S. presidents came together