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Funeral for John F. Kennedy

Hundreds of thousands of people viewed John F. Kennedy’s mahogany casket before his state funeral on November 25, three days after Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated him in Dallas. A million people lined the route of the televised procession from the Capitol to Arlington National Cemetery. Here Jackie Kennedy walks down the steps with Caroline Kennedy and John Kennedy Jr.

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