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Article: The scene, setting, meaning of Jacqueline Kennedy's burial. (Originated from Boston Globe)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- May 23, 1994
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ARLINGTON, Va. _ After all the tributes, after all the film clips, after all the reminiscences, after all the eulogies, there was simply this: A coffin. A crescent of mourners. A president's solemn remarks. A son's kiss and his touch _ a loving pat, really _ at the gravestone of his father. And silence.
All America, it seemed, was silent Monday afternoon. And the silence was deepest here, on a Virginia hillside, where Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was buried beside her husband, a martyred president of the United States, and two of their children.
In that silence, a kaleidescope of images from President Kennedy's burial raced by: A caisson, drawn on its funeral ...