The Funeral of John F. Kennedy in colour

[gerjerry99]

strange how reagan was born before kennedy but kennedy was president during a era way before reagan was. kennedy sworn in 1961 born 1917. reagan sworn in 1981 born 1911. rip both of them.

[daashadow1]

I wonder if we'll ever see another kennedy in the running for president - aren't some of bobby's kids in politics at the mo?

[sidrahsiddiqui]

was it originally televised in colour? where is the rest of the ceremony? if it was originally in colour, then why the rest of the available clips are in black & white?

[cynmarie33]

Robert F. Kennedy (Bobby) was a true Gentleman. He took Jacqueline's hand and helped her to deal with a great loss.. He also was a strong figure in helping his brother's children deal with their father's passage... God Bless Bobby..

[SingingBlondie1028]

That salute is priceless. But what is he wearing? It looks like a coat dress without pants in the middle of a cold November. What's cute is that Jackie whispered to him to salute and then let go of his hand.

[Thekingswa747]

@RodwardHewlin they were both great presidents , he is remembered because he got shot

[coolioburst360]

Kennedy saved America from nuclear destruction

[onesoldiersmom]

@coolioburst360 You should try reading history on both Presidents. Not the just the liberal revisionist history out there. Kennedy did much to cause the destruction before he thwarted it. READ! Ronald Reagan ended the cold war. READ!

[violinpunk]

Kennedy and Lincoln were the best presidents!!!

[RodwardHewlin]

JFK was a great president, how does everyone figure Regan was a great president. The Republicans loved him, but i cant see where Regan did anything memorable.

[TheBunnyist]

@RodwardHewlin Sadly, some people are so delusional they think the likes of Ronald Reagan is what is symbolic of what is good and strong in this country. They are so delusional, they are clueless. This man, JFK, was indeed the last great American president.

[title1teacher]

@RodwardHewlin Besides ending a HORRIBLE recession (double-digit unemployment and inflation); and setting the stage for the end of the Cold War (you do remember the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, don't you Rodward?) without any American firing a shot.

[bamabelle327]

@title1teacher Thank you. I am thankful to have been born during the Reagan era. How people can have such selective memory about history is beyond me.

[title1teacher]

@RodwardHewlin Reagan also tried, mostly without success because of a Democratic Congress, to rid the federal government of unconstitutional departments, waste and corruption. For a brief moment he stopped the country's slide into third-world socialist status (credit rating and debt ring a bell?). We need a string of 50 men and women just like him. Instead we get a cabbage head.

[lashrags43]

@RodwardHewlin took down the berlin wall?

[FaTmaN9009]

the assassination was an inside job, u better believe it peeps

[imo07]

my dad was born in 1962 and was named after JFK John Ryan

[alice3161]

Well, with all due respect, Ronald Reagan was a great president too.

[lillianclinton42]

when Hail to the Chief started playing, and when John John saluted, thats when i started to tear up. :(

[free2drm]

Jackie at on 34 was so young, and yet she put together a funeral rooted in history of former presidents. She was a first Lady to be proud of.

[armorarmylt]

Can you imagine, John Jr. celebrating his third birthday on the day of his fathers funeral.

[Halo3kixass]

Makes me sad just watching this! :( Look at all the people crying at John F. Kennedy's funeral, I would be too, I was just watching this, and his assasination video :'(

[Doctor699]

R.I.P JFK. I can only hope that one day i too may pass on, and perhaps meet you in the heavens. You will be forever remembered!

[andrelebaron]

That's got to be one of the largest collectively shared memories in the history of the world.

[eronhawk19]

3 people are fags

[cougarxr797]

@eronhawk19

you are

[eronhawk19]

@cougarxr797 u

[1stTrillionaire]

Well Snickle, let it bug u more and will keep bugging u until the day u die. G-ddamn if u can't handle the truth then just close your selective ears.

[SnickleFritz79]

As an American, I do not care for JFK nor do I think he was even a good president. But he was still the commander in chief and therefore he deserved every honor accorded to him in death.

It just really bugs me how everybody thinks that JFK was the "greatest president" when the facts prove that FDR, Jefferson, and Lincoln are more highly respected for what they did.

[ReligionsForRetards]

@SnickleFritz79 Yes but those 3 had managed to fulfill their aims, JFK had simply managed to do just a small set of things that he wanted to accomplish.

[snoops71]

@SnickleFritz79 He did, in fact, create the Peace Corps, keep the country out of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and author the civil rights bill. Those accomplishments should not be diminished.

[BerkLeeDrm]

the drums are what gets me.I keep coming back to hear that cadence over and over.Its so haunting

[mfriday01]

@BerkLeeDrm That's the exact same reason I looked this up myself. I don't think it gets anymore powerful.

[foreverhulkamania]

John Jr. saluting his father is probably the most poignant image in American history...

[snoops71]

I was not alive at the time of this tragic moment in our country. I was born 8 years later. However, to watch this video is a very profound experience. Seeing the hurt and pain on so many people's faces is deeply moving. It makes me sad to watch.

[foreverhulkamania]

@snoops71

yes it is! what really gets to me is how you can see the look of pain on Mrs. Kennedy's face...

[CDH41057]

BetaArtemis - Amen to that! Very well stated. I was just 6 years old when President Kennedy was assassinated. Although very small, I still remember it well. It's one of those tragic things in life that are so profound, that you remember where you were at the time of the incident. President Kennedy was one of, if not the most, beloved leader of this country. November 22, 1963 will always be in my mind as one of the darkest days in US History.

[Xdeath007X]

11/22/10 the last of our real presidents in history. Rest in peace young Kennedy

[Betitana13]

3:17 ... wow. JFK Jr saluting his father coffin, in his third birthday.

[eds1994fatboy]

Belive me Apollo....i do no believe in taking of a life unless being justifiable.I do believe that Bush and Chaney had a hand in and knew about attacking our(thier)own country...... thier own people....mainly called a "false flag"attack....just to win support and to justify the US to declair a war..!!!!!To me this makes the JFK assasination.....to be a beating with a wet noodle.

[eds1994fatboy]

NOBAMA !!!! Where is Lee Harvey Oswald....when we need him.????

[ApolloWasReal]

@eds1994fatboy Give me a break. No one, and I mean NO ONE, deserves to die as JFK did. Not even George W. Bush, who I detested and who I think committed heinous war crimes.

[snoops71]

@eds1994fatboy Are you serious with that crap???

[inspectorcritic]

BETTER GET YOUR SNICKERS ON . . . GET YOUR SNICKERS BACK ON . . . CHEER THE EGG MAN . . . JFK A SYNTHETIC ARTIFICIALY CREATED FROM BIO-MATTER

[foreverhulkamania]

it had to have been some very wicked people to have done this to Caroline and John Jr... Kennedy did not deserve this! I can only respect Kennedy for his accomplishments as a war hero and some of the great things he did in trying to make peace with our enemies.

[ApolloWasReal]

@foreverhulkamania Yes, it was a wicked person, singular: Lee Harvey Oswald. He never confessed before he himself was killed.

Sometimes I wonder...what if Oswald had lived a little longer, and the police captain interrogating him had turned on the TV to let him see what he had done. Would he have remained so arrogant when he saw the closeups of Jackie and her two kids? I wonder...

[foreverhulkamania]

@ApolloWasReal

well, regardless of who killed Kennedy, it was still a terrible, terrible tragedy. nobody deserved to die like that.

personally, i am of the belief that the truth will not be revealed for some time to come. i believe what June Oswald said, that until ALL of the evidence can be brought out, the truth surrounding her father's involvement cannot be accurately determined.

[ApolloWasReal]

@foreverhulkamania No question - no one deserves to die violently. Not JFK, and not even Lee Harvey Oswald.

What new evidence can you POSSIBLY conceive of that could overturn the mountain of evidence already in the public domain that all points to Lee Harvey Oswald as the solitary killer of JFK?

Remember that three can keep a secret only if two are dead.

[ApolloWasReal]

@foreverhulkamania Exactly what evidence has yet to come out? What conceivable evidence could possibly overcome the existing mountain of evidence that Oswald did it alone? Evidence that has withstood nearly 50 years of intense scrutiny?

It imagine it must be hard to accept that your dad murdered the President of the US. But her uncle Robert knew LHO better than almost anyone, and he still managed to accept the facts.

[andrelebaron]

@ApolloWasReal @ApolloWasReal I wouldn't waste my time wondering. Oswald was a nut who was so convinced of the rightness of his incoherent cause that in his mind, everything he did was justified.

[snuffythedog1974]

Most of you ignoramuses know nothing of Kennedy than what the paparazzi have said about him... He was a man with flaws, but a great man nonetheless. And, as one of the commentators on this site said, no one deserves to be shot down at age 46...

[pennerdwo]

does anyone know the music before hail to the chief?

[cjzzzzz]

SCREW THE BLOODY DOUCHE BAG KENNEDY'S!!!!!!!!!

[legacy101desire]

@cjzzzzz lmao what are you 10?

[Bartskibeat]

Actually , during those terrible days, the world stopped. President Kennedy & Jacqui were admired & respected around the world. The Kennedy`s brought class and dignity to American government , and exemplified the very best of `noblesse oblige`.

President Kennedy represented the higher ideals of liberal thinking that had given women the vote & created eventually, desegregation, Medicare, the Voting Rights , Clean Air & Water Acts, & put men on the moon. All were opposed by conservatives.

[inspectorcritic]

@ConservativeBrando _Only a black widow spider or a Hawaiian cannibal would like JFK.

[inspectorcritic]

@ConservativeBrando : I said I went to his funeral! It was as good as hell or as close as it comes. I buried Satan you might say.

[inspectorcritic]

Hey bullshit. I was there that day at his funeral open the casket all that was in it was a handkerchef, a skull fragment, a comb and his toothbrush. No one want to carry the coffin either. But I am proud to say: I kick the first clod of dirt on his coffin grave with my shoe and smiled another job well done.

[OneLightOneSun]

It's such a shame that JFK Jr wasn't his son.

[maxinfidel]

My brother's unit Third Infantry, "Old Guard" fife & drum corp., marched & played in the proseession. He was & still is a drummer, Joseph Carter.

[TheDumont007]

Oswald my hero!

[jcomesfirst1]

@TheDumont007 your a douche bag you know and you need your head before i bash em in

[BetaArtemis]

@TheDumont007 People like you are the reason this world is corrupt and filled with war. Clearly your parents did not bother to teach you anything growing up. Or better yet, you simply have not even grown up, thus showing your clear immaturity.

[gcharlottefan1]

..youtube should disable comments for every video -_-

[corissalovesu101]

i find this so sad. John F. Kennedy is like my hero. ='-( R.I.P John F. Kennedy, your now being tooken care of in gods hands.

[ohsaree]

@ratherbdrunk

...and this is coming from a person who would "rather b drunk"

you should really take your own advice

[AxlSeraphim88]

@silentfades: you don't have to get angry, and who says I won't let the dead rest. :D

[funkiestmonkeyIRL]

Something that is missing from this video is the Honour Guard. The Honour Guard was the 37th Cadet Class of the Irish Army. They were requested by Jacqueline Kennedy after John F. Kennedy had seen the 36th Cadet Class preform a Memorial drill at Arbour Hill Cemetery in Dublin. They were the first foreign Army to be the Honour Guard for a US Presidential funeral and I think the only.

John F. Kennedy's death was a great loss to the people of both the United States and also Ireland.

[thefreedub]

i was told of this by an old relative before, i just watched a documentary on tg4 very good, i wonder if you could point me in the right direction of footage were the 37th cadets can be seen, thank you.

[0907oliv]

@thefreedub Try the presentation of the funeral by Army Saber. It is about 12 parts.

[theundercoveratheist]

I remember watching this funeral on television. It was sad all the way around. From the day our school teacher told us the President was dead to the funeral and still it hurts to watch videos of it.

What could have been if it were not for that fateful day on November 22, 1963!

[VinylToVideo]

Does there happen to be a video of the full funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral?

[sweetcreedeaf]

I know that JFK was assassination 1963 very sad. If JFK not in assassination in Dallas. He's sure alive longer in 1961 to 1969. He would won over North Vietnam War from South Vietnam free and war over Cube will beomce a under United States' name.

[mickeymbz]

go take english writing courses!

[mloreta828]

he's deaf, give him a break!

[Taraneefan]

Actually, President Kennedy's funeral was on John jr.'s 3rd birthday, Novemer 25.

[singindeb]

I will never forget setting in front of the TV for three days. How I felt for his family. Seeing little Caroline and little John John was heartbreaking. I was only 10 yrs. old at the time. How America loved that family.

[Gersroolz]

@singindeb Mind you, he was a serial shagger of other women during his marriage. If that banger Oswald hadnae shot him in the heid & killed him, his persistent shaggin would have brought him down. He was on the point of being exposed irrespective of the efforts of his brother Bobby to keep it out of the media. So his tragic death kept his memory affectionate for posterity, ken what ah mean like?

[ClassicGuitarLover]

This was a horrible day in our history. From this moment on, nothing was quite the same. The innocence that our country once knew was gone forever. Jackie was a perfect lady and held herself with perfect grace through this horrible ordeal.

[AxlSeraphim88]

That was 3:18 when John saluted Dad's coffin

[AxlSeraphim88]

i love the moment when JFK jr saluted his father's coffin

[Watchingkindly]

Who was the cardinal who preformed his mass?

[belltownboy2012]

His Eminence William Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston

[Jane1620]

His first name was Richard.

[seahawks2043]

Truly the last TRUE American President we have had

[4bennyx]

@seahawks2043 what is it that makes him 'true'?

[seahawks2043]

@4bennyx Do your own research and come to your own conclusion

[4bennyx]

@seahawks2043 No need to be so defensive. I was merely curious. Perhaps you think a true President is one that is involved in an extramarital affair? It was simply a question, what makes an American President a TRUE American President.

[mikefan09]

@4bennyx in terms of his work in office, his policies, his outlook, belief, jfk was the best modern american president, i would say a combination of lincoln and kennedy would do it, their best most patriotic ideas, policies and agenda for the nation, as well as the best of their behaviour and character. but ultimately they were men, like any man, he can be led astray, or distracted, especially when a strikingly gorgeous, shapely n sexy young woman wiggles past lol. obama's sneaked a peek, &sarky

[4bennyx]

@mikefan09 I felt like I had to come back to this.. Recentley Ive become somewhat 'obessed' with the Kennedy family, in particular ofcourse John. I never realised how strong, clever, hardworking and, though it sounds like sarcastic, honest he was. He was dedicated to not only his family but his country, and I wanted to tell you, I get it now. Also, Ive fogrgiven him his minor misdemeanours ha!

[mikefan09]

@4bennyx u see, this is the conclusion, the overall estimation of him, that i arrived at just a few years before u si im glad u to hear that, the man deserves this recognition. i despair for the country though because no man has since had the backbone to stand up to the shadow government, i think jfk was a bit nieve about it, probably quite in the dark and ignorant as to its full power and extent of infiltration into government, lacking a nuanced plan he went head on, his brazen patriotism lost.

[Gersroolz]

@mikefan09 Do you reckon yer President being the serial shagger he was, was such a big hit wi the chic's cause they had heard that he had been gifted wi a big walloper?

[TheBubbaBomb]

@seahawks2043 Reagan. You forgot someone.

[Auszie]

The very last, true President that we ever had and ever will again. Remember why he was murdered, his warning to us all in 1961 about a ruthless and monolithic conspiracy. He paid for our warning with his life, and so have other members of his family. Resist the New World Order and do not allow his death to have been in vein for it was a courageous and noble, but terrible sacrifice that he willingly made in order that we should have come to know of it at all. He knew. Rest in peace, my friend.

[meisha1954]

This entire video is just as emotional for me today as it was in November 1963. The whole country stopped. I just remember watching this day and night crying the whole time...Jackie Kennedy and her two young children. That was a very sad time for the whole country.

[ItsKingPeacock]

God Bless you JFK

[capetown99]

I remember as a kid walking into a Cathedral in Galway-Ireland and in a side altar they had an image of the Pope and alongside him was one of JFK. Him and Bobby were worshipped In Ireland. A country that was brought to its knees through famine and immigration prouduces men like this.

[HankJMH]

Doesn't seem like 46 years have flown by since this.

[DebiNga]

I remember watching this on tv I was 5 years old...

[Munra30]

Mr. President,

You were and always will be the insignia of this great USA. The evil individuals who killed you, also killed an entire nation. However short your administration was, it was one of the greatest. You are my favorite president. RIP JFK

[brianclough]

Very moving.

[marcelinotvn]

Muy emocionado....Saludos desde Santaigo de Chile

[wertyhhp]

Bobby is comforting Jackie at the end witch i find amazing, it's his brother that has died as well, probably says something about the strong person he was.

[cherry88]

Yes, I love how attentive he is to Jacqui, even though he was a wreck inside himself. That's why I love Bobby, he was so caring and sensitive to other people's pain, a real man.

[AxlSeraphim88]

Jackie actually had an affair with Bobby, that would continue until Bobby's death. Surely Ethel was furious. Bobby was a surrogate father to John and Caroline all those times

[cherry88]

I think that's absolute bs, but go ahead and believe it if you want

[AxlSeraphim88]

It's not bs..Bobby has always been glued to Jackie's side after Jack's death. He'd even go to her apartment and they'd spend the time kissing. After Bobby's death, Jackie grieved like a widow and even wore a black veil typical of widows.

[silentfades]

@AxlSeraphim88 FOR G*Ds SAKE LET THE DEAD REST IN PEACE -

WE ARE ALL HUMAN AND ONLY HE WILL JUDGE IN THE END INCLUDING OUR WORDS ABOUT OTHERS BOTH LIVING AND THE DEAD

ENOUGH ALREDY

[0907oliv]

@cherry88 Your right. It is bs. The guy who wrote that book has a reputation for fabricating conversations and quoting dead people so they can't come back and say I never said that. The author's name is C. David Hyman. He is not taken seriously any more by serious biographers or historians. He has written so much outrageous stuff that it is laughable.

[ratherbdrunk]

I can't believe you guys actually have the time to follow the Kennedy's this close. Get a job, go running..something. Really. Not that I don't respect the Kennedy's..but seriously folks......

[Anndraya]

Jackie, you have such a brave heart. What a woman!

[Mobilecheese]

Is there any reliable evidence that JFK's body was actually in the casket?

[iLuvjeans]

yea, because jackie open the casket before he was buried....,she put some important things that he had given to her....,and some letters from caroline and john jr.......

[Mobilecheese]

Ok. I'll take your word for it. But if they can alter JFK's wounds during the autopsy it wouldn't be impossible for them to switch his body. Did you know that during the JFK autopsy they actually examined a brain that wasn't JFK's? I don't trust these people!

[averyjoseph2]

are you fucking serious?

[gaserjd]

How naive we were. Evil was/is abundant.

[BetaArtemis]

You can say alot of things about JFK, but this funeral, attended by the greatest number of foreign heads of state, showed that the admiration and love for Kennedy was not just in this country, but around the world.

Whether you like Kennedy or not. Whether you agree with his politics or not. No one deserved to die like he did. And no family should ever go through something like this as his family had.

[JoJo9900]

u know, which ever way he died.. it was his day n nobody could've changed that. whether it was how he died or in dieng in bed.. it was his day

[gotch09]

@BetaArtemis I second that emotion/

[47matazza]

This is a very moving tribute. I love the Kennedys. You can't help but admire the composure of Jackie. Jack and Jackie and JFK, Jr. will always be fondly remembered.

[KendraWilk]

you have to admire JACQUELINE KENNEDY in this video. Lighting the eternal flame in front of 300,000 and she still held her dignity in tack. Thee saddest say in American History

[vollFreaky]

His name we will never forget.

Maybe the name of George Bush or Bill Clinton, but not the one of JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY. Look close on 3:20 his son is saluting him.

I love him and the great Staates of the USA :-* God bless both

[professor501]

1:37-2:50 - what a performance of "Eternal Father, Strong to Save." Both breathtaking, and heartbreaking.

[Nominay]

I notice the sounds of the drums and hooves were part of a loop. It actually did become part of a song with horns and trumpets.

[professor501]

Yes, on Sunday the 24th, no music was performed during the procession. Just the muffled drums. On the next day, there was music, especially Chopin's grim "Funeral March".

[05angus]

john f kennedy the great american president !

[bogotalex]

pueda que no sea de usa pero es muy trizte que no hallan dejado a este presidente aun se llora

[kiowaangeleyes]

I still cry when I see little John saluting his late father.Our golden boy that will never be forgotten..

[wapi6]

I hope so, he died because he spoke out what we all know. the conspiracy of the CFR and parallel organsisations are true.

[packer12Js]

this was so sad the funeral wasnt on a Sunday though I got a day off school to watch it . I remember my mom was getting mad at my sisters and I because we didnt pay enough attention to it I was in 1 grade

[Trudragon88]

Kennedy's son is saluting his father in 3:20

[airtech555]

thats a very sad video