JFK Funeral Part 3 of 3

Words can not describe some of the saddest days in the history of our country. This is shown in 3 parts leading up to the ceremonies at Arlington Cemetery and a final tribute to John F. Kennedy at the end of part 3.

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• kennedy
• funeral
• jacqueline
• arlington
• cemetery
• president
• tribute

[capetown99]

Thousands of young men soon followed him into Arlington, who might not have had he lived. The cowards who murdered him killed a dream and a nation also.

[SuperMarioGirl100]

The End was sad because it made me realize what a great man he was and that he ls really gone ..... : (

[AnneLiesveld]

@BRad031793 That is what I always think about when I think about his age since I am in my 30's and born post his life span. On a silly note, I laugh and how young Jackie seemed in her 70's (early) because JFK seems really old at 92 to be a father to a 50 year old. :) lol

[AnneLiesveld]

@AnneLiesveld will see it as a Jackie Kennedy grave. :(

[AnneLiesveld]

I have to say to the perosn who put this video up as a person who has heard my parents talk about JFK dying but also learns it as "history" it is all I can do to think this makes it more real. watching them do the flag over his coffin. With all do respect, I have never really thought of his grave as his grave and now that JKO is gone it is like a "grave" all over again (not like a grave it IS a grave) and I think about how wierd it is that JFK era people will say it as that grave and my era

[801liveable]

I was 9 yrs. old when this all took place..It is still tough to take..It was tough for my father too. He was in the Navy with Pres. Kennedy..

[StefanCorrigan]

@BrendanIsCool Yes, the soldiers at the graveside are from the military academy of the Irish Army. All verbal commands in the Irish Army are given "As Geailge."

[Blessedballerina26]

Jackie's face at 4:35, omg it's so sad. She looks like a part of her has just died.

[XMedoraX]

@BusterBunker - and just a note of interest - Inside the beltway, it was common knowledge that things were getting really nasty - as far as how the CIA felt about President Kennedy. The Oct. 3, 1963 edition of the New York Times carried an article entitled "The Intra-Administration War in Vietnam" by Arthur Krock. In the article a source informed him, “If the United States ever experiences (an attempt at a coup to overthrow the government) it will come from the CIA and not the Pentagon”.

[XMedoraX]

@BusterBunker Vietnam is considered to have begun in '54 under Eisenhower. By Oct. '63 President Kennedy had made the decision to get out, signing National Security Action Memorandum 263 which called for the first advisors to be home by Dec. '63 and for all advisors and military to be out of Nam by the spring of '65. Those plans died with him. The same day he was buried, Lying Lyndon signed NSAM 273, which completely reversed JFK's orders, giving the military / the CIA the war they wanted.

[capetown99]

@BusterBunker

Your right, but his refusal to send US troops to the Bay Of Pigs and his refusal to start firing off nukes at the Russians in Oct 62. suggest he may have tried to wind the Vietnam conflict down. Maybe not right of way but certainly before 1969. Like the missile crisis I think he was up against powerful groups not to withdraw. It was a game of chess, especially with an election in 64. He did send the "advisers" but he was totally anti communist and thats what he believed.