As the military pallbearers faltered carrying President John F. Kennedy's half-ton casket, the first lieutenant in command stepped forward and took hold with his fingers to keep it from crashing ...

FILE - A general view outside St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C., during President John F. Kennedy's funeral, with flag-draped coffin in the foreground, Nov. 25, 1963. The president's ...

381091 61: Honor guard place a flag over the casket of President John F. Kennedy during his funeral service November 25, 1963 in Arlington Cemetery. (Photo by National Archive/Newsmakers ...

But then Pearson got the news that shocked a nation: President John F. Kennedy had been shot ... who greeted the pallbearers carrying President Kennedy's casket into the East Room of the White ...

The Kennedy family's political legacy spans generations, marked by JFK's presidency, surrounded by hope and tragedy. John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline ...

saluting his father’s casket came to symbolize the nation’s grief. It was his third birthday, and he had practiced the salute ...

By Adam Nagourney For years, as the government has declassified and published documents related — some very tenuously — to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the assumption ...

John Kennedy was elected president in 1960 partly ... When his mother decided to keep her son’s casket open, to show what had been done to him, many people who had stayed on the sidelines ...