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Our nation has seldom known a time so terrible and sad as November 1963, when young President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was slain, mourned, and buried. Author Jim Leeke returns us to those four grey and cold days, the shock of a young president fallen, the strength of his black-draped widow, the mourning of the world s leaders gathered silently on an Arlington cemetery hillside as the world watched. Long Shadows, The Farewell to JFK recounts the hour-by hour drama as experi-enced by those in the armed services who planned the ceremonies, bore the casket, fashioned the eternal flame, and carried John Kennedy to his grave. Especially, this is the story of the 3rd U.S. Infantry, the Old Guard, whose mem-bers toiled under unimaginable pressure, with little to guide them, and the eyes of a nation upon them. I was a time when everything stopped, and long shadows fell across the nation.

Author
Jim Leeke
Publisher
Attic Window Publishing, Incorporated
Published
2008
Language
EN
ISBN
9780972227421
Subjects
History, Humanities
Rating
4.7 / 5 (5 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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