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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8255-3K
Members of the Kennedy family, officials, and dignitaries attend graveside services in the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy; honor guard pallbearers lift the casket flag. Those pictured include: Jacqueline Kennedy; Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (mostly hidden); Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Jean Kennedy Smith; Patricia Kennedy Lawford; Prime Minister of Japan, Hayato Ikeda; Vice President of Liberia, William R. Tolbert, Jr.; President of Germany, Heinrich Lübke; President of France, General Charles de Gaulle; Emperor of Ethiopia, Haile Selassie; President of the Philippines, Diosdado Macapagal; President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera; Minister of External Affairs of Ireland, Frank Aiken; Prince Georg Valdemar of Denmark; Secretary of State of Liberia, J. Rudolph Grimes; Secretary-General of the Presidency of France, Étienne Burin des Roziers; Chancellor of West Germany, Ludwig Erhard; Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, Maurice Couve de Murville; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of France, General Charles Ailleret; Prince Bertil of Sweden; Prime Minister of Sweden, Tage Erlander; President of Congress of Nicaragua, Luis Somoza Debayle; Ambassador of Nicaragua and Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, Dr. Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; U.S. Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz; Representative Robert N. Giaimo (Connecticut); Superintendent of Arlington National Cemetery, John C. Metzler. Pallbearers include: Lance Corporal Jerry J. Diamond (USMC), Yeoman George A. Barnum (USCG), Lieutenant Samuel R. Bird (U.S. Army), Seaman Hubert Clark (USN), Sergeant James L. Felder (U.S. Army), Lance Corporal Timothy F. Cheek (USMC), Sergeant Richard E. Gaudreau (USAF), Seaman Larry B. Smith (USN), and Corporal Douglas A. Mayfield (U.S. Army). Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia.