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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-C
ST34, KN40
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-11-25-B
AR41, ST34
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C30693
Guests attend a reception at the White House, following the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Greeting guests along far wall: Ethel Skakel Kennedy; Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy (mostly hidden); Jean Kennedy Smith; Senator Edward M. Kennedy (Massachusetts); Joan Bennett Kennedy (partially hidden). Also pictured: Under Secretary for Political Affairs for the United Nations (UN), Dr. Ralph Bunche; Prime Minister of Japan, Hayato Ikeda; Minister without Portfolio of Sweden, Olof Palme; Prime Minister of Jamaica, Sir Alexander Bustamante; First Lady of Jamaica, Gladys Bustamante; Chief of Staff of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Brigadier Paul Crook; King Baudouin of Belgium; Minister of External Affairs of Ireland, Frank Aiken; U.S. Chief of Protocol, Angier Biddle Duke; Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands; Chief Usher of the White House, J. B. West. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-ST-C422-11-63
Members of the Kennedy family, officials, and dignitaries attend graveside services in the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. Jacqueline Kennedy and Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy (both mostly hidden), stand at right in foreground; honor guard pallbearers lift the casket flag. Also pictured: Eunice Kennedy Shriver; Jean Kennedy Smith; Patricia Kennedy Lawford; Sydney Lawford; Joseph P. Kennedy, II; Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts, Richard Cardinal Cushing; 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 South Korea, Chung Hee Park; Queen Frederika of Greece; King Baudouin of Belgium; President of Ireland, Éamon de Valera; Minister of External Affairs of Ireland, Frank Aiken; Prince Georg Valdemar of Denmark; Minister of Foreign Affairs of France, Maurice Couve de Murville; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of France, General Charles Ailleret; Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Abbas Aram; U.S. Assistant Chief of Protocol for Visits and Public Events, Samuel L. King; U.S. Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz; Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, Walter W. Heller; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.; Senator George A. Smathers (Florida); Personal Secretary to President Kennedy, Evelyn Lincoln; White House doorman, Preston Bruce; White House Secret Service agents, Paul A. Burns, Walt Coughlin, Toby Chandler, Gerald A. “Jerry” Behn, and Clint Hill. 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.