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Male voice 1: The cortege has arrived. Male voice 1: Originally entering into the Male voice 1: enormously impressive Rotunda Male voice 1: here at the Capitol building

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Male voice 1: under the great dome. Male voice 1: Where two clergymen, Male voice 1: they were followed by Male voice 1: the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Male voice 1: Led by the chief of Male voice 1: the Joint Chief General Maxwell Taylor. Male voice 1: With him were Admiral Male voice 1: David L. Mcdonald,

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Male voice 1: the Chief of Naval Operations, Male voice 1: General Earle G. Wheeler Male voice 1: the Army Chief of Staff, Male voice 1: General Curtis LeMay,

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Male voice 1: the Air Force Chief of Staff, Male voice 1: General David M. Shoup the Commandant of Male voice 1: the Marine Corps and Male voice 1: the commandant of the Coast Guard,

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Male voice 1: Admiral Edward J. Roland. Male voice 1: As you were told a moment ago, Male voice 1: the casket, flag draped, Male voice 1: is now lying on the catafalque.

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Male voice 1: The catafalque Male voice 1: that was originally built and occupied Male voice 1: by another assassinated President, Male voice 1: President Abraham Lincoln,

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Male voice 1: in the year 1865. Male voice 1: The head of the casket is pointing west, Male voice 1: opposite from the direction Male voice 1: which the pallbearers entered.

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Male voice 1: At the head of the president Male voice 1: is the American flag. Male voice 1: And just the one side of Male voice 1: that is the Presidential flag.

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Male voice 1: As you were told a moment ago, Male voice 1: the family entered. Male voice 1: Mrs. John Kennedy, Male voice 1: dressed in black.

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Male voice 1: Looking extremely sorrowful. Sargent Shriver, Male voice 1: the other members of the family. Male voice 1: Present also with family, Male voice 1: is the new President of

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Male voice 1: the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson. Male voice 1: I see the actor Mr. Peter Lawford Male voice 1: and his lady Male voice 1: and proceeding on around the room

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Male voice 1: as the cortege continues Male voice 1: to take its place. Male voice 1: We find members of Male voice 1: the United States Supreme Court,

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Male voice 1: Justice Clarke. Male voice 1: Justice Stewart, Male voice 1: the Chief Justice of the United States. Male voice 1: We also find in

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Male voice 1: the same group numbers Male voice 1: of the President's Cabinet. Male voice 1: Whom the new president has asked Male voice 1: to continue in office,

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Male voice 1: Secretary of Labor Wirtz. Male voice 1: Secretary of Commerce Hodges, Male voice 1: Secretary of Agriculture Freeman. Male voice 1: The pallbearers have just made a salute,

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Male voice 1: put aside the casket and then proceeding Male voice 1: slowly at their hundred pace Male voice 1: a minute walk Male voice 1: back out the East entrance from whence

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Male voice 1: they came back to the outside of the Rotunda. Male voice 1: We see also prominently before us, Male voice 1: and walking to the microphone Male voice 1: is Mike Mansfield of Montana,

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Male voice 1: the Majority floor Leader of Male voice 1: the United States Senate. Senator Mike Mansfield: President and Mrs. Johnson. Mrs. Kennedy. Senator Mansfield: Members of the Kennedy family.

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Senator Mansfield: My fellow Americans all. Senator Mansfield: There was the sound of laughter. Senator Mansfield: And in a moment it was no more. Senator Mansfield: And so she took a ring from

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Senator Mansfield: her finger and placed it in his hand. Senator Mansfield: There was a wit in a man, neither young, Senator Mansfield: nor old, but a wit Senator Mansfield: full of an old man's wisdom

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Senator Mansfield: and a child's wisdom. Senator Mansfield: And then in a moment it was no more. Senator Mansfield: And so she took the ring from Senator Mansfield: her finger and placed it in his hands.

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Senator Mansfield: There was a man work with the scars Senator Mansfield: of his love of country. Senator Mansfield: A body active with the surge of Senator Mansfield: life far from spent.

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Senator Mansfield: And in a moment, it was no more. Senator Mansfield: And so she took a ring from Senator Mansfield: her finger and placed it in his hands. Senator Mansfield: There was a father with

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Senator Mansfield: a little boy and little girl. Senator Mansfield: And the joy of each and the other. And Senator Mansfield: in a moment, it was no more. Senator Mansfield: And so she took

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Senator Mansfield: a ring from her finger and placed it in his hands. Senator Mansfield: There was a husband who asked Senator Mansfield: much and gave much. Senator Mansfield: And out of the giving and the asking

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Senator Mansfield: wove with the women what could not be broken in life. Senator Mansfield: And in a moment Senator Mansfield: it was no more. So she Senator Mansfield: took a ring from her finger and placed it

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Senator Mansfield: in his hands and kissed Senator Mansfield: him and closed the lid of the coffin. Senator Mansfield: A piece of each of us died at that moment. Senator Mansfield: Yet in death, he gave himself to us.

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Senator Mansfield: He gave us of a good heart Senator Mansfield: from which the laughter came. Senator Mansfield: He gave us of a profound Senator Mansfield: wit from which a great leadership emerged.

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Senator Mansfield: He gave us of a kindness Senator Mansfield: and a strength fused into the human courage Senator Mansfield: to seek peace without fear. Senator Mansfield: He gave us of his love,

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Senator Mansfield: that we too in turn Senator Mansfield: might give. He gave that Senator Mansfield: we might give of ourselves. Senator Mansfield: that we might give to one another.

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Senator Mansfield: Until there would be no room, no room at all for the bigotry, Senator Mansfield: the hatred, the prejudice and Senator Mansfield: the arrogance which converged Senator Mansfield: in that moment of

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Senator Mansfield: horror to strike him down. Senator Mansfield: In leaving us Senator Mansfield: these gifts, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Senator Mansfield: President of the United

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Senator Mansfield: States, leaves with us. Senator Mansfield: Will we take that Mr. President? Senator Mansfield: Well, we have now Senator Mansfield: the sense and the responsibility,

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Senator Mansfield: and the courage can take them. Senator Mansfield: I pray to God that we shall. Senator Mansfield: And under God we will. Chief Justice Earl Warren: Mr. President, Mrs. Johnson,

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Male voice 1: the Chief Justice of the United States. Justice Warren: Members of the Kennedy family Justice Warren: and my fellow Americans. Justice Warren: There are few events in

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Justice Warren: our national life that so unite Americans, Justice Warren: so touch the hearts of all of us, Justice Warren: as the passing of Justice Warren: a President of the United States.

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Justice Warren: There is nothing that adds shock to Justice Warren: our sadness more than Justice Warren: the assassination of our leader, Justice Warren: chosen as he is

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Justice Warren: to embody the ideals of our people, Justice Warren: the faith we have in our institutions, Justice Warren: and our belief in the fatherhood of Justice Warren: God and the brotherhood of man.

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Justice Warren: Such misfortunes have befallen Justice Warren: the nation on other occasions. Justice Warren: But never more shockingly than two days ago. Justice Warren: We are saddened. We are stunned.

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Justice Warren: We are perplexed. Justice Warren: John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Justice Warren: a great and good president, Justice Warren: the friend of all people of goodwill,

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Justice Warren: a believer in the dignity and Justice Warren: equality of all human beings, Justice Warren: a fighter for justice, Justice Warren: an apostle of peace, has been

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Justice Warren: Justice Warren: snatched from our midst Justice Warren: by the bullet of an assassin. Justice Warren: What moves some misguided wretch to do Justice Warren: this horrible deed may never be known to us.

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Justice Warren: But we do know that such acts are commonly Justice Warren: stimulated by Justice Warren: forces of hatred and malevolence, Justice Warren: such as today, are eating

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Justice Warren: their way into Justice Warren: the bloodstream of American life. Justice Warren: What a price we pay for this fanaticism. Justice Warren: It has been said that the only thing we learn

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Justice Warren: from history is that we do not learn. Justice Warren: But surely we can Justice Warren: learn if we have the will to do so. Justice Warren: Surely, there is a lesson to be

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Justice Warren: learned from this tragic event. Justice Warren: If we really love this country, Justice Warren: if we truly love justice and mercy, Justice Warren: if we fervently want to make

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Justice Warren: this nation better for Justice Warren: those who are to follow us, Justice Warren: we can at least Justice Warren: abjure the hatred that consumes people.

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Justice Warren: The false accusations that divide us. Justice Warren: The bitterness that begets violence. Justice Warren: Is it too much to Justice Warren: hope that the martyrdom

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Justice Warren: of our beloved president Justice Warren: might even soften the hearts of Justice Warren: those who would Justice Warren: themselves recoil from assassination,

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Justice Warren: but who do not shrink Justice Warren: from spreading the venom Justice Warren: which kindles thoughts of it in others. Justice Warren: Our nation is bereaved.

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Justice Warren: The whole world is poorer because of his loss. Justice Warren: But we can all be better Americans Justice Warren: because John Fitzgerald Kennedy Justice Warren: has passed our way.

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Justice Warren: Because he has been our chosen leader Justice Warren: at a time in history Justice Warren: when his character, his vision, Justice Warren: and his quiet courage have

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Justice Warren: enabled him to chart a course for us. Justice Warren: A safe course for us through the shoals of Justice Warren: treacherous seas that encompass the world. Justice Warren: And now that he is relieved of

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Justice Warren: the almost superhuman burden Justice Warren: we imposed on him, Justice Warren: may he rest in peace. Male voice 1: That was the Chief Justice of

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Male voice 1: the United States Supreme Court, Earl Warren of Male voice 1: California. Stepping to Male voice 1: the microphone now, John McCormick, Male voice 1: the Speaker of the lower house of congress. Speaker John McCormick: President and Mrs. Johnson,

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Speaker John McCormick: Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, Speaker John McCormick: and the other bereaved members of Speaker John McCormick: our beloved president, Speaker John McCormick: former president Truman,

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Speaker McCormick: Reverend Clergy, and my fellow Americans. Speaker McCormick: As we gather here today, bowed in grief, Speaker McCormick: the heart-felt sympathy of the members of Speaker McCormick: the Congress and of our people are

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Speaker McCormick: extended to Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy and to Speaker McCormick: Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph Speaker McCormick: P. Kennedy and their loved ones. Speaker McCormick: Their deep grief is shared,

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Speaker McCormick: also shared by countless millions Speaker McCormick: of persons throughout the world, Speaker McCormick: considered a personal tragedy, Speaker McCormick: as if one had lost

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Speaker McCormick: a loved member of his own immediate family. Speaker McCormick: Any citizen of our beloved country Speaker McCormick: who looks back over its history, Speaker McCormick: cannot fail to see that we have been

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Speaker McCormick: blessed with God's favor Speaker McCormick: beyond most other peoples. Speaker McCormick: At each great crisis in our history Speaker McCormick: we have found a leader able

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Speaker McCormick: able to grasp the helm of state Speaker McCormick: and guide the country Speaker McCormick: through the troubles which beset it. Speaker McCormick: In our earliest days

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Speaker McCormick: when our strength and wealth Speaker McCormick: was so limited and our problem so great. Speaker McCormick: Washington and Jefferson appeared Speaker McCormick: to lead our people.

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Speaker McCormick: Two generations later, when our country Speaker McCormick: was torn in two buy fratricidal war, Speaker McCormick: Abraham Lincoln appeared from Speaker McCormick: the mass of the people

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Speaker McCormick: as a leader able to reunite the nation. Speaker McCormick: In more recent times, Speaker McCormick: in the critical days of the Depression Speaker McCormick: and the great war forced upon

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Speaker McCormick: us by fascist aggression, Speaker McCormick: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and later Speaker McCormick: Harry S. Truman, appeared on the scene Speaker McCormick: Tt reorganize the country and

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Speaker McCormick: lead its revived citizens to victory. Speaker McCormick: Finally, only recently when Speaker McCormick: the Cold War building Speaker McCormick: up to the supreme crisis

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Speaker McCormick: of a threatened nuclear war Speaker McCormick: capable of destroying everything and Speaker McCormick: everybody that our predecessors Speaker McCormick: had so carefully built and which a free,

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Speaker McCormick: liberty loving world wanted. Speaker McCormick: Once again, a strong and courageous man appeared Speaker McCormick: ready to lead us.

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Speaker McCormick: No country need despair, Speaker McCormick: so long as God in Speaker McCormick: his infinite goodness continues Speaker McCormick: to provide the nation with

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Speaker McCormick: leaders able to guide Speaker McCormick: it through the success of crises Speaker McCormick: which seemed to be the inevitable fate Speaker McCormick: of any great nation.

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Speaker McCormick: Surely no country ever face Speaker McCormick: more gigantic problems than Speaker McCormick: ours in the last few years. Speaker McCormick: And surely no country could have obtained

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Speaker McCormick: a more able leader in a time of crisis. Speaker McCormick: President John Fitzgerald Kennedy Speaker McCormick: possess all the qualities of greatness. Speaker McCormick: He had deep faith,

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Speaker McCormick: complete confidence, Speaker McCormick: human sympathy, and broad vision, Speaker McCormick: which recognized the true values of freedom, Speaker McCormick: equality and brotherhood, which have always

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Speaker McCormick: been the marks of Speaker McCormick: the American political dream. Speaker McCormick: He had the bravery and Speaker McCormick: the sense of personal duty,

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Speaker McCormick: which made him willing to Speaker McCormick: face up to the great task up being president Speaker McCormick: in these trying times. Speaker McCormick: He had the warmth and the sense of humor

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Speaker McCormick: which made the burden of the task bearable Speaker McCormick: for himself and for his associates, Speaker McCormick: which made all kinds of diverse peoples and Speaker McCormick: races eager to be associated with him

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Speaker McCormick: in his task. Speaker McCormick: He had the tenacity Speaker McCormick: and determination to carry Speaker McCormick: each stage of his great work

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Speaker McCormick: through to a successful conclusion. Speaker McCormick: Now that our great leader has been Speaker McCormick: taken from us in a cruel death, Speaker McCormick: we are bound to feel shattered and

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Speaker McCormick: helpless in the face of our loss. Speaker McCormick: This is but natural. Speaker McCormick: But as the first bitter pangs of Speaker McCormick: our incredulous grief begins to pass,

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Speaker McCormick: we must thank God that we Speaker McCormick: were privileged, however briefly, Speaker McCormick: to have had this great man for our president, Speaker McCormick: for he has now taken his place

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Speaker McCormick: among the great figures of world history. Speaker McCormick: While this is an occasion of deep sorrow, Speaker McCormick: it should be also one of dedication. Speaker McCormick: We must have the determination to

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Speaker McCormick: unite and carry on the spirit Speaker McCormick: of John Fitzgerald Kennedy first strengthened Speaker McCormick: America and for a future world of peace. Male voice 1: That was Speaker of the House,

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Male voice 1: John McCormick of Massachusetts, Male voice 1: the home state of the former precedent. Male voice 1: Stepping forward now, ladies and gentlemen, Male voice 1: the new President of the United States,

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Male voice 1: Lyndon Baines Johnson, with Male voice 1: the help of one of the armed sentinels Male voice 1: placing a wreath at the foot of Male voice 1: the casket of

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Male voice 1: the now deceased President. The wreath is placed there. Male voice 1: The new President bows Male voice 1: head silently for a moment, Male voice 1: turns, and walks away.

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Male voice 1: Back to the position where he was, Male voice 1: back of the family. Mrs. Kennedy, Male voice 1: the deceased president's wife, Male voice 1: walks to the side of the casket,

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Male voice 1: kneels, dressed in black as she is. Male voice 1: She kisses the side of the casket. Male voice 1: She rises, brushes her veil, Male voice 1: lightly back, and the left side of

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Male voice 1: her head proceeds back Male voice 1: to the family position Male voice 1: where she was standing. Male voice 1: She has the hand of daughter Caroline

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Male voice 1: in hers. A remarkable example of Male voice 1: courage we've seen in the ex-president's lady, Male voice 1: such as seldom as ever has been witnessed. Male voice 1: in these United States.

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Male voice 1: The members of the Joint Chiefs Male voice 1: of Staff are now filing out Male voice 1: the east entrance where Male voice 1: they filed in a moment ago.

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Male voice 1: The members of the family follow immediately Male voice 1: behind. President Johnson and Lady Bird Male voice 1: following behind the immediate family. Male voice 1: The two clergymen moving forward to

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Male voice 1: assume positions on either side Male voice 1: of the east entrance, Male voice 1: on the outside of which are Male voice 1: the great steps to the Capitol.

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Male voice 1: The very prominent group which is here, Male voice 1: is beginning to file slowly out, Male voice 1: covering on half of the circle Male voice 1: of the great Rotunda here under the dome.

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Male voice 1: Completely on Male voice 1: the opposite side of this, Male voice 1: where virtually the entire lower house Male voice 1: of the Congress of the United States,

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Male voice 1: members of the House of Representatives, Male voice 1: where 14 years ago, Male voice 1: President John F Kennedy, Male voice 1: began his political

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Male voice 1: career in Washington. Male voice 1: Subsequently to be Male voice 1: a number of the upper house, Male voice 1: the Senate of the United States.

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Male voice 1: And immediately in front of us. Male voice 1: As we look out across Male voice 1: this most touching scene, Male voice 1: we see virtually the entire membership

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Male voice 1: of the United States Senate. Male voice 1: I'm viewing in front of me, Male voice 1: Senator Strom Thurmond, Male voice 1: Senator Keating, Strom Thurmond

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Male voice 1: of South Carolina. Male voice 1: Senator Keating of New York. Male voice 1: Senator Dominic of Colorado, Male voice 1: Senator Church of Idaho.

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Male voice 1: Senator Dodd of Connecticut, Senator McGovern Male voice 1: of South Dakota. Male voice 1: Senator Yarborough of Texas, Male voice 1: where the tragic incident occurred.

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Male voice 1: He was in the parade in Male voice 1: Dallas just two short days ago. Male voice 1: When tragedy struck the American nation Male voice 1: in the form of

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Male voice 1: the assassination of President. Male voice 1: Members of the cabinet now filing out. Male voice 1: Secretary of Defense McNamara, Male voice 1: Secretary of Labor, Writz,

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Male voice 1: Secretary Freeman of Male voice 1: the Department of Agriculture. Male voice 2: I just wanted to observe Male voice 2: there, Russel, former

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Male voice 2: President Harry Truman Male voice 2: and his daughter Margaret, Male voice 2: Mrs. Daniel, leaving by Male voice 2: the south entrance to the Rotunda,

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Male voice 2: one of the four entrances to Male voice 2: this great circular room. Male voice 2: Looking very moved, very touched. Male voice 1: I saw the ex-president when he entered the room.

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Male voice 1: The Old War Horse, as Male voice 1: they referred to him, veteran of many Male voice 1: political wars. With him, Male voice 1: of course was his daughter Margaret.

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Male voice 1: The President, was on the verge of tears. Male voice 1: I think they were welling up in Male voice 1: his eyes as he walked out. Male voice 1: The prominent members of

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Male voice 1: the world diplomatic corps, Male voice 1: members of the press, Male voice 1: the United States Senate, Male voice 1: the military sentinels which are here,

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Male voice 1: the guard from Male voice 1: the Irish army, members of Congress, Male voice 1: the electronic press, the paper press, Male voice 1: so many prominent people. They're all

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Male voice 1: beginning to file out now Male voice 1: and in just a little bit, Male voice 1: when this part of the ceremonies are Male voice 1: over and the room is emptied

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Male voice 1: then the public will Male voice 1: be permitted to enter and Male voice 1: view the casket containing the dead president. Male voice 1: They will enter four-by-four abreast

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Male voice 1: and will separate into twos as Male voice 1: they come to the casket Male voice 1: and file on through the Rotunda. Male voice 1: And now we return you to

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