Question: Where and when did the John F. Kennedy's state funeral take place?
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Following the autopsy on June 6, Kennedy's body was returned to New York City, where he lay in repose at St. Patrick's Cathedral, viewed by thousands, until a funeral mass on the morning of June 8.
Kennedy's younger brother, Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy, eulogized him with the words:Immediately following the mass, Kennedy's body was transported by a slow-moving train to Washington, D.C. and thousands of mourners lined the tracks and stations, paying their respects as the train passed by.
On the way to the cemetery, the funeral procession passed through Resurrection City, a shantytown protest set up as part of the Poor People's Campaign.
The procession stopped in front of the Lincoln Memorial, where residents of Resurrection City joined the group and sang "The Battle Hymn of the Republic".
Kennedy was buried near his older brother Jack, in Arlington National Cemetery, in the first burial ever to take place there at night; the second was the burial of his younger brother Ted.
After Kennedy's assassination, Congress altered the Secret Service's mandate to include protection for presidential candidates.
The remaining candidates were immediately protected under an executive order issued by Lyndon Johnson, putting a strain on the poorly resourced Secret Service. 
Gregarious, intelligent, educated, and world-wise, William Walton was considered the most popular of Kennedy's friends and confidantes.
He frequently escorted Jacqueline Kennedy to social functions and engagements when President Kennedy's duties kept him away.
But since Walton had no official political role in the Kennedy administration, he remained unknown to most of the public.
He was often confused with the British composer William Walton.
Walton's obscurity prompted the poet Frank O'Hara to write a poem about that.
One of the more public roles Walton performed in the first few months of the Kennedy administration was redecorating the White House.
Walton advised Jacqueline Kennedy on the building's decor, and helped redecorate the Oval Office with sculpture and paintings.
Although Walton differed with the president on political issues−he was an early opponent of the Vietnam War−the Kennedys enjoyed his company immensely.
The Kennedys invited Walton to spend their first White House Thanksgiving day with them in 1961.
Walton also played critical roles following the death of John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963.
His body was taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, for an autopsy.
Jacqueline and Robert F. Kennedy were escorted to a VIP suite on the 17th floor of the hospital.
As the evening wore on, the family began making plans for the funeral.
Jacqueline Kennedy vaguely remembered an engraving of the catafalque on which President Abraham Lincoln's coffin had rested while he lay in repose.
Robert Kennedy telephoned the White House, and at about 10:00 P.M. relayed the message that Mrs. Kennedy wanted the same bier.
Officials at the Library of Congress quickly looked up reports of Lincoln's funeral, and a Lincoln funeral scholar identified the most accurate ones.
Walton looked at a copy of "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper" and "Harper's Weekly", chose an engraving from "Harper's", and began sketching the bier and funerary decorations.
Military carpenters, unaware that the original Lincoln catafalque was stored in the Capitol building and that a replica was also available, began constructing one from Walton's sketches.
During the early hours of November 23, Walton assembled a decorating staff out of presidential aides, military officers, White House butlers, and others, and began draping the East Room windows and chandeliers in black crepe.
Walton realized that the engraving in "Harper's Weekly" depicted an overwrought display, so he decided that only borders of black crepe would be appropriate.
The White House had a large supply on hand to reupholster furniture, and additional material was quickly obtained from a local fabric shop.
The chandeliers were finished by 11:00 P.M., as Walton had been told that Kennedy's body would arrive by then.
With the autopsy still continuing, Walton next decorated the windows and mantels over the doors.
While Sargent Shriver and others removed the grand piano from the room at about 1:40 A.M., Walton helped assemble the catafalque, which had been arriving in pieces since midnight.
To make the catafalque look less barren, he ordered staff to cut magnolia leaves and branches from trees on the White House grounds and fill one of the East Room's flower urns with it.
Walton rejected the candlesticks, satin backgrounds, and wooden cross brought for the lying-in-repose by Gawler's Funeral Home, and accepted just two prie-dieu (wooden desks at which people could kneel and pray).
Walton also rejected silver candlesticks from the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, but accepted two wooden ones from Saint Stephen Martyr Catholic Church.
A large silver crucifix with a golden Christ from St. Matthew's was rejected by Walton in favor of a black Benedictine crucifix with a realistic, wooden Christ owned by Shriver.
Walton also ordered the storm door at the entrance to the White House beneath the North Portico removed so that the coffin would pass more easily through the portal.
The door was removed, but the frame (embedded in concrete) was not.
Black crepe was tacked around the door to cover it.
Shriver had the White House driveway lit with small firepots.
Kennedy's body arrived at the White House at about 4:30 A.M.
The military casket team moved the coffin into the East Room and set it on the catafalque.
Walton gave General Godfrey McHugh, Kennedy's chief military aide, a spray of flowers to place at the long base of the catafalque.
The casket was opened, and after viewing the body Jacqueline Kennedy asked for a closed casket funeral.
But she left the final decision to her brother-in-law, Robert Kennedy.
Robert Kennedy, Walton, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and four others viewed the body shortly before 5:00 A.M. McNamara said the casket should be kept closed.
Walton agreed, which convinced Robert Kennedy that a closed-casket funeral would be held.
Walton remembered sleeping as if in a daze for the next few hours.
Walton also played a significant role in choosing the location for Kennedy's burial.
While many in the media, Kennedy's family, and the Kennedy administration believed that Kennedy would be buried in the family plot in Brookline, Massachusetts, Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert McNamara believed he should be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
In a driving rain, McNamara visited the site early in the morning on Saturday, November 24.
After reviewing three sites (one of which was the lawn below Arlington House) with cemetery superintendent John C. Metzler, Sr., McNamara returned around mid-morning with Robert Kennedy, Kennedy's sisters Jean Smith and Pat Lawford, and Walton.
After reviewing all three sites, the group agreed on the Arlington House lawn.
Walton was one of the first to speak in favor of the lawn site, and pointed to a site higher up the hill where he thought the grave should be.
During a third trip that afternoon, McNamara and Walton accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to the site.
Walton again pointed to where the president should be buried, and others noted that Walton had instinctively chosen a plot along the axis between Arlington House and the Lincoln Memorial.
Walton's reckoning was so good, his preferred site was only off the axis line.
That afternoon, as planning for Kennedy's state funeral got underway, White House aide Ralph Dungan was unable to control the many emotional people proposing excessive and outlandish funeral tributes.
General McHugh, for example, proposed sending Air Force One roaring along the length of Arlington Memorial Bridge at just .
An exasperated Dungan turned the meeting over to Walton.
Within just a few hours, Walton had gotten the group to give up on nearly all the inappropriate funeral tributes and achieved consensus on an outline for Kennedy's funeral.
The one misstep Walton made occurred when Jacqueline Kennedy proposed an eternal flame over her husband's grave.
Walton called this idea "aesthetically unfortunate" and attempted to get her to give it up.
He was unsuccessful.
He later came to agree that the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame was an appropriate and even moving memorial.
As chairman of the Commission of Fine Arts, he helped shepherd the Kennedy grave site design through the approval process in 1964. 
Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded on June 5, 1968.
He died at 1:44 AM on June 6.
Kennedy's body was flown aboard Air Force One to New York City on the evening of June 6, where it lay in repose in St. Patrick's Cathedral from approximately 10:00 PM until 10:00 AM on June 8.
Selection of the burial site occurred almost immediately after Kennedy's death.
Kennedy had often said he wished to be buried in the family plot in Massachusetts, but the Kennedy family decided to have him buried at Arlington National Cemetery next to John F. Kennedy instead.
Late on June 6, Alfred B. Fitt, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, flew from Washington to New York City to confer with the Kennedy family about burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
The family had already decided to bury Robert F. Kennedy near his brother's memorial, and Fitt carried with him photographs of several areas of the John F. Kennedy grave site which would be suitable as a burial site.
At 10:30 PM on June 7, the Kennedy family announced that Robert F. Kennedy would be buried at Arlington National Cemetery in a grassy area just southeast of the John F. Kennedy grave site.
A high requiem mass attended by Ethel Kennedy (Kennedy's widow), Kennedy's children, Jacqueline Kennedy and her children, Rose Kennedy (Kennedy's mother) members of the extended Kennedy family, President Lyndon B. Johnson and his wife Lady Bird Johnson, and members of the Johnson Cabinet was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral at 10:00 AM on June 8.
Kennedy's body was taken by train from Pennsylvania Station in New York City to Union Station in Washington, D.C.
It was due to depart New York at 12:30 PM, but was delayed by the slow pace of mourners leaving the cathedral.
The four hour trip took eight hours and six minutes, due to the thick crowds lining the tracks on the journey.
In Elizabeth, New Jersey, a north-bound train struck two people who had moved out of the way of the funeral train, and the Kennedys asked their engineers to slow down even more.
Scheduled to arrive at about 4:30 PM, the funeral train arrived in Washington at 9:10 PM on June 8.
All funeral flowers were taken to Arlington National Cemetery, where they lay in deep banks on the hill around the grave site.
Floodlights were rushed into position in order to illuminate the burial site.
More than 1,500 candles were hurriedly donated by the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle (where John F. Kennedy's funeral had occurred) and handed out to the crowd and the mourners.
As the funeral motorcade entered the cemetery, the crowd lining the roadway spontaneously lit their candles—lighting the way.
The hearse arrived at the grave site at 10:24 PM, and the 15-minute ceremony (originally scheduled to begin at 5:30 PM) began six minutes later.
The service ended at 10:45 PM.
Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Washington, officiated at the graveside service in lieu of Cardinal Richard Cushing of Boston, who fell ill during the trip.
Archbishop of New York Terence Cooke also officiated.
Astronaut John Glenn folded the American flag which draped the coffin, and handed it to Senator Kennedy, who handed it to Joseph P. Kennedy II, eldest son of Robert Kennedy.
Joseph handed the flag to his mother, Ethel.
Kennedy's coffin was lowered into the grave after family and friends had departed, and his body buried at 11:34 PM.
Arlington National Cemetery officials claimed in 2011 that Robert F. Kennedy's burial is the only one ever to have taken place at night in the cemetery.
However, in 1963, there was another night burial in the cemetery.
Shortly after John F. Kennedy's burial, his two infant children were buried next to him in Arlington at night.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy's burial in 2009 also occurred at night.
As with John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy's first grave was a temporary one, about upslope from its current location.
A simple white wooden cross stood at the head of the grave, while a spray of flowers marked the foot of it.
About 50,000 people (7,000 in the first three hours alone) visited the grave the day after the burial, while another 20,000 visited it the second day.
More than 7 million people visited both Kennedy grave sites between June 10, 1968, and June 6, 1969. 
After John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, his body was flown back to Washington, and on arrival, it was taken to Bethesda Naval Hospital for the autopsy.
At the same time, military authorities started planning his state funeral.
Army Major General Philip C. Wehle, the commanding general of the Military District of Washington (MDW) (CG MDW), and retired Army Colonel Paul C. Miller, chief of ceremonies and special events at the MDW, planned the funeral.
They headed to the White House and worked with the president's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, also director of the Peace Corps, and Ralph Dungan, an aide to the president.
Because Kennedy had no funeral plan in place, much of the planning rested with the CG MDW.
House Speaker John W. McCormack said that the president's body would be brought back to the White House to lie in the East Room the following day and then taken to the Capitol to lie in state in the rotunda all day Sunday.
The day after the assassination, the new president, Lyndon B. Johnson, issued , declaring Monday to be a national day of mourning, and only essential emergency workers to be at their posts.
He read the proclamation over a nationwide radio and television broadcast at 4:45 p.m. from the Fish Room at the White House.
Several elements of the state funeral paid tribute to Kennedy's service in the Navy during World War II.
They included a member of the Navy bearing the presidential flag, the playing of the Navy Hymn, "Eternal Father, Strong to Save," and the Naval Academy Glee Club performing at the White House.
The hymn "O God of Loveliness" was played as the casket was brought down the Capitol steps; "The Barren Rocks of Aden" as it was brought to the White House, and "Ave Maria" when it arrived at St. Matthew’s Church. 
After the autopsy at Bethesda Naval Hospital, Kennedy's body was prepared for burial by embalmers from Gawler's Funeral Home in Washington, who performed the embalming and cosmetic restoration procedures at Bethesda instead of the funeral home.
The body was then put in a coffin made of 500-year old African mahogany, as some of the handles and ornaments on the bronze one that carried the body from Dallas had been damaged en route.
The body of President Kennedy was returned to the White House at nearly 4:30 a.m., Saturday, November 23.
The motorcade bearing the remains was met at the White House gate by a Marine honor guard, which escorted it to the North Portico.
The pallbearers bore the casket to the East Room where, nearly one hundred years earlier, the body of Abraham Lincoln had lain.
Kennedy's casket was placed on a catafalque previously used for the funerals of the Unknown Soldiers from the Korean War and World War II at Arlington.
Jacqueline Kennedy declared that the casket would be kept closed for the duration of the viewing and funeral.
The shot to Kennedy's head left a gaping wound, and religious leaders said that a closed casket minimized morbid concentration on the corpse.
Kennedy, still wearing the blood-stained raspberry-colored suit she wore in Dallas, had not left the side of her husband's body since his death.
Only after the casket was placed in the East Room, draped with black crepe, did she retire to her private quarters.
Kennedy's body lay in repose in the East Room for 24 hours, attended by an honor guard that included troops from the 3rd Infantry and from the Army's Special Forces (Green Berets).
The Special Forces troops had been brought hurriedly from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, at the request of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who was aware of his brother's particular interest in them.
Kennedy requested that two Catholic priests remain with the body until the official funeral.
A call was made to The Catholic University of America, and Msgr.
Robert Paul Mohan and Fr.
Gilbert Hartke, two prominent Washington, D.C. priests, were immediately dispatched for the task.
A Mass was said in the East Room at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, November 23.
After the Mass, other family members, friends, and other government officials came at specified times to pay their respects, including former U.S. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower.
The other surviving former U.S. president at the time, Herbert Hoover, was too ill to attend, and was represented by his sons, Herbert Hoover Jr. who also attended the funeral, and Allan Hoover went to the services in the rotunda.
Outside the White House and in Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House, crowds stood in the rain, keeping a vigil and paying quiet respects.
It rained all day in Washington, befitting the mood of the nation.