AS THE COFFIN WAS LOWERED XXTO THE GROUND, CARDINAL CUSHING
INTOLED THE ANCIENT CATHOLIC RITES AND THREE CANNONS BOOMED A
21 -GUN SALUTE IN THE DISTANCE THEN THREE RIFLEMEN FIRED THREE
VOLLIES EACH INTO THE SKY AND X ANX ARMY BUGLER, SGT. KEITH CLARK,
SOUNDED TAPS.
THE FLAG WHICH HAD DRAPED THE COFFIN FOR THREE DAYS WAS
FOLDED X CAREFULLY BY THE PALLBEARERS AND GIVEN TO MRS. KENNEDY.
SHE AND HER HUSBAND 'S TWO BROTHERS THEN LIGHTED THE XX ETERNAL
FLAME WHICH WILL BURN ABOVE THE GRAVE
AT 3:34 P.M., THE SERVICE WAS OVER. MRS. KENNEDY, WI TH
ROBERT KENNEDY ALONGS IDE, XXX WALKED SLOWLY BACK TO THE LIMOUS INE
FOR HER RETURN TO THE WHITE HOUSE SHE ALMOST TRIPPED ONCE, BUT
RECOVERED HER BALANCE UNASS ISTED
AND SO THE 35TH PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WAS LAID TO
REST, XX THE FOUR DAYS THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD CAME TO AN END, AND
THE GREAT AND NEAR-GREAT FROM AROUND THE WORLD TURNED BACK TO THE IR
OWN WORLDS. AND IN ALL THE SP EECHES, IN ALL THE EULOGIES, IN ALL
THE COMFORTING MESSAGES, NOWHERE WAS THE WORLD 'S SENTIMENT MORE
CLEARLY EXPRESSED THAN IN A BRIEF INSCRIPTION ON THE BACK OF A
PICTURE OF THE LATE PR ESIDENT, WHICH WAS HANDED OUT X AT XXXx
ST. MAT THEWS CATHEDRAL"DEAR GOD, PLEASE TAKE CARE OF YOUR
SERVANT, JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY."
