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During a motorcade in downtown Dallas on November 22, 1963, accompanied by Mrs. Kennedy, Texas Governor John B. Connally, and his wife Nellie, Kennedy was fatally shot in the back of the neck and head. The country was thrown into a state of mourning.
John F. Kennedy made his first formal visit to Arlington National Cemetery on Veterans Day, November 11, 1961, to place a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. At the conclusion of the ceremony, President Kennedy spoke to more than 5,000 people gathered in the Memorial Amphitheater .
The John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame is a presidential memorial at the gravesite of assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy, in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. This permanent site replaced a temporary grave and eternal flame used at the time of Kennedy's state funeral on November 25, 1963, three days after his assassination .
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and two Kennedy infants are interred in Lot 45, Section 30, Arlington National Cemetery. The permanent graves are located about 20 feet east of the site where the President was temporarily interred on 25 November 1963.
Nov 16, 2009 · On March 14, the body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a spot just a few feet away from its original interment site at Arlington National Cemetery.
- Missy Sullivan
John F. Kennedy Gravesite. Visit the gravesite of the 35th President of the United States - one of the most visited sites at Arlington. Learn More
Feb 9, 2010 · Kennedy was buried with full military honors on a slope below Arlington House, where an eternal flame was lit by his widow to forever mark the grave.
