Kennedy Assasination 1963

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"At JFK’s funeral 50 years ago, a bugler’s broken note spoke for a grieving nation" (Washington Post)

"Bugler at President Kennedy’s Funeral Remembered 50 Years Later" (Voice of America)

"Tom Sherlock, senior historian at the cemetery, remarked last year how Sergeant Clark's flawed sounding of taps seemed entirely fitting.

''It showed the tension that the nation felt,'' Mr. Sherlock said. ''It's part of the emotion. It's when a speech is well delivered and a voice cracks because it's an emotional time. It's what should happen. And in that way, it almost personalized it. And it made it immortal.'' (The New York Times obituary of bugler and music educator Keith Clark)

International Consortium of Investigative Journalists vetted resources

Friday Afternoon, November 22, 1963, aboard a northbound commuter train out of Grand Central (either New Haven Railroad or New York Central, what is now called Metro North), the New York evening papers scream the headlines. You see both the Journal-American and the World-Telegram & Sun. As the Journal and the World it was the circulation fight between these two newspapers which is often blamed for the Spanish-American War. Here they are in their last years. Within three years they would merge with the Herald Tribune to become the World-Journal-Tribune, and a year after that, close down. New York City had seven daily newspapers in 1963, by 1968 there were three... what happened?

Eyewitness at The White House, that evening (Daily Progress)

"Who was I ... and why was I there? I was a second-level Peace Corps press officer working for Sargent Shriver, and because the White House press staffers were all out of town – Pierre Salinger was flying over the Pacific with some Cabinet members; Mac Kilduff had gone with President Kennedy to Dallas and Andy Hatcher was out of reach – I was tapped to be inside the White House all through that remarkable night."