Surratt Commission and Anna Surratt

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(09-22-2014 06:18 PM)Warren Wrote:  God, I wanted that photo! I had an automatic bid in, and didn't have the opportunity to do any last minute bids; I have the distinct feeling I would have been crushed anyway at the last minute.

Do you see the honor guard soldier below the line of the main soldiers? It appears he is holding his rifle upside down, and I think I remember that from the Kennedy funeral?

Jesus, to have been at that funeral procession!

BTW, was TR really looking out the window during the funeral procession, or is that a myth?

Jacqueline Kennedy deliberately based JFK's State Funeral on Abraham Lincoln's as closely as possible. On the night of Nov22nd on Air Force One headed back to Washington from Dallas with her husband's remains, she had her staff radio'd from the aircraft and told them to gather all the available protocol on the Lincoln funeral. It was already very late in the capital and the Library of Congress was closed, but the WH staff did as they were directed to, researching through the night at the Congressional archives by flashlight.(Four Days in November, originally aired 1988, CBS, narrated by Dan Rather)

The majestic, moving State Funeral that resulted in 1963 was drawn on the one that had taken place nearly 100 years previous.

Young Teddy Roosevelt and his little brother definitely did see part of the NYC procession from their grandfather's window. Perhaps that is when TR's lifelong fascination with Lincoln began.