Above the muffled drums, Readings at Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' Funeral | AP News NEW YORK (AP) _ In a heartbreakingly familiar scene, John F. Kennedy Jr. was eulogized Friday as a free spirit who carried the torch of America's first family of politics with unusual ease and grace and _ like his father _ ``had every gift but length of years. (22 Jul 1999) Natural Sound The Kennedy family gathered on Cape Cod Thursday for the burial at sea of John F. Kennedy Junior, whose body was found in the su. He was long known as Joe Kennedy; but, wishing to distinguish himself from Joseph P. Kennedy, he added an "X" as his first initial. ``He was a pied piper who brought us all along. He was part of a legend, and he learned to live with it. Jeffery D. Robinson Jr. Obituary - Echovita New York's Irish community also planned a public ceremony Thursday night at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in downtown Manhattan. to learn and go on learning from their scholars. Those works, along with some written during Kennedys presidency, were compiled into a book published in 1964 and an audio album recorded a year later. The words "O Captain! Mr Kennedy and his wife had planned to drop Ms Bessette off at Martha's Vineyard and then fly to Hyannis Port for the wedding of his cousin, Rory. He drove his own car and flew his own plane, which is how he wanted it. Charles O'Byrne, who presided at the 1996 wedding of Mr. Kennedy and Ms. Bessette, gave the homily, and spoke about the joy of participating in the preparations for the secretive ceremony that was held off the coast of Georgia. He talked about how she would call her friends on the phone and after a prolonged conversation would apologize for talking only about herself when in fact it was all about them. Its gates. Kennedys life was cut in half, the senator told 350 family members and friends who filled the velvet-lined pews at the Gothic-style Church of St. Thomas More on Manhattans Upper East Side, where JFK Jr.s mother often sought solace. When the body finally left Bethesda on its way to the White House at around 4 a.m. on November 23, author William Manchester reported that members of the official party saw men in denim standing at attention beside cars halted at intersections, and all-night filling station attendants were facing the ambulance, their caps over their hearts. Unofficial cars joined the ghostly caravan to the White House. His uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, delivered an affecting eulogy laced with eloquence and wit in which he said that Mr. Kennedy, as the only son of the 35th President of the United States, ''seemed to belong not only to our family, but to the American family.
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