Talk:State funeral of John F. Kennedy

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Contents 1 Jackie Onassis Life After 2 Time of day "people" started to believe JFK was dead 3 Why people were sad 4 Happy? 5 Images 6 Branches of Government

[edit] Jackie Onassis Life After

Is this section really relevant to the Article Heading? People should be visiting Jackie Onassis' page to get information pertaining to her life after JFK. Thoughts? Mercnboy3 15:19, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

I agree. We have a complete biography of that person in a separate article. I see no reason to cover the same material here. The only info relevant to this article would be her subsequent burial besides JFK. -Will Beback 22:48, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Time of day "people" started to believe JFK was dead

To say

People started to believe that their young president had been assassinated only at 15:34 EST when the mahogany casket containing his remains was lowered into the earth

besides being absurd, is blatant POV - a denial of those who "began to believe" earlier or later - to put it to a minute is absurd. Do not re-insert. ALSO: Paragraph ends well on flame rather than a time of day--JimWae 2005 July 6 16:25 (UTC)

[edit] Why people were sad

Sanjay - quit inserting your POV - it is offensive to others who felt sad but for reasons you do not give. You were not even alive then, so how can you know WHY people felt the way they did. I have told you almost 100 times already that it is not an encyclopedia's job to tell people how they feel or how they felt - nor why. Anyway, it is editorial comment and POV & does not belong here. Do it again & I will have you locked out on 3RR--JimWae 03:10, 2005 July 13 (UTC)

Same as above --JimWae 19:20, 2005 July 17 (UTC)

This is normal behavior for SNIyer. I'm going to add this page to my watchlist, so I can help out. --Woohookitty 19:42, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Happy?

I have read the following sentence a hundred times and I can't still figure out why was Jacky supposed to be "happy".

"The doors were supposed to close at 9:00 p.m. and reopen for an hour at 9:00 the next morning, However, because of the long lines, police and military authorities decided to keep the doors open until 9:00 a.m. Jacqueline Kennedy was happy about it, because at 9:00 p.m., she and brother-in-law Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy visited the rotunda again."

I suppose the person who wrote this sentence is implying that, because the door was kept open, she was able to return at 9:00 p.m. to see her husband's body therefore she was “happy”, but I am sure she would have been granted access anyway, at any time, even if the doors were closed. Then, is "happy" the best word to describe her feelings about the doors kept open anyway? I really doubt it. Maybe something with more sense would be to state that she was satisfied with the decision of keeping the door open because the crowds could pay their respects to the president all night (not because she went at 9:00 p.m.).

Thoughts about this? fredyrod 201.227.50.22 17:42, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Images

What's wrong with this image? Image:JacquelineKennedyHoldingHerChildren.jpg --evrik 20:02, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

• It's a copyrighted photo with a watermark placed on the crux of the image, which is unacceptable. Roy A.A. 21:09, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
  • Why has it taken so long for someone to complain? Is there a GDFL equivalent? --evrik 21:19, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Branches of Government

"Brief eulogies were delivered inside the rotunda by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana, Chief Justice Earl Warren, and Speaker McCormack, representing their respective branches of government."

Is there a better term for this? Branches of government seems to imply legislative, executive and judicial. In this case, it is the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court which are represented.

The Senate and House of Representantatives are sometimes classes as branches of the government, especiall yin the early days of the republic. See Federalist No. 51. The judiciary is given only a minor role in the U.S. Constitution. Only later did the judiciary develop into the third branch, with the concommitent merging of the Congress into a single branch. I dont see a problem with the text as it's written. -Will Beback · † · 20:44, 27 December 2006 (UTC)