Kennedy's Casket

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:00:00

Kennedy's Casket

Sorell Schwartz

Tomorrow is the 45th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. At the time, Sorell Schwartz was a newly minted officer at the Naval Medical Research Center in Bethesda, Md. Soon after he found out about the assassination, Sorell learned the president's body was being transported to his hospital.

As he tells Dick Gordon, Sorell next found himself with a lot of responsibility - leading the effort to receive the casket and grieving family members, while also managing a growing crowd of onlookers. Sorell himself wasn't able to grieve until the next morning, when he saw the newspaper headline and realized he hadn't been dreaming.

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Kennedy's Casket

Kennedy's Casket

BLUES OF HIS OWN