Herbert Gordon: Less than two hours after President Kennedy died in Parkland Hospital, in the shocked city of Dallas, his body was placed aboard Air Force One, and flown home. It lay in repose in ...

Even this partial figure, if averaged out among the number of deaths, would amount to the astonishing sum of $942 for the funeral of every man, woman, child, and stillborn babe who died in the ...

Hours after JFK was fatally shot on Nov. 22, 1963, the shaken widow paged through the leather-bound tome and found the words to read at her husband’s funeral. “Bible we used the night Jack ...