-Caveat Lector-
Did they think they were the ONLY taxpayers in the U.S. that owned that
casket ??????
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From: MICHAEL SPITZER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 9:29 PM
Subject: [CTRL] Kennedy Casket explanation (fwd)
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> Family Insisted JFK Casket Be Sunk
>
> By DEB RIECHMANN=
> Associated Press Writer
>
> WASHINGTON (AP) _ It was the Kennedy family that insisted that
> the polished bronze casket used to carry President Kennedy's body
> from Dallas to Washington be dumped into the ocean, newly
> released documents say.
>
> Kennedy was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in a mahogany
> coffin and there have been lingering questions about what ever
> happened to the casket used in Texas after Kennedy was
> assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963.
>
> ``What I would like to have done is take it to sea,'' Robert
> Kennedy, the president's brother, told an official of the General
> Services Administration in February 1966.
>
> Despite concerns that the casket was government property, Kennedy
> told GSA Administrator Lawson Knott Jr. that he believed it
> belonged to the family ``and we can get rid of it any way we want
> to,'' according to a memo recounting their telephone
> conversation.
>
> About two weeks later, on Feb. 18, 1966, an Air Force van picked
> up the casket at the National Archives building in downtown
> Washington.
>
> To make sure that it would sink, the casket was loaded with three
> 80-pound bags of sand. Numerous holes were drilled into the
> coffin and a pine box that encased it. It was bound with metal
> banding tape and rigged with parachutes to break the impact of
> hitting the water.
>
> At 8:38 a.m., a C-130 airplane carrying the casket left Andrews
> Air Force Base and flew off the Maryland-Delaware coast. The
> plane descended to 500 feet and at 10 a.m., the tail hatch of the
> plane was opened and the 660-pound load was pushed out.
>
> ``The parachutes opened shortly before impact and the entire
> rigged load remained intact and sank sharply, clearly and
> immediately after the soft impact,'' John Steadman, special
> assistant to the defense secretary, wrote in a Feb. 25, 1966 file
> memo.
>
> ``The aircraft circled the drop point for some 20 minutes at 500
> feet to ensure that nothing returned was chosen because it was
> away from regularly traveled air and shipping lines and would not
> be disturbed by trawling and other sea-bottom activities, the
> documents said.
>
> The government paid for the bronze coffin, but it was unclear
> whether it was government property.
>
> However, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach said in a Feb. 11,
> 1966 letter to the GSA that he felt it was necessary to dispose
> of the coffin.
>
> ``I am unable to conceive of any manner in which the casket could
> have an evidentiary value, nor can I conceive of any reason why
> the national interest would require its preservation,''
> Katzenbach wrote.
>
> ``It is obvious that it could never be used for burial purposes
> and its public display would be extremely offensive and contrary
> to public policy.''
>
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