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Mar 12, 2024 · "Your honor guard made me feel proud to tears," wrote Frank Gulland, a salesman from Ohio, The Associated Press reported ahead of the 50th anniversary of Kennedy's funeral.
Oct 5, 2013 · Joy consumed Ireland, too, as it welcomed home its anointed son. Kennedy's great-grandfather had emigrated from County Wexford in 1849, and the Irish took an intensely personal pride in their ...
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Jul 11, 2023 · On Nov 25, 1963, 26 Irish Army Cadets performed "the Funeral Drill" at the graveside of President John F. Kennedy. Sixty years later five of those Irish cadets attended the launch of EPIC Musuem's ...
Oct 5, 2013 · The teenage Irish cadets who were invited to the funeral of John F. Kennedy at Arlington cemetery at the special request of Jacqueline Kennedy remember that solemn day vividly 50 years after it ...
On Monday, November 25, 1963, 26 Irish Army Cadets lined up alongside JFK’s mourning party to perform The Queen Anne Drill, otherwise known as the Funeral Drill, for the US President ...
Nov 23, 2013 · In this Nov. 25, 1963 file photo, an Irish cadet honor guard, center rows with arms outstretched, stand in formation as the U.S. flag is lifted from the coffin of President John F. Kennedy during ...
A new group of cadets from the 37th Cadet Class was assembled by the Irish Defence Forces to execute the maneuver for a camera crew. After the assassination, and recalling Kennedy's fascination with the Queen Anne drill, Jacqueline Kennedy requested that Ireland send a contingent of cadets to the funeral to execute it graveside during interment.
