Then, for the next 4½ hours, Ethel Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy and Coretta Scott King shared a flight over their grieving, wounded, troubled country. Robert Kennedy’s final flight is less famous than his final train ride, the one that took him from New York to Washington before the final leg to Arlington National Cemetery. She and Ethel Kennedy had even gotten together in the interim, for a “Poor People’s March” in Washington. I suppose everybody was trying to keep her mind off what had happened.”Joan Bennett Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy and Sargent Shriver are shown following the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Once Robert Kennedy was ­installed at St. Pat’s, where he would lie in state the next day, his entourage dispersed.

Source: Washington Post June 03, 2018 22:54 UTC