European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              The stars and stripes pay respect John f. Kennedyjr son of the late president lays a i Flower on his father s grave next to that of his Uncle Robert at Arlington National cemetery. Behind him Are his sister Caroline and his Mother. In photo at right nuns from various orders in Philadelphia wave As the funeral train bearing Robert Kennedy s body passes through the station. Sen. Edward Ken Nedy the dead Man s brother Waresback from the rear platform. A g by Milton Benjamin Washington up the train came out of the Tunnel under the Hudson River and right away in the Middle of an old automobile junkyard you i saw them. The balding Middle aged i Man wearing a dirty sweat stained undershirt was holding battered Felt hat Over. His heart. The woman standing next to him was waving a Green kerchief with one hand an brushing away the tears with i the other. A mile further Down the tracks two Paunchy cops were standing stiffly at attention j beside their squad car. They passed. More saluted the train smartly As it than a million Little leagues girl scouts service station attendants veterans Bankers bookkeepers and rag pickers lined the tracks of the Railroad from  York saturday to respects to Kennedy. To pay their final Frobert Francis a Little girl in a Blue and White dress sitting Piggy Back on her daddy s shoulders waved tiny american Flag. An elderly woman wearing a heavy cloth coat on a hot Sticky Day stood at the Side of the tracks with a wilted Rose. As the train made its Way through Seamer sections of owns men clutching bottles of Over and women in houseboats with their hair up in curlers lined the porches of the tenements. In Middle class suburbs they stood out on their Back lawns hollering at the kids to get out of the wading Pool and not miss the Brief glimpse of history. They jammed the stations and overflowed onto the track Sand in Elizabeth n.j., a passenger train racing in theother direction struck and killed two mourners who did t see the other train until it was too late they climbed water towers Hung from the girders of Black draped train a j i t j i no in f a it v\r\1ir�a Utah overpasses and stood on the roofs of their cars to get better View. And in one Case this also resulted in  Man who had climbed onto the roof of a Boxcar grabbed the overhead wire to steady him self and was badly burned bythe surge of electricity. As the train crossed a River outside Newark n.j., three firemen stood at attention on the deck of their fireboat. It s name the John f. Kennedy. Near Philadelphia where a High Speed expressway ran alongside the tracks hundreds of motorists illegally parked along the Road. A few double parked leaving their cars on the Highway. Some raised their w be a goad cry later9. New York up Ethel Kennedy did not cry. She sat quiet and composed in the great Neo gothic Cathedral where six cardinals numerous Bishops and More than 200 priests conducted a solemn requiem mass for her slain Hus band she wore widow s Black and Athin Black veil covered her face and her Short blonde hair. She watched intently As the ritual of her Church unfolded around the polished african mahogany coffin where the body of  p. Kennedy Lay. Turns head sighs but now and then a noise Deimund her a cough the creak a wooden Pew would catch ear and she would turn her Nead sigh turn Back. Don t cry now. Well All have Good cry later she told a Ujj Jung Friend the night in her words Wel e print Eden the Washington Post. If crying she tried to g friends who Gath Rea Friday night at her six hip rement overlooking thes nations and the East s21 although there were be maids to Holn it a Ftp la Jojn to lil. Haj y 1l i. Vail Cerf i Kennedy who left the its i a yellow living room with Een carpeting and White couches to find Coffee and cake or drinks for her visitors. Around her in the Cathedral saturday Kathleen David 12, and Mary Courtney 11, sat with her in the right hand front Pew. Robert jr., 14, served As an altar boy. 1 Heather five even 14-month-old Douglas Harriman came for part of the service with a nurse. Sen. Edward m. Kennedy d mass., the last of the fou Kennedy Brothers sat with her and so did mrs. John , widowed so similarly 1 1-2 years earlier and her two children Caroline 11, and John hoods in Hopes the police would think the Auto had broken Down and would t ticket them. In the Flatland of new Jersey someone had taken acan of Black Spray paint and written on a Railroad overpass new Jersey is  All America was saddened bythe senseless slaying of Robert Kennedy. But As Rev. Ralph David Abernathy wearing his Dungaree suit and sipping ice Tea slumped in a seat on the train he looked out the wind Wand said to his seatmate i think this Only goes to show there is a Reservoir of Good will in this country. Weave seen More than a million people out there Black people White people Brown and yellow people and they Are saying in their own Way to the Kennedy family and to Bobby we love  Philadelphia a Junior High school band played Amer Ica the  were her children. 16, Joseph Iii 15, jr., 7. Her last visit five hours earlier when thelast of the 151,000 mourners had passed the Bier of her husband car renamed at Wilmington del., people stood in grim silence to watch this train its Black engine its last car draped in Black an renamed Robert f.  at the next Stop in Baltimore where 10,000 had gathered at the Railroad station somber silence ave Way to a sweeping Crescen o of voices As the huge turnout ined in the singing of i he  hymn of the Republic he mass chorus had developed spontaneously after Mourner had Sung phrases of the song quietly to herself. The last four cars of the 21-ar, 1,146-Passengcr train were  la " Ethel Kennedy paid her la song at St. Patrick s Cathedral before Dawn she Sain a chair near the end of the coffin and placing her head Uher hands sat motionless of several  stayed in the towering Hurch for almost 40 minute but it was not the private Tim she had hoped it would  camera focused o her face and caught the lines o a single the private for members of the Kennedy family. Members of the family came out to talk. The first to walk the train was Robert Kennedy s oldest so Joseph 15, who Shook every hand and said to each person i m Joe Kennedy. 1 Hank you thank you for coining. Thank you for your sympathy. And then the widow Ethel smiling and shaking How Are you she ubed. We appreciate your coming. Thank