Funeral Drum Cadence Kennedy Funeral

[@brianmcmurdo2295]

I wonder how many boys and girls from that day never forgot this cadence? I have remembered it my entire life. I was eight years old that day.

[@robertboyd1870]

So was I. and I never forgot it either

[@francistorchio]

I remember it like it was yesterday.

[@kevinbreslin8659]

I, too, was 8 yo

[@andreabaker544]

I was nine...I'll never forget..especially when they started playing Chopin's "Death March". It gave my parents chills...so sad.😢

[@tokenjoy]

I was 8-yo as well and remember the drums as well as the riderless horse.

[@mgary3]

I am 73. I could never get that cadence out of my mind. When I visit DC it comes back, even though I was at home in Atlanta when the funeral occurred.

[@lawrencebittke8478]

The rhythmic drum cadence....the clattering of horses’ hooves on Pennsylvania Avenue as the caisson and casket were being towed. I was 10 years old when all this happened and I’ve never forgotten it.

[@CatherineLee3000]

I was not even alive. My Grandparents were, though. Even though I did not witness this, it is still very sad. Rest In Peace, John F. Kennedy.

[@mkingl25]

@@CatherineLee3000 hello!

[@mkingl25]

RIP

[@CatherineLee3000]

@@mkingl25, Hi!

[@catherineehlers8115]

Neither have I. I was 8 years old in 1963. I remember those drums. And the saddest thing I thought was when they removed President Kenned's rocking chair from the White House.

[@100beachbum]

60 years ago yesterday. Hearing this still gives me the chills.

[@thomaslas4427]

I was seventeen and can still hear it in my head.

[@bshaboogie]

I have met at least 3 of those original drummers in my lifetime ... all 3 were deeply involved in the competitive drum corps activity as instructors & judges.

[@57highland]

In other words, they were the best in their field, right?

[@annedwyer797]

I was 6 when JFK was killed, and I still so clearly remember that specific drum cadence and the sound of horses' hooves, and Chopin's Funeral March played by the military band...Black Jack the riderless horse, with empty boots turned backwards. It was tremendously solemn. And the heartbreaking photo of literally just-turned 3 John Jr. in his little blue coat and short pants saluting his father. That photo always brings tears to my eyes.

[@robertag2756]

Today is 11/22/20 and I was thinking about my most vivid memory of that day and this was it. I'll never forget the drums and the riderless horse from that day.

[@karencox3626]

My ex husband , Bruce R. Way was one of those drummers.

[@TitanicTubi]

Wow that must have very interesting!!!

[@mackdog832]

So a little tidbit......the drums are actually loosened to create the deep sound.....then they have to be draped in black.....which if you look closely they are. They drums are all tuned to the same deep sound.........hence the funeral marches

[@community1949]

I have never seen my parents so upset that weekend - I was home sick in bed and 14 years old - mom and daddy went to GovCo and when they came back mom came in thru the back door as daddy was putting away the car in the garage. She said "honey something has happened - President Kennedy has been shot"!!!! Never forget that day or the weekend that extended through Monday for the rest of my life. It slowly changed our culture and country.

[@rw0864]

Day of drums. So sad...

[@community1949]

I will remember those drums until the day I die.

[@1polonium210]

I was 12 years old. I watched this funeral procession, and I remember well the haunting sounds of the muffled. drums.

[@chrisblackburn8766]

I still remember it & I was a sophomore in high school.☹️

[@haroldbrown5308]

I was a senior in high school. I cried like a baby! I ran home and found my mother on the cement floor of the basement----"then killed our boy--they killed our boy! The CIA changed alot of things---a lot!

[@knightwatchman]

I was 10 and a half years old when I watched this funeral march. I am now 65 and a half. This drum cadence has always fascinated me and sometimes still haunts me. Does this cadence have a name?

[@piewoman4]

While I don't have an answer to that, I just now learned that our HS band director Matt Hynes wrote this cadence and the funeral music while still in the US Navy Band as their composer and arranger. (RIP Matthias Leo Hynes, our beloved Fairfax HS Band director, d. Nov 12 2019. Special man.) I agree, the cadence is haunting. I'd never seen this until today, when I learned of Hynes' passing, and a bandmate looked this up.

[@petersorokapercussion8591]

@@davidvaughn8851 Very close. It was SGM Vincent Battista with the US Army Band. He was one of the drummers in this processional.

[@balkopublicschoolsmusiccha5404]

@@petersorokapercussion8591 I appreciate that. I thought I saw MSG. Apparently it was SGM

[@michaelstone3093]

It's the military funeral cadence. All use it but the navy. They have their own. It is simple and easy to play. There weren't professional musicians in those days except for upper level like Washington DC. Civil War used it. They had drummers with most units. There is a story about an underaged boy who was a drummer assigned to a unit in the Civil War. They found out and sent him home. He rejoined again and continued as a drummer boy until he was old enough to be an actual soldier. He retired in the army. Youngest soldier ever to serve.

[@jongraham7362]

We watched it on tv that day, nearly 60 years ago...such a sad day. Such a strange 4 days.

[@haroldbrown5308]

and Jack Ruby......very interesting!

[@marybuford9591]

This was one of the most dignified and solemn funerals possible. U had 2 b there

[@jamesgordon2255]

Jackie, was haunted the remainder of these muffled drums and the sound of horses, she said she could never get it out of her head. I don’t think I’d ever watched or listened to a more somber service filled with grief. The Irish cadets played so somber on the heart strings.

[@jjboyd01]

I was there. age 7. My dad drove me down from Philly. For me it was cold. I was right on the curb when the Casket came by .

[@davidsiltman8521]

I was 5 years old and my family went to the funeral. I hear that drumbeat EVERY DAY. It doesn’t haunt me, but because of it I try to stay well informed about the assassination. I’m not one to try to convince others to believe as I do, but I can’t understand why the majority of the current population isn’t interested in that event or doesn’t care who the perpetrators were.

[@buttafan4010]

Release All The JFK Files! It's 2019.

[@haroldbrown5308]

The drums says it all! We will never get over the coup!

[@mackdog832]

Remembing JFK 11/25/17

[@iramoser6136]

08/27/20. Shit year.

[@viccolantonio1691]

Is this footage film or video?

[@sybiltaylor9963]

So sad 😩😩😩😔😔

[@raymondwest1346]

As so many have commented, the cadence of the funeral dirge I have remembered since that day. Just 5 months older than JFK, Jr. living in Dallas, Texas, I became aware some extraordinary event had occurred when my older siblings had come home from school early and my Dad was home from work, on the day of the murder.

[@sherylannannpughpughppugh9564]

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[@KitDumitre]

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[@paulwingerter8267]

I was four years old when JFK was assassinated and remember it like it was yesterday! Twenty years later I was in the Army's Honor Guard in DC and remember thinking back twenty years.

[@charlieirvin5423]

My Dad was Navy Honor Guard In JFKs Funeral I was 8 years old He was the Presidential Flag Barrier