"I Buried John F. Kennedy" interview with James Felder

[@blaine8274]

What an incredible story. You have to have the utmost respect for this man and the other pallbearers. Thank you sir.

[@sandraatkins2539]

What great historical insight. Sir, thank you for your service. We can't blame Mrs. Kennedy for not allowing his body to go to the funeral home for embalming. I wholeheartedly agree with her decision.

[@papaforever3706]

James Felder is such an eloquent speaker and a man of integrity.

[@tsbonner]

So very true!

[@terrybardy2848]

Exceedingly so.

[@raoulbataller5454]

@@tsbonner The family knew the one who was suffering worst, besides Rose, Joe hadn't been told, was Bobby.

[@mariefortunato4737]

The saddest moment in my young life. Have never forgotten those four days in November 1963.

[@bonniehope5277]

Thank you for your service Mr. Felder. I was 7 yrs. old when our beloved president was killed. I was and still am devestated. I remember how brave I thought Mrs. Kennedy was. I don't remember much from my childhood but I remember those terrible days like it was yesterday. I am comforted to know he was carried with such dignity and grace by a fine gentleman as yourself.

[@tonym994]

I was also 7 yrs. old. the music is still so damn sad. our TV was on for days. my grand dad( born in Ireland) was visiting when Oswald got it.

[@terrybardy2848]

God bless you Sgt James Felder! For sharing this with us!

[@markfletcher8084]

What an honorable man. Thank you for your service.

[@johnfarr2738]

Incredible story. I’ve seen all this footage before but all in dark grainy Black and white, never in such vivid color like this!

[@angelbasham6631]

What a absolutely heartbreaking time for America 🇺🇸 God rest the soul of President Kennedy.

[@lisabradford8180]

such a sad duty but it also must have been an honor for sgt felder and everyone involved to be a part of it all.

[@TheMartinick]

Will never forget JFKs funeral. This was a very introspective and informative documentation. Well worth viewing. Thank you for posting. JFK was and has always been my favorite president.

[@kaharold]

I Have The Highest Respect For Jackie Kennedy after hearing THIS.. Now Thats A Woman of Integerity !! I Would of Done the Same Exact THING..

[@keb107]

Jackie is by far the most gracious, elegant First Lady this country has ever had.

[@cxeech]

I found this book at the library in the give away section. I’m so glad I took it home.

[@garryrainey6300]

The first time I saw my father and mother crying 😢

[@scottbridgeforth507]

Fine Gentleman Americas Finest Thank You

[@popsfashions309]

2020, still brings me to tears. 😢😢

[@Kyoung83]

Great footage and history

[@garryrainey6300]

Thank You Sgt FELDER

[@kenprier7413]

As a retired senior NCO, I've done plenty of military funerals. This one was both perfect & yet had to be the hardest for any service man. But I would still like an explanation as to how President Kennedy's body went from the ornate casket he left Dallas in to a military casket when his body arrived at Bethesda....

[@davidb8397]

Sgt. Felder explained that the casket from Dallas had gotten a handle broken off so they couldn't use it. I've seen a video where they said that the handle was broken when they were either loading or unloading from airforce one.

[@davidfurman5408]

The Dallas casket was too wide for the rear door of Air Force One, one full length side handle was broken off to get it in.

[@davidfurman5408]

The body was secretly removed from the Dallas casket immediately after boarding Air Force One and transferred into a body bag. On arrival at Andrews Air Force Base it was flown to Bethesda Medical Center by helicopter and transferred into a shipping casket before entering the Bethesda Morgue.

[@dannyburch2122]

Thank you sergeant

[@bernie4268]

It’s hard to imagine how America might have turned out if JFk had been President through another term. Here we are with 800 bases around the world and an annual military budget of billions and billions of dollars. Maybe JFK might have done things differently.

[@babycakes1402]

I still think that had that happened now, both Jackie & that secret service agent, Clint Hill I believe his name is... They would have both been diagnosed with PTSD had that happened now instead of back when it did.

[@kamysailings877]

Thank you for your service

[@lisabradford8180]

I wonder why they used the same casket bearers every day? You don't see that nowadays; there's a different team at each stop.

[@drve.10]

We hope never American Nation to have witnesses this traumatic at tic and terribleness

[@drve.10]

Erratum/ correction traumatic and terrible experience. GOD protect USA 🇺🇸 The world still deeply respect and remember a Giant of Freedom: President John F Kennedy.

[@mimma6992]

World would be better with Kennedy Brothers💐💐

[@tonym994]

this is very poignant .don't know how I missed it 'til now. the color footage seems rare.it ends so abruptly, tho. but I was ready to bust out crying, anyway.

[@shankargovindarajalu3754]

At 5:37 that long breathing that's how everybody's feeling since his loss in 1963

[@robertwomack6015]

Wow is interesting. Thank you for this

[@scottaznavourian3720]

There's no way he could get to parkland from Washington by the time jfks body left. He was proumoiced dead at 2 pm est ande left parkland by 2 pm cst. The earliesr he could have carried it was at andrews air force base but more likely Bethesda naval hospital...

[@davidfurman5408]

That may have been the initial plan on the assumption the autopsy would be done in Dallas.

[@ninecatsmagee8384]

The Black Watch isn't Irish but Scottish. Somebody got that one wrong. They're the resident Scottish company near where we live.

[@johncahalane7327]

Yes they are not the Scottish Black Watch they were 26 members of The Irish Army Officer Training Corp class of 1963 who were there at Jackie Kennedy's request flown from Dublin to Washington at short notice, they were told bring your No 1 dress uniform, the old ceremonial gun and your kit. The average age was 19 years old.. President Kennedy had seen The Queen Anne Drill at Arbour Hill Cemetery in Dublin in June 1963 and was fascinated by this difficult of all military drills, he was a navy man to the end. Many of the men are still living in 2022, but the Irish Army still do a modified version with the shorter firearms, the resting on the gun butt is not possible any longer.

[@travels129]

Best president ever best was to come

[@valeryvelez4624]

I was just in washington visiting the kenedy's grave

[@stevegray3629]

Luckyfredneck I agree with you . To many things do not add up .

[@alexhayden2303]

Why was the body exhumed and reburied in '67? A decent autopsy opportunity was missed"!

[@kkennedy3466]

It was reinterred because the body was moved a couple hundred yards to it's permanent grave site. I'm sure no one was interested in opening up a casket and going through all that again besides which no purpose would've been served.

[@Jck747]

All the organs, brain had been removed and weren’t in the body

[@JMC786]

K Kennedy It wasn’t that far from the original site, less than 25 ft. I think drainage was the problem

[@andrewgillis8572]

Sgt Felder does not mention a decoy ambulance arrival at Bethesda front entry - he does mention a feeling that Mrs Kennedy knew this might be coming - this would include worry about lone nuts, surely, but that's not what she or RFK thought, and they asked around

[@pinehawk9600]

andrew gillis yes they asked around ..and just like everyone else found NOTHING

[@davidfurman5408]

Because he wasn't aware of the body theft and the empty Dallas casket in the Navy ambulance

[@bradleysmall2230]

Mr felder do you remember a time when you looked for the body and could not find it and you piled in a pick up truck following a n ambulance that purportedly had the body. Eventually returning empty handed and finding the casket. Were you shitting bricks then.Lifton says yes.w hat do you say. Did you meet tom robinson from gawlers.

[@Wills-Corner]

Yet, Felder didn't know that JFK's body was in another casket that got to Bethesda Naval Hospital before Jackie.

[@calva221]

Oh, for fuck's sake...

[@serenityinside1]

David: I know , they are relentless aren’t they 🙄. There’s a time and place fir this but they’re too stupid to know that 😯

[@davidpallin772]

@@serenityinside1 It is a historical fact now that the Dallas casket was indeed empty when it was taken off Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base. There is no getting around this. So please, cut the melodramatics.

[@glenperry2073]

2 caskets landed at Bethesda naval hospital Kennedy in the bronze casket and JD tippet in the shipping casket

[@jose9950]

Limo driver shot Kennedy, Conspiration Zu0nistic

[@santiago33139]

she had and identical pink top, blood was all over.