Robert Kennedy Funeral Train Views
In July 1968, a train delivered the body of Robert Kennedy from NYC to Washington D.C. so that he could be buried in Arlington National Cemetery next to his brother. Photographer Paul Fusco was on that train and shot a bunch of photos of the hundreds of thousands of people that spontaneously turned up along the train route to mourn Kennedy, photos that were recently rediscovered. Fusco narrates a slideshow of the photos.
Book Description: Magnum Photos, 2000, 2000. Book Condition: Fine SIGNED. Paul Fusco accompanied the funeral train of Sen Robert F. Kennedy, which carried the coffin along the east coast from New York City to Washington, D.C. and its final resting place in Arlington Cemetery. The coffin was placed in the last carriage, elevated on two chairs hence visible through large observation windows. As the train slowly traveled south, America came to mourn its loss of more than a future president, but a future leader. Paul Fusco photographed the silent, mourning crowds from the passing train. The result, brought to light over 30 years later, is a moving snapshot of America at a crucial moment of trauma and transition.7.5 x 11.5 inches; ISBN: 1884167047; Bookseller Inventory # 2452
Book Description: NY: Magnum/Umbrage Editions, [2000]., 2000. Oblong 8vo. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Essays by Norman Mailer and Evan Thomas with a tribute by Senator Edward Kennedy. A series of incredibly powerful photographs shot from Robert Kennedy's funeral train. As new. Bookseller Inventory # JB-13642
On June 8, 1968, Robert Kennedy's coffin was put on a train 20 cars long in New York and taken slowly to Washington, D.C., for burial in the ... Show synopsis On June 8, 1968, Robert Kennedy's coffin was put on a train 20 cars long in New York and taken slowly to Washington, D.C., for burial in the Arlington Memorial Cemetery. Paul Fusco, then a staff photographer for Look, was on that train, and the pictures he took of people who lined the tracks along the way fill this moving book. These emotional photographs, many never-before-seen, remember the urgency and tragedy of Bobby Kennedy's assassination and the moving farewell from hundreds of thousands of people who stood patiently in the searing heat along roadsides down the east coast to watch his funeral train pass slowly by just as Abraham Lincoln's had 103 years before. Hide synopsis
Robert Kennedy Funeral Train Images
