After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963, most expected him to be buried in the family plot in Holyhood Cemetery, near Brookline, Mass. But Jacqueline Kennedy, the president's widow, declared: He belongs to the people. So he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Jacqueline Kennedy had the funeral modeled on Abraham Lincoln's and asked for an eternal flame similar to that of the French Unknown Soldier in Paris. The initial plot was 20 feet by 30 feet and was surrounded by a white picket fence. On Dec. 4, 1963, the two deceased Kennedy children -- Patrick Bouvier Kennedy and an unnamed stillborn daughter -- were reburied in Arlington.This photo shows Robert F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy and Eunice Kennedy with their children at Kennedy's grave on May 19, 1964, Kennedy's first birthday after his assassination. Photo: Lee Lockwood, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image / Lee Lockwood
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