Original 35mm black and white negative of the procession taking President Kennedy's casket to the U.S. Capitol to lie in state on Sunday, November 24, 1963, taken by Donald Hughes, who was a high school yearbook photographer.

Image shows two military officers walking side-by-side in President Kennedy's funeral procession. Both men are in dress uniform. The man in the forefront in the dark cap is an Army General and the man walking next to him in the white cap is a Navy Admiral. The lower half of the image shows the crowd of mourners that turned out for President Kennedy’s funeral procession; three women in Navy uniform stand in the second row behind a group of children and two of them are saluting. A man is perched in the tree on the right-hand side of the image.

President Kennedy's casket lay in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol for almost twenty-four hours, from Sunday, November 24, 1963, until the morning of Monday, November 25, 1963, when the casket was taken to St. Matthew's Cathedral for the funeral Mass and later to Arlington National Cemetery.

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