{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"21810"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Collection"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Two-page document from the Department of State used to aid White House staff and the Kennedy family in planning President John F. Kennedy's funeral arrangements. The photocopied documents include a one-page list of funerals previously held in the East Room and a copy of the invitation to President Warren G. Harding's funeral in 1923.\r\n\r\nThe list of funerals in the East Room has the date \"2/7/47\" hand-written near the upper right corner. \r\n\r\nText printed in the center of the page is as follows:\r\n\r\n\"FUNERALS IN THE EAST ROOM \r\n\r\nHenry C. Wallace - Sec. Agric. Oct. 27, 1924. \r\n\r\nPresident Roosevelt ..... April 14, 1945.\r\n(Died April 12, 1945)\r\n\r\nG. Hall Roosevelt ..... September 26, 1941.\r\n(Died September 25, 1941)\r\n\r\nAugust A. Gennerich ..... December 16, 1936.\r\n(\"Gus\" - Secret Service)\r\n\r\nLouis McHenry Howe ..... April 21, 1936.\r\n(Secretary to F.D.R.)\r\n\r\nJames W. Good ..... November 20, 1929.\r\n(Secretary of War)\r\n\r\nCalvin Coolidge, Jr. ..... July 9, 1924.\r\n\r\n*President Harding ..... August 8, 1923\r\n(Capitol)\r\n\r\n\r\n*President Harding's casket in East Room, the night of August 7, 1923. No funeral services in East Room.\r\n\r\nFuneral services held in Rotunda of Capitol \r\nAugust 8, 1923, at 11:00 a.m.\"\r\n\r\nThe copy of the funeral invitation for Harding has \"Department of State\" printed in all caps at the top of the page with the text \"Division of Protocol\" beneath it. Handwritten near the lower right corner of the page is the text \"Original in State Dept. files\". \r\n\r\nIn the middle of the page is a hand-drawn and hand-written mock-up of the invitation to President Warren G. Harding's funeral. The hand-written text centered in the middle of the invitation mock-up is as follows:\r\n\r\n\"Funeral Services\r\nof\r\nWarren Gamaliel Harding\r\nLate President of the United States\r\nAugust Eighth Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-three\r\nAt Eleven O'Clock, A.M.\r\nAdmit to the Rotunda of the United \r\nStates Capitol\". \r\n\r\n\r\nUnder the lower left corner of the invitation is the hand-written text:\r\n\r\n\"Casket in East Room night of Aug. 7, 1923\r\n\r\nNo Funeral Services in East Room\".\r\n\r\nThe reverse of each page has one word - \"Gavaert\" - printed repeatedly diagonally across the page like a watermark."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2002.075.0021"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"One two-page photocopy of documents from the Department of State used to aid Sanford Fox and the Kennedy family in the planning of President John F. Kennedy's funeral arrangements, including his lying in state and stationery choices. Sanford L. Fox was the Chief of the White House Social Entertainments Office from 1961 to 1964. [See Text Entries]\r\n\r\nPage one has the date \"2/7/47\" hand written near the upper right corner. Text printed in the center of the page is as follows (all text was originally typed except when indicated):\r\n\"FUNERALS IN THE EAST ROOM (underlined)\r\nHenry C. Wallace - Sec. Agric. Oct. 27, 1924 (handwritten) - ? [check mark] SF (handwritten in pencil on the paper)\r\nPresident Roosevelt ..... April 14, 1945.\r\n(Died April 12, 1945)\r\n\r\nG. Hall Roosevelt ..... September 26, 1941.\r\n(Died September 25, 1941)\r\n\r\nAugust A. Gennerich ..... December 16, 1936.\r\n(\"Gus\" - Secret Service)\r\n\r\nLouis McHenry Howe ..... April 21, 1936.\r\n(Secretary to F.D.R.)\r\n\r\nJames W. Good ..... November 20, 1929.\r\n(Secretary of War)\r\n\r\nCalvin Coolidge, Jr. ..... July 9, 1924.\r\n\r\n*[sic]President Harding ..... August 8, 1923\r\n(Capitol)\r\n\r\n\r\n*[sic]President Harding's casket in East Room, the \r\nnight of August 7, 1923. No funeral services \r\nin East Room.\r\n\r\nFuneral services held in Rotunda of Capitol \r\nAugust 8, 1923, at 11:00 a.m.\"\r\n\r\nPage two has \"Department of State\" printed in all caps centered at the top of the page with the text \"Division of Protocol\" separated beneath it by a short horizontal line. Handwritten in cursive near the lower right corner of the page is the text \"Original in State Dept. files\". In the middle of the page is a hand drawn and handwritten mock-up of the invitation to President Warren G. Harding's funeral. The mock-up shows a border around the perimeter that was only partially filled in at the upper left corner, likely to indicate a black border all the way around. The handwritten text centered in the middle of the invitation mock-up is as follows:\r\n\"Funeral Services\r\nof\r\nWarren Gamaliel Harding\r\nLate President of the United States\r\nAugust Eighth Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-three\r\nAt Eleven O'Clock, A.M.\r\nAdmit to the Rotunda of the United \r\nStates Capitol\". \r\nUnder the lower left corner of the mock-up is text handwritten in cursive:\r\n\"Casket in East Room\r\nnight of Aug. 7, 1923\r\n\r\nNo Funeral Services \r\nin East Room\".\r\n\r\nThe reverse of each page has one word - \"Gavaert\" - printed repeatedly diagonally across the page like a watermark.\r\n\r\nBoth pages have three holes along the left side of the paper. Paper is brown, stained and discolored in several places, and has rusted paperclip marks and paperclip indentations in the upper left corner. (JM 09/26/2017)"},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Paper"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/49902/full","displayOrder":"1","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"49902"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/49904/full","displayOrder":"3","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"49904"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Two-page document of notes on previous White House funerals"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Documents"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/49902/full"},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Stationery","Mourning","Funeral","Fox, Sanford","Kennedy, John F.","Harding, Warren G.","U.S. Department of State","White House","State Department","Washington, D.C."]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Document"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"11/23/1963 - 11/24/1963"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["21.5900000000"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["Included in the Museum's temporary exhibit, \"Mourning a President,\" about the funeral and mourning rites for President John F. Kennedy, this item will be on display on the Museum's seventh floor from November 17, 2017 to February 19, 2018. -- Lindsey Richardson, Curator of Collections"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"65927"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"11 x 8 1/2 in. (27.9 x 21.6 cm)"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["27.9400000000"]}}]}