/internal/media/dispatcher/50575/fullProgram from President Kennedy's funeral services at St. Matthew's Cathedral11/25/19637 7/8 × 4 7/8 in. (20 × 12.4 cm)PaperPhilip "Doc" Carver Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2017.021.00010One bi-fold program from President John F. Kennedy's funeral services held at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on Monday, November 25, 1963.
Program is printed on cream-colored paper with a black border around the perimeter of each page - inside and outside pages of the program. Inside and back pages of the program are blank except for the black borders. Front of the program has an embossed presidential seal centered near the top with text printed in black below. Text is as follows:
"Funeral Services
of
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Late President of the United States
November twenty-fifth
Nineteen hundred and sixty-three
At twelve noon
Saint Matthews Cathedral [sic]
Rhode Island Avenue NW.
Between 17th and 18th".
Program is in good condition. Some color loss in black border along bifold edge. (JM 10/26/2017)Documents6636612.382524765020.000000000050409Program0E-10Program from President John F. Kennedy's funeral services held at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C., on Monday, November 25, 1963.
Program is printed on cream-colored paper with a black border around each page. Inside and back pages of the program are blank except for the black borders. Front of the program has an embossed presidential seal centered near the top with the following text printed below:
"Funeral Services
of
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Late President of the United States
November twenty-fifth
Nineteen hundred and sixty-three
At twelve noon
Saint Matthews Cathedral
Rhode Island Avenue NW.
Between 17th and 18th".FuneralFuneral MassMourningKennedy, John F.St. Matthew's CathedralWashington, D.C.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 CollectionsThis program was donated to the Museum by Philip Carver, Jr. His late father, Philip "Doc" Carver, served as a White House Naval Aide to President Kennedy in 1963 and was therefore invited to attend the funeral Mass at St. Matthew's Cathedral. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator