THE body of President John F. Kennedy will lie in repose
in the East Room of the White House from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. Saturday,
November 23, and will lie in state in the Rotunda of the Capitol on Sunday
and Monday.
The President's immediate family
will be present Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m.
President Lyndon B. Johnson,
Speaker of the House of Representatives John W. McCormack, and Chief Justice
of the United States Earl Warren are scheduled to arrive from 11 to 2 p.m.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower will be present at this time. Former
President Herbert Hoover expressed his regrets that he will be unable to
attend, and former President Harry S. Truman is planning to arrive in Washington
Sunday.
Members of the President's Cabinet,
members of the executive branch holding Presidential appointments, and
close personal friends of the President are also scheduled to arrive from
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Associate Justices of the Supreme Court will arrive from
2 to 2:30 p.m. as will members of the Federal judiciary.
From 2:30 to 5 p.m., members
of the U.S. Senate, the House of Representatives, and the Governors of
the 50 States and Territories are scheduled to arrive. Members of the diplomatic
corps will follow between 5 and 6 p.m.
The President's body will be
moved from the White House in an official cortege to the Rotunda of the
Capitol at 1 p.m. Sunday, where it will lie in state for one day.
Members of the President's family,
Cabinet and Government leaders and members of the Supreme Court, members
of the Congress and diplomatic representatives of foreign nations will
be present at the ceremonies placing the President's body in state mourning.
The public will be permitted
to file past the bier in the Rotunda shortly after its arrival and until
9 p.m. Sunday, and from 9 to 10 a.m. Monday.
The body will be moved Monday
at 11 a.m. to St. Matthews Cathedral, Rhode Island Avenue, between Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Streets, N.W., for a pontifical requiem Mass at 12 noon.
The mass will be celebrated by His Eminence Richard Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop
of Boston.
Seating arrangements for the
mass will be assigned by the White House.