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Friday, December 5, 2025

"JACKIE SAYS IT WOULD HAVE BEEN JACK'S WISH"

REMAINS OF TWO INFANT CHILDREN REBURIED BESIDE JFK AT ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY

Washington, D.C. (JFK+50) On December 5, 1963, The Evening Star reports that "two children of President and Mrs. John F. Kennedy, who died at or soon after birth, now lie beside their father in Arlington Cemetery." 

Wilfrid C. Rodgers says that the infants' remains were reburied "on either side of their father" last evening.  Mrs. Kennedy is reported to have indicated that this would have been her husband's wish.

 SOURCES

"Remains of Two Kennedy Children Now Lie Beside JFK in Arlington," JFK+50, December 5, 2023, www.jfk50.blogspot.com/ 

"Two Kennedy Children Reburied Beside Father," by Wilfrid C. Rodgers, The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., December 5, 1963, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/ 


JFK Gravesite
Arlington National Cemtery
April 25 2016
Photo by John White