November 25, 1963: As JFK Is Laid to Rest, LBJ Tries to Close the Case

The president scrambles to quash CIA reports about Oswald in Mexico City

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy, and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA), lead mourners down the North Lawn driveway of the White House to St. Matthew’s Cathedral, on Nov. 25, 1963. (Credit: Robert Knudsen/JFK Library)

On Monday morning, Nov. 25, President Kennedy’s widow Jacqueline and her husband’s brothers, Robert and Edward, led a fu…