RIP John 'Fud' Benson
The stonecutter who fashioned JFK’s gravestone
John “Fud” Benson, the Newport, R.I.-based stonecutter who, at the age of 25, took on the awesome responsibility of creating the gravestone for assassinated President John F. Kennedy, has died.
Benson went on to design and carve the memorial site for Kennedy at Arlington, which included quotes from the young president’s inaugural address. His work is vis…
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