Who Embalmed Jfk?

According to one embalmer, the nature of the president's wounds required that he use "all of my knowledge and acquired skill to make him presentable." This embalmer, Edwin Bates Stroble, was a native of Altamont and one-time apprentice at Kull Funeral Home.

Was Jackie Kennedy embalmed at home?

For John Lennon, the home laid on a decoy hearse and coffin, to ensure a clandestine run to the crematorium, while for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the home reportedly arranged for her to be embalmed in her apartment on Fifth Avenue, so that none of the paparazzi could obtain a photograph of a body basket.

Why was JFK's coffin dropped in the ocean?

Hall said that documents to be released Tuesday by the National Archives show that the coffin was flown several miles off the Maryland-Delaware coast in early 1965 and dumped in an area where the military discards unstable and outdated weapons and ammunition.