Kennedy and Johnson Archive

Photos and letters from the collection of JFK's White House photographer, Cecil W. Stoughton.
Appraised by Francis J. Wahlgren
$75,000

On November 23, 1963, after President Kennedy's body was returned to Washington from Dallas, his casket was placed in the East Room of the White House for 24 hours, and was then transported to the Capitol to lie in state prior to the funeral on November 25.