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The Final Grace Note

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19940524
Author:MARY McGRORY

Jacqueline Kennedy's death, all agree, was not appropriate - "She was too young to die," said brother-in-law and eulogist Edward Kennedy. Her funeral was, however, perhaps because she planned it. For the hour or so that it was broadcast over CBS, daytime radio was a better place.

One felicity succeeded another. All the readings were perfectly chosen and read with emotion by her children and her friends. Daughter Caroline read Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Memory of Cape Cod." The music, which ranged from austere Gregorian chant to the satin river of Jessye Norman singing "Panis Angelicus" ...

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