(FOX NEWS) – On this day in history, June 15, 1864, Arlington
National Cemetery, our nation’s honorable military burial
ground, was officially established.

The national cemetery began with the seizure of Gen. Robert
E. Lee’s hilltop home (shown below) after he defected to the
Confederacy during the Civil War.  History.com.

Robert Edward Lee
(January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870)

Three days after his assassination in Dallas, Texas, John F. Kennedy
was laid to rest with full military honors at Arlington National
Cemetery in Virginia.

Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was shot to death
while riding in an open-car motorcade with his wife and Texas
Governor John Connally through the streets of downtown Dallas.

Ex-Marine and communist sympathizer Lee Harvey Oswald was the alleged assassin. Kennedy was rushed to Dallas’ Parkland Hospital, where he was pronounced dead 30 minutes later. He was 46.

Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who was three cars behind
President Kennedy in the motorcade, was sworn in as the 36th
president of the United States less than two hours later. He took
the presidential oath of office aboard Air Force One as it sat on
the runway at Dallas Love Field airport. The swearing in was
witnessed by some 30 people, including Jacqueline Kennedy,
who was still wearing clothes stained with her husband’s blood.
Seven minutes later, the presidential jet took off for Washington.

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary)
(21 April 1926 – 8 September 2022)

   
Undated photo released by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The remains of a sailor from Massachusetts
who died when the USS Oklahoma was struck by multiple torpedoes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 are being buried
at Arlington National Cemetery on today.

The interment comes more than 80 years after the attack that drew
the U.S. into World War II and nearly four years after the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Electrician’s Mate
18 year old 3rd Class Roman W. Sadlowski, of Pittsfield, had
been accounted for using advanced DNA and anthropological
analysis, as well as circumstantial and material evidence.