Wow! They placed Kennedy’s body in a coffin! I thought they put his body in a sarcophagus. Idiot writers.
It went out of the ER and straight into a coffin. The autopsy took place later, after the body and everyone else had gotten back to DC.
I was on the side of Wisconsin Avenue just north of Bethesda on the dark night Kennedy was brought to the Bethesda Naval Hospital for an autopsy. I remember that he passed by in a grey ambulance and that a coffin was visible through its rear windows.
It was placed in a coffin at the hospital, then transported to Love Field where AF1 was parked. It would not fit through the doorway of the plane, so they had to knock off the coffin handles.
I was a Comm. Agent for TTA and the office had a ground level window about 12-15 feet wide facing the ramp. The plane was parked ~150 ft. to the right and facing me. I watched SS, LBJ, Jackie in her pink suit, Justice Sarah T. Hughes, AND the coffin enter the plane.