Grief: Members of the Kennedy family at the funeral of assassinated president John F. Kennedy at Washington DC. From left: Ted, Caroline (aged 6), Mrs Kennedy, Bobby and three-year-old John who made the world weep when he saluted his father's coffin.
Sound Beach, New York. Sound Beach, established in 1929, is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the north part of the Town of Brookhaven in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP was 7,612 at the 2010 census.
Introduction. Long Island Sound, an estuary 110 miles long and up to 21 miles wide, separates Connecticut to the north and New York's Long Island to the south. Nearly 3 million people live in Nassau and Suffolk counties; adding the population of Kings and Queens counties brings the total to 8 million.