Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis National Cemetery. Jacqueline led the procession on foot and lit the eternal flame—created at her request—at the gravesite. Lady Jeanne Campbell reported back to "The London Evening Standard": "Jacqueline Kennedy has given the American people ... one thing they have always lacked: Majesty." A week after the assassination, new president Lyndon Baines Johnson established the Warren Commission—led by Chief Justice Earl Warren—to investigate the assassination. Ten months later, the Commission issued its report with the finding that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone when he assassinated President Kennedy. Privately, his widow cared little about the investigation, stating that even if
Reactions to the assassination of John F. Kennedy the popular American band, The Byrds, on their second album, "Turn! Turn! Turn!". In 1964, songwriter William Spivery penned "Mr. John," which became popular in the midwestern United States. Topical folksinger Phil Ochs paid tribute to Kennedy in his song, "That Was the President", written shortly after the assassination, and again two years later in his masterpiece "Crucifixion", connecting Kennedy and Christ. Inline citations Bibliography Reactions to the assassination of John F. Kennedy Around the world, there were stunned reactions to the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the President of the United States, on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas.