Mortician Explains Robert Kennedy's Embalming, Funeral & Burial

📕 My book, The Last Gift - plan your funeral now, so your family is never upsold one later ($24): https://ruthmercer.com/?ref=desc They put him in the ground after ten at night, under work lights, with candles handed to the people standing in the grass. Cemetery officials say it is the only night burial Arlington has ever done - and nobody planned it. A train timed at four hours took over eight. Thirty-nine years embalming. I was not there and prepared nobody here - published record only, read from the prep-room side. What I cover: The longest gap between death and burial in this whole series What a post-mortem leaves an embalmer to work with Why two days in a stone cathedral in June was harder than the flight Was the casket open? The honest answer, and why it matters either way A 220-mile viewing: windows, velvet chairs, 15-minute watches Why the committal moved into the dark, and what it gave the family The one name the record does not have FACT-CHECK: Died 1:44am PDT, 6 Jun 1968, Good Samaritan Hospital, LA, aged 42. Post-mortem by LA County Chief ME Thomas Noguchi - named, never read out. Lay in repose at St Patrick's, 6-8 Jun. NO source I could find states whether the lid was open; the video says so rather than guessing. Newsweek's ~150,000 past the coffin and "up to 2 million" along the tracks are a 1968 count and an estimate - flagged as such. The 21-car train left Penn Station 1:07pm 8 Jun, timed at four hours, took over eight - which is why the burial happened in the dark. Floodlights, ~1,500 candles and a ~10:30pm arrival are reported, not verified. Permanent gravesite dedicated 6 Dec 1971. No funeral home or embalmer has ever been publicly named. DISCLAIMER: General information and my own opinion - not medical, legal or funeral advice. The narrator was not present and has no connection to anyone involved. No conspiracy material is used. Some segments use AI narration.