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A-8 The Kansas City Star Tuesday May 24 1994 Onassis buried next to JFK Warm welcome for private visit to White Houses Continued from A-1 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Continued from A-1 1102 TOUCH made me happy to hear -the children bursting with reminiscences all the way Jacqueline Kennedy letter to President Nixon Call (816) 889-7827 and enter 1102 to hear excerpts from the funeral and burial services for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis The Associated Press John Kennedy Jr talked Monday with President Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton at the burial service for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg is next to her brother Schlossberg and John Kennedy Jr bade her farewell with readings from Scripture and laid flowers at the foot of her flower-bedecked mahogany casket The Most Rev Philip Hannan the retired archbishop of New Orleans who presided over President funeral sprinkled holy water upon the casket and a Navy chorus sang Father Strong to In 1 5 minutes the burial service was over and the Kennedy family members drifted away some stopping at the nearby grave of Robert Kennedy to pay their respects The nation watched on television as America buried yet another Kennedy In the hazy distance the bell of National Cathedral slowly tolled 64 times Thus ended an era of glamour and hope and tragedy that began with young Jack inauguration in 1961 and came to a close Monday on a verdant hillside in the United best-known graveyard of heroes The widow of the president who was assassinated Nov 22 1963 became an image etched in the national memory for all these years forever young and elegant mysterious and private and yet a public treasure for two generations of Americans Jerry Grasso 45 a jeweler from Pinellas Park Fla took his video camera to the avenue leading to Arlington cemetery to watch funeral procession He said he remembered the deaths of John and Robert Kennedy as marking of death he said the end of the Kennedy era As long as she was still alive the Kennedy era was still The burial ceremony was attended by about 100 members of the Kennedy Auchincloss and Radziwill families including Lee Radziwill Ross sister Those attending the service were all family except for a few including Providencia Paredes personal maid in the White House her son Gustavo who grew up with John and is a close friend and close companion for the last 12 years or so Maurice Tempelsman Buried alongside Kennedy and Onassis are the first child an unnamed daughter stillborn in 1956 and an infant son Patrick who died three days after his birth in August 1963 The honorary pallbearers all Kennedy relatives were Robert dent or raising the children with the care and the privacy they deserved or simply being a good friend she seemed always to do the right thing in the right Clinton said body arrived at Washington National Airport aboard a private aircraft shortly after 1 pm following a funeral Mass in New York At the service at St Ignatius Loyola Church Sen Edward Kennedy paid tribute to his sister-in-law as both a friend and an icon of American history and culture graced our Kennedy said for those of us who knew and loved her she graced our John Kennedy Jr paid tribute to his of words bonds of home and family and her spirit of Kennedy Jr Timothy Shriver Christopher Lawford William Kennedy Smith and Edward Kennedy Jr Also among them was Jack Walsh who as a Secret Service agent watched over John and Caroline when they were in the White House Rose Kennedy the elderly and ailing matriarch of the clan remained in Florida but planned to watch the burial on television a family spokesman said The Kennedy grave site was closed all day Monday but hundreds of onlookers lined the route into the cemetery and gathered outside its gates A cemetery spokesman said 23 other funerals that had been scheduled Monday at the 6 1 2-acre cemetery were going on as planned she was soothing a nation grieving for a former presi White House portrait It was a day Onassis wrote that she had dreaded But the visit turned out to be a surprise of the most precious ones I have spent with my she later noted On Feb 4 she was writing to thank President Nixon and his wife for their kindness The letters from Onassis and her children and responses to the children were made public two years ago at presidential library in Yorba Linda Calif Onassis was buried Monday at Arlington National Cemetery next to her first husband the president Nixon died April 22 In 1971 the Nixons had taken unusual measures to ensure the privacy of the former first visit No press No photographs Only four members of the White House were told and they were sworn to secrecy Onassis had written earlier that she lacked the courage to go through a public ceretnony The experience she said would be hard on the children and would not leave them with the kind of memory of the White House she wanted Nixon and his wife had their daughters Julie and Tricia take the children on their own tour With the three dogs trailing alongside they visited the Solarium for a view of the city at night The daughters also took the Kennedys to the Oval Office after dinner so they could see where their father had worked Nixon met them there and showed John where he had once played beneath the desk made me happy to hear the children bursting with reminiscences all the way Onassis wrote In his letter John said he liked going to the Lincoln Bedroom Nixon had told the children that anyone who sat on bed could have their wishes granted I sat on bed and wished for something my wish really came John wrote in a awkward cursive wished that I would have good luck at school think I could remember much about the White House but it was really nice seeing it all again The food was the best I have ever He also talked about pets really loved the John wrote were so funny As soon as I came home my dogs kept on sniffing me Maybe they remember the White letter to first lady Pat Nixon in carefully crafted script reflected her greater maturity dinner was delicious Your Swiss chef is the best thing that ever came out of Switzerland except maybe the chocolate daughters were so nice to me I had such a good time and it was so nice to see it all About three weeks after receiving the letters the president responded to each child both in his own hand The letters were dated Feb 28 1971 To Caroline Nixon recalled their conversation in which she had told the president her favorite subject was history But Caroline had said she was not enjoying it as much that year because she disliked her teacher Nixon wrote that he hoped interest would not wane and that history was the best foundation for any profession far as the teacher is concerned I recall that some of the teachers I thought at the time were the worst (because they graded so hard) were actually the best in retrospect I would guess you are an exceptionally good student and I hope the teacher discourage In his letter to John Nixon told the boy a family secret about the dogs Mrs Nixon for obvious reasons will not allow them to come to the second floor So you can see that your visit was a special break for them (and for me! I worry as much about what happens to the furniture) was glad your wish which you made in the Lincoln bed came true When you need another one like that come back to see He ended both letters the same way: will always be welcome in this WDAF to drop link with NBC Continued from A-1 Patton said going to have to figure out how to program that television And if either Channel 41 or Channel 62 joins the ranks of NBC affiliates it will have to drop its syndicated daytime programs to carry the programming one of those stations becomes an (NBC) affiliate then they have a Patton said are they going to do with all their programming? have to get the syndicator to agree that they will work with you to take a program and sell it to somebody else or allow you to get someone else to agree that they want to carry it It raises all sorts of Staff writers Kent Pulliam and Randy Covitz and wire sendees contributed to this report Home Equity Line of Credit? HI Check These Features! NBC affiliate would carry 10 Chiefs games this season Fox holds the broadcast rights to National Football Conference games a plum it snatched from CBS and is scheduled to broadcast two Chiefs games this year including the Kansas City-San Francisco game the second week of the season league has spoken to Fox and Fox has indicated that they want to create any circumstances that would affect the coverage of the Chiefs or the ability of the fans to see our said Bob Moore director of public relations for the Chiefs happens will not disadvantage or disenfranchise either the team or the viewing New World future owner also produces TV shows Wonder and came from its production unit) Its deal with Fox is said to improve its chances of securing time slots for its programming Fox and New World plan to develop syndicated programming as well as prime-time series and movies for the Fox network Fox switching to VHF A key part of the New World Fox deal has Fox cutting ties with UHF stations such as Channel 41 in favor of higher-powered better-established VHF stations that deliver superior transmissions over a wider area (Differences in reception of course matter with cable delivery) will bring our VHF penetration up from 25 to about 40 percent of the country that will receive Fox on higher-powered said Dennis Petroskey vice president of corporate communications for Fox Compared with most UHF stations Petroskey said VHF stations have longstanding local news operations and a strong presence in their communities we think that do anything but help the visibility of the Fox network and its Petroskey said Daytime programming at WDAF if it becomes a Fox affiliate will present challenges to the station said Pat Patton program director at Channel 9 Fox does not program the day WDAF no longer will have network daytime pro could be less (time) if the two parties negotiate a shorter period to the end of the Conroy said Conroy said that New World had no plans to change on-air personalities or management at WDAF KSHB to look for network KSHB meanwhile will be shopping for another network affiliation said Charlotte Moore English its vice president and general manager English said that Channel 41 which has been aligned with Fox since the inception seven years ago has an agreement to continue that affiliation for six months more But after that English said future very sketchy right Station options include seeking affiliations with NBC or with one of the new TV networks that Warner Bros and Paramount plan to launch in early 1995 KCTV Channel 5 the local CBS affiliate and KMBC Channel 9 the local ABC affiliate are not interested in switching to NBC according to spokesmen for each station Another Kansas City station with a chance to link up with NBC is KSMO Channel 62 interest in KSMO-TV has been said Jim MacDonald general manager at KSMO at this time I am unable to comment any further than In the past KSMO has picked up NBC programming when Royals baseball games on WDAF preempted its NBC network programming run and run back in their heyday when those shows were MacDonald said can only help However one major reason the Royals ended their 13-year relationship with WDAF and switched to KSMO in 1993 was that Channel 62 could carry the games without network programming conflicts What about the Chiefs? The local sports team most immediately affected by a switch by WDAF to Fox would be the Chiefs NBC holds the broadcast rights to American Football Conference games Channel 4 as an been described it will change the Robert Wright NBC president and chief executive officer told network affiliates Monday in Los Angeles no company will chase NBC out of any Fox responsible for such sassy and trendsetting programs as With and Living on Monday announced a $500 million investment in New World The deal is intended to boost the ratings and broadcasting stature by taking away stations from the three major networks in up to 12 significant markets Five of those stations which New World already owns are CBS affiliates in Cleveland Atlanta Detroit Milwaukee and Tampa Fla The companies said in a news release that the switches represented the largest network affiliation realignment in the 60-year history of American broadcasting and would make Fox more competitive with the Big Three networks Ed Piette president and general manager of WDAF-TV was at the annual NBC affiliate convention in Los Angeles and could not be reached for comment WDAF personnel in Kansas City declined to comment about the switch An NBC spokesman in Los Angeles however delivered this statement from the network: premature to speculate about the affiliation switch or any other details of the FoxNew World deal still too early to know exactly how it will impact NBC have not heard final details from our affiliate (WDAF) the statement continued if the deal comes through as reported we would certainly be concerned about losing what has been a very good affiliate for Federal Communications Commission approval for New proposed purchase of WDAF is not expected until September If the deal goes through WDAF would honor its contractual agreement to stay with NBC for 12 more months said James Conroy senior vice president and special counsel for New World in New York That means switch from NBC to Fox might not occur until September 1995 Si Prime Rate 250 initial rate with 6 lifetime cap over initial rate -L-3J interest rate can adjust only twice a year (compare to others that have no caps and adjust more frequently) No application fee No check service charge No points -Lxl No annual fee ever No pre-payment penalty it Appraisal and title insurance fees can be financed as part of loan with no out-of-pocket expense to you Interest charged only on funds used and may be tax deductible 1X1 (consult your tax advisor) Si You control your own credit depending upon the check amounts you write Chek-Worthy It offers so much yet costs so little 'ntroducing Chek-Worthy The revolving home equity account where you control your own credit Simply write a check for the amount you need Use your Chek-Worthy checks to pay bills buy that new car wanted complete home improvements take a vacation finance an education or simply to get some extra cash You decide with Chek-Worthy Think of the advantages An instant source of ready credit for shopping or for meeting unexpected expenses You can use your Chek-Worthy checks anywhere anytime you want more money You can write as many checks as you want up to your authorized credit limit and the best part is you only pay interest on the money you use Chek-Worthy the ultimate In financial convenience Call or stop by our office today to put Chek-Worthy to work for you! 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