Kennedy Jr. lived a complicated life ... The day was partially defined by a photograph captured of the young boy saluting his father's casket among state officials and military personnel.

Kennedy's half-ton casket, the first lieutenant in command ... They turned and gave a final, unscripted salute. Bird, coincidentally a Republican, remembered it this way: “We had been with ...

with the younger Kennedy photographed saluting his father's casket. His uncle Robert F. Kennedy, an attorney general, senator and presidential candidate, was killed five years after that.