RFK’s Last Journey , Fifty Years Later

The Train: RFK’s Last Journey is a set of twenty-one photographs taken from aboard the train carrying Robert F. Kennedy's body for burial at Arlington Cemetery by photographer  Paul Fusco. Fusco assumed that his main task would be in Arlington, where Kennedy was to be buried next to his brother John. But when the train emerged from the Hudson River tunnel, Fusco saw people lining the tracks. He found a spot at an open window, and, for the eight hours it took the train to get to Washington, he shot picture after picture of the crowds who came out to witness Kennedy’s body being carried to its grave. It looks like a very moving exhibition. I wish I could see it.

At SFMOMA March 17–June 10, 2018
Read more: The New Yorker