Boston and Cape Cod Mourn Senator Kennedy
At the JFK Library and Museum in Boston, mourners are lining up to view the body of Senator Kennedy, who will lie in repose later today. To set the scene, Emily Rooney, host of WGBH's Beat the Press,...
View ArticleLive from the Kennedy Library in Boston
We go this morning to Sean Corcoran, senior reporter with WCAI, Cape and Island Radio. He joins us live from the Kennedy Library in Boston, where the body of Senator Ted Kennedy lies in repose, to talk...
View ArticleMourners Gather in Boston to Pay Respects
Those who loved Senator Ted Kennedy are standing in line to pay their respects, even at this early hour. Kennedy lies in repose at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston. We talk with Sean...
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Today in History: JFK Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
The body of President John. F. Kennedy lies in repose in the East Room of the White House. (Abbie Rowe, National Park Service)Three days after being shot in Dallas, Tex., President John F. Kennedy was...
View ArticleSome Funeral Homes Overcharging Customers
City officials say last rites may have been costing customers more than the going rate.An investigation in the five boroughs revealed that 15 percent of funeral homes did not display casket prices in...
View ArticleSasha Frere-Jones on the changing role of record labels
Sasha Frere-Jones on the changing role of record labels.
View ArticleFormer NY Governor Hugh Carey Remembered as Financial Savior
A who's who of New York politics filed into St. Patrick's Cathedral on Thursday to remember former New York Governor Hugh Carey, known for leading the state out of economic crisis in the 1970s.Former...
View ArticleExit Music: Choosing Your Final Playlist
The last opera my father attended was Andrea Chénier, on April 9, 1996. Umberto Giordano’s masterpiece is on my very short list of favorite operas and was one Dad did not know. He knew that he had the...
View ArticleNewtown Begins to Bury Its Dead
On Monday, the first funerals for the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting took place. Two six year olds, Noah Pozner and Jack Pinto, were laid to rest.Around noon, people began filing into Honan...
View ArticleEd Koch Remembered as a 'Quintessential' New Yorker
Hundreds of people turned out to bid farewell to former Mayor Ed Koch on Monday.Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former President Bill Clinton were among those who spoke at Koch's funeral, while about 350...
View ArticleBringing Out the Dead, At Home
Death is painfully human, strangely ordinary, and universal. It causes us pain, it requires planning, and it requires final decisions. But here in America, in most cases, it doesn't require one thing:...
View ArticleFuneral Music
On a funereal edition of this New Sounds, hear musical moods that one might not expect to be associated with a funeral from the world over, from West African funeral drumming to a jazz march from...
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It's Your Funeral (part 1)
Live the death you've always wanted. Performed by Andy Moskowitz, Jackie Hoffman, Ben Jones, Damon Ketron, Phoebe Tyres, Shacottha Fields, Blanche Ames, and Rebecca Robles. Written by David Wilcox....
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It's Your Funeral (part 2)
Live the death you've always wanted. This is part 2 of a two-part story. Performed by Andy Moskowitz, Ben Jones, Amy Warren, Jackie Hoffman, Blanche Ames, and Damon Ketron. Written by David Wilcox,...
View ArticleVictim of Harlem Blast Given Officer's Funeral
Bagpipes played for Griselde Camacho, one of the eight victims of the East Harlem gas explosion, as her glossy white coffin was carried into Bethel Gospel Assembly Friday morning. Camacho, 45, was a...
View ArticleStudent Pallbearers Serve the Underprivileged
School is out for the summer, and may students are spending their with friends or working a summer job. But some students at the Cleveland, Ohio-based high school St. Ignatius are also spending time...
View ArticleFuneral Music
On a funereal edition of this New Sounds, hear musical moods that one might not expect to be associated with a funeral from the world over, from West African funeral drumming to a jazz march from...
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A Funeral Director’s Dead Reckoning
Caleb Wilde jokes that he's damned to be a funeral director for the rest of his life. But there's some truth there. He's a sixth-generation funeral director in the small town of Parkesburg,...
View ArticlePlanning a Funeral for Akai Gurley
A funeral for the 28-year-old unarmed man who was shot by police on patrol in East New York last month is scheduled for Saturday morning.The Brooklyn service will be held at 11 a.m. in Clinton Hill’s...
View ArticleAt Second NYPD Funeral, Another Affront to de Blasio
As thousands of police officers turned out to pay their respects to New York City police officer Wenjian Liu at his funeral in Brooklyn on Sunday, scores of them turned their backs while Mayor Bill de...
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