Alex Carson
The destruction of JFK’s original coffin remains one of the most quietly unsettling chapters in the aftermath of the assassination—a story defined not by what was preserved, but by what was deliberately erased. Chosen hastily in the chaos of Dallas, the bronze casket arrived in Washington battered, bloodstained, and warped, becoming both a symbol of national trauma and an object officials seemed desperate to remove from the historical record. Internal memos reveal an almost urgent insistence that the coffin posed a problem: that its very existence could invite spectacle, conspiracy, or commercialization.
▬Contents of this video▬
00:00 – Intro
00:41 – The Chaotic Hours After the Assassination
02:39 – A Relic No One Wanted to Keep
04:23 – The Secretive Disposal at Sea
06:05 – A Decision Wrapped in Bureaucracy
07:17 – A Symbol Too Powerful to Preserve?
07:42 – So Why Was Kennedy’s Coffin Treated Differently?
08:38 – Outro
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Rather than being archived—as so many other tragic national artifacts have been—the coffin was treated as a liability, something better unmade than understood. Through pages of government correspondence, phrases like “public interest” and “morbid attraction” appear again and again, framing the casket not as a piece of history but as a threat. And so a plan was put into motion: the casket was quietly retrieved from storage, loaded onto a military transport plane, weighted down, and flown over the Atlantic.
Federal agents watched as it was pushed into waters over 9,000 feet deep, then circled the site to ensure it disappeared without a trace. On paper, the reasoning was simple—prevent the coffin from becoming a grim exhibit. But the secrecy, the method, and the totality of the destruction raise lingering questions. Why was this object, among all others tied to the assassination, singled out for erasure? Why choose a method designed specifically to ensure no recovery, no rediscovery, no future reckoning with the physical evidence of those chaotic hours?
In a story already marked by gaps—lost files, conflicting reports, disputed timelines—the missing coffin has become one more absence shaping the narrative, one more silence that continues to echo more loudly than the explanations left behind.
What They Did with JFKs Coffin is Highly Suspicious
