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Because he was shot in the head with a high-powered rifle and the wound caused substantial damage to the right side of his head. The embalmer did try and reconstruct his head to as natural appearance as possible. Some members of the Kennedy family did view him privately.
CORRECTION: The damage to the head from the gunshot had nothing to do with the family decision about an open or closed casket. As sourced in the book, "Death of a President", by William Manchester, the mortician's restoration work was remarkable, although Kennedy appeared "made-up". Untimately, Mrs. Kennedy said she "wanted people to remember Jack as he was in life." Both family, and those who worked closely with President Kennedy, viewed the body several times between Saturday and Monday morning.
(Thom is a licensed mortician since 1990 and, knew and worked with Mr. Joe Hagen, the lead member of the three man team from Joseph Gawler's Sons, who prepared the body of the President at Bethesda Naval Hospital.)
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