People: Dec. 5, 1983

On the 20th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's death, the late President's close-knit clan gathered for a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Afterward, the family was joined by a larger group, 500 of J.F.K.'s former colleagues and friends at an invitation-only memorial Mass at his old parish church in Washington's Georgetown. Prominent among the absentees was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 54, who spent the day in Hyannisport, Mass., with the President's mother, Rose, 93. Also missing: John Kennedy Jr., 23, who is studying in India. Among those at the site of the eternal...

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