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What Became of JFK’s Gravedigger?

Nov. 22, 1963

A famous Jimmy Breslin column drew attention to Clifton Pollard, a WWII vet who buried the president on two occasions at Arlington National. Now they both rest there.

The backhoe operator who dug not one, but two graves for John F. Kennedy is now himself buried a few hundred feet from the slain president.

Clifton Pollard’s digging of the first grave for Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery was memorably described

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