At President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's funeral - Jacqueline Kennedy with her keen eye to history and Abraham Lincoln's funeral insisted on the riderless horse, a Morgan/Quarter Horse cross named "Black Jack"... Ironically the horse shared his name with the nickname of Jackie's father. The boots are reversed in the stirrups to represent a fallen leader looking back on his troops for the last time.At President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's funeral - Jacqueline Kennedy with her keen eye to history and Abraham Lincoln's funeral insisted on the riderless horse, a Morgan/Quarter Horse cross named "Black Jack"... Ironically the horse shared his name with the nickname of Jackie's father. The boots are reversed in the stirrups to represent a fallen leader looking back on his troops for the last time.
At President John Fitzgerald Kennedy's funeral - Jacqueline Kennedy with her keen eye to history and Abraham Lincoln's funeral insisted on the riderless horse, a Morgan/Quarter Horse cross named "Black Jack"... Ironically the horse shared his name with the nickname of Jackie's father. The boots are reversed in the stirrups to represent a fallen leader looking back on his troops for the last time.