The John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame is a presidential memorial at the gravesite of assassinated United States President John F. Kennedy, in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. This permanent site replaced a temporary grave and eternal flame used at the time of Kennedy's state funeral on November 25, 1963, three days after his assassination. The site was designed by architect John Carl Warnecke, a long-time friend of Kennedy.[1]
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The Eternal Flame is featured in The Capital Threat on the timeline segment of 2 Months After People.
The show explains the history of the Eternal Flame when the flame has been extinguished only once in 1963 when tourists poured holy water onto it, this cause the state to create a constantly flowing natural gas line with an electrically powered relighting system in order to keep the flames burning.
It then shows the fate of the Eternal Flame, since day one without people, Washington DC power grid fails, and so the electric relighting system also fails. This cause the first heavy rainstorm to snuff and extinguished the flame for eternity.
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