John Everett Benson, known as Fud, is an American calligrapher, stonecarver and typeface designer who has created inscriptions for monuments including the John F. Kennedy memorial at Arlington National Cemetery, the National Gallery of Art, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, and the Vietnam Memorial in Washington, DC.
Carving words on stone at the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C.
Hand-carved gravestone at Kennedy memorial, Arlington National Cemetery
John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame
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. The permanent John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame grave site was consecrated and opened to the public on March 15, 1967.
John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame at Arlington National Cemetery after its 2013 renovation
Jacqueline Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy walk away from Kennedy's casket after lighting the Eternal Flame
The original John F. Kennedy gravesite and Eternal Flame as they looked in May, 1964, 20 feet up the hill from the present-day relocated memorial.
View from the Kennedy grave site across the Arlington Memorial Bridge to the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument
