Outside the Boys & Girls Club sits a granite prototype created during development of President John F. Kennedy's grave memorial. Newport stonecarver John E. Benson produced the slab using words from Kennedy's inaugural address, but the design was not used at Arlington National Cemetery. The discarded prototype survives as an unexpectedly important artifact in an ordinary city setting. Secondary source: https://admiralsimsnewport.com/off-the-beaten-path-newport-ri/
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: Roadside America