Kennedys join suit to block Trump’s triumphal arch, saying it mars JFK gravesite

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The Kennedy family, one of America's most famous political dynasties, has joined a court case aimed at blocking the construction of a triumphal arch in Washington, saying it would obstruct views and cast shadows over their relatives' gravesites.

WASHINGTON — The Kennedy family, one of America's most famous political dynasties, has joined a court case aimed at blocking the construction of a triumphal arch in Washington, saying it would obstruct views and cast shadows over their relatives' gravesites.

Nine members of the family filed a motion on Tuesday in federal court in Washington, DC, to stop the arch from being built, arguing that it obstructs views of the family’s gravesites in Arlington National Cemetery as well as “the memorials of hundreds of thousands of fallen American heroes.”

The 250-foot (76-meter) arch, shown in a ​rendering to include a flame held by a 60-foot gold ​winged female figure and flanked by gold flying eagles, ⁠would be situated across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial ​on a highway roundabout near the entrance to the Arlington National ​Cemetery.

“President Donald J. Trump is attempting to unlawfully erect a massive arch that will permanently cast shadows over and damage historically significant sightlines to the existing gravesites and memorials established in the Kennedy family’s honor at Arlington National Cemetery, as well as to the memorials of hundreds of thousands of fallen American heroes,” the family wrote in the filing.

The Kennedys argue the design and location of the massive arch would obstruct the clear sightline of the family’s gravesites, including the John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame from the vantage point of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, ultimately “destroying an essential element” of the gravesite’s design.

The family says the Trump administration has “raced forward to build” the arch, which is “more than double the size of the Lincoln Memorial and the equivalent of a 25-story office building.”

“Its location in Memorial Circle would situate the monument on an axis between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery, obstructing a line of sight that was designed to represent the unification of the Nation following the Civil War and that has existed for…

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