Kennedys accuse Trump of ‘destroying’ JFK gravesite design with gilded monument: NYT
Members of America's most famous political dynasty are going to court to stop one of President Donald Trump's pet projects.
Nine members of the Kennedy family moved Tuesday to join an ongoing lawsuit in Washington aimed at blocking Trump's proposed 250-foot triumphal arch, arguing the gold-topped structure would loom over their relatives' graves and ruin a deliberately designed view from President John F. Kennedy's eternal flame, according to reporting by The New York Times.
The family's legal papers contend the monument would block "a line of sight that was designed to represent the unification of the nation following the Civil War and that has existed for nearly a century," a sightline the plaintiffs say is so central to the memorial that obstructing it amounts to "destroying an essential element of the gravesite's design."...