YES.

This is true.

The bronze casket obtained by the Secret Service shortly after Kennedy was pronounced dead in Parkland Hospital was used to transport his body back to Washington in Air Force One.

By the time it got there, the handles had been broken off of it so that it would fit through the airplane door, and blood and bodily fluid had ruined the interior of the casket, making it an unsuitable casket for a Presidential funeral.

This casket was ultimately filled with weights, poked through with holes, and dumped in the Atlantic Ocean at Robert Kennedy’s request.

The Kennedy family was concerned that the casket might become a showpiece in a macabre museum or private collection someday, and they didn’t want to assume and maintain ownership of the disturbing relic, either.

Lest anyone be confused, Kennedy’s body was not in the sunken casket.

Kennedy was buried at Arlington Cemetery in a new, different casket.

In 1966, a C-130 dropped JFK’s original bronze casket off the Delaware coast onto the sea floor 9,000 feet below.

After JFK’s assassination, Robert Kennedy became concerned that the casket might end up as a macabre collector’s item so he asked to have it dropped and sunk at sea.

The original casket had been damaged while removing it from the hearse to board the plane (a handle was knocked off). Further consideration for using a different casket to bury JFK was that though the medical staff had taken pains to wrap the President’s body in sheets to protect the casket, blood and fluids had seeped onto the lining of the casket.

As the government had paid for the casket, a question of ownership now arose. Even though it now resided at the National Archives, RFK said he’d always assumed the Kennedys had ownership. The government didn’t contest the issue and plans were drawn up on how to dispose of it. A submarine skipper suggested drilling 42 holes in the casket, and filling it with three eighty-pound sandbags.

To ensure that the casket did not break up upon impact with the ocean, the casket was placed inside a banded wooden crate that was fitted with two parachutes. The crate was also drilled with many holes.

The C-130 crew stayed over the drop site until the casket slid below the surface. The drop coordinates were recorded.

In addition, according to author David Lifton in his book Best Evidence, there was another aluminum military shipping casket that JFK’s body arrived in at Bethesda Naval Hospital on the night of November 22, 1963. Supposedly, the President’s corpse was in a body bag, not wrapped in sheets.

Twenty minutes after the arrival of this aluminum casket, the X-ray technician noticed Jackie Kennedy arriving in a hearse that carried a bronze casket. Two presidential caskets? For the record, Jackie believed her late husband was in the bronze one.

Allegedly, somewhere a switch had been made, and as was noted at the autopsy, it appeared as if some one had operated on JFK’s rear head wound, which all Parkland doctors denied doing.

What happened to this presidential casket is a total mystery, as Robert Kennedy at the time was not even aware of it.

The president would avoid metal in his third casket, being buried at Arlington National Cemetery in a mahogany wood casket.