Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
I just love this picture. I have made this post every year for a long time.
Tue Apr 12, 2022: Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
Mon Apr 12, 2021: Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
Sun Apr 12, 2020: Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
Fri Apr 12, 2019: Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
Thu Apr 12, 2018: Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
Tue Apr 12, 2016: Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
Fri Apr 12, 2013: Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
Thu Apr 12, 2012: Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
Tue Apr-12-11: Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
Mon Apr-12-10: Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
Wed Apr-12-06: Today is the day in 1945 that Roosevelt died
This picture of Graham Jackson is the image of that event that I always think of. As the caption notes, it was taken on April 13, 1945, as Roosevelt's body was being taken away that morning.
The caption of the original photograph starts out:
Graham Jackson, from the wonderful Atlanta Time Machine
60 White House Drive SW
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Please go to Google Books to see the coverage in the April 23, 1945 issue of Life magazine. You will be amazed. (I can't make the link directly.)
Roosevelt's Death:
http://books.google.com/books?id=wEkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA19&dq=Roosevelt+funeral&hl=en&ei=TirDS4iHOIT7lwfx96jaBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Roosevelt%20funeral&f=true
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What happened the day FDR died and his journey back to his home on the Hudson in Hyde Park. NY.
Tue Apr 12, 2022: Here are photographs of FDR taken two days earlier and the day before.
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that inspired tRump to claim that NY Cops were crying at his indictment........ 
IQ45 is SO delusional that I can actually see him equating his situation to that of the loss of a great, brilliant leader, with Roosevelt actually being a leader that DID serve his country and ALL of the people.......... 
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Tue Apr 13, 2021: On this day, April 13, 1945, this was the scene in Atlanta, Georgia:
April 1945 -- An armed guard from Camp Sibert presents arms as the special funeral train bearing the body of President Roosevelt pulls into Atlanta's Terminal Station on its way from Warm Springs, Ga., to Washington, D.C.
Credit: AJC File
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By Brian O'Shea, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
April 12, 2019
When a special funeral train was outfitted last year to carry former President George H.W. Bush from Houston to College Station, Texas, it was an echo of the funeral train that carried Franklin D. Roosevelt from Georgia after his death at Warm Springs in 1945.
Roosevelt, a frequent presence in Georgia, was visiting his Warm Springs retreat when he died on April 12, 1945.
The president’s casket was carried in its own train car, with a military honor guard. Honor guards of military units and members of the public gathered along the route of the train, including at Atlanta’s Terminal Station.
The train traveled first to Washington for a small funeral service at the White House, then to FDR’s funeral and burial in Hyde Park, N.Y. In Washington, a horse-drawn Army caisson carried the casket from the train station to the White House.
A special funeral train carried the president’s casket from Warm Springs to Washington D.C., including a stop in Atlanta.
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Last return to Capital: Brought from Warm Springs, Ga., the flag-draped coffin bearing the body of President Roosevelt is transferred at Washington's Union Station from a special train. Guards arrange the caisson for the procession from the station to the White House, where private funeral services were held yesterday (April 14, 1945)
From AJC Archives.
President Franklin Roosevelt's train arrives from Washington D.C. at Warm Springs in the 1940s, where he spent time at 'The Little White House.'
Credit: KENNETH ROGERS / AJC FILE
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