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mahatmakanejeeves

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1. Another picture, and old footage:

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Tue Apr 14, 2020, 09:00 AM

Apr 2020

Wed Dec 5, 2018: You're right

More than 1,000 Charlottesville-area residents arrived at the Southern Railway Station before dawn on April 14, 1945, to catch a glimpse of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s casket.

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A crowd gathered on the West Main Street Bridge to see FDR's funeral train in 1945 [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2020 OP

Another picture, and old footage: mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2020 #1

Had an old neighbor, raised in Charlottesville on longtime family farm. WWII vet. empedocles Apr 2020 #5

Somber citizens saluted FDR's funeral train mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2020 #2

'before dawn' empedocles Apr 2020 #3

1945 FDR Funeral Train and Funeral mahatmakanejeeves Apr 2020 #4

Warm Springs is in Georgia. It is/was a facility for polio victims. 3Hotdogs Apr 2020 #6