Roosevelt’s flag-draped funeral train leaves Warm Springs, Georgia 80 years ago this hour (Apr 13 1945)


Video: 'Funeral Of President Roosevelt (1945)' (Apr. 13, 1945, at 0:34-1:39)

(Friday, April 13, 1945, 10:13 a.m. Central War Time; during World War II) — A train carrying the body of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for a memorial tomorrow in Washington departed Warm Springs, Georgia, today, one day after the president’s death by a massive cerebral hemorrhage (stroke).


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