REST IN PEACE: FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

Description

Summary: VS, taken at Warm Springs, Georgia, showing funeral cortege passing invalids in wheelchairs. Funeral train leaving station and arriving at Washington, DC. Arrival of Vice President Harry S Truman, Secretary of Commerce Henry A Wallace, and Presidential adviser James F Byrnes. MCUs, arrival of Secretary of War Henry L Stimson, Fleet Admiral William D Leahy, and Philippine President Sergio Osmena. Cut-ins of the Roosevelt family, included are Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt, daughter Ann and son John. VS, thousands of persons lining streets as funeral - procession passes. CUs, sobbing people. CUs, members of Congress followed by Earl of Athlone, Governor General of Canada; Harry Hopkins; Mrs Woodrow Wilson with Mr James Byrnes; Anthony Eden; Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes; Bernard Baruch; Thomas E Dewey, at services. CUs, body lying in state. VS, burial at Hyde Park, NY. CUs of the following persons at burial: President and Mrs Harry S Truman with Gen Harry M Vaughan, General George C Marshall, Admiral Ernest J King, James A Farley, Stimson, Prime Minister Mackenzie King of Canada, Edward R Stettinius, former Governor of NY Herbert H Lehman, and Treasury Secretary Henry Morganthau. CUs, Honor Guard firing salute.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities