CSPAN3 Reel America F.D.R. 1882-1945 July 13, 2024
Official home. The passing of f. D. R. From the american scene came as a personal shock to the nation. People wept openly, unashamed of their grief. [music] drawn by six white horses, the flagdraped caisson was brought to the main entrance of the white house. Carried into the great east room where, 80 years before almost to the day, the body of Abraham Lincoln also had laid in state. At hyde park, his ancestral home, the guns of west point cadets, the final curtain on the man known round the world as f. D. R. [shots firing] to measure something of his greatness, we turn back the clock to Frank...