CSPAN3 1882-1945 April 12, 2015
Personal shock to the nation. People wept openly, unashamed of their grief. Drawn by six white horses, the flag draped caisson was wrought to the main entrance of the white house, carried into the great east room where 80 years ago, almost to the day, the body of Abraham Lincoln had also laid in state. At hyde park, his ancestral home the guns of west point cadets rang down the final curtain on the man best known around the world as fdr. [gunshots] to measure something of his greatness, we turn black we turn back the clock to Franklin Roosevelt as a young man making his First Political campaig...