| Hoover Tribute: World Pays Last Respects | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1729 |
| Catalog #: | 426432 | |
| Clip Number: | 426432-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 037-086-01 | |
| Timecode: | 00:32:03 - 00:33:28 | |
| Location: | United States | |
| Year Shot: | 1964 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FUNERALS: Military FUNERALS: State LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Iowa LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Washington D.C. PERSONALITIES: Hoover, Herbert | |
| Description: | The 31st President of the United States lies in State in the Rotunda of the Capitol in Washington as a sorrowing world joins the nation in mourning his passing. Herbert Hoover overcame the fate of being a "Depression President" to gain new stature as a Statesman and Humanitarian of international renown. He is laid to rest at West Branch, Iowa, his boyhood home. Washignton, DC A team of six horses pulls a wagon carrying the casket of President Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States down the street of Pennsylvania Avenue to the Rotunda housed in the Capitol Building in Washington DC. A mix of military carry the remains of the President up the stairs of the Capitol Building. President Johnson and his wife Lady Bird slowly walk up the steps of the building. An Honor Guard stands at attention keeping watch over the remains of President Hoover as a single file of people pay their last respects. West Branch, Iowa Throngs of mourners come out to bid farewell to President Hoover, the crowds number in some area of the rows of people 10-deep, lining the streets of West Branch, Iowa. A Honor Guard carrying the casket of the late President over to the grave site. | |
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