Volume 16 , Issue 20

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Dies (12 April 1945)

President Roosevelt stated, "I've seen war on land and sea. I've seen cities destroyed." President Roosevelt died in 1945, while in Warm springs, Georgia. The people thronged to glance a last glimpse of their President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt as his body traveled back towards Washington, DC.

FDR presided over the Great Depression and most of World War II, leaving an indelible stamp on American politics for several decades.

Thousands of Americans lined the tracks to bid Roosevelt farewell while a slow train carried his coffin from Warm Springs to Washington, D.C. After a solemn state funeral, he was buried at his family's home in Hyde Park, New York.

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