Funeral Train

ID: 2863 ~ Source: Last Salute: Civil and Military Funerals, 1921-1969, M. Warner Stark and B. C. Mossman. Department of the Army, Washington DC, 1991.  ~ Date: 1969
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Funeral Train

Loading the casket for Eisenhower's final journey.

This file appears in: Eisenhower Funeral Train

By Kathi Linz
The crowd began to gather early on April 1, 1969, waiting for a train bound west to Abilene, Kansas. It was cold and drizzly, but that didn’t prevent thousands of people from paying their final respects to World War II General and former President…