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I just love this picture. I run this every year.
Fri Apr 12, 2019: Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
Thu Apr 12, 2018: Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
From 2016: Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
From 2013: Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt
From 2012
From 2011
Itself a rerun
This picture of Graham Jackson is the image of that event that I always think of. As the caption notes, it was taken on April 13, 1945, as Roosevelt's body was being taken away.
The caption of the original photograph starts out:
On the afternoon of the day he died President Roosevelt was scheduled to attend a barbecue at Warm Springs. That afternoon he would have heard Chief Petty Officer Graham Jackson, a Georgia Negro, play his accordion. The President had enjoyed Jackson's songs many times in the past. The next day when the President's body was borne slowly past the main dormitory at Warm Springs, where often he used to wave at the patients convalescing in the sun's rays, Jackson stepped out of the watching circle, sadly fingered the strains of Going Home. As he played, C.P.O Jackson wept open-eyed to the mournful phrases of his own lament.
Graham Jackson, from the wonderful Atlanta Time Machine.
60 White House Drive SW
Many more links on Graham Jackson
Please go to Google Books to see the coverage in the April 23, 1945 issue of Life magazine. You will be amazed. (I can't make the link directly.)
Roosevelt's Death:
http://books.google.com/books?id=wEkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA19&dq=Roosevelt+funeral&hl=en&ei=TirDS4iHOIT7lwfx96jaBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Roosevelt%20funeral&f=true
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)AA leaders and voters of that time played a hugely important role in making the New Deal happen. When Roosevelt was first elected, perhaps half of AA voters were Democrats. Before the end, the numbers of those engaged had grown and virtually all had joined the Democratic Party.
When the anti-Democratic left and the right try to smear the New Deal by claiming it was bad for AA, they're doing a great injustice to all the black New Dealers who worked so hard and successfully to advance their people, and everyone else.
crickets
(25,960 posts)Aristus
(66,310 posts)I broke my six year-old heart then, and still does, every time I see it...
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,378 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,378 posts)mahatmakanejeeves
(57,378 posts)I'm listening to it now. It consists of old radio broadcasts reporting on the death of President Roosevelt.
Paul McGehee's Time Machine The Death of FDR
https://www.facebook.com/939941119429678/photos/a.942268432530280/2843874072369697/