Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt

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Georgia Negro Weeps Open-Eyed at the Death of President Roosevelt

I can't help it. I just love this picture.

Rerun from two years ago

Rerun from three years ago.

Itself a rerun.

April 12, 1945. The picture of Graham Jackson is the image of that event that I always think of.



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.

I can't get to the Atlanta Time Machine website anymore.

Graham Jackson, from the wonderful Atlanta Time Machine.

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

[sasmath]

1. FDR and Eleanor

Two great Americans...

[monmouth4]

2. That is heartfelt grief, right from his soul. Love this sad photo..n/t

[Octafish]

3. A lawyer told me about what happened on his Liberty Ship in the Pacific when they got the news.

He was a junior officer, more like Jack Lemmon as Ensign Pulver than Henry Fonda as "Mr. Roberts."

The captain went on the loudspeaker. Every man cried, including the Republicans.

[RufusTFirefly]

6. Truth be told, I cried when I read about his death...

... in No Ordinary Time. (And I knew it was coming!)



Roosevelt had some conspicuous flaws, but I believe his preservation of this country was almost as momentous as Lincoln's.

That said, I think of myself more as an Eleanor Roosevelt. She comes closer to being my ideological soulmate. (It offended me when Hillary Clinton tried to equate herself with her. It was nearly as bad as Quayle and Kennedy.)

[mahatmakanejeeves]

4. Since tomorrow is Jefferson's birthday:

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On November 15, 1939, FDR laid the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.

[world wide wally]

5. My parents grew up in Post WWI America and lived through the depression and WW!!.

My dad served in the Navy and mom raised her child. Two of us weren't born until after the war.
They absolutely revered FDR for everything he did for this country. Even if they were "socialist" in nature.