April 14, 1945:
Funeral services are held in the White House.for President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the nation's 31st chief executive, who died two days earlier.
Roosevelt, 63, succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage while at his retreat in Warm Springs, Ga. Some 500,000 people lined the streets of Washington as the president's body arrived in the nation's capital by train. The funeral procession then made the trip from Union Station to the White House.
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