Funeral Train
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Loading the casket for Eisenhower's final journey.
This file appears in: Eisenhower Funeral Train
Eisenhower Funeral Train
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…