Final Resting Place is a photograph by Jon Burch Photography which was uploaded on September 9th, 2013.
Final Resting Place
Eisenhower retired to the place where he and Mamie had spent much of their post-war time, a working farm adjacent to the battlefield at Gettysburg,... more
Title
Final Resting Place
Artist
Jon Burch Photography
Medium
Photograph - Digital Capture And Enhancement
Description
Eisenhower retired to the place where he and Mamie had spent much of their post-war time, a working farm adjacent to the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, only thirty miles from his ancestral home of York. In 1967, the Eisenhowers donated the farm to the National Park Service. In retirement, the former president did not completely retreat from political life; he spoke at the 1964 Republican National Convention and appeared with Barry Goldwater in a Republican campaign commercial from Gettysburg. However, his endorsement came somewhat reluctantly because Goldwater had attacked the former president as "a dime-store New Dealer".
On March 28, 1969, Eisenhower died in Washington, D.C. of congestive heart failure at Walter Reed Army Hospital. The following day his body was moved to the Washington National Cathedral's Bethlehem Chapel, where he lay in repose for 28 hours. On March 30, his body was brought by caisson to the United States Capitol, where he lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda. On March 31, Eisenhower's body was returned to the National Cathedral, where he was given an Episcopal Church funeral service. That evening, Eisenhower's body was placed onto a train en route to Abilene, Kansas. His body arrived on April 2, and was interred later that day in a small chapel on the grounds of the Eisenhower Presidential Library. Eisenhower is buried alongside his son Doud, who died at age 3 in 1921. His wife Mamie was buried next to him after her death in 1979.
-Wikki
I was in an Army Reserve Unit when Eisenhower died. I remember that we were issued new pistol belts as our unit was on standby to march in the parade in case the primary unit from Ft. Riley couldn't do it. Turned out that they did, and we had nice new web gear afterwards.
Photograph made at the Eisenhower Museum in Abilene, Kansas.
Uploaded
September 9th, 2013
