Summary

Funeral for former Vice President Alben Barkley in Washington DC

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # D-7572
Clip SR004907_01_04.mov
Date 5/2/1956
Title Funeral for former Vice President Alben Barkley in Washington DC
Description Title card: "Rites for Barkley in Washington" / Pan down Foundry Methodist Church on rainy day with cars parked on street and mourners in front of church, police direct traffic in fgd / VS flower adorned casket in church of Democratic Senator Alben W Barkley, former U.S. vice president / MS senators arriving / Edith Wilson, former wife of President Woodrow Wilson arriving / Barkley's widow Jane Barkley arriving / Vice President Richard Nixon arriving / President Dwight D Eisenhower and assistant Sherman Adams arriving / high angle funeral/ pallbearers carry casket toward camera / woman crying standing in group / CU pallbearers carry casket / church bulletin board with last saying of Barkley: "I would rather be a servant in the house of the Lord than sit in the seat of the Mighty." / LS mourners leaving church
Personality Edith Wilson, Jane Barkley, Richard M Nixon, Dwight D Eisenhower, Sherman Adams
Country United States
City Washington DC

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