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The headlines from Charlotte Observer, Friday morning, April 13, 1945 read:
U.S. MOURNS ROOSEVELT; TRUMAN NEW PRESIDENT -
Chief Executive Dies At Warm Springs, Ga.
Warm Springs, Ga., April 12 -- (AP) -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt died unexpectedly today at 4:35 p.m. (EWT) of a cerebral hemorrhage.
In Washington at 7:09 p.m., Vice President Harry S. Truman took the oath as the nation's thirty-second Chief Executive.
Mr. Roosevelt's last words were: "I have a terrific headache."
He spoke them to Comdr. Harold Bruenn, a naval physician.
The funeral will be in the White House East Room in Washington on Saturday.
Burial will be at the Roosevelt ancestral home at Hyde Park, N.Y., Sunday.
The body will not lie in state.
Presidential Secretary William D. Hassett said Mr Roosevelt's body would leave here around 9 a.m., (EWT) tomorrow for the approximately 22-hour run to Washington.
Mr. Roosevelt, 65, was sitting in front of a fireplace in the little White House here atop Pine Mountain when the attack struck him.
Bruenn described it as a massive cerebral hemorrhage.
The President's Negro valet, Arthur Prettyman, and a Filipino messboy carried him to his bedroom.
He was unconscious at the end. It came without pain.
Mr. Roosevelt, in the third month of his fourth term as President, came here three weeks ago to rest.
Mrs. Roosevelt planned to fly here this evening. She left the White House at 7:15 after informing their four uniformed sons by wire of their father's death.
The death removed from world councils one of the Big Three -- Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill -- who worked together to win the war and laid joint plans for keeping the peace. Truman likewise has stressed the need for international co-operation.
Dr. Bruenn said he saw the President this morning and he was in excellent spirits at 9:30 a.m.
"At 1 o'clock," Bruenn added, "he was sitting in a chair while sketches were being made of him by an architect. He suddenly complained of a very severe occipital headache (back of the head).
"Within a very few minutes he lost consciousness. He was seen by me at 1:30 p.m., 15 minutes after the episode had started.
"He did not regain consciousness and he died at 4:35 p.m."
U.S. MOURNS ROOSEVELT; TRUMAN NEW PRESIDENT -
Chief Executive Dies At Warm Springs, Ga.
Warm Springs, Ga., April 12 -- (AP) -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt died unexpectedly today at 4:35 p.m. (EWT) of a cerebral hemorrhage.
In Washington at 7:09 p.m., Vice President Harry S. Truman took the oath as the nation's thirty-second Chief Executive.
Mr. Roosevelt's last words were: "I have a terrific headache."
He spoke them to Comdr. Harold Bruenn, a naval physician.
The funeral will be in the White House East Room in Washington on Saturday.
Burial will be at the Roosevelt ancestral home at Hyde Park, N.Y., Sunday.
The body will not lie in state.
Presidential Secretary William D. Hassett said Mr Roosevelt's body would leave here around 9 a.m., (EWT) tomorrow for the approximately 22-hour run to Washington.
Mr. Roosevelt, 65, was sitting in front of a fireplace in the little White House here atop Pine Mountain when the attack struck him.
Bruenn described it as a massive cerebral hemorrhage.
The President's Negro valet, Arthur Prettyman, and a Filipino messboy carried him to his bedroom.
He was unconscious at the end. It came without pain.
Mr. Roosevelt, in the third month of his fourth term as President, came here three weeks ago to rest.
Mrs. Roosevelt planned to fly here this evening. She left the White House at 7:15 after informing their four uniformed sons by wire of their father's death.
The death removed from world councils one of the Big Three -- Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill -- who worked together to win the war and laid joint plans for keeping the peace. Truman likewise has stressed the need for international co-operation.
Dr. Bruenn said he saw the President this morning and he was in excellent spirits at 9:30 a.m.
"At 1 o'clock," Bruenn added, "he was sitting in a chair while sketches were being made of him by an architect. He suddenly complained of a very severe occipital headache (back of the head).
"Within a very few minutes he lost consciousness. He was seen by me at 1:30 p.m., 15 minutes after the episode had started.
"He did not regain consciousness and he died at 4:35 p.m."