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To: Terriergal

Whatever you think of FDR, I do remember a pic of a black soldier in a uniform playing an accordian (I think) at a service when Roosevelt died, with tears streaming down his face.


3,291 posted on 06/11/2004 10:58:01 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (When anything goes, everything does.)
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To: 3catsanadog

Former Coast Guard chief petty officer Graham Washington Jackson as a recruiter in Marietta, Georgia would play piano & accordion for FDR while he was visiting Warm Springs, Georgia; a famous picture of him playing his accordion after FDR's death was published in the April 17, 1945 edition of Life Magazine; Jackson played Goin' Home

3,362 posted on 06/12/2004 3:22:05 AM PDT by Straight Vermonter (06/07/04 - 1000 days since 09/11/01)
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