A Tribute To General Macarthur (1964)

The Last Salute: Civil and Military Funeral, 1921-1969

CHAPTER XXIV

General of the Army
Douglas MacArthur
State Funeral
5-11 April 1964

General of the Army Douglas MacArthur died on 5 April 1964 in Walter Reed General Hospital at the age of eighty-four. Earlier President Kennedy had authorized a State Funeral, and President Johnson confirmed the directive when he ordered that General MacArthur be buried "with all the honor a grateful nation can bestow on a departed hero."

Plans for the funeral, which had been made some time before in consultation with the general himself, specified that the ceremonies should occupy seven days instead of the four days prescribed in the plan of 1958 for a State Funeral. In accordance with the wishes of the general he was to be buried in Norfolk, Virginia, rather than in Arlington National Cemetery and his body was to lie in the 7th Regiment Armory in New York City and in the MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk as well as in the Capitol in Washington.

Maj. Gen. Philip C. Wehle, commander of the Military District of Washington, was responsible for arranging and conducting ceremonies taking place in Washington and for coordinating all funeral ceremonies. From his resources in the Washington area he was to provide whatever assistance and support were necessary in New York City and Norfolk. The Commanding General, First U.S. Army, Lt. Gen. Garrison H. Davidson, was in charge of ceremonies in New York City, and the Commanding General, US Continental Army Command, General Hugh P. Harris, had charge of ceremonies in Norfolk. In each command area, a center was established from which funeral operations, administrative and ceremonial, were controlled.

https://history.army.mil/books/Last_Salute/Ch24.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur

http://www.macarthurmemorial.org/337/MacArthur-Memorial-Archives-and-Library

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