This film was taken of Eleanor Roosevelt at the Hyde Park funeral of her husband. She wears a mourning veil attached to her hat, but unlike Florence Harding, she never wore it over her face during the funeral.

Famous composer and head of the Marine Band John Philip Sousa was shocked by President Garfield’s death: “With the event weighing heavily on his mind he walked all through the night and into the next morning. When he returned home he immediately committed the dirge ‘In Memoriam’ to paper.” The U.S. Marine Band played the march as the president’