Earl Hamner Jr. credited as playing...
The Narrator
- The Narrator: [John-Boy quoting from his journal] The train bearing the body of President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved slowly on its way from Warm Springs, Georgia toward our nations capital... Wherever it went, the people who loved him gathered to mark his passing, remembering the man who led the nation out of its most crippling depression and on to victory in its greatest war, planting seeds of brotherhood along the way... When it passed through Charlottesville, my family was there to pay their last respects.
- [the train passes by with the presidents coffin in the last car, guarded by the four servicemen]