Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, do hereby officially announce the death of Harlan Fiske Stone, stricken in the public performance of his duties in the highest Court of the Nation in the City of Washington on the twenty-second day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six, at six forty-five o'clock in the evening.
Proclamation 2688—Death of Harlan Fiske Stone
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