Harry Truman actually said...

It has become my sad duty to announce officially the death of James Forrestal, formerly Secretary of Defense in the Government of the United States, who died at the Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland, at 2 a.m. on the 22nd day of May, 1949.

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Proclamation 2840—Death of James Forrestal

05/21/1949

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