WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN DIES SUDDENLY IN HIS SLEEP
Dayton, Tennessee (JFK+50) On July 27, 1925, Associated Press reports the death yesterday of "The Great Commoner," William Jennings Bryan*.
Mr. Bryan passed away "suddenly during sleep." The remains will be transported from here in Dayton to Washington, D.C. on a Southern Railway car.
The three-time unsuccessful Democratic candidate for President of the United States had just completed service as one of the prosecutors in the case of the State of Tennessee v. John T. Scopes.
JFK+50 NOTE
Shortly before his death, WJB, during a visit to the National Cemetery, requested that he be buried at Arlington. He said..."I want to rest...where I may always gaze out over Washington."
While JFK did not make a similar request, just a few days before his death during a Veteran's Day service at Arlington, President Kennedy gazed upon the view of the city below and said, "I could stay up here forever." Jacqueline Kennedy made the decision that her husband should also be buried there.
*William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) was born in Salem, Illinois & earned his A.B. at Illinois College, 1881. WJB served in U.S. House of Representatives (D-Nebraska) 1891-1895, in the Spanish-American War, & as Secretary of State, 1913-1915.
SOURCE
"William Jennings Bryan Dies Suddenly On Eve Of Great Bible Crusade," The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., July 27, 1925, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
