CEDAR RAPIDS - Herbert Clark Hoover, 31st President of the United States, died Tuesday, Oct. 20, 1964, at the age of 90. Wishing to be buried in his hometown of West Branch, Hoover had selected the ...
Fifty years ago, on a warm, Indian summer afternoon much like Saturday, more than 75,000 people gathered to witness the funeral of former president Herbert Hoover. In the days after Hoover's death in ...