In 1968, Singer said, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared national days of mourning for both Martin Luther King Jr. and ...

While wartime conditions might prevent them from practicing their ideal of the “good death,” most Americans in the Civil War era struggled to maintain familiar mourning rituals in death’s ...

Kennedy," President Callahan said. "By our united observance of Monday as a day of mourning, we will demonstrate ... may know of current events — both good and bad — but employees who desire ...

Flags will be displayed at half-staff on all public buildings as a National Day of Mourning will take place for Jimmy Carter, ...

the national days of mourning for President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, President John F. Kennedy in 1963, President Richard Nixon in 1994 and President Ronald Reagan in 2004. The last time ...