Golden Silence

7/7/1920

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Cartoonist Clifford Berryman shows a mourning Bryan, top hat in hand and a "dry plank" under his arm, at a tombstone inscribed "the love of W. J. Bryan done to death at Frisco 1920.

This primary source comes from the Records of the U.S. Senate.

National Archives Identifier: 6011623

Full Citation: Golden Silence; 7/7/1920; Records of the U.S. Senate, Record Group 46. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/golden-silence, February 24, 2020]

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