Douglas MacArthur died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center on 5 April 1964 , of biliary cirrhosis . Kennedy had authorized a state funeral before his own death in 1963 , and Johnson confirmed the directive , ordering that MacArthur be buried " with all the honor a grateful nation can bestow on a departed hero " . On 7 April his body was taken to New York City , where it lay in an open casket at the Seventh Regiment Armory for about 12 hours . That night it was taken on a funeral train to Union Station and transported by a funeral procession to the Capitol , where it lay in state at the United States Capitol rotunda . An estimated 150,000 people filed by the bier
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