Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy in Roseburg, Oregon - Historical Half-Staff Archive
Historical — 2015. Not a current half-staff notice. FORTISVEX is an independent publisher, not a government agency. The official proclamation is reproduced separately from our explanatory context.
Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy in Roseburg, Oregon: Historical Half-Staff Record
President Barack Obama issued this proclamation as a mark of respect for victims of gun violence in Roseburg, Oregon, on October 1, 2015. The published document is deliberately brief: it identifies the event, directs half-staff display at specified places and supplies an endpoint. This archive preserves that limited purpose without adding an unverified casualty count, victim biography or account of the attack.
Compare dated source records in the FORTISVEX Presidential Half-Staff Archive.
Dates, authority and scope
- Issuer
- President Barack Obama
- Formal issue date and number
- Proclamation 9342 of October 2, 2015
- Observance interval
- Issued October 2, 2015; the directive ends at sunset, October 6, 2015.
- Time qualification
- The text says sunset but gives no numerical hour, named time zone or separate starting clock time.
- Geography and audience
- The White House; public buildings and grounds; military posts and naval stations; Federal Government naval vessels in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States, its Territories and possessions; and the specified United States diplomatic and military facilities abroad.
- Federal Register publication
- October 7, 2015, volume 80, pages 60791; document 2015-25743.
How to read this historical instruction
The location named in the title identifies the tragedy being honored; it does not confine the flag directive to Roseburg or Oregon. The operative language covers the White House and the listed public, military and naval locations across the United States, its Territories and possessions. A second clause extends the same interval to the named United States facilities abroad.
The document contains no separate direction addressed to private homes and businesses. That absence should not be rewritten into a broader compulsory instruction. The full text below allows readers to distinguish the actual presidential order from the archive’s explanation.
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Full official proclamation
Proclamation 9342 of October 2, 2015
Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy in Roseburg, Oregon
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
As a mark of respect for the victims of gun violence perpetrated on October 1, 2015, in Roseburg, Oregon, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, October 6, 2015. I also direct that the flag shall be flown at half-staff for the same length of time at all United States embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this second day of October, in the year of our Lord two thousand fifteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and fortieth.
Further reading and a present-day display
Explore the FORTISVEX History & Reference collection for related reading. If you are choosing a flag for your own display, browse our American flag collection. This historical record is not a direction to lower a flag today; check the applicable current official notice separately.
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Archive date: The displayed post date represents the proclamation’s verified formal issue date, not the date this website entry was uploaded. The actual publication timestamp is retained separately in the work record. This historical entry is not a current half-staff instruction.
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