Honoring the Victims of the Attack in San Bernardino, California - 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 Attack in San Bernardino, California: Historical Half-Staff Record
President Barack Obama issued Proclamation 9377 following the gun violence in San Bernardino, California, on December 2, 2015. Its purpose is to honor the victims through a defined United States half-staff directive. The source is a short order rather than a detailed history of the attack, so this entry does not supply unverified accounts of individual victims or investigative findings.
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 9377 of December 3, 2015
- Observance interval
- Issued December 3, 2015; the directive applies through December 7, 2015.
- Time qualification
- The text does not specify sunset, a numerical endpoint hour, a named time zone or a separate starting clock time.
- Geography and audience
- The White House; the listed public buildings and grounds, military posts and naval stations; Federal Government naval vessels in the District of Columbia, throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions; and the specified United States facilities abroad for the same period.
- Federal Register publication
- December 8, 2015, volume 80, pages 76353; document 2015-31103.
How to read this historical instruction
The exact endpoint language matters: this proclamation says through December 7, 2015. Other presidential proclamations use an explicit sunset endpoint, but that word is not present here. The date should therefore remain attached to the source wording rather than be converted into an invented clock time. The Federal Register published the document December 8, after the interval described in its text.
December 7 also appears in the separate 2015 Pearl Harbor remembrance proclamation. The shared date does not make these documents duplicates: one honors the San Bernardino victims and the other records an annual remembrance. No cancellation or replacement of one by the other is stated in the supplied texts.
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Full official proclamation
Proclamation 9377 of December 3, 2015
Honoring the Victims of the Attack in San Bernardino, California
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
As a mark of respect for the victims of gun violence perpetrated on December 2, 2015, in San Bernardino, California, 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 through December 7, 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 third day of December, 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
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