Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Historical presidential archive · 2016

Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

This is an independent FORTISVEX historical reference, not a United States government publication or a current half-staff alert. The observance described below has ended.

President Obama issued this proclamation on July 18 after the attack on police officers in Baton Rouge on Sunday, July 17. It is a separate document from the earlier July proclamations honoring victims in Dallas and Nice.

What this proclamation marked

The July 21 publication date falls before this order’s July 22 sunset endpoint. Its period overlaps the end of the Nice observance, but the Baton Rouge document has its own title, occasion and endpoint. It should be cataloged separately, not silently substituted for or described as an amendment to the Nice text.

Who and where the flag instruction covered

The order names the White House, public buildings and grounds, military posts, naval stations, and naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia, throughout the United States, and in its Territories and possessions. It also directs the same period at United States embassies, legations, consular offices and other facilities abroad, including military facilities and naval vessels and stations.

The text supplies a sunset endpoint, not a single nationwide clock time or a named time zone. It does not state an exact starting hour. This archive therefore records the issue date and the stated endpoint without inventing a midnight start or converting sunset into Eastern time. The overseas clause expressly uses the same length of time; it should not be omitted from a summary of the order.

Full official proclamation text

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Proclamation 9470 of July 18, 2016

Honoring the Victims of the Attack in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

As a mark of respect for the victims of the attack on police officers perpetrated on Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 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, July 22, 2016. 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 eighteenth day of July, in the year of our Lord two thousand sixteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty-first.

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