Gerald Ford Birthsite Full Of Activity

President Gerald Ford's birthsite was a popular place for local and national media Wednesday.

Fox News Channel hired a Kansas-based satellite truck to provide "static" live shots from the site at the corner of 32nd & Woolworth Avenue from 6 a.m. through the early afternoon. WOWT (Cox Channel 8) was also on the scene early Wednesday afternoon, as a handful of people wandered the grounds, some of them laying flowers in front of the monuments honoring the nation's 38th president.

The three-story, 14-room home where Ford was born was razed in 1971 following a fire. In 1976, Ford visited the site as construction of the birthplace was underway. In 1977, the birthsite was dedicated. The following year, a rose garden was added in honor of former First Lady Betty Ford.

In 2005, KETV (Cox Channel 9) reported that several of the stone monuments at the birthplace were not updated, listing President Clinton as president, Mayor Hal Daub as Omaha's mayor, etc. The monuments have since been updated.