Thousands View Reagan at U.S. Capitol
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:19:44 PM
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| WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Over 150,000 people stood in lines for sometimes as long as five hours to walk past the casket of former President Ronald Reagan as he lay in state in the Capitol Rotunda. Following a memorial service Wednesday night attended by the Reagan family, members of Congress, and other dignitaries, the public was allowed to view the flag-draped casket. At the rate of 5,000 an hour, admirers of the 40th president steadily circled the simple velvet covered black catafalque for 34 hours. Braving oppressive heat and humidity, the blazing sun, and the darkness of night, they came.... |
At the Rotunda
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:19:44 PM
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| What it was like at the Reagan memorial service in the Capitol.AT THE CAPITOL Wednesday at five, two hours before President Reagan's body is due to arrive at the Rotunda for the state funeral, buses of Marines and Navy sailors are pulling up near the Senate-side entrance. Staffers are pouring out of nearby House and Senate office buildings into the 90-degree heat to start toward the lines that are already wrapping around the block onto First Street to see the former president who will be brought to lie in repose under the dome. The Capitol police are stationed at every... |
Waves of Mourners Honor Reagan in D.C.
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:19:44 PM
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| WASHINGTON - Tens of thousands of Americans are streaming through the Capitol Rotunda, undeterred by sweltering heat, to pay their final respects to Ronald Reagan (news - web sites). The public viewing goes on continuously until Friday morning. Capitol Police weren't giving out official crowd estimates. But visitors split into two columns as they entered the viewing area, filing around both sides of the casket in a process that roughly doubled the pace that enabled approximately 106,000 to view the president during a 33-hour period at the Reagan library in California. Capitol Police Chief Terrance Gainer said at daybreak that... |
CSPAN Live visitor "Imagine - No Liberals"
Thursday 24th of May 2012 07:19:44 PM
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| Seen on CSPAN at about 10:55. |
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