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On June 7, Reagan's body was removed from the funeral home and driven in a 20-mile-per-hour (32 km/h) [14] motorcade, by hearse, to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley. [15] Reagan's remains were presented in a Marsellus Masterpiece model purchased from a funeral home in Alhambra. [16]
His state funeral occurred in Washington, D.C., and Simi Valley, California, where Reagan was interred at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. 200,000 mourners (5,000 per hour) filed past Reagan's casket in the Capitol rotunda June 9–11, 2004. [32]
A riderless horse named Sergeant York during the funeral procession for the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan, with President Reagan's boots reversed in the stirrups. A riderless horse is a single horse without a rider and with boots reversed in the stirrups, which sometimes accompanies a funeral procession.
There have been three state funerals this century: Ronald Reagan (in 2004), Gerald Ford (in 2006), and George H.W. Bush (in 2018). Carter's, held today, will be the fourth.
President Ronald Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton hotel after giving a speech to a union group when John W. Hinckley Jr. opened fire from his .22-caliber revolver. At the sound of the ...
Ronald Wilson Reagan [a] (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. He was a member of the Republican Party and became an important figure in the American conservative movement. His presidency is known as the Reagan era.
While in this dual command capacity, Jackman organized the proceedings and security for the dedication of the World War II Memorial on the National Mall and its accompanying WWII reunion, organized former President Ronald Reagan's state funeral, served as the official escort to the former President's wife, former First Lady Nancy Reagan, and ...
Patti Davis has spent a lifetime chronicling her life with parents Ronald and Nancy Reagan. In a new book, 'Dear Mom and Dad,' she reckons with them as people, not parents.