Reagan's casket arrives back in California

Описание: (12 Jun 2004) SHOTLIST

1. Presidential jet with the body of former US President Ronald Reagan landing
2. Coffin draped in US flag being carried by military personnel from the plane
3. Marine artillery battery firing a salute
4. Nancy Reagan watching coffin be unloaded
5. Coffin being held by military pallbearers
6. Marine artillery battery firing a salute
7. Coffin being held by officers
8. Nancy Reagan watching
9. Brass band playing
10. Mourners around plane looking at coffin
11. Coffin being carried to hearse
12. Nancy Reagan watching
13. Coffin being put into the hearse
14. Hearse pulling away
15. Onlookers watching as funeral procession passes by

STORYLINE

A Presidential jet carrying the body of former US President Ronald Reagan landed in California on Friday, as hundreds of flag waving well-wishers turned out to bid a final goodbye to their 40th president.

The Former First Lady Nancy Reagan accompanied the flag draped casket as it landed at Point Mugu Naval air station.

A Marine artillery battery fired a salute as the casket was transferred to a hearse, and a motorcade then set off on the last 25 miles (40 kilometres) to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley for a final hilltop burial service in California.

Crowds gathered along the route, waving American flags, as the hearse passed by.

Reagan died last Saturday at 93 from pneumonia complicated by the Alzheimer's disease that had progressively clouded his mind. He told the world in 1994, five years after ending his two-term presidency, that he had Alzheimer's.

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