Reagan's body leaves mortuary, arrives at library

Описание: (7 Jun 2004)
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Santa Monica, California - 7 June, 2004
1. Pull back view from former first lady Nancy Reagan to casket being carried to hearse
2. Close up Nancy Reagan
3. Mid shot casket being put into hearse
4. Cutaway audience
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Santa Monica, California - 7 June 2004
5. Pull back view of Nancy Reagan
6. Close up pan, hearse leaving funeral home
7. Mid shot crowd watching
8. Wide shot members of Reagan family looking at flowers
9. Close up Nancy Reagan and daughter Patti Davis looking at flowers
POOL
Santa Monica, California - 7 June 2004
10. Aerial shot of hearse passing saluting police officers
11. Aerial shot of motorcade
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Simi Valley, California - 7 June 2004
12. Close up motorcade passing people standing on street
13. Close up people watching
14. Pull back Nancy Reagan watching as casket is taken inside library
15. Close up top shot casket being put on stand
16. Close up Nancy Reagan being escorted into room, Nancy Reagan (left), Patti Davis (centre) and Ron Reagan junior (far right)
17. UPSOUND: (English) Reverend Michael Wenning:
"And God is our refuge and strength, the very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and though the mountains tremble with its tumult."
18. Pan from Ron Junior to Nancy Reagan, close up Nancy Reagan and Patti Davis
19. UPSOUND: (English) Reverend Michael Wenning:
"As we have begun this day to honour the life of your servant Ronald Reagan, I would pray especially for his dear family. I pray oh Lord God that you would give them an extra strength, a sense of your peace and your comfort."
20. Close up as Nancy Reagan lays her head on the casket
STORYLINE:
The body of former United States President Ronald Reagan, accompanied by a fragile Nancy Reagan, arrived on Monday at his presidential library on the first leg of a final tour that will take him to a state funeral in Washington, then back to California for burial on a hilltop.
At the close of the brief family ceremony at the library, Mrs Reagan touched her cheek to the flag-draped casket and began to cry.
A band played "Hail to the Chief" and flags at half mast waved gently under an overcast sky as eight armed forces members removed the casket from the hearse and placed it in the library rotunda before the service.
The 93-year-old former president was to lie in repose at the library on Tuesday night, giving Californians a chance to pay their final respects to the man who was their governor from 1967 to 1975.
Funeral ceremonies begin in Washington on Wednesday.
During the 40-mile (64 km) drive to the library from a Santa Monica funeral home, clusters of people watched from overpasses and roadsides as the motorcade headed north on Interstate 405 and then west toward Simi Valley on the Ronald Reagan Freeway.
Mrs. Reagan, accompanied by daughter Patti Davis and son Ron, paused on her way into the funeral home as she passed a display of impromptu remembrances.
American flags, flowers and jars of jelly beans - Reagan's favourite treat - were left along with notes, stuffed animals and candles in the spontaneous shrine.
Mrs. Reagan, wearing a black suit and white pearls, read some of the messages.
On Wednesday, the former president's body is to be flown to Washington, DC.
It will lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda following a Wednesday night ceremony.
The national funeral will be on Friday at Washington National Cathedral.
US President George Bush will deliver a eulogy and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will be among the mourners.

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