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At the National Cathedral:
At about 10:30am, on June 11, 2004, a motorcade carried the president's casket to Washington National Cathedral for a state funeral service broadcast around the world. Dignitaries from 165 nations attended the funeral, from UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. Just about 1:00pm, the journey back to California began. The plane that carried the president's casket dipped its wings in salute over his birthplace in Illinois and again over the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library just before it landed. |