Not surprising! It was amazing. The entire world shut down and spent 4 days in front of the television. And for one of the first times, television didn't sign off at midnight, it had a camera trained on his coffin in the Rotunda, seeing the public say their goodbyes, all night long ...
Great book: "Death of a President" by William Manchester. Minute by minute account of everyone involved, for the 3-4 days.
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"Have the clean racing people run any ads explaining that giving a horse a Starbucks and a chocolate poppyseed muffin for breakfast would likely result in a ten year suspension for the trainer?" - Dr. Andrew Roberts
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