Along Funeral Procession Route, Memories of Reagan

By Melissa Block

Published June 11, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Melissa Block talks to well-wishers gathered on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Friday morning as President Ronald Reagan's funeral procession made its way to the National Cathedral. Block also talks to visitors at a memorial to one of Reagan's heroes, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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