The coffin will then be taken to Andrews Air Base and flown back to the Reagan Library in Simi Valley in California, where the Reagan family will hold a "private" internment ceremony attended by some 700 relatives and friends, including a sizeable cast from the Hollywood community.
Actor Charlton Heston, who himself suffers from Alzheimer's disease, will be present as will Kirk Douglas, Bob Hope's widow Dolores, Frank Sinatra's widow Barbara and his children Tina and Nancy, actor Tom Selleck and Bo Derek.
..and a media pool camera will be broadcasting the interment ceremony live : )
My understanding is the final interment will be televised around 9pm e.s.t.
I work at Warner Bros. We had a moment of silence for President Reagan on the lot this morning at 10 am. I showed up at the memorial plaque we have here commemorating Warners employees in uniform during WWII - Ronald Reagan's is among the names there inscribed. I expected to be alone, but there were about a dozen other employees gathered, mostly security guards. Someone had put two white roses at the base of the plaque for RR. Because I wore my black suit, the others assumed I was an executive - the shock on their faces said it all. I had to assure them I'm a wage slave like them, just wearing the suit because it's a national day of mourning. We stood with heads bowed for a few minutes, then quietly went about our business.
Ronald Reagan began his Hollywood career here, spent fifteen years at the studio and made almost all of his best pictures here. And not one person from the executive ranks, not one star, not one celebrity was there with us to honor his memory. Just the ordinary working stiffs.
Somehow, I find that appropriate, and wonderful. Average Americans cared about Ronald Reagan, as he cared for them. He lives in our hearts forever.