NEW REAGAN EXHIBIT

New Reagan exhibit
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. -- An exhibit displaying items and images from President Reagan's funeral opened Sunday at the hilltop library where he is buried.
Hundreds of visitors came to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, some dressed in red, white and blue for the Fourth of July opening of "Mourning in America."
Reagan died June 5 after battling Alzheimer's disease for a decade.
The new exhibit, on display through Nov. 11, draws upon the public outpouring of sympathy for the Reagan family and the elaborate funeral events held in Southern California and Washington, D.C.
Among the items on display Sunday were dozens of photographs; the black velvet-draped bier that supported Reagan's mahogany coffin in Simi Valley; riding boots that were placed backward in the stirrups of the riderless horse led to the Capitol on June 9; and the flag that flew over the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan on June 5.
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