(12 Jun 2025)
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New York – 12 June 2025
1. Various, Former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel’s American flag-draped casket at New York City Hall with honor guards standing by
2. SOUNDBITE (English) : John Banks IV, economics student at American University, paying respects to Congressman Rangel:
"I think it’s important to honor those and and learn about people who came before you. Obviously I wasn’t alive to see Rangel’s work but I’m sure he had a very big impact on the city."
3. Mourner paying respects at the flag-draped casket of Rangel in New York City Hall.
4. Portrait of Rep. Charles Rangel
5. Flag-draped casket
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Tyrell King, paying respects to Congressman Rangel:
"A person that comes from the community of being a minority, he’s done a lot for the city. I also met him at the DNC about 3 or 4 years ago I believe. He seemed like a really great guy and it’s really hard to differentiate the fake people from the real ones and from , you know , his results kind of showed in on itself."
7. Various, Rangel’s flag-draped casket with officers standing guard
8. SOUNDBITE (English) : Nathaniel Reynoso, Bronx Middle school teacher, paying respects to Congressman Rangel:
"I think that Charles Rangel was certainly a historic figure who holds a larger than life kind of resemblance on the city."
9. Mourners paying respects at Charles Rangel’s casket
10 Casket draped with American flag
11. Man in a Marines cap paying respects
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Nathaniel Reynoso, Bronx Middle school teacher, paying respects to Congressman Rangel:
"Well , I just think it’s a very unique experience for someone to be lying in state at city council. It doesn’t happen very often, so it’s just an interesting historic event to witness ."
13. Various, uniformed officers standing beside Rangel’s flag-draped casket
STORYLINE:
Mourners are paying their respects to former U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel as his body lies in state Thursday at New York City Hall, an honor bestowed to a short list of political figures, including U.S. presidents Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.
The outspoken, gravel-voiced Harlem Democrat died May 26 at the age of 94 after spending nearly five decades on Capitol Hill. Rangel was among the longest serving House members, a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus and chairman of one the chamber’s most powerful committees.
On Thursday morning, a small group of mourners quietly came to pay their respects in City Hall, a landmark neoclassical building at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, as the surrounding streets of lower Manhattan bustled with tourists and workers.
Rangel’s closed casket sat in the building’s marbled rotunda draped with an American flag. Uniformed police stood at rigid attention on either side of him, backed by the state and nation’s flags.
Besides Presidents Lincoln and Grant, the others accorded the City Hall honors after death include statesman Henry Clay, newspaper publisher Horace Greeley and Civil War generals Abner Doubleday and Joseph Hooker.
The last person to lie in state in City Hall was City Councilman James Davis, who was assassinated by a political opponent in the council’s chambers, located the floor above the rotunda, in 2003.
Doors opened for the public to pay their respects to Rangel at Thursday morning and were expected to run until the evening. An honor guard ceremony was scheduled after, with pallbearers representing the 369th Regiment, an all-Black unit from World War I known as the Harlem Hellfighters.
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