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Published October 25, 2012, 01:07 PM

Casket arrives carrying ex-US Senator McGovern

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The casket carrying ex-U.S. Sen. George McGovern has arrived at Sioux Falls' First United Methodist Church, where hundreds of people, including Vice President Joe Biden, are expected to pay their respects.

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    In this Jan. 20, 2012 file photo, George McGovern speaks during First Coast Technical College’s winter commencement ceremony in St. Augustine, Fla. McGovern, a Democrat who lost to President Richard Nixon in 1972 in a historic landslide, died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012,at a hospice in Sioux Falls, surrounded by family and friends. He was 90. Hundreds are expected to gather Thursday, Oct. 26 for a public viewing and prayer service in Sioux Falls, S.D. (AP Photo/The St. Augustine Record, Daron Dean, File)

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SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — The casket carrying ex-U.S. Sen. George McGovern has arrived at Sioux Falls' First United Methodist Church, where hundreds of people, including Vice President Joe Biden, are expected to pay their respects.

The open casket, a dark wood draped with the U.S. flag, arrived at about 11:45 a.m. Thursday, more than an hour before the 1 p.m. public viewing. It sits at the front of the church beneath an ornate pipe organ.

Black-and-white photos of McGovern are projected onto screens on each side of the sanctuary. To the left of the casket is an easel with a photo of a young McGovern in military uniform. To the right is a photograph of him during his failed 1972 presidential bid.

McGovern died Sunday in hospice care surrounded by his family.

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