Video: '1994 Death/Arrival in California of President Richard Nixon 1of6'

(Tuesday, April 26, 1994, 12:30 p.m. PDT) — In a scene worthy of “King Lear,” the usually sunny California sky unleashed thunder, lightning, rain and hail today as the body of former U.S. President Richard Nixon returned to his birthplace in a plain wooden coffin covered by a flag for burial on Apr. 27, 1994. Nixon, who had served from 1969 to 1974, had passed away Apr. 22, 1994, at the age of 81.

Video: '1994 Death of President Richard Nixon 2of6' (Apr. 26, 1994, at 0:00-6:23)