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>> YOU'VE
>> YOU'VE BEEN WATCHING OUR COVERING OF THE RIGHT FUNERAL
SERVICES FOR HENRY HANK AARON.
WE HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS
STORY FOR YOU SINCE THE PASSING
ON FRIDAY MORNING, AND THIS IS
THE CULMINATION OF THE SERVICES
WE HEARD FROM SEVERAL
DIGNITARIES, FRIENDS, PEOPLE
WHOSE LIVES WERE FOREVER
CHANGED AND TOUCHED BY HANK
AARON.
AARON.
AARON. >>
AARON. >> A HOME GOING SERVICE AT THAT
LASTED ALMOST THREE HOURS.
IT BEGAN AT 1:00 THIS
AFTERNOON.
AFTERNOON. WE HEARD MANY MARVELOUS
SPEECHES AMONG THEM PRESIDENT
CLINTON, WHO SAY THAT HANK
AARON'S WHOLE LIFE WAS ONE LONG
HOME RUN AND HE HAS ROUNDED
BASES.
BASES.
BASES. PRESIDENT CLINTON'S SPEECH
MOVING STIRRING A FEW CONNECTED
SPEECH AND CONVERSATIONAL AND
MEMORABLE AND WE HEARD FROM
ANDREW YOUNG WHO HEARD THE
ATLANTA WE SEE TODAY IN 2021
WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE
WITHOUT THE BRAVES MOVING TO
ATLANTA IN 1966.
OF COURSE HANK AARON BEING PART
OF THE ROSTER, THAT BRAVES TEAM
THAT CAME DOWN HERE AND MEANT
SO MUCH FOR GENERATIONS AND
CHANGEED SO MUCH FOR
GENERATIONS.
GENERATIONS. >> HE DID.
HE SAID JUST HIS PRESENCE
SPEAKING OF HANK AARON SAYING
JUST HIS PRESENCE BEFORE HE HIT
A HIT CHANGED THIS CITY OF
ATLANTA AND I THINK SO MANY
PEOPLE AGREE AND ARE GRATEFUL
FOR HIS LIFE AND LEGACY.
>> WE HEAR FROM BOB COSTAS, A
PLAY-BY-PLAY VOICE AND A MEMBER
OF THE BASEBALL HALL OF FAME
SPORTSCASTER AT NBC FOR MANY
YEARS, AS HE SPOKE OF HIS
RELATIONSHIP AND MEANING OF
HANK AARON'S LIFE IN AMERICA,
TOM JOHNSON ALSO SPEAKING THE
FORMER PRESIDENT OF CNN, ALLEN
TANNENBAUM THE LOCAL ATTORNEY
AND SECRETARY OF THE THANK
AARON CHASING THE DREAM
FOUNDATION.
FOUNDATION. MR. TANNENBAUM WAS THE AGENT
AND THE ATTORNEY FOR MR. AARON
FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
AND BUD SELIG COMING DOWN FROM
HIS NATIVE MILWAUKEE.
VERY EMOTIONAL BUD SELIG WHO
HIMSELF IS NOW 86 YEARS OF AGE,
TALKING ABOUT HIS FRIENDSHIP
THAT SPANNED ALMOST 70 YEARS IN
WHICH THEY WOULD SPEAK.
WE SAW PRESIDENT CARTER FOR THE
FIRST TIME THAT WE HAVE SEEN
HIM IN MANY, MANY MONTHS, AND
HE SPOKE OF HIS GREAT
FRIENDSHIP WITH HANK AARON AND
THE MEANING OF MR. AARON'S LIFE
IN OUR STATE IN OUR COUNTRY AND
THE DIFFERENCE THAT HE MADE.
>> YEAH, A THE LOVE POIGNANT
WORDS THERE AND A LOT OF
REMEMBER ANDS, A LOT OF PEOPLE
JUST SPEAKING OF THE BEAUTY OF
THE LIFE THAT WAS LIVED BY HANK
AARON AND WHAT HE HAS MEANT TO
SO MANY PEOPLE AND NOT JUST
HERE IN ATLANTA.
BUT ACROSS THE NATION.
>> HANK AARON WILL BE BURIED AT
SOUTH VIEW CEMETERY ACCORDING
TO THE FAMILY AND WILL BE
PLACED IN A TEMPORARY CRYPT AT
SOUTH VIEW UNTIL FINAL RESTING
PLACE IS COMPLETED IN A FEW
WEEKS.
WEEKS.
WEEKS. WE
WEEKS. WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE
MEANING OF SOUTH VIEW AND 1886,
9 AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN
CAME TOGETHER AND BOUGHT A
PARCEL