The casket carrying late civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis arrives at Joint Base Andrews, where a military honor guard saluted him. Lewis will lie in state at the US Capitol.
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His passionate oratory was backed by a long record of action that included, by his count, more than 40 arrests while demonstrating against racial and social injustice. Lewis had vowed to fight the disease after announcing in late December 2019 that he had been diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, which was discovered as a result of a routine medical visit and subsequent testing.
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