At 2:22 you can almost make out a photographer moving around behind the piano that Elton John is playing. He spooked the Secret Service detail that was there to protect First Lady Barbara Bush. They didn't know who he was. The photographer was there with People Magazine. Ryan's family had sold exclusive rights to People Magazine to cover his death and funeral. Taro Yamasaki had won the Pulitzer Price in 1981 for his work on the Jackson Prison story in Michigan. Later he did a feature piece on White and had pretty good access to the family. Ryan liked and trusted him. Yamasaki's father was the architect of the World Trade Centre in New York City. Rev. Probasco was Ryan's youth minister at a Methodist Church in Kokomo and had asked him to preside over the funeral. The church is actually a Presbyterian Church and not the Methodist Church they attended in Kokomo or later in Cicero. It was simply larger and better able to accommodate more people. Probasco later endorsed Donald Trump for the GOP nomination for president and helped him clinch the nomination with Indiana. Jeanne White-Ginder is a staunch critic of Trump.
At 2:22 you can almost make out a photographer moving around behind the piano that Elton John is playing. He spooked the Secret Service detail that was there to protect First Lady Barbara Bush. They didn't know who he was. The photographer was there with People Magazine. Ryan's family had sold exclusive rights to People Magazine to cover his death and funeral. Taro Yamasaki had won the Pulitzer Price in 1981 for his work on the Jackson Prison story in Michigan. Later he did a feature piece on White and had pretty good access to the family. Ryan liked and trusted him. Yamasaki's father was the architect of the World Trade Centre in New York City. Rev. Probasco was Ryan's youth minister at a Methodist Church in Kokomo and had asked him to preside over the funeral. The church is actually a Presbyterian Church and not the Methodist Church they attended in Kokomo or later in Cicero. It was simply larger and better able to accommodate more people. Probasco later endorsed Donald Trump for the GOP nomination for president and helped him clinch the nomination with Indiana. Jeanne White-Ginder is a staunch critic of Trump.
R.I.P Ryan White :(
RIP RYAN WHITE🙏🏾🕊️🕊️
David Letterman's mother was a secretary at this church.