Nancy were among the 1,100 at the funeral at St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington. Pope John Paul II sent condolences to the family by a letter from the Vatican, read by Bishop Edward John Herrmann. In 1985, Reynolds was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Reagan on May 23. A few years after Reynolds' death, musician Paul Hardcastle recorded a section of an ABC documentary about the Vietnam War, that included narration by Reynolds, and later used it as part of his 1985 U.S. Top 40 and U.K. #1 (five weeks) hit, "19". Hardcastle had a video made of the song that included footage from that documentary that ABC later demanded be removed. The ABC footage was later replaced with stock footage, but Reynolds' voice remained on the recording. References External links 1923 births 1983 deaths 20th-century American journalists American male journalists United States Army personnel of World War II ABC News personalities CBS News people Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Television anchors from Chicago Deaths from bone cancer Deaths from multiple myeloma Deaths from cancer in Washington, D.C. Peabody Award winners People from East Chicago, Indiana Military personnel from Indiana Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients United States Army soldiers Major League Baseball broadcasters