technical standpoint. lying in state is typically reserved for presidents. the last time we had someone lie in state was the late senator from hawaii who laid in state after he died in 2012. billy graham will be lying in honor. there have only been three other figures who have lay in honor here. this is a new phenomenon of the past 20 years. no one in the history of the republic lay in honor before 1998 when they had two u.s. capitol police officers shot and killed in a shoot-out at the capitol in 1998. jacob chestnut and john gibbson were killed at the capitol and rosa parks in 2005. billy graham will be the fourth person to lie in honor. it looks the same. one of the other differences and something i learned in the past 30 minutes or so is the wooden platform they will put his casket on. there is an historic katafoc that states back to president