Washington National Cathedral - References in Popular Culture

References in Popular Culture

• The cathedral is the setting of Margaret Truman's novel Murder at the National Cathedral.
• It is the location of Mrs. Landingham's funeral and President Bartlet's resulting tirade against God in the second season finale of The West Wing, "Two Cathedrals".
• The cathedral close, the area in and around the cathedral, is alluded to often, but rather vaguely, in the movie Along Came a Spider.
• Tom Clancy's novel Executive Orders includes a memorial service for the late president Rodger Durling, his wife, most of the United States Congress, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Supreme Court that takes place at this location. In an infamous scene, a soldier bearing the president's casket slips on some ice on the front steps and suffers crushed legs.
• In Elizabeth Hand's novel Winterlong, it appears as the "Engulfed Cathedral".
• It is a setting in Dan Brown's 2009 novel The Lost Symbol.
• It served as an architectural inspiration for Keep Venture in Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series
• It is the setting for the burial of fictional Supreme Court Justice Abraham Rosenberg in the movie The Pelican Brief, based on a John Grisham book of the same name.