Jimmy Carter's 6-day funeral begins with a motorcade through south Georgia
Source: AP
By KATE PAYNE and BILL BARROW
Updated 9:45 AM CST, January 4, 2025
PLAINS, Ga. (AP) — Jimmy Carter ‘s long public goodbye began Saturday in south Georgia where the 39th U.S. president’s life began more than 100 years ago.
A motorcade with Carter’s flag-draped casket is heading to his hometown of Plains and past his boyhood home on the way to Atlanta. The procession began at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, where former Secret Service agents who protected the late president served as pallbearers. A mournful train whistle filled the clear air as the pallbearers turned to face the hearse for a final goodbye, their hands on their hearts.
The Carter family, including the former president’s four children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, are accompanying their patriarch as his six-day state funeral begins.
The longest-lived U.S. president, Carter died at his home in Plains on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.
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