Six days of occasions honoring former President Jimmy Carter start Saturday with a procession stopping in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, tributes on the state Capitol, after which a non-public service on the Carter Center in Atlanta, the place his physique will lie in repose till Tuesday.
Carter died on Dec. 29 on the age of 100. He served within the U.S. Navy for seven years earlier than engaged on the household farm and working for workplace in Georgia, successful the governorship in 1970. Carter, a Democrat, was elected to the White House in 1976 and served a single time period.
In his life post-presidency, Carter continued to pursue his ardour for humanitarian work and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his many years of efforts in advancing worldwide peace, democracy and human rights.
“For us, in my household, we simply knew him as a grandfather … and we have shared him with the nation and the world in sure methods,” Jason Carter, his grandson and chair of the Carter Center’s board, informed “CBS Mornings” on Friday. “I feel individuals actually join with him as a result of he was all the time only a common man.”
“This is anyone from a small city in south Georgia who was a peanut farmer who in the end grew to become the president of the United States. It’s a reasonably outstanding American story,” he added.
Saturday’s occasions begin within the morning when Carter’s household arrives at an area medical heart in Americus, Georgia, with current and former Secret Service agents carrying Carter’s casket to the hearse and strolling alongside it because the motorcade departs for Plains.
In Plains, the motorcade will pause briefly in entrance of the farm the place he grew up, and the National Park Service will ring a bell 39 occasions in his honor, in recognition of his standing because the nation’s thirty ninth president.
The motorcade will then journey to the state Capitol in Atlanta, the place there can be a second of silence led by Gov. Brian Kemp, Lt. Gov. Burt Jones, Mayor of Atlanta Andre Dickens, members of the Georgia Legislature and Georgia State Patrol Troopers.
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The motorcade will then depart for the Carter Center, the place there can be an arrival ceremony, adopted by a non-public service.
Carter’s physique will then lie in repose on the Carter Center till 6 a.m. on Tuesday. A departure ceremony can be held, after which his casket can be transported to Washington, D.C., the place he can be transferred to a hearse with an arrival ceremony. The motorcade will cease on the U.S. Navy Memorial after which the casket can be transferred from a hearse to a horse-drawn caisson with ceremony.
The funeral procession will then head to the U.S. Capitol, the place navy bearers will carry the casket to the Rotunda. Members of Congress pays their respects throughout a ceremony, after which Carter will lie in state whereas the navy maintains a guard of honor. Members of the general public could have a chance to pay their respects.
Carter will lie in state within the Rotunda till Thursday, when there can be a state funeral on the Washington National Cathedral. His stays will then be transferred again to Georgia for a non-public funeral service on the Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, the place Carter taught Sunday faculty for a few years.
Following the personal funeral, there can be a motorcade by way of Plains to his house, the place he’s set to be buried. The U.S. Navy will conduct a lacking man formation flyover to honor him, after which there can be a non-public burial.
He can be laid to relaxation beside his wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, who died in November 2023.
