Mourners will be able to pay their respects to former US President Jimmy Carter at the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, Georgia, starting Saturday. Carter's state funeral will be a six-day event with several stops and ceremonies across the state, including a tour of his hometown of Plains.
In this file photo taken on November 1, 1991 former US president Jimmy Carter speaks during his trip in Zambia. - Carter, the 98-year-old former US president who led the nation from 1977 to 1981, is receiving hospice care at home where he will spend his remaining time, his nonprofit foundation said on February 18, 2023.
'After a series of short hospital stays, former US President Jimmy Carter today decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical intervention,' the Carter Center said in a statement posted to Twitter. (Photo by AFP)Plains, United States — Mourners are to begin paying their respects to Jimmy Carter on Saturday, kicking off a carefully choreographed six-day farewell for America’s longest-lived president. Flags have been flying at half-mast around the country since Carter died on December 29 at the age of 100 in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.Carter’s state funeral officially begins on Saturday with Secret Service agents from his current and former protective detail carrying his casket to a hearse for a tour through Plains. The motorcade bearing his remains is to pause at Carter’s boyhood family peanut farm while a farm bell rings 39 times in honor of America’s 39th president. His body will then be taken to Atlanta for a brief stop at the Georgia Capitol, where Carter served as a state senator before becoming governor, and a moment of silence. From there, Carter will be escorted to the Carter Presidential Center where he will lie in repose from 7:00 p.m. on Saturday (0000 GMT Sunday) to 6:00 a.m. (1100 GMT) on Tuesday to allow the public to pay their respects. Carter’s remains will be flown on Tuesday morning from a military base in Georgia to Joint Base Andrews outside Washington on a US Air Force plane dubbed Special Air Mission 3
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