six days of felicitation ceremony Former President Jimmy Carter Saturday will begin with a procession stop in his hometown of Plains, Georgia, a tribute at the state Capitol and then a private service at Atlanta's Carter Center, where his body will lie in rest until Tuesday.
carter died On 29 December at the age of 100. He served in the U.S. Navy for seven years before working on the family farm and running for office in Georgia, winning the governorship in 1970. Carter, a Democrat, was elected to the White House in 1976 and served a single term.
In His life after presidencyCarter continued his passion for humanitarian work and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his decades of efforts in advancing international peace, democracy, and human rights.
Jason Carter, his grandson and chairman of the board of the Carter Center, told “CBS Mornings”, “For us, in my family, we just knew him as a grandfather… and we saw him in some ways as a great influence on the country and the world. Shared with.” “On Friday. “I think people really connect with him because he was always a regular guy.”
He added, “This is a guy from a small town in South Georgia who was a peanut farmer and eventually became President of the United States. It's a very remarkably American story.”
The events of Saturday begin in the morning when Carter's family arrives at a local medical center in Americus, Georgia. Current and former Secret Service agents Carrying Carter's coffin to the hearse and walking alongside it as the motorcade departs for the plains.
On the plains, the motorcade will stop briefly in front of the farm where he grew up, and the National Park Service will ring a bell 39 times in his honor, recognizing his status as the nation's 39th president.
The motorcade will then proceed to the State Capitol in Atlanta, where a moment of silence will be held led by Governor Brian Kemp, Lieutenant Governor Bert Jones, Atlanta Mayor 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, where an arrival ceremony will take place, followed by a private service.
Carter's body will remain in state at the Carter Center until 6 a.m. Tuesday. A departure ceremony will be held, and then his coffin will be taken to Washington, D.C., where he will be transferred to a hearse with an arrival ceremony. The motorcade will stop at the U.S. Navy Memorial and then the coffin will be ceremoniously transferred from the hearse to a horse-drawn caisson.
The funeral procession will then head to the US Capitol, where military officers will escort the coffin to the Rotunda. Members of Congress can pay their respects during a ceremony, and then Carter will lie in state while the Army maintains an honor guard. Members of the public will have the opportunity to pay their respects.
Carter will remain in the Rotunda until Thursday, when a state funeral will take place at Washington National Cathedral. His remains will then be transferred back to Georgia for a private funeral service at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where Carter taught Sunday school for many years.
After the private funeral, a convoy will travel through the plains to his home, where he will be buried. The U.S. Navy will fly a missing persons formation in his honor, and then a private burial will take place.
he will be laid to rest beside His wife of 77 years, RosalynnWho died in November 2023.