Jimmy Carter’s 6-day state funeral begins with a motorcade through south Georgia

By AP 4 January 2025, 5:27 pm

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People line the street in Plains, Georgia, before the hearse carrying the casket of former US President Jimmy Carter passes through the town on January 4, 2025. (Photo by Alex Brandon / POOL / AFP)

Jimmy Carter’s long public goodbye begins in south Georgia where the 39th US president’s life began more than 100 years ago.

A motorcade with Carter’s flag-draped casket begins at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, where former Secret Service agents who protected the former president served as pallbearers and walked alongside the hearse as it left the campus.

The Carter family, including the former president’s four children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, are accompanying their patriarch in a procession that will take his remains through his beloved hometown of Plains and past his boyhood home on its way to Atlanta.

Carter died at his home in Plains on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.