Former President Jimmy Carter’s nearly week-long public goodbye began Saturday in Georgia where he died Sunday at the age of 100.
The 39th president’s flag-draped casket was carried in a motorcade heading to his beloved, tiny hometown of Plains and past his boyhood home on the way to Atlanta.
The Carter family, including the former president’s four children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren, accompanied their patriarch in a procession that began at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus.
Former President Jimmy Carter’s nearly week-long public goodbye began Saturday in Georgia where he died. AP Former and current Secret Service agents assigned to the Carter detail move the flag-draped casket of former President Jimmy Carter, at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Ga on Jan. 4, 2025. AP Carter died at age 100 on December 29, 2024. Getty Images
Former Secret Service agents who protected the longest-lived president served as pallbearers as the six days of funeral observances for Carter began.
Families and other admirers lined up along the procession route in downtown Plains, near a historic train depot where Carter once headquartered his successful 1976 presidential campaign.
Some carried bouquets of flowers or wore commemorative pins bearing Carter’s photo.
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