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Washington D.C. services begin today to honor Jimmy Carter. How to watch
Members of law enforcement walk toward the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center entrance during Monday's snowstorm.
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The remains of former President Jimmy Carter are scheduled to arrive on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., where he will be honored with a ceremony in the U.S. Capitol before lying in state through Thursday morning.
The casket carrying the 39th president will leave the Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta, where thousands of mourners paid their respects over the weekend, and will travel to Dobbins Air Reserve Base before boarding Special Air Mission 39 to Joint Base Andrews.
Carter died Dec. 29 at age 100.
While Carter's four-plus decades out of office were marked by humanitarian efforts around election monitoring and tackling global public health issues, his time in Washington was marked by a tumultuous economy and international conflict, and this left him unpopular with an American public distrustful of the federal government.
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A hearse carrying the casket of former President Jimmy Carter is greeted by a military honor cordon as it is transferred to Washington, D.C., from Dobbins Air Reserve Base in Marietta, Ga.
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Carter's casket will leave Joint Base Andrews and travel to the U.S. Navy Memorial, paying tribute to his time in the service as a lieutenant who worked on nuclear submarines, before a horse-drawn caisson leads a procession to the Capitol.
Ceremony times are 90 minutes later than initially announced due to the snow and inclement weather that has blanketed the D.C. area.
A service in the Capitol rotunda with members of Congress is slated to begin at 1:30 p.m. PT, with Carter's grandchildren serving as honorary pallbearers. Vice President Kamala Harris, Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson are set to deliver eulogies and lay wreaths.
Members of the public are invited to pay their respects from 6 p.m. local time until midnight Tuesday and 7 a.m. Wednesday through 7 a.m. Thursday, when Carter's remains will travel to Washington National Cathedral for his National Funeral Service.
Watch the funeral events at the feed below on Tuesday, and tune in at 1:00 p.m. PT for NPR's live special coverage:
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Thursday afternoon, Carter's remains will return to Georgia for a private service at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, where Carter taught Sunday School well into his 90s, before he's buried at the family home next to his wife, Rosalynn Carter.
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Corrected January 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM PST
A previous version of this story included a photo of the U.S. Capitol with an incorrect caption.
Corrected January 7, 2025 at 12:32 PM PST
A previous version of this story included a photo of the U.S. Capitol with an incorrect caption.
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