Final respects paid to former president Ford

Ordinary Americans joined President George Bush and other dignitaries in Washington to pay final respects to Gerald Ford as the former US president’s flag-draped coffin rested under the Capitol dome, before a last round of funeral services and burial near his family home in Michigan.

The remains were to be removed from the Rotunda today, to lie in repose briefly outside the Senate before leaving the Capitol where Ford served as a congressman for 25 years.