Jimmy Carter honoured at Washington funeral before Georgia hometown burial
Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th US president, is being honoured with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.
The proceedings began in the morning as military service members carried Mr Carter’s flag-draped casket down the east steps of the US Capitol, where the former president had laid in state, to be transported to the cathedral.
