A motorcade carried Jimmy Carter's flag-draped coffin through his hometown of Plains, Georgia, where he was born 100 years ago, en route to Atlanta where a funeral will be held Saturday, part of a six-day public farewell for the 39th president.
The somber procession began at Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus and traveled to Plains, the longtime home of Carter and his late wife, Rosalynn, where a ceremonial bell was rung 39 times at his home to mark his service as the country's 39th president.
