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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Kate Payne and Bill Barrow

Jimmy Carter's 6-day state funeral begins with a motorcade through south Georgia

Jimmy Carter Sunday School - (Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Jimmy Carter 's long public goodbye began Saturday in south Georgia where the 39th U.S. president's life began more than 100 years ago.

A motorcade with Carter's flag-draped casket began at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, where former Secret Service agents who protected the former president served as pallbearers and walked along side the hearse as it left the campus.

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