Former President Jimmy Carter’s body is flown to Washington, marking the start of preparations for his state funeral.
The body of late US president Jimmy Carter was flown to Washington on Tuesday where it will lie in state at the US Capitol before a national funeral ceremony later this week.
In an ode Carter's military service on submarines, his body was to be driven to the US Navy memorial in Washington and transferred from a hearse to a horse-drawn caisson for a funeral procession to the US Capitol. Carter will be the 13th former US president to lie in state in the Capitol. Abraham Lincoln, assassinated in 1865, was the first.
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