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An honor guard drawn from the forces of the Joint Task Force – National Capital Region lines the steps of the U.S. Capitol prior to the arrival of Carter's casket for the lying in state (January 7, 2025)
The train passed 444 communities in 7 states (Lincoln was not viewed in state in New Jersey). [6] Two future presidents viewed the train, Theodore Roosevelt in New York and Grover Cleveland in Buffalo. [7] Remarks Military units marching down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., during the state funeral for Abraham Lincoln on April 19, 1865
The caisson bearing the casket of John F. Kennedy moving down the White House drive on the way to St. Matthew's Cathedral on November 25, 1963.. In the United States, state funerals are the official funerary rites conducted by the federal government in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., that are offered to a sitting or former president, a president-elect, high government officials and ...
On Wednesday, public viewing hours will resume at 7 a.m. ET (noon GMT) and Carter will lie in state in the Rotunda with a military guard of honor for 24 hours, when his body will be carried by ...
Former President Jimmy Carter’s body will be brought to the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday afternoon where he will lie in state for three days before a state funeral in Washington, D.C. Carter died ...
The 39th president, who passed away on December 29, 2024 at his home in Plains, Georgia, will receive one of the nation’s highest posthumous honors—the tradition of lying in state at the U.S ...
Philip IV of France lying in state Brazilian president Afonso Pena lying in state in the Catete Palace, 1909. Lying in state is the tradition in which the body of a deceased official, such as a head of state, is placed in a state building, either outside or inside a coffin, to allow the public to pay their respects.
Following the state funeral, Carter's remains will be returned to his native Plains where he lived in his 44 post-White House years and made the base of operations for his diplomatic work and ...