Watch: Former president Jimmy Carter’s funeral takes place at Washington National Cathedral

Watch as former president Jimmy Carter’s funeral took place at Washington National Cathedral today (9 January).

The 39th U.S. president, was honored with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.

President Joe Biden, who was the first sitting senator to endorse Carter’s 1976 presidential campaign, eulogized his fellow Democrat 11 days before he leaves office. All of Carter’s living successors attended the Washington funeral, including President-elect Donald Trump, who paid his respects before Carter’s casket Wednesday.

Thursday will conclude six days of national rites that began in Plains, Georgia, where Carter was born in 1924, lived most of his life and died Dec. 29 at the age of 100. Ceremonies continued in Atlanta and Washington, where Carter, a former Naval officer, engineer and peanut farmer, has lain in state since Tuesday.