1:47 p.mCarter’s casket and his family departed Joint Base Andrews on Air Force One en route to Carter’s hometown of Plains, Georgia, for a private service and funeral.

12:15 p.mSecond Gentleman Doug Emhoff shook hands with President-elect Donald Trump after the funeral.

12:15 p.mThe service ended and Carter’s coffin was carried out of the cathedral.

12:05 p.m Carter’s personal pastor, the Rev. Tony Lowden, and Bishop of Washington, the Rev. Mariann Budde, led the prayers.

12 o’clockGarth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood sang John Lennon’s “Imagine.”

11:50 a.mRev. Andrew Young, a civil rights leader and former Carter ambassador to the United Nations, spoke of Carter’s “ability to achieve great things through the diversity of his personality and upbringing” and recalled how “he went out of his way to… from him to embrace us who grew up in conflicts of all kinds.”

11:45 a.mCarter’s grandson, James Carter IV, read from the Gospel of Matthew.

11:30 a.mPresident Joe Biden spoke about how he supported Carter’s candidacy for president “based on what I believe is Jimmy Carter’s enduring quality: character, character, character,” adding: “We have a duty not to give hate a safe haven and To defend ourselves against what my father would say is the greatest sin of all: abuse of power.”

11:14 a.mCarter’s grandson, Jason Carter, remembered his grandparents as “small-town people who never forgot who they were and where they came from no matter what happened in their lives, but I recognize that we are not here because he was just an ordinary person.” guy was.” ”

11 a.mCarter’s former adviser Stuart Eizenstat said he wanted to “dispel the myth that his greatest achievements came only as a former president” and called him “one of the most consequential one-term presidents” – echoing a common view of Carter’s presidency rejected.

11 a.mTed Mondale, the son of Carter’s late Vice President Walter Mondale, read a eulogy from his father, but left out a line in the prepared text in a section about how Carter helped Vietnamese immigrants in which he contrasted: “How tragically we deal with the crisis of immigrants today,” according to the New York Times.

10:48 amIn his eulogy, Mondale recalled her time in the White House as “a hallmark of Americans committed to justice and decency” and how “Carter was far-sighted” and “set aside his short-term political interests to address challenges that required sacrifice.”

10:34 amSteven Ford, the son of Carter’s close friend, former President Gerald Ford, read a eulogy from his father, who died in 2006, in which he recounted how their friendship began years after they met in 1976: “It was somewhere over the Atlantic.” “Jimmy and I have formed a friendship that transcends politics,” Ford wrote, recounting how he and Carter became friends on a flight to Cairo for the funeral of former Egyptian President Anwar El-Sadat. “Honesty and truth-telling were synonymous with the name Jimmy Carter.”

10:20 a.mCarter’s grandson, Joshua Carter, spoke about his grandfather’s legacy: “My grandfather spent the entire time I knew him helping people in need. He built houses for those who needed a home,” said Joshua Carter, recalling his grandfather’s extensive involvement with Habitat for Humanity. “He removed disease from forgotten places. He campaigned for peace all over the world, wherever he saw an opportunity. He loved people.”

10:14 amThe service begins with Carter’s coffin being carried into the cathedral by military officers as his family passes on.

10:01 amBiden and First Lady Jill Biden arrive and sit next to Vice President Kamala Harris and Emhoff.

9:57 amTrump and former President Barack Obama – who were sitting next to each other in the pews – appeared to be having an exciting conversation, with Obama laughing several times, a surprising moment for the two rivals.

9:57 amHarris and Emhoff came to the service and sat in the aisle in front of the four former presidents in attendance.

9:53 amFormer President George W. Bush and his wife Laura, as well as former Presidents Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, attended the service, with the Bushes sitting next to Obama and the Clintons sitting at the end of the aisle, across from Trump.

9:50 amTrump shook hands with former Vice President Mike Pence, marking the first time the two had been seen publicly in the same room in four years.

9:50 amTrump and his wife Melania Trump came to the funeral and sat next to Obama.

9:38amCarter’s casket arrived at the National Cathedral.

9 a.mCarter’s coffin left the U.S. Capitol, where he had been in state since Tuesday, toward the National Cathedral.