In the wake of his punishing defeat by Ronald Reagan, Carter told one of his biographers that he was hopelessly distraught and wanted nothing more than to lie low in his native Georgia.

ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter 's extended public farewell began Saturday in Georgia, with the 39th ... followed by a return to Plains. There, the former president will be buried next to his ...

(Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Update 2:00 p.m. ET Jan. 9: Carter’s casket has been loaded onto Special Air Mission 39 which is flying to Georgia, returning the former ...

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The surviving Carter family includes more than 30 people and they have traveled between Georgia and Washington to honor Mr. Carter’s life. Three grandsons — Josh ...

Carter and his family will return to Joint Base Andrews and board Special Air Mission 39 at 11:45 a.m. Special Air Mission 39 will arrive at Lawson Army Airfield in Fort Moore, Georgia ...

The aircraft, carrying the casket, the Carter family and their guests, lifted off for Fort Moore in Georgia, where another motorcade will return Carter’s body to Plains for a second funeral ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th U.S. President, will be honored Thursday with the pageantry of a state funeral in the nation’s capital, followed by a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown that ...

SUMMERS: Indeed. And tonight Carter's casket will return to his hometown of Plains, Georgia, where he will be buried. Tell us about those plans. FOWLER: There's going to be one final ceremony ...

All of Carter's living successors were in attendance, with President Joe Biden, the first sitting senator to endorse his 1976 ...

a grandson who recalled how Carter regularly taught Sunday school in his native hamlet of Plains, Georgia, after leaving the White House. “He eliminated diseases in forgotten places. He waged ...