Former presidents, dignitaries, celebrities and other notable figures attended former president Jimmy Carter’s funeral.

Here is Thursday’s schedule for the final day of rites honoring Jimmy Carter , the 39th president, who died Dec. 29. All times are Eastern: 9 a.m. — Carter’s casket departs the U.S. Capitol. The funeral motorcade travels to Washington National Cathedral.

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Jimmy Carter, who considered himself an outsider even as he sat in the Oval Office as the 39th U.S. president, was honored Thursday with the pageantry of a funeral at Washington National Cathedral before a second service and burial in his tiny Georgia hometown.

Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, will be eulogized at a state funeral Thursday at the National Cathedral and later by private family services and interment in Plains, Georgia.