Mourners pay their respects to Late President Jimmy Carter

Mourners began paying their respects to Jimmy Carter on Saturday, as a carefully choreographed six-day farewell for the United States' longest-lived president got underway. The procession got underway when US Secret Service agents from his current and former protective details carried his flag-draped casket to a hearse for a tour through Plains.

Crowds gathered along the roadside to say their goodbyes, with many waving small US flags, snapping photographs or saluting as the motorcade rolled slowly past. US flags have been flying at half-staff around the country since Carter died on December 29 at age 100 in his hometown of Plains, Georgia.