Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorAfter a week of memorials including lying in state at the nation’s Capitol, congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis will be laid to rest Thursday after a celebration of life at Atlanta’s historic Ebenezer Baptist Church.The private service begins at 11 a.m.
ET/8 a.m PT, with former U.S. presidents Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton expected to attend, according to reports.
All the U.S. broadcast and cable news networks are expected to break in to cover the celebration, which will be followed by a burial at Atlanta’s South-View Cemetery.Lewis, a a leading figure of the civil rights movement and long-serving Georgia congressman who was one of the House of Representatives’ most enduring.
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