Rep. John Lewis, the civil rights chief and long-serving Georgia Democrat who died July 17, shall be memorialized with a closing service on Thursday, July 30. Will probably be broadcast dwell.
The service is the final portion of a six-day program honoring his life and work, and the final ceremony earlier than his internment in Atlanta’s South-View Cemetery. Beforehand, a army honor guard oversaw the motion of Lewis’ physique throughout the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the place Lewis helped lead a march for voting rights in 1965, and his physique laid in state within the rotunda in america Capitol.
His closing memorial, which is able to happen on the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta the place the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. as soon as led a congregation, begins at 11:00 a.m. ET. Among the many retailers live-streaming the service are BounceTV.com and C-SPAN.org. Norah O’Donnell shall be internet hosting CBS Information’ protection of the occasion, which shall be simulcast on BET and BET HER. The particular information report begins at 10:45am ET, and also will broadcast on CBSN, ViacomCBS’ 24-hour streaming information app.
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Main into the funeral service, Bounce will current Celebrating Atlanta’s Freedom Fighters: Fathers of the Motion (10:00 a.m. ET), a one-hour particular honoring the lives and accomplishments of Lewis in addition to fellow civil rights leaders Joseph Lowery, and C.T. Vivian. Lewis can also be the topic of a documentary on his life Good Trouble; it is now obtainable on Amazon Prime Video.
