(31 Dec 2024)
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Columbus, Georgia – 31 December 2024
1. Various of street and sign
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Wadkins Jr., Columbus resident:
“Everybody learned a little bit about President Carter growing up. Everybody– my grandmother was invited to the inauguration. I think everybody’s grandmother was invited to the inauguration though. Everybody has a Rosalynn Carter story or a Jimmy Carter story. Kind of personally interacting with, with them. And that makes it, you know, so much more impactful…him as a person.”
3. Mid of parks
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert Wadkins Jr., Columbus resident:
“I think that he’s a really good example of empathy and someone who wasn’t mean spirited and wanted to genuinely do good for his community.”
5. Mid of Columbus signage
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrea Reeves, Columbus resident:
“So a couple, I have a couple of children that did field trips out to Plains and to visit his houses. And that’s his house. So we went out into his house to talk a little bit about him. And that’s been interesting to learn different things, how how presidents work outside of the presidential, after their time as president.”
7. Wide of town map
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Zoey Decker, Columbus resident:
“Ron Anderson from the Springer, who’s also passed away sadly, he adapted this children’s book that Jimmy Carter and his daughter wrote and made a play of it for children. And I was in it. And like President Carter came to the premiere and it was a very special kind of moment in my young life. I was then like probably fourth or fifth grade when that happened, so very young. And it was like, the president is here like to watch this play that I’m in.”
9. Close of town signage
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Zoey Decker, Columbus resident:
“I mean, I think his presidential career is obviously, you know, one term, you know, it’s kind of like the lesser part of his legacy, I would say, is the, his presidency, like his bigger legacy is post-presidency, which like I’m 33, so I was never around when he was president. So I only know him as former President Carter. And I mean, just the work he’s done around the globe and, you know, operating within our system to try to make the world better. Like, you know, there’s benefits and drawbacks to working within the system. But if that’s the point, if that’s the way you choose to operate, I think he did that the best."
11. Various of downtown area
STORYLINE:
Residents of Columbus, Georgia nearby Jimmy Carter’s hometown of Plains, recall personal interactions they had with the 39th president during and after his one term.
Robert Wadkins Jr., who remembers his grandmother being invited to Carter’s inauguration, notes how accessible the former President was to those who lived in the area.
"Everybody has a Rosalynn Carter story or a Jimmy Carter story. Kind of personally interacting with, with them. And that makes it, you know, so much more impactful as him as a person" Wadkins Jr. said.
Zoey Decker, who was raised in Columbus and had recently moved back said Carter attended a play that Decker was performing in as a child.
"It was a very special kind of moment in my young life. I was then like probably fourth or fifth grade when that happened, so very young. And it was like, the president is here like to watch this play that I’m in.”
AP video by Sharon Johnson
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