Muhammad Ali laid to rest in hometown of Louisville, Kentucky
The funeral procession carrying Muhammad Ali’s casket has arrived at Louisville’s Cave Hill Cemetery.
Muhammad Ali Funeral LivestreamSpectators stepped into the street to touch the flower-strewn hearse as it entered the cemetery.Someone threw flowers to Hana Ali, Muhammad’s daughter, as she rode in the procession.
Meanwhile, the starting time for the memorial service for Ali at a Louisville arena has been pushed back.The service had been scheduled to start at 2 p.m., but with the miles-long funeral procession still underway at 12:30 p.m., organizers at the KFC Yum! Center said the start time of the interfaith memorial service was pushed back by at least two hours.
The funeral procession didn’t get begin until nearly 90 minutes after its scheduled start time.
The 17-car motorcade took Ali’s body on a 19-mile route past his boyhood home, the gym where he first learned to box and the museum that bears his name.The burial at Cave Hill Cemetary is to be followed by a grand interfaith memorial service in the afternoon.
Heads of nations have contributed to the makeshift memorial growing outside the Muhammad Ali Center. A wreath of red roses was signed from the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Mohammad Nawaz Sharif. A garland of white flowers came from the ambassador of Bangladesh.
Others left prized possessions: a framed copy of a Sports Illustrated with Ali on the cover, a hand-painted canvas of Ali’s likeness, framed photos of children with the Champ.
