Hundreds of people lined up before dawn Tuesday to pay their respects to Coretta Scott King, the widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and hundreds more joined the line as the morning went on.

Funeral services begin at 11 a.m. CST Tuesday and will be streamed live on the Internet (see tentative schedule below).

King will be laid to rest near her husband's tomb.

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Public viewing began at 5:30 a.m. CST Tuesday.

About 800 people were waiting in a mall parking lot early Tuesday morning to ride buses to the church outside of Atlanta, where King's daughter, Bernice, is a minister.

President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush will attend the funeral, along with former presidents Clinton, Bush and Carter, and 14 U.S. Senators.

Poet Maya Angelou will speak, and Stevie Wonder and gospel singer Bebe Winans plan to perform.

Flags were ordered flown at half-staff Tuesday in Texas and around the country in King’s honor.

Lawmakers including Central Texas Congressman Chet Edwards praised King for her life and legacy.

“The life of Coretta Scott King is a living testament to the principles of peace, nonviolence, and equality for all Americans,” Edwards said in a prepared statement.

“Motivated by the belief that we are all children of God, created equally and deserving of respect, Coretta Scott King worked for an America where all children could grow up together enjoying the same opportunity to succeed,” he said.

King died last week in a Mexican alternative medicine clinic where she was being treated for ovarian cancer and recovering from the effects of a stroke and heart attack.

She was 78.

King’s body laid in state Saturday in the state Capitol in Atlanta.

On Monday there was a public viewing at Ebenezer Baptist Church, at which Martin Luther King, Jr. and his father served as co-pastors.

There was also a music tribute Monday at the church.

King was a musician when she met Martin Luther King, Jr., who went on to galvanize the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Tentative Funeral Program (Times are Eastern)

11:40 Participants enter
11:45 Processional (King family)
12:00 Call to worship - Bishop Eddie L. Long
12:05 Opening Prayer - Dr. Suzan Johnson Cook
12:08 Opening song - New Birth Total Praise Choir/MLK Jr Commemorative Choir
12:13 Holy Scriptures - Old Testament -Rev Vernon C. King
12:16 Holy Scriptures - new testament - Elder DeLeice Drane 12:19 Musical tribute - Lord's Prayer - Sister Miriam Fawaz
12:23 Official tributes - President George Bush (43) & Mrs. Laura Bush
12:26 Gov. Purdue
12:29 The Hon Shirley Franklin, Atlanta Mayor
12:32 Mrs. Zanele Mbeki
12:35 Musical tribute - Ms. Juandalynn R. Abernathy, Dr. Joyce Johnson
12:39 Civil & Human Rights tributes - Dr. Dorothy Height
12:42 Ms. Sherry Frank
12:45 Rev. Dr. Joseph E. Lowery
12:48 Musical tribute - MLK Jr Commemorative Choir
12:52 Special tributes - President Carter
12:55 President George H.W. (41) & Mrs. Barbara Bush
12:58 President Clinton & Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton
1:04 Video Presentation
1:09 Friends & Family tributes - Mrs. Patricia C. Latimore
1:12 Ms. Shabazz
1:15 Edith Savage Jennings
1:18 Jesse Hill Jr
1:21 Carole F. Hoover
1:24 King Center Tributes - Judge William Sessions
1:27 Billy Mason
1:30 Charles Rachael
1:33 Special Musical Tribute - Jeff Majors and Born Again Dancers of New Birth
1:38 Friends & family continue - Mrs. Edythe Scott Bagley, sister
1:41 Mrs. Christine King Farris, sister in law
1:44 Mrs. Naomi Barber King, sister-in-law
1:47 Mrs. Christine Osburn Jackson, cousin
1:50 Bishop T.D. Jakes
1:53 Musical tribute - Michael Bolton
1:58 Special Acknowledgements
2:03 Clergy tributes - Dr. Joseph L. Roberts
2:06 Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr
2:09 Father Michael Pfleger
2:12 Musical Tribute - Mr. Bebe Winans
2:16 Special tributes continued - Sen. Kennedy
2:19 Rep. John Conyers
2:22 Musical tribute - Stevie Wonder
2:26 Personal tributes - Dr. Maya Angelou
2:29 The Hon. Andrew Young
2:32 Song of Preparation - Mrs. CeCe Winans
2:36 Eulogy - Elder Bernice A. King
3:15 Closing selection - Minister Byron Cage
3:25 Benediction - Dr. Robert Schuller
3:30 Recessional - Combined Choirs, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, J. Berry Orchestra of Dekalb Co

Dignitaries Scheduled To Attend
President Bush and Laura Bush
Former President Clinton and Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
Former President Bush
Former President Carter and Rosalynn Carter
Oprah Winfrey
Stevie Wonder, musician
Maya Angelou, poet
Bebe Winans, gospel singer
Andrew Young, former lieutenant of Martin Luther King Jr. who became a congressman, ambassador to the United Nations and mayor of Atlanta
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, co-founder with King of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., former head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee who led the "Bloody Sunday" march in Selma, Ala.
Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue
Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., the first black congresswoman elected from Georgia
Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, the city's first female mayor
Zanele Mbeki, wife of South African President Thabo Mbeki
Bishop T.D. Jakes, author and pastor of The Potter's House, a 30,000-member Dallas megachurch.
The Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights activist
Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y.
Malaak Shabazz, one of Malcolm X's daughters
Kweisi Mfume, former congressman and NAACP president