Sen. Kennedy’s body takes final poignant tour of city etched with reminders of family’s legacy

BOSTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy began his final journey Thursday, first past landmark after landmark bearing his family’s famous name and then to his slain brother’s presidential library where mourners lined up by the thousands to bid farewell to him and an American political dynasty.

‘He was such a good man’: Mourners gather all along motorcade route for Kennedy memorial

BOSTON — A motorcade carrying the body of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy passed miles of mourners Thursday as it proceeded from the Cape Cod home where he spent his final days to the presidential library in Boston bearing the name of one of his slain brothers.

Motorcade carrying Kennedy’s body leaves Cape Cod compound for JFK Library in Boston

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. — The motorcade carrying the body of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy has left the family compound on Cape Cod for Boston.

Mourners begin gathering in Mass. for Kennedy memorial; body to lie in repose at JFK Library

BOSTON — Mourners gathered Thursday at both ends of a 70-mile route of a motorcade carrying the body of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy from the Cape Cod home where he spent his final days to the presidential library bearing the name of one of his slain brothers.

A torch goes out: Edward Kennedy, Senate legend and last in a storied line of brothers

HYANNIS PORT, Mass. — The greatest heights eluded Ted Kennedy over a lifetime of achievement and pain. No presidency. No universal health care, chief among his causes.

Obama on Kennedy: ‘The extraordinary good that he did lives on.’

CHILMARK, Mass. — Edward M. Kennedy was much more than just former Senate colleague and influential legislator to Barack Obama, evident in the president’s personal, mournful tribute on Wednesday.

Kennedy funeral to be in Boston, then burial at Arlington near slain brothers

BOSTON — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s body and members of his family will travel for at least two hours from his Cape Cod home to Boston, where he will lie in repose for two days before his funeral at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

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