Ted Kennedy died on August 25, 2009. Two days later his body and family made their way from Hyannis Port through downtown Boston to the Kennedy Library in Dorchester where it would lie in state until the funeral in the Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Mission Hill on the 29th, a beautiful church in a neighborhood populated by mostly college students and low-income families. It was strange thinking about President Obama, former presidents, Congressmen, and foreign dignitaries soon converging on my small, mostly unnoticed neighborhood while I watched the funeral procession from the balcony of the Old State House.
The media was camped out in front of Faneuil Hall all day while people gathered to watch.
Workers pause to watch the train of hearses, limousines, buses, and police escort Kennedy's body to the library.
Friends or relatives wave to the crowds gathered to express their affection for the late senator.
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