Shortly after 4 p.m., the news copters started circling over the Rose Kennedy Greenway and Boston police and state troopers on motorcycles began roaring by, and people who'd been waiting for an hour or more stood up, knowing the funeral procession was approaching.
Some people had tears in their eyes as they said goodbye to their senator. Others applauded or waved as his hearse passed. Inside the limos and one bus of the procession, members of the Kennedy family returned the waves. And then, quickly, it was over. A Duck Boat turned onto Hanover. The driver managed to refrain from asking his passengers to quack.
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Motorcade entering the JFK Library grounds
By adamg
Thu, 08/27/2009 - 4:51pm
BostonPops posts a photo.
Dorchester says good-bye
By adamg
Thu, 08/27/2009 - 5:38pm
The Dorchester Reporter photographs the scene from above the Expressway.
The scene on Bowdoin St., and a memory
By adamg
Thu, 08/27/2009 - 4:55pm
Matt O'Malley watched the procession on Bowdoin Street, where Kennedy had his first office as an assistant DA:
Downtown
By adamg
Thu, 08/27/2009 - 5:03pm
Supperguppy posts a photo.
Variety of photos
By adamg
Thu, 08/27/2009 - 5:19pm
Channel 7 is posting them on Facebook.
There was a line of people
By anon
Thu, 08/27/2009 - 5:16pm
There was a line of people lining the streets all the way down summer street to the convention center. I'm sure it picked back up in residential southie.