RSSHuge crowds pay final respects to Sen. Kennedy
From: The Washington Times | August 28, 2009
BOSTON — More than 50,000 people paid their final respects to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Friday, filing past his flag-draped casket over two days in a sun-splashed room at his presidential library dedicated to his brother John. The throngs of mourners who lined up outside the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum was so long Thursday night that the senator’s family decided to keep the building open an extra three hours, until 2 a.m. On Friday, so many well-wishers turned out that officials were forced to close the line hours before 3 p.m., when preparations began for an evening …
Huge crowds pay final respects to Sen. Kennedy
From: The Washington Times | August 28, 2009
BOSTON — More than 50,000 people paid their final respects to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Friday, filing past his flag-draped casket over two days in a sun-splashed room at his presidential library dedicated to his brother John. The throngs of mourners who lined up outside the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum was so long Thursday night that the senator’s family decided to keep the building open an extra three hours, until 2 a.m. On Friday, so many well-wishers turned out that officials were forced to close the line hours before 3 p.m., when preparations began for an evening …
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