Upwards of 20,000 Lining Up to View Ted Kennedy’s Body at Kennedy Library
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A crowd of tens of thousands was already gathering by midnight last night at the John F. Kennedy Library to view the body of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, lying in state. Some mourners had traveled from far away, in the midwest or down the eastern seaboard, as far as Georgia and Florida. Today, a group from the Democratic Republic of Congo entered the library to pay their respects.
Messages from mourners included gratitude to the family and to the Library for opening up the viewing to the public. Some said the experience was spiritual, in that the senator’s work had affected so many areas of American life that to see him brought low by cancer was humbling and bewildering. Others said the senator had helped them personally, assisting with bureaucratic paper jams or honoring their family members.
Surviving family members of some of those who lost their lives in the attacks of 11 September 2001, with whom Sen. Kennedy corresponded at least once per year, paid their respects. Today dignitaries, fellow senators, old friends and family members will speak about their private connections to and mourning for the much-loved but controversial liberal ‘Lion of the Senate’.
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