Kennedy family holding private Mass
(NECN: Alison King, Hyannis Port, Mass.) – The Kennedy family will hold a private Mass for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on Thursday morning at the family’s Hyannis Port property. Following the Mass, the body of the Massachusetts senator will be taken to the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston, where it will lie in repose on Thursday night and Friday. Sen. Kennedy’s body will be taken to the JFK Library he helped build via motorcade. The senator’s body was expected to leave the Kennedy Compound at 12:30 p.m. The motorcade will make stops along the way at important places in Sen. Kennedy’s life. MAP OF MOTORCADE PROCESSION
Senator Kennedy will travel Route 3 North to Route 93 North into Boston.
Senator Kennedy will exit at Government Center, and travel down Hanover Street into the North End, past St. Stephen’s Church, where his mother Rose was baptized and her funeral mass celebrated.
Continuing down Hanover and crossing over the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, the park Senator Kennedy joined community leaders in creating that gives mothers and their children green space in the heart of the city. The park sits on the same land young Rose Fitzgerald enjoyed as a child.
Senator Kennedy will pass Faneuil Hall where Mayor Menino will ring the bell 47 times.
Continuing to Bowdoin Street, Senator Kennedy will pass 122 Bowdoin, where he opened his first office as an Assistant District Attorney and President Kennedy lived while running for Congress in 1946.
He will pass the JFK Federal Building where his Boston office has stood for decades, and and then travel to Dorchester Street into South Boston and to the JFK Presidential Library.
People who wish to honor Senator Kennedy are urged to line the motorcade route at the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, City Hall Plaza and the Boston Common, in front of the Statehouse on Park Street.
With an expected arrival time of 4 p.m., Sen. Kennedy will lie in repose Thursday evening from 6 to 11. He will also lie in repose on Friday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. A private Celebration of Life Memorial Service will be held Friday night, and is closed to the public. The service will be televised live on NECN.
