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Kennedy Leaves Cape Cod for the Last Time

By the Associated Press

Posted Aug 27, 2009 2:15 PM CDT

(AP) – Ted Kennedy's body is en route to Boston, where he will lie in repose at his slain brother's presidential library for 2 days of public visitation. The motorcade carrying the senator's body and members of his family departed the family compound on Cape Cod for the 70-mile trip to the state capital. Hundreds of people are lining the route of the motorcade, which will end at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston.

The flag-draped casket was loaded into a hearse after a private Mass at the Kennedy home in Hyannis Port. Relatives took turns touching the hearse as they passed it on the way to their cars. Shortly before the motorcade left, clapping could be heard in the house before family members emerged onto the porch, some holding hands, others talking and laughing. Kennedy is to be buried Saturday at Arlington National Cemetery.

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An honor guard carries the casket of Sen. Edward Kennedy to a hearse at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass. (AP Photo)

A hearse containing the casket of Sen. Edward Kennedy sits outside the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass. (AP Photo)

A large flag flies at half staff outside the house used by President John F. Kennedy as the "summer White House" near the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass. (AP Photo)

The family and friends of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy watch as his casket is moved to a hearse at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Mass. (AP Photo)

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I loved Ted Kennedy. I cried yesterday when I put on the TV and saw that he had passed away. He made his mistakes, but I don't even want to hear them. I forgive all of them because he was such a good man. - Onlooker Trudy Murray

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