With public tributes having poured in since Tuesday's announcement that Senator Edward Kennedy had died, 15 months after he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, Saturday brought his burial at Arlington National Cemetery after a private funeral Mass at Boston's Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston's Mission Hill section. Former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush attended the funeral, with Kennedy's friend, President Barack Obama. A spokesman for former President George H.W. Bush said that the 85-year-old was not able to attend the service had earlier extended his condolences over the phone to Kennedy's widow,...
- 8/29/2009
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
The "Lion of the Senate" and the last of his generation of brothers, Massachusetts Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy passed away late Tuesday night after a lengthy battle with brain cancer. He was 77. His death comes just two weeks after the death of his sister Eunice.
The Kennedy family released a statement early Wednesday saying, "Edward M. Kennedy -- the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply -- died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port.
The Kennedy family released a statement early Wednesday saying, "Edward M. Kennedy -- the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply -- died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port.
- 8/26/2009
- Extra
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