Long and Symbolic Road for Kennedy Funeral Cars
Whether you agree with a person’s politics or not, everybody deserves a proper burial. Edward Kennedy, the Democrat Senator from Massachusetts, passed away late last month and received a burial that he would have been proud of. Part of that reason is because he planned much of it himself.
One of the aspects of his funeral included a motorcade of funeral cars making its way from the family home in Cape Cod to Boston while meandering through a number of significant landmarks along the way. The most symbolic landmark was probably the John F. Kennedy library in the southern region of Boston.
Before arriving there, the procession of funeral cars came from Dorchester Bay and then along Morrissey Boulevard where dozens of football players from Boston College High School lined up in their practice jerseys to pay respects as the late Senator went by. Along the route, the hearses and funeral cars went by the Old North Church as the bells clanged and bystanders tried to catch a glimpse of this piece of history. The motorcade also visited the Faneuil Hall, the place where Ted Kennedy announced his candidacy for president in 1979.
As the motorcade of hearses and funeral cars passed, mourners gathered along the roadways and on the Rose Kennedy Greenway to pay their final respects.
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