Motorcade passes Boston touchstones for Kennedy

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway

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The park that Senator Kennedy joined community leaders in creating provides open green space in the heart of the city, on the site of a former highway. In December 2005, he gave $1 million to the park’s endowment, saying it was "a high honor" for his mother and his family to have the Greenway named after her. "She would have been enormously appreciative and grateful." The park sits on the same land young Rose Fitzgerald enjoyed as a child.

St. Stephen's Church

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St. Stephen's Church on Hanover Street is where the senator's mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, was baptized in 1890. Her funeral Mass was held here in 1995. A plaque outside features her quote: "The most important element in human life is faith."

Faneuil Hall

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On Nov. 7, 1979, Senator Kennedy stood under the portrait of Daniel Webster and the Senate in Faneuil Hall and announced his run for the US presidency. "This country is not prepared to sound retreat. It is ready to advance. It is willing to take a stand, and so am I,” he told the nation. Today Mayor Menino will ring the bell 47 times, in honor of the number of Kennedy's years in the Senate.

122 Bowdoin Street

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This is where Ted Kennedy opened his first office as an assistant district attorney and where President Kennedy lived while running for Congress in 1946. It was the president’s voting address in 1960 when he defeated Richard Nixon for the presidency.

JFK Federal Building

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The procession passed the federal building, where Senator Kennedy’s office stood for decades.

John F. Kennedy Library and Museum

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The procession ended at the JFK Library in Dorchester, a memorial Senator Kennedy spent decades building into a national treasure as a place of debate on the issues important to the American people and as a source of inspiration for future generations of public servants. In his museum dedication speech in 1979, he said: “For all who knew President Kennedy, this moment is a culmination, a happy rendezvous with history that makes his memory come alive. In dedicating this library we honor Jack. And in honoring Jack, we honor the best in our country and ourselves.”