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Ted
Kennedy's Eulogy
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Clergy in the procession to the altar of
St. Patrick's Old Cathedral.
Police said 1,000 people crowded into seats
designed for 700
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July 22: Mourners line up outside St.
Patrick's Old Cathedral
in New York before the public memorial service
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July 23, 1999: Ethel Kennedy arrives at St.
Thomas More Catholic Church in New York
to attend the memorial service for JFK Jr.
and his wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy
July 23, 1999: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and
his wife, Mary Richardson, arrive
at the memorial service for JFK Jr. and
Carolyn Bessette Kennedy
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July 23, 1999: Ted Kennedy embraces family members.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and her daughter
Tatiana leave
St. Thomas More Catholic Church after attending
the memorial
service for her brother and his wife
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July 18, 1999: A drawing is taped to the
wall next to the
door of the Kennedys' loft building in New
York City
July 22, 1999: A woman holds a magazine and
a communion wafer outside of
Old St. Patrick's Cathedral during a memorial
Mass for
Kennedy, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy
and Lauren Bessette
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July 18, 1999: A friend of the Kennedy family and her son drop a handful of lilacs into the ocean
July 22, 1999: Since JFK Jr., Carolyn
Bessette Kennedy and Lauren Bessette lost
their lives in a single-engine plane crash,
there has been an outpouring of emotion
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Left: A mourner outside Old Pat's in Little Italy.
Right: Sargent Shriver, JFK
Jr.'s uncle, walks in a procession after the memorial Mass.
Said the former U.S. Ambassador to France
later: "One can never be absolutely prepared,
but the Kennedys
have always shown great courage and bravery."
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July 17, 1999: A bouquet of flowers marked
'Praying
for John Jr.' is
left next to the grave site of his father
at Arlington National Cemetery
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July 20, 1999: A child mimics the statue
of a three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr.,
placed among flowers, at a makeshift memorial
outside Kennedy's New York home
July 18, 1999: The 'Chicago Sun-Times' extra edition rolls off the presses Saturday
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July 21, 1999: Photographs of John
Kennedy Jr. and his wife
Carolyn Bessette Kennedy at a makeshift
shrine outside the couple's apartment
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July 18, 1999: A Hyannis, Mass., woman ties
a yellow ribbon
to a pole outside the Kennedy compound in
Hyannisport
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July 18, 1999: Pope John Paul II said a prayer for the missing family members
July 18, 1999: Rory Kennedy, whose wedding
the missing were traveling to,
grieves outside of her mother Ethel's house
in Hyannis Port
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July 18, 1999: A U.S. Coast Guard boat searches
the waters off
Aquinnah, Mass., on the west end of Martha's
Vineyard
July 22, 1999: A couple clasp hands and hold
a rosary while on their
way into the public memorial service at
Old St. Patrick's Cathedral
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Left: Family
members stand near the stern of the Coast Guard ship Sanibel
as it heads toward the Navy destroyer USS
Briscoe for the morning ceremony.
Right: Family members embrace at the
stern of the
Coast Guard ship Sanibel before boarding
the Briscoe.
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Left: Onlookers at Philbin
Beach gaze out to the ship where the
Kennedys and Bessettes gathered to cast
the ashes to sea.
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Left: Shannon Rynd-Ray of West Tisbury,
Mass., places a note on
a makeshift memorial in Squibnocket, on
Martha's Vineyard.
Right: Nadine Monaco and her nephew
Devon Lodge look out to sea
from Martha's Vineyard, where family members
released the
ashes of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife and
sister-in-law.
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Left: The Tarumi Violin Children's
Ensemble traveled from Queens to play for those gathered at
St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. Mourners
clogged the streets of Little Italy, SoHo and Chinatown.
Right: Pipers play as they leave
St. Patrick's Old Cathedral after the public memorial mass
for the Kennedys and Lauren Bessette. Many
people wept to the lyrics of "Danny Boy"
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