Thousands file past Kennedy's coffin

Senator Edward Kennedy’s body was taken on the first leg of its final journey, first past landmark after landmark bearing his family’s famous name and then to his murdered brother’s presidential library where mourners lined up by the thousands to bid farewell to him.

Crowds assembled along the 70-mile route that snaked from the family’s compound in Hyannis Port, along the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, past the John F. Kennedy Federal Building and by the JFK stop on Boston’s underground system.