UPDATED, 10:01 A.M. -- Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., will make one final stop at the Capitol Saturday on his way to burial at Arlington National Cemetery.
"The Senator's motorcade will stop briefly at the Senate steps so that current and former staff, those with whom the Senator worked and the public can bid a final farewell to the Senator," according to a statement from Kennedy's office Thursday.
That stop is scheduled for 4 p.m., with staffers and public invited to gather on the Senate steps.
Kennedy's funeral mass will be held in Boston at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 pm. Burial at Arlington National Cemetery, which will be private, is now scheduled for 5:30 p.m.
Public visitation at the John F. Kennedy Museum and Library in Boston, where Kennedy's body is lying in repose, began earlier than scheduled this morning and is set to continue until 3 p.m. A private memorial service is scheduled from 7-9 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, the Kennedy family is requesting contributions be made to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate.
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