Sen. Edward M. Kennedy dies at 77

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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy dies at 77

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy dies at age 77 after a year-long battle with brain cancer.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, center, flanked by his brothers, President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy, at the White House in August, 1963.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, left, takes a stroll with his father former ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy on an open porch at New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, Dec. 8, 1964, where the senator is recuperating from the broken back he suffered in a plane crash. Sen. Ted Kennedy has died after battling a brain tumor his family announced early Wednesday Aug. 26, 2009.

Sen. Edward Kennedy on Capitol Hill in Washington, in 1968.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Immigration Act, October 3, 1965. Joining Johnson at the signing are Sen. Edward Kennedy, center right, Robert Kennedy, right, and Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey.

Sens. Bobby Kennedy, center, and his brother Edward, on Capitol Hill in Washington in 1965.

Sens. Edward Kennedy, center, and his brother Bobby, on Capitol Hill in 1968.

President John F. Kennedy applauds his brother, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), right, during a Democratic fund raising dinner in Boston, Massachusetts, October 19, 1963.

On Nov. 11, 1958, Edward M. Kennedy, and Joan Bennett, kneel on altar and receive communion from Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York at the nuptial mass at St. Joesph's Roman Catholic Church in Bronxville, N.Y.

On Oct. 28, 1965, Edward M. Kennedy arrives with his wife Joan in Vietnam.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, third from left, walks with his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and sister-in-law Jacqueline Kennedy, during the funeral procession for his slain brother, President John F. Kennedy, outside the White House in Washington, Nov. 25, 1963.

Sen. Edward Kennedy, right, walks with his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and sister-in-law Jacqueline Kennedy, during burial services for his slain brother, President John F. Kennedy, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., , Nov. 25, 1963.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy after attending the funeral of Mary Jo Kopechne, July 22, 1969 in Hyannis, Mass. Kopechne was a former campaign worker for the assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Kopechne's dead body was discovered inside an overturned car belonging to Sen. Kennedy in the channel on Chappaquiddick Island.

Sen. Edward Kennedy waves from the back of an ambulance as he leaves a Boston hospital after undergoing treatment following an airplane crash in 1964. In the front seat is his first wife, Joan Kennedy.

In this June 8, 1968 file photo, Ethel Kennedy is escorted by her brother-in-law, Sen. Edward Kennedy, to their pew in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York for the funeral services of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

Sen. Edward Kennedy at the 1980 Democratic National Convention where he gave the keynote address.

President Richard Nixon shakes hands with Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) during an event with the League of Women Voters in Washington, D.C., April 17, 1969.

Sen. Edward Kennedy with son Patrick, right, on a roller coaster in Agawam, Mass., in 1976.

Sen. Edward Kennedy acknowledges the applause after stepping on stage to congratulate President Jimmy Carter after Carter's speech accepting the Democraitc party's nomination to run for re-election in 1980, in New York in August, 1980.

In this June 24, 1985 file photo, U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., talks with President Ronald Reagan, left, as they look over an American Eagle that graced President John F. Kennedy's desk during a fund raising event for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library at McLean, Va.

On Dec. 14, 1987 file photo, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph Biden, right, gestures while talking with U.S. Supreme Court nominee Anthony M. Kennedy, center, and Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., left, before the nominee's confirmation hearing at Capitol Hill in Washington

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Sen. Edward Kennedy, center, flanked by his brothers, President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy, at the White House in August, 1963.

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