An era has come to an end, as the last of Joeseph Kennedy's boys succumbed to a brain tumor and died at the age of 77:
Kennedy was first elected to the Senate in 1962, at the age of 30, and his tenure there would span four decades.
[Kennedy] ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination in 1979 against incumbent President Jimmy Carter.Political analyst Mark Shields said Kennedy's "concerns were national concerns, but his forum for achieving his ends and changing policy, became the Senate. And he mastered it like nobody else I've ever seen."
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair called Kennedy "a true public servant committed to the values of fairness, justice and opportunity."
Britain gave Kennedy an honorary knighthood earlier this year.
A sad day.
