Kennedy procession to stop by Capitol Hill

Still-evolving plans for Sen. Edward Kennedy’s funeral procession through Washington on Saturday afternoon now call for the hearse carrying the senator’s body to stop briefly at the east steps to the Senate on its way to Arlington National Cemetery.

Sources close to the family and Senate officials said Thursday that the procession would make a “rolling stop” for photographers and the public. Such a stop would be similar to the journey Kennedy’s procession is taking today through the streets of Boston.

The event would be sometime between 3:30 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday. Kennedy’s burial at Arlington is scheduled for between 5 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. It is closed to the public.

Kennedy served in the Senate from 1962 to his death late Tuesday. The area in front of the east steps is a broad, flat expanse of pavement often used for photos.

–J. Taylor Rushing