New Video: Ted Kennedy’s Final Journey Begins

A private mass was held for the late Senator Edward Kennedy today in his Cape Cod home, with family and relatives paying final respects to the Massachusetts democrat.

ET has video of the senator's casket being loaded onto a hearse headed for Boston, draped in an American flag and handled by a uniformed honor guard of Armed Forces body bearers representing all branches of service.

Kennedy's family, including Caroline Kennedy and California first lady Maria Shriver, stood by as the body of their beloved was secured, a nearby flag flying at half mast. They then got into a funeral motorcade headed to Boston, the first leg of the senator's journey to his final resting place at Washington's Arlington National Cemetery near his assassinated brothers, John F. Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy.