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videos from Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporter and veteran runner William Loeffler. BOSTON &mdash In 1959, Richard Sullivan campaigned for John F. Kennedy for president. There’s just something about the Kennedy clan, said Sullivan, 75, of Quincy, Mass., a Navy veteran and member of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. “I would have done what I could for them,” he said. Mourners who paid tribute to Sen. Edward Kennedy this week described a fascination with the family whose triumphs, losses and tragedies &mdash played out in the public spotlight &mdash intrigued and enthralled generations of Americans. From the early days in Boston’s Irish Catholic politics to the Camelot years of JFK and his stylish wife Jackie, the Kennedys present a united family front in their election victories, marriages, charitable endeavors and, often, untimely deaths. Many praised Kennedy, who died Tuesday of brain cancer in his Hyannis Port home, for holding the clan together after his brothers’ deaths. On Thursday, 85 members of his close-knit family followed his flag-draped coffin into the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, where they greeted tens of thousands of mourners who waited for hours on the University of Massachusetts campus.
In a statement released after his death, the family said: “We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family and joyous light in our lives, but the inspiration of his faith, optimism and perseverance will live on in our hearts forever.”