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Tip O’Neill’s Cambridge Church

Tip O'Neill's Cambridge Church

Tip O'Neill's Cambridge Church

Tip O’Neill’s Cambridge Church   Last weekend I spent several days watching the coverage of Ted Kennedy – the nonstop coverage (thank you channel 5!) of the funeral and the various documentaries about the Kennedy family – and didn’t have time to read the newspapers.  As I was going through the back issues this weekend it occurred to me that the Mission Hill church, Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica, will be known for years to come as the church where Teddy Kennedy’s funeral was held.

St. John the Evangelist church on Mass Ave in North Cambridge is similarly remembered to this day as the church where Tip O’Neill’s funeral was held.  Some 1700 people attended the January 1994 funeral including Vice President Al Gore, and former Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.

O’Neill grew up in this North Cambridge neighborhood and raised his family in the Orchard Street neighborhood.  He was baptized and married at St. John the Evangelist. O’Neill represented Massachusetts for 34 years in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1953 to 1987 and served as Speaker of the House from 1977 to 1987.

It was great to see this banner in memory of Teddy Kennedy in Tip’s old neighborhood on Orchard Street in Porter Square.

Sign of Appreciation for Ted Kennedy on Orchard Street Cambridge

Sign of Appreciation for Ted Kennedy on Orchard Street Cambridge

Tip O’Neill’s church is the large yellow brick church at 2254 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge MA 02140.

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