Here is a New York Times article about the plans so far and the reception at the Kennedy Library.

Kennedy family members shook hands with mourners like Ms. Gayle-Flores who said they felt as if they had known Mr. Kennedy, and greeted those senators, political aides and others who had. The hours for the public viewing were extended on both ends to accommodate the overflowing crowds.

The Kennedy family estimated that 25,000 people attended the wake on Thursday night, with lines stretching to four hours, and the library kept the building open to the public until 2 a.m. Friday. When the lines began forming again at dawn, the library opened its doors 20 minutes early, at 7:40 a.m.

When the public viewing ends at 3 p.m. Friday, the library will be prepared for the bi-partisan memorial service, set to begin at 7 p.m., for the extended Kennedy family and invited guests. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy II of Massachusetts, Mr. Kennedy's nephew, is to speak first, followed by Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, and Mr. Kennedy's closest friend in the Senate. The Republican senators John McCain of Arizona and Orrin Hatch of Utah are slated to speak, and the service is to conclude with remarks by Vice President Joseph R. Biden and Mr. Kennedy's niece Caroline Kennedy.

There will be a video tribute directed by Ken Burns, and Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Broadway star, will sing Mr. Kennedy's favorite song, "The Impossible Dream," from the musical "Man of La Mancha."

I was with them until the song "The Impossible Dream." That one got too much air time when it was first popular and I played it too much on the piano as a kid. I overdosed on it. In a news story yesterday someone in line to go past the coffin remarked that she hoped this "wasn't the end of Camelot." But with this song, it certainly isn't the Camelot theme, is it? Instead of Knights of the Round table it's the picaro Don Quixote tilting at windmills. It's ironic he would favor this song, and that his family would choose a song from the musical based upon such a metaphorically-stuffed novel.

SRS