Sen. Edward M. Kennedy smiles and waves a bandaged hand from the back of an ambulance on July 9, 1964, after a 100-mile trek from Cooley-Dickenson Hospital in Northampton, Mass., to New England Baptist Hopital in Boston. Sp5 Roger Eckert of Buffalo, N.Y., a medical corpsman from Walter Reed Army Hospital, helped move Sen. Kennedy. The senator had been convalescing in Northampton since a private plane crashed on June 19. (AP Photo)