I saw on TV while flipping channels, on Entertainment Tonight, Barbara Walters showed her funeral invitation on The View. Apparently you have to be invited, and I highly double if Kerry was extended an invitation.
I would believe that every single current senator is invited on Friday and every congresscritter as well as every Supreme Court Justice.
If Kerry was sincere he would have went announced and been accorded as such the prividedge to not wait in line. However he announced it and had a photographer with him wither his own or press is irrelevant. The fact the the MONEY shot needed to be taken is the issue.