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Born: Sept. 6, 1888
Died: Nov. 16, 1969
Shrewd financier and
fabled short-seller on
Wall Street, he
launched the clan in
national politics. He
married Rose
Fitzgerald, daughter of
the mayor of Boston.
Rose’s ancestors, like
Joe Kennedy’s, were
Irish farmers who came
to the United States in
the mid-1800s to
escape the potato
blight. Kennedy was
one of Franklin
Roosevelt’s prime
financial backers in his
1932 presidential
campaign. FDR
appointed Kennedy as
the first head of the
Securities and
Exchange Commission
and in 1937 named him
as ambassador to Great
Britain. The Kennedy
family patriarch suffered
a stroke in 1961 while
playing golf in Palm
Beach, Fla.; he was
paralyzed and virtually
unable to speak until
his death eight years
later.
Born: July 22, 1890
Died: Jan. 22, 1995
She was the
granddaughter of an
Irish immigrant,
daughter of the mayor of
Boston and the wife of
one of the richest men
in America. She was a
devout Catholic who
buried four of her nine
children before she died
at the age of 104.
Born: July 28, 1915
Died: Aug. 12, 1944
He volunteered for a
dangerous World War II
air mission against the
Nazis and his plane
exploded.
Born: May 29, 1917
Died: Nov. 22, 1963
The decorated war hero
and U.S. senator was
elected president in
1960 by a margin of
only 114,673 out of 68.8
million votes cast. He
was the first Roman
Catholic president. A
new book by Seymour
Hersh details how
patriarch Joseph
Kennedy enlisted the
help of Mafia kingpin
Sam Giancana to help
JFK win the election.
He married Jacqueline
Lee Bouvier, who died of
cancer May 19, 1994.
They had two children
who died. Jacqueline
gave birth to a stillborn
child in 1956; in 1963,
another died 36 hours
after his birth. They had
two surviving children.
She was born Jacqueline Lee Bouvier. Her early years were
divided between New York City and East Hampton, Long Island, where she learned to ride almost as soon as she could walk. She was educated at the best of private schools; she wrote poems and stories, drew illustrations for them, and studied ballet. Jacqueline was dubbed "the Debutante of the Year" for the 1947-1948 season. In Washington she took a job as "inquiring photographer" for a local newspaper. Her path soon crossed that of Senator Kennedy, who had the reputation of being the most eligible bachelor in the capital. Their romance progressed slowly and privately, but their wedding at Newport in 1953 attracted nationwide publicity.
Mrs. Kennedy's gallant courage during the tragedy of her husband's assassination won her the admiration of the world. She moved to New York City; and in 1968 she married the wealthy Greek businessman, Aristotle Onassis, 23 years her senior, who died in March 1975. From 1978 until her death in 1994, Mrs. Onassis worked in New York City as an editor for Doubleday. Jackie had 4 children, two survive her.
Born: Aug. 7, 1963
Died: Aug. 9, 1963
He was a 4 pound, 1 ounce baby and was baptized immediately after his
death.
Patrick was delivered by c-section and I believe Jackie
never even saw him.
He was born at Otis Air Force Base hospital, but was flown soon after to the Children's Hospital in Boston.
Jackie wasn't able to attend his funeral either.
Born: Nov. 27, 1957
An extremely private
person, Caroline is a
successful legal author.
She attended Harvard
University as an
undergraduate and
studied law at Columbia
University. She passed
the New York state bar
in 1989. In 1996, she
wrote, "The Right to
Privacy," which
highlights her attitude
toward celebrity. She is
married to Edwin Arthur
Schlossberg, an artist
and designer, and they
have three children:
Rose Kennedy
Schlossberg (born June
25, 1988), Tatiana Celia
Kennedy Schlossberg
(born May 5, 1990) and
John Bouvier Kennedy
Schlossberg (born Jan.
19, 1993).
Born: Nov. 25, 1960 - Died: July 16, 1999
A graduate of Brown
University in 1983 with a
degree in history, he
went on to study health
care and adult
education at University
of Delhi, India, in 1983.
He attended law school
at New York University,
graduated in 1989 and
passed the bar in 1990.
He worked for the
Manhattan district
attorney’s office for four
years before he founded
the political
commentary magazine
George, he was
editor-in-chief. He
married Carolyn
Bessette in 1996, she died with him in 1999.
Born: Sept. 13, 1918
She was diagnosed as
mentally retarded when
she was a child. Her
father, without
conferring with his wife,
allowed a lobotomy to
be performed in 1941.
Her decline was so
significant that she was
sent to an institution,
where she remains.
Born: Feb. 20, 1920
She caused her family
much grief over her love
life. Her mother, a
staunch Catholic, did
not approve of her
marriage to William
John Robert Cavendish,
Marquess of Hartington,
because the titled
Briton was Anglican. He
died from a German
sniper. Four years later,
she wanted to marry
Peter Fitzwilliam, who
already was married but
said he was going to
get divorced. The news
horrified her parents,
who swore to disown
her. She died in a plane
crash on her way to
what she hoped would
be a reconciliation with
her father.
Born: July 10, 1921
She found the Special
Olympics and married
Sargent Shriver, who
was the director of the
Peace Corps and Sen.
George McGovern’s
running mate for
president in 1972. They
had five children.
Born: May 6, 1924
She is currently involved
in charity work. Her
ex-husband and father
of her four children,
Peter Lawford, died in
1984. He was an actor
and member of the "Rat
Pack."
Born: Feb. 22, 1932
He has served as U.S.
senator from
Massachusetts since
1962. First elected at
age 30 to fill the
unexpired Senate term
of his older brother
John, Ted Kennedy was
derided at first as a
lightweight but has built
an impressive career as
a legislative leader in
his 36 years in the
Senate. He had a brush
with death in a 1964
plane crash. His own
chances of winning the
presidency were
scuttled by his
involvement in the 1969
Chappaquiddick
accident that killed
Mary Jo Kopechne. He
challenged President
Jimmy Carter for the
Democratic nomination
in 1980 but was soundly
beaten. He married and
divorced Virginia Joan
Bennett. The couple
had three children. He
married Victoria Reggie,
the daughter of old
family friends, in 1992.
Born: Feb. 27, 1960
She worked in television
news and as director of
video production for her
Aunt Jean’s Very
Special Arts, a program
that helps disabled
people express
themselves through the
arts. She is married to
Michael Allen. They
have two children:
Grace Kennedy Allen
(born Sept. 19, 1994)
and Max Greathouse
Allen (born Dec. 20,
1996).
Born: Sept. 26, 1961
Ted’s right leg
was amputated in 1973
because of cancer and
he’s long been an
advocate for the
physically disabled. He
ran a non-profit
organization for families
whose homes had lead
poisoning. His wife,
Katherine Gershman, is
a psychiatrist who
teaches at Yale Medical
School. Their children are
Kiley Elizabeth Kennedy (born Aug. 7, 1994),
and Edward Moore III (born February 25, 1998).
Born: July 14, 1967
Patrick sought treatment for
a cocaine addiction as
a teen-ager in 1986.
Patrick is now a congressman from
Rhode Island, and the youngest Kennedy to ever hold office.
Born: Nov. 20, 1925
Died: June 6, 1968
Chief political strategist
for his older brother,
Bobby surprised critics
by his performance as
attorney general. He led
a crackdown on
organized crime and
struggled with the Civil
Rights Revolution
sweeping the South. He
was key adviser to JFK
during the Cuban
Missile Crisis in 1962.
After JFK’s
assassination, Bobby
won election as senator
from New York and
became a critic of
President Lyndon
Johnson’s Vietnam War
policy. He appeared
headed for the
Democratic nomination
for president in 1968,
but was gunned down at
the Ambassador Hotel
in Los Angeles after
winning the California
primary. He married
Ethel Skakel, whose
parents had died in a
plane crash in 1953.
They had 11 children.
Born: July 4, 1951
She is lieutenant
governor of Maryland.
She had headed a
school community
service project in that
state. Her husband,
David Lee Townsend, is
a college professor.
They have four children;
Meaghan Ann Kennedy
Townsend (born Nov. 7,
1977), Maeve Fahey
Kennedy Townsend
(born Nov. 1, 1979),
Rose Katherine
Kennedy Townsend
(born Dec. 17, 1983)
and Kerry Sophia
Kennedy Townsend
(born Nov. 30, 1991)
Born: Sept. 24, 1952
He is a three-term
congressman who
represents the same
Boston district that
elected his Uncle John
F. Kennedy. His early
years were tarnished by
a 1973 driving accident
which left a family friend
partially paralyzed. He
later gained notoriety
when his 12-year
marriage to Sheila
Rauch ended in divorce
and he received an
annulment from the
church. Rauch, the
mother of their two twin
boys, fought the
annulment and wrote a
book about it,
“Shattered Faith.” That
bad publicity followed
by the news of his
brother Michael’s
alleged affair with a
baby sitter caused him
to abandon plans to run
for the Governor of
Massachussetts in
1998. He married his
scheduler Anne
Elizabeth Kelly in 1993.
He has two sons from
his first marriage:
Matthew Rauch
Kennedy (born Oct. 4,
1980) and Joseph
Patrick Kennedy III
(born Oct. 4, 1980).
Born: Jan. 17, 1954
He is an attorney for the
Natural Resources
Defense Council and
chief litigator for Hudson
Riverkeeper, a New
York-based
environmental watchdog group. In 1982, he was an assistant Manhattan district attorney.
In
1983, he was charged with heroin possession after he collapsed on a plane.
He got his life back together and is one of the most popular Environmental Activists and Envir. Lawyers around today.
He married Emily
Ruth Black in 1982 and
they divorced in
1994. They have two
children: Robert Francis
Kennedy III (born Sept.
2, 1984) and Kathleen
Alexandra Kennedy
(born April 13, 1988).
Bobby married Mary
Richardson (3 weeks after his divorce) in 1994 and
they live in White
Plains, N.Y. They have
three children: Conor
Richardson Kennedy
(born July 24, 1994),
Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy
(born Aug. 27, 1995) and William Finbar (born Nov. 8, 1997).
Born: June 15, 1955
Died: April 25, 1984
According to Boston Globe reporter Tom Oliphant, whom David had met one summer
while working as a journalist,
David was an "excellent writer" and his work was "out-of-this-world" and he had an "original and at times brilliant way of looking at things." Unfortunately, David got hooked on various drugs, and it is said by his brother Bobby. At age 28, he died of a cocaine and prescription drug overdose in Palm
Beach, Fla.
Born: Sept. 9, 1956
She had worked for a
Rome-based AIDS
pediatric foundation
connected with the
United Nations. She
married Jeffrey Ruhe, a
cable-TV executive and
they divorced in 1991.
That same year, she
moved in with Paul Hill,
who was convicted and
later exonerated of an
IRA bombing; the case
was chronicled in "In
the Name of the
Father." They married in
1993 and have a
daughter, Saoirse
Roisin Hill (born May
22, 1997).
Born: Feborn 27, 1958
Died: Dec. 31, 1997
He took over from his
brother Joseph as the
chairman of the
Citizen’s Energy Corp.
He married Victoria
Gifford, daughter of
sportscaster Frank
Gifford. They split amid
rumors of his long-time
affair with their baby
sitter. Michael is
survived by his three
children; Michael
LeMoyne Kennedy Jr.
(born Jan. 9, 1983),
Kyle Francis Kennedy
(born July 6, 1984) and
Rory Gifford Kennedy
(born Nov. 14, 1987).
Born: Sept. 8, 1959
She worked in human
rights as an intern for
Amnesty International
and founded a human
rights center named for
her father in 1988. She
married Andrew Cuomo,
who is the secretary of
the Department of
Housing and Urban
Development and the
son of New York’s
former Gov. Mario
Cuomo. They have twin
daughters: Mariah
Matilda Kennedy
Cuomo (born Jan. 11,
1995), Cara Ethel
Kennedy Cuomo (born
Jan. 11, 1995) and Michaela Andrea (born Auguest 26, 1997).
Born: July 4, 1963
He is vice president for
marketing for
Kennedy-owned
Merchandise Mart
Properties. He and his
wife, Sheila Sinclair
Berner, have three
children: Katherine
Berner Kennedy (born
Oct. 4, 1990),
Christopher George
Kennedy Jr. (born June
15, 1992), and Sarah
Louise Kennedy (born
Sept. 26, 1994).
Born: Jan. 11, 1965
Max began his law carer in July 1992 working as an assistant district attorney in
Philadelphia. He also worked for his brother's Citizens Energy Corporation.
He has been attending UCLA business school but he will be moving back to Boston in the near future. Max is married to
Victoria Strauss, an
attorney. They have two
children; Matthew
Taylor Kennedy Jr.
(born Sept. 18, 1993),
Caroline Summer Rose
Kennedy (born Dec. 29,
1994), Noah Rose (born July 9, 1998)
Born: March 24, 1967
He was a reporter for
the New York Post and
is now a free-lance
writer and cable news
executive. Married Molly Start in August 1998. Riley Elizabeth was born August 27, 1999.
Born: Dec. 12, 1968
She was born six
months after her father
was assassinated.
Rory
is a documentary film maker who once produced a video about women addicted to drugs.
She is also an animal rights activist.
Rory and Douglas were arrested in the mid 1980's for protesting.
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