JFK's Family Tree/Kennedy Family
Joseph P. Kennedy, center (He is a little boy), and his family pose while he was the ambassador to Britain. From left Eunice, John F., Rosemary, Jean, Edward, wife Rose, Joseph Jr., Patricia, Robert F., and Kathleen.
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First Generation
Joseph Patrick Kennedy, born September 6,1888; died November 16, 1969. He and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald were married on October 7, 1914. She died January 22,1995. They had nine children.
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Second Generation
Children of Joseph and Rose Kennedy:
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr., he born on July 25, 1915. Dies when his bomber, heavily laden with high explosives, blows up over the English Channel on August 12, 1944.( WOW!!!!!)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, he born on May 29,1917; he was the 35th U.S. president. John married Jacqueline Bouvier on September 12, 1953. They had three children. John Fitzgerald Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963, in Dallas. John was 46 years old at the time of his death. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died May 19, 1994, of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system. She was 64 when she died. It was devastating to see both die but for John Kennedy to be assassinated.
Rosemary Kennedy, she born on September 13, 1918. She had been institutionalized since 1941 because of retardation and a failed lobotomy.
Kathleen Agnes Kennedy, she born on February 20, 1920. Died in a devastating plane crash on May 13, 1948.
Eunice Mary Kennedy, she born on July 10, 1921. She had married Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. on May 23, 1953. They had five children, including TV journalist Maria Shriver. (Five that's a lot!!!)
Patricia Kennedy, she born on May 6, 1924. She had married the actor Peter Lawford on April 24, 1954. They had one less than Eunice Mary Kennedy, They had four!!!
Robert Francis Kennedy, he born on November 20, 1925; U.S. senator and former U.S. attorney general. He had married Ethel Skakel on June 17, 1950. They had an amazing hand full of children. They had 11 children!!! But here comes the sad stuff again. He was assassinated in Los Angeles on June 6, 1968.
Jean Ann Kennedy, she born on February 20, 1928. Former ambassador to Ireland. She had married Stephen Edward Smith on May 19, 1956. They had four children!!!, including William Kennedy Smith who was acquitted of rape in 1991 at the family's Palm Beach estate.
Edward Moore Kennedy, he born on February 22, 1932. U.S. senator. Critically injured in plane crash in June 19, 1964. On July 18, 1969, involved in a car crash on Chappaquiddick in Massachusetts. It's just so amazing that he would be in two incidents. His passenger, campaign aide Mary Jo Kopechne, drowns. What a shock. He married Virginia Joan Bennett on November 29, 1958; they divorced in 1954. They had three children. Married Victoria Reggie in 1992.
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Third Generation
Children of John and Jacqueline
Caroline Bovier Kennedy, she born on November 27,1957. She had married Edwin Arther Schlossberg on July 19, 1986. The had three children!!!
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr., he born on November 25, 1960. He had married Carolyn Bessette on September 21, 1996, on secluded Cumberland Island, G.A.
Patrick Bovier Kennedy, he born on August 7, 1963; died August 9, 1963.
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Children of Robert and Ethel Kennedy
Kathleen Hartington Kennedy, she born on July 4, 1951. She had married David Lee Townsend November 17, 1973. Lieutenant governor of Maryland.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, he born on September 24, 1952. He had married Sheila Rauch in 1979; divorced in 1991. Then he married Anne Elizabeth Kelly in 1993. Left Congress last year to return to running Citizens Energy Corp., a non-profit organization he founded with his brother Michael.
Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., he was born on January 17, 1954. He had married Emily Ruth Black in 1982; divorced in 1994. Then he married Mary Richardson in 1994. She was a lawyer.
David Anthony Kennedy, he was born on June 15, 1955. Died August 25, 1984, at Palm Beach of a drug overdose in a hotel near the family vacation spot (home.)
Mary Courtney Kennedy, she was born on September 9, 1956. She had married Jeffrey Robert Ruhe in 1980; divorced in 1990. Then she married Paul Michael Hill in 1993.
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, he was born on February 27, 1958; he had died on December 31, 1997, in a skiing accident. He married Victoria Denise Gifford in 1981. He was accused in 1997 of having an affair with his teenage babysitter. (Before he died)
Mary Kerry Kennedy, she was born on September 8,1959. She had married Andrew Mark Cuomo, secretary of HUD in 1990.
Christopher George Kennedy, he was born on July 4, 1963. He had married Sheila Sinclair Berner in 1987.
Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy, he was born on January 11, 1965. He had married Victoria Anna Stauss in 1991.
Douglas Harriman Kennedy, he was born on March 24, 1967. He had married Molly Stark in 1998.
Rory Elizabeth Kennedy, she was born on December 12, 1968. She was to have married Mark Bailey on Saturday at Hyannis Port, Mass.
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Children of Edward and Joan Kennedy
Kara Anne Kennedy, she was born on February 27, 1960. She had married Micheal Allen in 1990.
Edward Moore Kennedy Jr., he was born on September 26, 1961. His right leg was amputated in 1973 because of cancer. He had married Katherine Gershman in 1993.
Patrick Joseph Kennedy, he was born on July 14, 1967. Now a congressman, sought treatment for cocaine addiction as a teenager in 1986.
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