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The Kennedy family tree is quite famous and important in the American history. For example
Joseph Sr. made all the connections for the future of his sons. John F. Kennedy was for example
a war hero but let’s start with the father of John. An interesting fact that some people might not
know, I didn’t until you told me but here we go.
Arnold Schwarzenegger is also inside this family tree aswell as he was spouse to Maria Shriver
from 1986 to 2011, they had 4 children together. Maria was the daughter of Eunice Shriver and
she was sister to John F. Kennedy.
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr was the father of John F. Kennedy the president or war hero that people
might know him about. Joseph was a politician as John was, but he wasn’t President he was
firstly 1st Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1934 to 1935, then he
became 1st Chairman of the Maritime Commission from 1936 to 1938 and at last he became the
44th United States to United Kingdom Ambassador from 1938 to 1940. The political party
Joseph was inside of was the democratic party. Joseph used his wealth and connections to build a
national network of supporters that would become the base for his sons’ political careers. Joseph
wanted at first that his eldest son, Joe Jr. to become president, but that changed after his death in
August 1944, he then became determined to name his eldest surviving son, John F. Kennedy to
be president.
Joseph was also a big business man before he worked in the politics. He made a large fortune as
a stock marketer, commodity investor and also by investing in real estate and a wide range of
industries. He also was a bootlegger back in the day during prohibition. No one knew about it
until the Brooklyn Mafia Boss Frank Costello claimed to an author/collaborator that he had been
associated with Joseph.
Joseph suffered another stroke on December 19th, 1961, when he was 73. He survived but was
was left paralyzed on his right side and got a language disorder called Aphasia, that severely
affected his ability to speak. He was like that for the rest of his life before he died on the 1969.
John F. Kennedy was born May 29th 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. Before John went inside
the Congressional career he was in the American Navy from 1941 to 1945, he tried to join in
1940 but was medically disqualified for his chronic lower back problems, because of his back
problems he used his father's influence to get inside the Navy, so he started in
October 1941 as an ensign with a desk job for the Office of Naval Intelligence. He was then
reassigned some months later to South Carolina because of a brief affair he had with a danish
writer. On the 27th of July 1942 John entered the Naval Reserve Officers Training School in
Chicago. After completing the training he voluntarily entered the Motor Torpedo Boat
Squadrons Training Center in Melville, Rhode Island, where he was promoted to Lieutenant,
junior grade. In April 1943 he was assigned to Motor
Torpedo Boat PT-109. In the ending of April, Kennedy took
the command for the PT-109 which was based around the
Tulagi Island that is a island in the Solomon Islands. On the
night of August 1 and 2 the PT-109 was on it’s 31st mission
with PT-162 and PT-169 on it’s side, they were performing
night patrols near New Georgia in the Solomon Islands.
Kennedy’s platoon spotted a Japanese destroyer up close and
attempted to turn to attack, when suddenly when the PT-109
got rammed in a angle that made the PT-109 cut in half by the Destroyer Amagiri.
Destroyer Amagiri
Amagiri is japanese for “Heavenly Mist”, it was a huge ship the 15th of 24 fubuki-class
destroyers.
After losing two crewmembers, Kennedy decided to gather up his surviving crew members
including the injured to vote on if they should fight or surrender, Kennedy then stated, "There's
nothing in the book about a situation like this. A lot of you men have families and some of you
have children. What do you want to do? I have nothing to lose." they then decided to try to swim
to a small island three miles away. despite his back injury he towed a badly burnt crewman
through the water with a life jacket strap clenched between his teeth, he then towed the wounded
man to the island they were on and then to the second island that they got rescued at on August
the 8th.
Kennedy and Ensign Leonard Thom (his executive officer of PT-109) were both awarded with
the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism and the Purple Heart Medal for injuries. After
that John F. Kennedy became a war hero and he even renamed the island were they survived to
Kennedy Island, the name it had before was Kasolo Island. It’s still uninhabited but it serves as a
tourist attraction, on the island there was held a race where participants re-enacted Kennedy's
swim.
On August 12, 1944, his older brother Joe jr that was a navy pilot, was killed after volunteering
for a special and hazardous air mission when his explosive-laden plane exploded over the
English Channel.
On March 1, 1945, Kennedy decided to retire from the Navy, he got honorably discharged with
the full rank of lieutenant. Some time later he got asked how he became a war hero and he joked
and said “It was easy. They cut my PT boat in half" so if you ever want to become a war hero
just follow his words right there I guess.
In April 1945, Kennedy's father, who was a friend of William Randolph Hearst, arranged a
position for his son as a special correspondent for Hearst Newspapers; the assignment kept
Kennedy's name in the public eye and exposed him to journalism as a possible career. He worked
as a correspondent that May, covering the Potsdam Conference and other events. JFK's eldest
brother had been the family's political standard-bearer and tapped by his father to seek the
Presidency, Joe's death in 1944 changed that
course and the task now fell to him.
In the 1952 U.S. Senate election, Kennedy
defeated incumbent Republican Henry Cabot
Lodge II for the U.S. Senate seat. The following
year he married Jacqueline Bouvier.
On January 2, 1960, Kennedy initiated his
campaign for president in the Democratic primary
election, where he faced challenges from Senator
Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Senator
Wayne Morse of Oregon. Kennedy defeated
Humphrey in Wisconsin and West Virginia, Morse
in Maryland and Oregon, as well as token opposition in New Hampshire, Indiana, and Nebraska.
John F. Kennedy & Richard Nixon in a presidental debate
John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president at noon on January 20, 1961. In his
inaugural address he spoke of the need for all Americans to be active citizens, famously saying,
"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." He asked the
nations of the world to join together to fight what he called the "common enemies of man:
tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself"
Kennedy preferred the organizational structure of a wheel, with all the spokes leading to the
president. He was ready and willing to make the increased number of quick decisions required in
such an environment. He selected a mixture of experienced and inexperienced people to serve in
his cabinet. "We can learn our jobs together", he stated.
On April 17, 1961, Kennedy ordered what became known as the "Bay of Pigs Invasion": 1,500
US trained Cubans, called "Brigade 2506", landed on the island. No US air support was
provided, Allen Dulles that was one of the directors of the CIA, later stated that they thought the
president would authorize any action required for success once the troops were on the ground.
By April 19, 1961, the Cuban government had
captured or killed the invading exiles, and Kennedy
was forced to negotiate for the release of the
1,189 survivors. After twenty months, Cuba
released the captured exiles in exchange for $53 million worth of food and medicine. The
incident made Castro wary of the U.S. and led him to believe another invasion would occur. The
intention of the whole operation was to invade Cuba and instigate an uprising among the Cuban
people in hopes of removing Castro from power.
Kennedy primarily focused on the political repercussions of the plan rather than military
considerations. When it failed, he was convinced that the plan was a setup to make him look
bad.He took responsibility for the failure, saying, "We got a big kick in the leg and we deserved
it. But maybe we'll learn something from it."
On October 14, 1962, CIA U-2 spy planes took photographs of intermediate-range ballistic
missile sites being built in Cuba by the Soviets. The photos were shown to Kennedy on October
16, a consensus was reached that the missiles were offensive in nature and thus posed an
immediate nuclear threat. Kennedy faced a dilemma: if the U.S. attacked the sites, it might lead
to nuclear war with the U.S.S.R., but if the U.S. did nothing, it would be faced with the increased
threat from close-range nuclear weapons. The U.S. would also appear to the world as less
committed to the defense of the hemisphere. On a personal level, Kennedy needed to show
resolve in reaction to Khrushchev, especially after the Vienna summit.
(The Vienna summit was a summit meeting held on June 4, 1961, in Vienna, Austria, between
President John F. Kennedy of the United States and Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet
Union. The leaders of the two superpowers of the Cold War era, they discussed numerous issues
in the relationship between their countries)
This crisis brought the world closer to nuclear war than at any point before or since. In the end,
"the humanity" of the two men prevailed. The crisis improved the image of American willpower
and the president's credibility. Kennedy's approval rating increased from 66% to 77%
immediately thereafter.
Kennedy ended a period of tight fiscal policies, loosening monetary policy to keep interest rates
down and encourage growth of the economy. He presided over the first government budget to
top the $100 billion mark, in 1962, and his first budget in 1961 led to the country's first non-war,
non-recession deficit.The economy, which had been through two recessions in three years and
was in one when Kennedy took office, accelerated notably during his presidency. The economy
turned around and prospered during the Kennedy administration. GDP expanded by an average
of 5.5% from early 1961 to late 1963, while inflation remained steady at
around 1% and unemployment eased. Industrial production rose by 15% and
motor vehicle sales rose by 40%. This rate of growth in GDP and industry
continued until around 1969, and has yet to be repeated for such a sustained
period of time.
John F. Kennedy was
assassinated at 12:30 pm in
Central Standard Time on
Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza,
Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot by Lee
Harvey Oswald while traveling with his wife
Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and
Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. There was a ten months investigation from
November 1963 to September 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone
in shooting Kennedy. In contrast to the conclusions of the Warren Commission, the United States
House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in 1979 that Kennedy was “probably
assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.” The HSCA agreed with the Warren Commission in that
Kennedy and Connally’s injuries were caused by Oswald’s three rifle shots, but they also
determined the existence of additional gunshots based on analysis of an audio recording and
therefore "...a high probability that two gunmen fired at [the] President." The Committee was not
able to identify any individuals or groups involved with the conspiracy. In addition, the HSCA
found that the original federal investigations were “seriously flawed” in respect of information-
sharing and the possibility of conspiracy. As recommended by the HSCA, the acoustic evidence
indicating conspiracy was subsequently re-examined and rejected.
Kennedy's death marked the fourth and latest successful assassination of an American
President.
A Requiem Mass was held for Kennedy at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on
November 25, 1963. Afterwards, Kennedy was interred in a small plot, in Arlington National
Cemetery. Over a period of three years (1964–66), an estimated 16 million people had visited his
grave. On March 14, 1967, Kennedy's remains were moved to a permanent burial plot and
memorial at the cemetery. Kennedy's wife and their two deceased minor children were buried
with him later. His brother, Senator Robert Kennedy,
was buried nearby in June 1968. In August 2009, his
brother, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, was also
buried near his two brothers. John F. Kennedy's
grave is lit with an Eternal Flame.
Kennedy was the first of six presidents to have served in the U.S. Navy, and one of the enduring
legacies of his administration was the creation in 1961 of another special forces command, the
Navy SEALs, which Kennedy enthusiastically supported. President Lyndon B. Johnson,
Kennedy's successor, took up the mantle and pushed the landmark Civil Rights Act through a
bitterly divided Congress by invoking the slain president's memory. President Johnson then
signed the Act into law on July 2, 1964. This civil rights law ended what was known as the
"Solid South" and certain provisions were modeled after the Civil Rights Act of 1875, signed
into law by President Ulysses S. Grant.
Many of Kennedy's speeches (especially his inaugural address) are considered iconic; and
despite his relatively short term in office and lack of major legislative changes coming to fruition
during his term, Americans regularly vote him as one of the best presidents, in the same league
as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy was born November 20, 1925 in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Commonly known by his initials RFK. Robert was an American politician. As his brother (John
F. Kennedy) Robert got enlisted in the US. Naval Reserve as a Seaman Apprentice on his 18th
birthday, his V-12 training was at Harvard (March–November 1944). On December 15, 1945,
the US. Navy commissioned the destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. and shortly thereafter
granted Kennedy's request to be released from naval-officer training to serve aboard Kennedy,
starting on February 1, 1946, as a seaman apprentice on the ship's shakedown cruise in the
Caribbean.On May 30, 1946, he received his honorable discharge from the Navy. For his service
in the Navy, Kennedy was eligible for the American Campaign Medal and the World War II
Victory Medal. He had been in service for two years (1944–1946).
In September 1946, Kennedy entered Harvard as a junior, having received credit for his time in
the V-12 program. Kennedy worked hard to make the
Harvard varsity football team as an end, was a starter
and scored a touchdown in the first game of his senior
year before breaking his leg in practice, earning his
varsity letter when his coach sent him in for the last
minutes of a game against Yale, wearing a cast.
Kennedy's father spoke positively of him when he
served as a blocking back and sometime receiver for
the fleet Dave Hackett. Joseph, Sr. attended some of
Robert's practices. He saw his son catch a touchdown pass in an early-season rout of the Western
Maryland. Kennedy's teammates admired his physical courage. Kennedy was five feet ten and
155 pounds, which made him too small and too slow for college football. Despite this, he was a
fearless hitter and tackled a 230-pound fullback head-on. Wally Flynn, another player, looked up
in the huddle after one play to see Kennedy crying after having broken his leg. Disregarding the
injury, he kept playing. Kennedy graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in political
science in March 1948.
After graduating, Kennedy immediately sailed on the RMS Queen Mary with a college friend
for a six-month tour of Europe and the Middle East, accredited as a correspondent of the Boston
Post, for which he filed six stories.
In September 1948, Kennedy enrolled at the University of Virginia School of Law in
Charlottesville. On June 17, 1950, Kennedy married Ethel Skakel at St. Mary's Catholic Church
in Greenwich, Connecticut. Kennedy graduated from law school in June 1951 and flew with
Ethel to Greenwich to stay in his father-in-law's guest house. The couple's first child, Kathleen,
was born on July 4, 1951. Kennedy spent the summer studying for the Massachusetts bar exam.
In September 1951, Kennedy went to San Francisco as a correspondent of the Boston Post to
cover the convention concluding the Treaty of Peace with Japan. In October 1951, Kennedy
embarked on a seven-week Asian trip with his brother Jack (then Massachusetts 11th district
congressman) and his sister Patricia to Israel, India, Vietnam, and Japan. Because of their age
gap, the two brothers had previously seen little of each other. Kennedy accompanying his brother
came at the behest of his father. This 25,000-mile (40,000 km) trip was the first extended time
they had spent together and served to deepen their relationship.
In November 1951, Kennedy moved with his wife and daughter to a townhouse in Georgetown
in Washington, D.C., and started work as a lawyer in the Internal Security Section (which
investigated suspected Soviet agents) of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.
In February 1952, he was transferred to the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn to
prosecute fraud cases. On June 6, 1952, Kennedy resigned to manage his older brother Jack's
successful 1952 U.S. Senate campaign in Massachusetts. JFK's victory was of great importance
to the Kennedy family, elevating him to national prominence and turning him into a serious
presidential candidate, but the race and his brother's victory were equally important to RFK who
had succeeded in eliminating his father's negative perceptions of him that he had sustained since
the former's youth.
In December 1952, at the behest of his father, Robert Kennedy was appointed by Republican
Senator Joe McCarthy as assistant counsel of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on
Investigations. McCarthy was a friend to the Kennedy family, and was the godfather of Robert
Kennedy's daughter Kathleen. This was a highly visible job for Kennedy. He resigned in July
1953, but "retained a fondness for McCarthy". The period of July 1953 to January 1954 saw
Kennedy have "a professional and personal nadir". This being due to Kennedy feeling that he
was adrift while trying to prove himself to the rest of the Kennedy family.
When the Democrats gained the majority in January 1955, he became chief counsel. Kennedy
was a background figure in the televised McCarthy Hearings of 1954 into the conduct of
McCarthy.[50] The Annie Lee Moss incident made Cohn an enemy of Kennedy, which led to him
during the hearings of assisting Democratic senators in ridiculing Cohn. The animosity grew to
the point of Cohn being restrained after asking Kennedy if he wanted to fight him and the feud
became publicized by newspapers.
In 1960, he published the book The Enemy Within, describing the corrupt practices within the
Teamsters and other unions that he had helped investigate; the book sold very well. Kennedy had
drafted the book over the summer of the previous year. Biographer Evan Thomas wrote the book
was a bestseller and could have launched Kennedy on a political career on its own, but "family
duty called."
Kennedy worked on the presidential campaign of his brother John. He stressed the importance of
commitment and held members of his own family to the same level of high expectations in that
regard as that of the volunteers. In contrast to his role in his brother's previous campaign eight
years prior, Kennedy gave stump speeches throughout the primary season, gaining confidence
with the platform. Kennedy's ideology "to win at any cost" led him to call on Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Jr. to attack Hubert Humphrey as a draft dodger. Roosevelt eventually did make the
statement that Humphrey avoided service.
RFK went to great lengths to protect his brother. Concerned that JFK was going to receive the
Democratic Party's nomination, Johnson supporters revealed to the press that Kennedy had
Addison's disease, saying that JFK required life-sustaining cortisone treatments. Though in fact a
diagnosis had been made, RFK denied it, saying his brother had never had "an ailment described
classically as Addison's disease." After securing the nomination, JFK decided to offer Lyndon
Johnson the vice presidency. This did not sit well with some Northern Kennedy supporters and
RFK tried to convince Johnson to turn down the offer. This attempt was unsuccessful, and
Johnson viewed RFK with contempt afterward.
After winning the 1960 presidential election, President-elect John F. Kennedy appointed his
younger brother Attorney General. The choice was controversial, with The New York Times and
The New Republic calling Robert Kennedy inexperienced and unqualified. He had no experience
in any state or federal court, causing the President to joke, "I can't see that it's wrong to give him
a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law." However, Kennedy did have
significant experience in studying and fighting organized crime.
To a great extent, President Kennedy sought the advice and counsel of his younger brother,
resulting in Robert F. Kennedy remaining the President's closest political adviser. Kennedy was
relied upon as both the President's primary source of administrative information and as a general
counsel with whom trust was implicit, given the familial ties of the two men. He exercised
widespread authority over every cabinet department, leading the Associated Press to dub him,
"Bobby—Washington's No. 2-man.".
The president once remarked about his brother that, "If I want something done and done
immediately I rely on the Attorney General. He is very much the doer in this administration, and
has an organizational gift I have rarely if ever seen surpassed."
As Attorney General, Kennedy pursued a relentless crusade against organized crime and the
mafia, sometimes disagreeing on strategy with J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI). Convictions against organized crime figures rose by 800 percent during
his term.
On April 4, 1968, Kennedy learned of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and gave a
heartfelt impromptu speech in Indianapolis's inner city, in which Kennedy called for a
reconciliation between the races. Riots broke out in 60 cities in the wake of King's death, but not
in Indianapolis, a fact many attribute to the effect of this speech. Kennedy attended King's
funeral, being the "only white politician to hear only cheers and applause."
Kennedy finally won the Indiana Democratic primary on May 7 and the Nebraska primary on
May 14, but lost the Oregon primary on May 28.
Kennedy scored a major victory in winning the California primary. He addressed his supporters
shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in a ballroom at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles,
California. Leaving the ballroom, he went through the hotel kitchen after being told it was a
shortcut, despite being advised to avoid the kitchen by his bodyguard, FBI agent Bill Barry. In a
crowded kitchen passageway, Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, opened fire with a .22-
caliber revolver. Kennedy was hit three times, after Kennedy had fallen to the floor, Agent Barry
saw Sirhan holding a gun and hit him twice in the face while others, including maîtres d' Uecker
and Edward Minasian, writer George Plimpton, Olympic gold
medal decathlete Rafer Johnson and professional football player
Rosey Grier, forced Sirhan against the steam table and disarmed
him as he continued firing his gun in random directions.
After a minute, Sirhan wrestled free and grabbed the revolver
again, but he had already fired all the bullets and was subdued.
Barry went to Kennedy and laid his jacket under the candidate's head, later recalling: "I knew
immediately it was a .22, a small caliber, so I hoped it wouldn't be so bad, but then I saw the hole
in the Senator's head, and I knew" At approximately 12:10 AM, PDT on June 5 he was declared
dead.
1968 was a traumatic year for the United States as they suffered a national nervous breakdown
after the death of RFK.
There was also a second gunman theory for this assassination.
The location of Kennedy's wounds suggested that his assailant had stood behind him, but some
witnesses said that Sirhan faced west as Kennedy moved through the pantry facing east. This has
led to the suggestion that a second gunman actually fired the fatal shot, a possibility supported by
coroner Thomas Noguchi who stated that the fatal shot was behind Kennedy's right ear and had
been fired at a distance of approximately one inch. Other witnesses, though, said that as Sirhan
approached, Kennedy was turning to his left shaking hands, facing north and so exposing his
right side. During a re-examination of the case in 1975, the Los Angeles Superior Court ordered
expert examination of the possibility of a second gun having been used, and the conclusion of the
experts was that there was little or no evidence to support this theory. As recently as 2008,
eyewitness John Pilger asserted his belief that there must have been a second gunman. In 2007,
analysis of an audio tape recording of the shooting made by freelance reporter Stanislaw
Pruszynski appeared to indicate, according to forensic expert Philip Van Praag, that thirteen
shots were fired, even though Sirhan's gun held only eight rounds.
On February 22, 2012, Sirhan's lawyers, William Pepper and Laurie Dusek, filed a court brief
in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles claiming that a second gunman fired the shots that killed
Kennedy. It was the fourth and final in a series of federal briefs filed under the writ of habeas
corpus by Pepper and Dusek beginning in October 2010. A ruling is now pending in the Sirhan
federal case.
Robert Kennedy was buried near his brother, President John F. Kennedy, in Arlington National
Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. He was buried on June 8, 1968. It was in March 14, 1967 that
his brother John F. Kennedy got permanent buried.
D.C. Stadium in Washington, D.C. was renamed Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in 1969.
In 1978, the United States Congress posthumously awarded Kennedy its Gold Medal of Honor.
In 1998, the United States Mint released a special dollar coin that featured Kennedy on the
obverse and the emblems of the United States Department of Justice and the United States
Senate on the reverse.
In Washington, D.C. on November 20, 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush and Attorney
General John Ashcroft dedicated the Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert
F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, honoring Robert F. Kennedy on what would have
been his 76th birthday. They both spoke during the ceremony, as did Kennedy's eldest son,
Joseph.
On June 4, 2008, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Kennedy, the New
York State Assembly voted to rename the Triborough Bridge in New York City the Robert F.
Kennedy Memorial Bridge, the second bridge in New York City named in honor of the former
New York Senator, the RFK Draw Bridge being the first. New York State Governor David
Paterson signed the legislation into law on
Friday, August 8, 2008.
The Kennedy Estate is located is on the island of
Matha's Vineyard south of Boston. It was once the
home of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. In 1926 he
rented a summer cottage around there at 50
Marchant Avenue in Hyannisport. Two years
later he decided to purchase the structure
which had been erected in 1904 to get enlarged and remodeled to suit his family needs, those
needs was for their 9 children to spend their summers and doing all kind of stuff like acquiring a
lifelong interest in sailing and other competitive activities.
John F. Kennedy used the compound as a base for his successful 1960 U.S. Presidential
campaign and later as a summer White House and presidential retreat until his assassination in
1963.
On the evening of July 16, 1999 outside of Martha's
Vineyard, John F. Kennedy Jr. piloted a Piper
Saratoga to attend the wedding of his cousin Rory
Kennedy. The plane also carried his wife, Carolyn
Bessette, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette.
The plane went down and it took some days for the
others to find where the plane where laid at and of
course the three people inside the plane had died with
it and what his cousin, Anthony Stanislas Radziwill had told the press was that if Kennedy was
still alive "he'll find a way to get out. He possesses the will to survive, enough will for all three
of them" The fragments of the plane was found on July 19.
There is something called the Kennedy curse as you might have noticed reading all this text and
that is quite easy to explain really. How to explain it is quite simple, as the “Kennedy Curse”
describes a series of misfortunes known as the Kennedy Family Tragedies involving members of
the powerful and celebrated Kennedy Family. Skeptics have argued that many of the events are
normal and it is not improbable that a large extended family would experience them, I think that
it’s not that “normal” like it’s a curse they have like getting assassinated, plane crashes etc etc.
It’s a curse in my eyes. In 2011-2012 two Kennedy members died, it was Kara Kennedy Allen
and Mary Richardson Kennedy. Kara died by a heart attack whilst exercising and Mary hung
herself. So wonder who will
die next by this curse.
Källor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_Torpedo_Boat_PT-109
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Island
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_P._Kennedy,_Sr.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/kennedy-wealth/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_destroyer_Amagiri_%281930%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_summit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_curse
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/06/04/how-robert-f-kennedys-death-shattered-the-
nation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Compound

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Kennedy Family Misc Kevin N

  • 1. The Kennedy family tree is quite famous and important in the American history. For example Joseph Sr. made all the connections for the future of his sons. John F. Kennedy was for example a war hero but let’s start with the father of John. An interesting fact that some people might not know, I didn’t until you told me but here we go. Arnold Schwarzenegger is also inside this family tree aswell as he was spouse to Maria Shriver from 1986 to 2011, they had 4 children together. Maria was the daughter of Eunice Shriver and she was sister to John F. Kennedy.
  • 2. Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr was the father of John F. Kennedy the president or war hero that people might know him about. Joseph was a politician as John was, but he wasn’t President he was firstly 1st Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission from 1934 to 1935, then he became 1st Chairman of the Maritime Commission from 1936 to 1938 and at last he became the 44th United States to United Kingdom Ambassador from 1938 to 1940. The political party Joseph was inside of was the democratic party. Joseph used his wealth and connections to build a national network of supporters that would become the base for his sons’ political careers. Joseph wanted at first that his eldest son, Joe Jr. to become president, but that changed after his death in August 1944, he then became determined to name his eldest surviving son, John F. Kennedy to be president. Joseph was also a big business man before he worked in the politics. He made a large fortune as a stock marketer, commodity investor and also by investing in real estate and a wide range of industries. He also was a bootlegger back in the day during prohibition. No one knew about it until the Brooklyn Mafia Boss Frank Costello claimed to an author/collaborator that he had been associated with Joseph. Joseph suffered another stroke on December 19th, 1961, when he was 73. He survived but was was left paralyzed on his right side and got a language disorder called Aphasia, that severely affected his ability to speak. He was like that for the rest of his life before he died on the 1969.
  • 3. John F. Kennedy was born May 29th 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. Before John went inside the Congressional career he was in the American Navy from 1941 to 1945, he tried to join in 1940 but was medically disqualified for his chronic lower back problems, because of his back problems he used his father's influence to get inside the Navy, so he started in October 1941 as an ensign with a desk job for the Office of Naval Intelligence. He was then reassigned some months later to South Carolina because of a brief affair he had with a danish writer. On the 27th of July 1942 John entered the Naval Reserve Officers Training School in Chicago. After completing the training he voluntarily entered the Motor Torpedo Boat Squadrons Training Center in Melville, Rhode Island, where he was promoted to Lieutenant, junior grade. In April 1943 he was assigned to Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109. In the ending of April, Kennedy took the command for the PT-109 which was based around the Tulagi Island that is a island in the Solomon Islands. On the night of August 1 and 2 the PT-109 was on it’s 31st mission with PT-162 and PT-169 on it’s side, they were performing night patrols near New Georgia in the Solomon Islands. Kennedy’s platoon spotted a Japanese destroyer up close and attempted to turn to attack, when suddenly when the PT-109 got rammed in a angle that made the PT-109 cut in half by the Destroyer Amagiri. Destroyer Amagiri Amagiri is japanese for “Heavenly Mist”, it was a huge ship the 15th of 24 fubuki-class destroyers. After losing two crewmembers, Kennedy decided to gather up his surviving crew members including the injured to vote on if they should fight or surrender, Kennedy then stated, "There's nothing in the book about a situation like this. A lot of you men have families and some of you have children. What do you want to do? I have nothing to lose." they then decided to try to swim to a small island three miles away. despite his back injury he towed a badly burnt crewman through the water with a life jacket strap clenched between his teeth, he then towed the wounded man to the island they were on and then to the second island that they got rescued at on August the 8th. Kennedy and Ensign Leonard Thom (his executive officer of PT-109) were both awarded with the Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism and the Purple Heart Medal for injuries. After
  • 4. that John F. Kennedy became a war hero and he even renamed the island were they survived to Kennedy Island, the name it had before was Kasolo Island. It’s still uninhabited but it serves as a tourist attraction, on the island there was held a race where participants re-enacted Kennedy's swim. On August 12, 1944, his older brother Joe jr that was a navy pilot, was killed after volunteering for a special and hazardous air mission when his explosive-laden plane exploded over the English Channel. On March 1, 1945, Kennedy decided to retire from the Navy, he got honorably discharged with the full rank of lieutenant. Some time later he got asked how he became a war hero and he joked and said “It was easy. They cut my PT boat in half" so if you ever want to become a war hero just follow his words right there I guess. In April 1945, Kennedy's father, who was a friend of William Randolph Hearst, arranged a position for his son as a special correspondent for Hearst Newspapers; the assignment kept Kennedy's name in the public eye and exposed him to journalism as a possible career. He worked as a correspondent that May, covering the Potsdam Conference and other events. JFK's eldest brother had been the family's political standard-bearer and tapped by his father to seek the Presidency, Joe's death in 1944 changed that course and the task now fell to him. In the 1952 U.S. Senate election, Kennedy defeated incumbent Republican Henry Cabot Lodge II for the U.S. Senate seat. The following year he married Jacqueline Bouvier. On January 2, 1960, Kennedy initiated his campaign for president in the Democratic primary election, where he faced challenges from Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota and Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon. Kennedy defeated Humphrey in Wisconsin and West Virginia, Morse in Maryland and Oregon, as well as token opposition in New Hampshire, Indiana, and Nebraska. John F. Kennedy & Richard Nixon in a presidental debate John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th president at noon on January 20, 1961. In his inaugural address he spoke of the need for all Americans to be active citizens, famously saying, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." He asked the nations of the world to join together to fight what he called the "common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself" Kennedy preferred the organizational structure of a wheel, with all the spokes leading to the president. He was ready and willing to make the increased number of quick decisions required in such an environment. He selected a mixture of experienced and inexperienced people to serve in his cabinet. "We can learn our jobs together", he stated. On April 17, 1961, Kennedy ordered what became known as the "Bay of Pigs Invasion": 1,500 US trained Cubans, called "Brigade 2506", landed on the island. No US air support was
  • 5. provided, Allen Dulles that was one of the directors of the CIA, later stated that they thought the president would authorize any action required for success once the troops were on the ground. By April 19, 1961, the Cuban government had captured or killed the invading exiles, and Kennedy was forced to negotiate for the release of the 1,189 survivors. After twenty months, Cuba released the captured exiles in exchange for $53 million worth of food and medicine. The incident made Castro wary of the U.S. and led him to believe another invasion would occur. The intention of the whole operation was to invade Cuba and instigate an uprising among the Cuban people in hopes of removing Castro from power. Kennedy primarily focused on the political repercussions of the plan rather than military considerations. When it failed, he was convinced that the plan was a setup to make him look bad.He took responsibility for the failure, saying, "We got a big kick in the leg and we deserved it. But maybe we'll learn something from it." On October 14, 1962, CIA U-2 spy planes took photographs of intermediate-range ballistic missile sites being built in Cuba by the Soviets. The photos were shown to Kennedy on October 16, a consensus was reached that the missiles were offensive in nature and thus posed an immediate nuclear threat. Kennedy faced a dilemma: if the U.S. attacked the sites, it might lead to nuclear war with the U.S.S.R., but if the U.S. did nothing, it would be faced with the increased threat from close-range nuclear weapons. The U.S. would also appear to the world as less committed to the defense of the hemisphere. On a personal level, Kennedy needed to show resolve in reaction to Khrushchev, especially after the Vienna summit. (The Vienna summit was a summit meeting held on June 4, 1961, in Vienna, Austria, between President John F. Kennedy of the United States and Premier Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union. The leaders of the two superpowers of the Cold War era, they discussed numerous issues in the relationship between their countries) This crisis brought the world closer to nuclear war than at any point before or since. In the end, "the humanity" of the two men prevailed. The crisis improved the image of American willpower and the president's credibility. Kennedy's approval rating increased from 66% to 77% immediately thereafter. Kennedy ended a period of tight fiscal policies, loosening monetary policy to keep interest rates down and encourage growth of the economy. He presided over the first government budget to top the $100 billion mark, in 1962, and his first budget in 1961 led to the country's first non-war, non-recession deficit.The economy, which had been through two recessions in three years and was in one when Kennedy took office, accelerated notably during his presidency. The economy
  • 6. turned around and prospered during the Kennedy administration. GDP expanded by an average of 5.5% from early 1961 to late 1963, while inflation remained steady at around 1% and unemployment eased. Industrial production rose by 15% and motor vehicle sales rose by 40%. This rate of growth in GDP and industry continued until around 1969, and has yet to be repeated for such a sustained period of time. John F. Kennedy was assassinated at 12:30 pm in Central Standard Time on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot by Lee Harvey Oswald while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas Governor John Connally, and Connally's wife Nellie, in a presidential motorcade. There was a ten months investigation from November 1963 to September 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald acted alone in shooting Kennedy. In contrast to the conclusions of the Warren Commission, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded in 1979 that Kennedy was “probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.” The HSCA agreed with the Warren Commission in that Kennedy and Connally’s injuries were caused by Oswald’s three rifle shots, but they also determined the existence of additional gunshots based on analysis of an audio recording and therefore "...a high probability that two gunmen fired at [the] President." The Committee was not able to identify any individuals or groups involved with the conspiracy. In addition, the HSCA found that the original federal investigations were “seriously flawed” in respect of information- sharing and the possibility of conspiracy. As recommended by the HSCA, the acoustic evidence indicating conspiracy was subsequently re-examined and rejected. Kennedy's death marked the fourth and latest successful assassination of an American President. A Requiem Mass was held for Kennedy at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on November 25, 1963. Afterwards, Kennedy was interred in a small plot, in Arlington National Cemetery. Over a period of three years (1964–66), an estimated 16 million people had visited his grave. On March 14, 1967, Kennedy's remains were moved to a permanent burial plot and memorial at the cemetery. Kennedy's wife and their two deceased minor children were buried with him later. His brother, Senator Robert Kennedy, was buried nearby in June 1968. In August 2009, his brother, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, was also buried near his two brothers. John F. Kennedy's grave is lit with an Eternal Flame.
  • 7. Kennedy was the first of six presidents to have served in the U.S. Navy, and one of the enduring legacies of his administration was the creation in 1961 of another special forces command, the Navy SEALs, which Kennedy enthusiastically supported. President Lyndon B. Johnson, Kennedy's successor, took up the mantle and pushed the landmark Civil Rights Act through a bitterly divided Congress by invoking the slain president's memory. President Johnson then signed the Act into law on July 2, 1964. This civil rights law ended what was known as the "Solid South" and certain provisions were modeled after the Civil Rights Act of 1875, signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. Many of Kennedy's speeches (especially his inaugural address) are considered iconic; and despite his relatively short term in office and lack of major legislative changes coming to fruition during his term, Americans regularly vote him as one of the best presidents, in the same league as Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • 8. Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy was born November 20, 1925 in Brookline, Massachusetts. Commonly known by his initials RFK. Robert was an American politician. As his brother (John F. Kennedy) Robert got enlisted in the US. Naval Reserve as a Seaman Apprentice on his 18th birthday, his V-12 training was at Harvard (March–November 1944). On December 15, 1945, the US. Navy commissioned the destroyer USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. and shortly thereafter granted Kennedy's request to be released from naval-officer training to serve aboard Kennedy, starting on February 1, 1946, as a seaman apprentice on the ship's shakedown cruise in the Caribbean.On May 30, 1946, he received his honorable discharge from the Navy. For his service in the Navy, Kennedy was eligible for the American Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal. He had been in service for two years (1944–1946). In September 1946, Kennedy entered Harvard as a junior, having received credit for his time in the V-12 program. Kennedy worked hard to make the Harvard varsity football team as an end, was a starter and scored a touchdown in the first game of his senior year before breaking his leg in practice, earning his varsity letter when his coach sent him in for the last minutes of a game against Yale, wearing a cast. Kennedy's father spoke positively of him when he served as a blocking back and sometime receiver for the fleet Dave Hackett. Joseph, Sr. attended some of Robert's practices. He saw his son catch a touchdown pass in an early-season rout of the Western Maryland. Kennedy's teammates admired his physical courage. Kennedy was five feet ten and 155 pounds, which made him too small and too slow for college football. Despite this, he was a fearless hitter and tackled a 230-pound fullback head-on. Wally Flynn, another player, looked up in the huddle after one play to see Kennedy crying after having broken his leg. Disregarding the injury, he kept playing. Kennedy graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in political science in March 1948. After graduating, Kennedy immediately sailed on the RMS Queen Mary with a college friend for a six-month tour of Europe and the Middle East, accredited as a correspondent of the Boston Post, for which he filed six stories. In September 1948, Kennedy enrolled at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville. On June 17, 1950, Kennedy married Ethel Skakel at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Greenwich, Connecticut. Kennedy graduated from law school in June 1951 and flew with Ethel to Greenwich to stay in his father-in-law's guest house. The couple's first child, Kathleen, was born on July 4, 1951. Kennedy spent the summer studying for the Massachusetts bar exam. In September 1951, Kennedy went to San Francisco as a correspondent of the Boston Post to cover the convention concluding the Treaty of Peace with Japan. In October 1951, Kennedy embarked on a seven-week Asian trip with his brother Jack (then Massachusetts 11th district congressman) and his sister Patricia to Israel, India, Vietnam, and Japan. Because of their age gap, the two brothers had previously seen little of each other. Kennedy accompanying his brother came at the behest of his father. This 25,000-mile (40,000 km) trip was the first extended time they had spent together and served to deepen their relationship.
  • 9. In November 1951, Kennedy moved with his wife and daughter to a townhouse in Georgetown in Washington, D.C., and started work as a lawyer in the Internal Security Section (which investigated suspected Soviet agents) of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. In February 1952, he was transferred to the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn to prosecute fraud cases. On June 6, 1952, Kennedy resigned to manage his older brother Jack's successful 1952 U.S. Senate campaign in Massachusetts. JFK's victory was of great importance to the Kennedy family, elevating him to national prominence and turning him into a serious presidential candidate, but the race and his brother's victory were equally important to RFK who had succeeded in eliminating his father's negative perceptions of him that he had sustained since the former's youth. In December 1952, at the behest of his father, Robert Kennedy was appointed by Republican Senator Joe McCarthy as assistant counsel of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. McCarthy was a friend to the Kennedy family, and was the godfather of Robert Kennedy's daughter Kathleen. This was a highly visible job for Kennedy. He resigned in July 1953, but "retained a fondness for McCarthy". The period of July 1953 to January 1954 saw Kennedy have "a professional and personal nadir". This being due to Kennedy feeling that he was adrift while trying to prove himself to the rest of the Kennedy family. When the Democrats gained the majority in January 1955, he became chief counsel. Kennedy was a background figure in the televised McCarthy Hearings of 1954 into the conduct of McCarthy.[50] The Annie Lee Moss incident made Cohn an enemy of Kennedy, which led to him during the hearings of assisting Democratic senators in ridiculing Cohn. The animosity grew to the point of Cohn being restrained after asking Kennedy if he wanted to fight him and the feud became publicized by newspapers. In 1960, he published the book The Enemy Within, describing the corrupt practices within the Teamsters and other unions that he had helped investigate; the book sold very well. Kennedy had drafted the book over the summer of the previous year. Biographer Evan Thomas wrote the book was a bestseller and could have launched Kennedy on a political career on its own, but "family duty called." Kennedy worked on the presidential campaign of his brother John. He stressed the importance of commitment and held members of his own family to the same level of high expectations in that regard as that of the volunteers. In contrast to his role in his brother's previous campaign eight years prior, Kennedy gave stump speeches throughout the primary season, gaining confidence with the platform. Kennedy's ideology "to win at any cost" led him to call on Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr. to attack Hubert Humphrey as a draft dodger. Roosevelt eventually did make the statement that Humphrey avoided service. RFK went to great lengths to protect his brother. Concerned that JFK was going to receive the Democratic Party's nomination, Johnson supporters revealed to the press that Kennedy had Addison's disease, saying that JFK required life-sustaining cortisone treatments. Though in fact a diagnosis had been made, RFK denied it, saying his brother had never had "an ailment described classically as Addison's disease." After securing the nomination, JFK decided to offer Lyndon Johnson the vice presidency. This did not sit well with some Northern Kennedy supporters and
  • 10. RFK tried to convince Johnson to turn down the offer. This attempt was unsuccessful, and Johnson viewed RFK with contempt afterward. After winning the 1960 presidential election, President-elect John F. Kennedy appointed his younger brother Attorney General. The choice was controversial, with The New York Times and The New Republic calling Robert Kennedy inexperienced and unqualified. He had no experience in any state or federal court, causing the President to joke, "I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law." However, Kennedy did have significant experience in studying and fighting organized crime. To a great extent, President Kennedy sought the advice and counsel of his younger brother, resulting in Robert F. Kennedy remaining the President's closest political adviser. Kennedy was relied upon as both the President's primary source of administrative information and as a general counsel with whom trust was implicit, given the familial ties of the two men. He exercised widespread authority over every cabinet department, leading the Associated Press to dub him, "Bobby—Washington's No. 2-man.". The president once remarked about his brother that, "If I want something done and done immediately I rely on the Attorney General. He is very much the doer in this administration, and has an organizational gift I have rarely if ever seen surpassed." As Attorney General, Kennedy pursued a relentless crusade against organized crime and the mafia, sometimes disagreeing on strategy with J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Convictions against organized crime figures rose by 800 percent during his term. On April 4, 1968, Kennedy learned of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. and gave a heartfelt impromptu speech in Indianapolis's inner city, in which Kennedy called for a reconciliation between the races. Riots broke out in 60 cities in the wake of King's death, but not in Indianapolis, a fact many attribute to the effect of this speech. Kennedy attended King's funeral, being the "only white politician to hear only cheers and applause." Kennedy finally won the Indiana Democratic primary on May 7 and the Nebraska primary on May 14, but lost the Oregon primary on May 28. Kennedy scored a major victory in winning the California primary. He addressed his supporters shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in a ballroom at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Leaving the ballroom, he went through the hotel kitchen after being told it was a shortcut, despite being advised to avoid the kitchen by his bodyguard, FBI agent Bill Barry. In a crowded kitchen passageway, Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, opened fire with a .22- caliber revolver. Kennedy was hit three times, after Kennedy had fallen to the floor, Agent Barry saw Sirhan holding a gun and hit him twice in the face while others, including maîtres d' Uecker and Edward Minasian, writer George Plimpton, Olympic gold medal decathlete Rafer Johnson and professional football player Rosey Grier, forced Sirhan against the steam table and disarmed him as he continued firing his gun in random directions. After a minute, Sirhan wrestled free and grabbed the revolver again, but he had already fired all the bullets and was subdued.
  • 11. Barry went to Kennedy and laid his jacket under the candidate's head, later recalling: "I knew immediately it was a .22, a small caliber, so I hoped it wouldn't be so bad, but then I saw the hole in the Senator's head, and I knew" At approximately 12:10 AM, PDT on June 5 he was declared dead. 1968 was a traumatic year for the United States as they suffered a national nervous breakdown after the death of RFK. There was also a second gunman theory for this assassination. The location of Kennedy's wounds suggested that his assailant had stood behind him, but some witnesses said that Sirhan faced west as Kennedy moved through the pantry facing east. This has led to the suggestion that a second gunman actually fired the fatal shot, a possibility supported by coroner Thomas Noguchi who stated that the fatal shot was behind Kennedy's right ear and had been fired at a distance of approximately one inch. Other witnesses, though, said that as Sirhan approached, Kennedy was turning to his left shaking hands, facing north and so exposing his right side. During a re-examination of the case in 1975, the Los Angeles Superior Court ordered expert examination of the possibility of a second gun having been used, and the conclusion of the experts was that there was little or no evidence to support this theory. As recently as 2008, eyewitness John Pilger asserted his belief that there must have been a second gunman. In 2007, analysis of an audio tape recording of the shooting made by freelance reporter Stanislaw Pruszynski appeared to indicate, according to forensic expert Philip Van Praag, that thirteen shots were fired, even though Sirhan's gun held only eight rounds. On February 22, 2012, Sirhan's lawyers, William Pepper and Laurie Dusek, filed a court brief in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles claiming that a second gunman fired the shots that killed Kennedy. It was the fourth and final in a series of federal briefs filed under the writ of habeas corpus by Pepper and Dusek beginning in October 2010. A ruling is now pending in the Sirhan federal case. Robert Kennedy was buried near his brother, President John F. Kennedy, in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. He was buried on June 8, 1968. It was in March 14, 1967 that his brother John F. Kennedy got permanent buried.
  • 12. D.C. Stadium in Washington, D.C. was renamed Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium in 1969. In 1978, the United States Congress posthumously awarded Kennedy its Gold Medal of Honor. In 1998, the United States Mint released a special dollar coin that featured Kennedy on the obverse and the emblems of the United States Department of Justice and the United States Senate on the reverse. In Washington, D.C. on November 20, 2001, U.S. President George W. Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft dedicated the Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building, honoring Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday. They both spoke during the ceremony, as did Kennedy's eldest son, Joseph. On June 4, 2008, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Kennedy, the New York State Assembly voted to rename the Triborough Bridge in New York City the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Bridge, the second bridge in New York City named in honor of the former New York Senator, the RFK Draw Bridge being the first. New York State Governor David Paterson signed the legislation into law on Friday, August 8, 2008. The Kennedy Estate is located is on the island of Matha's Vineyard south of Boston. It was once the home of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. In 1926 he rented a summer cottage around there at 50 Marchant Avenue in Hyannisport. Two years later he decided to purchase the structure which had been erected in 1904 to get enlarged and remodeled to suit his family needs, those needs was for their 9 children to spend their summers and doing all kind of stuff like acquiring a lifelong interest in sailing and other competitive activities. John F. Kennedy used the compound as a base for his successful 1960 U.S. Presidential campaign and later as a summer White House and presidential retreat until his assassination in 1963. On the evening of July 16, 1999 outside of Martha's Vineyard, John F. Kennedy Jr. piloted a Piper Saratoga to attend the wedding of his cousin Rory Kennedy. The plane also carried his wife, Carolyn Bessette, and sister-in-law, Lauren Bessette. The plane went down and it took some days for the others to find where the plane where laid at and of course the three people inside the plane had died with it and what his cousin, Anthony Stanislas Radziwill had told the press was that if Kennedy was still alive "he'll find a way to get out. He possesses the will to survive, enough will for all three of them" The fragments of the plane was found on July 19.
  • 13. There is something called the Kennedy curse as you might have noticed reading all this text and that is quite easy to explain really. How to explain it is quite simple, as the “Kennedy Curse” describes a series of misfortunes known as the Kennedy Family Tragedies involving members of the powerful and celebrated Kennedy Family. Skeptics have argued that many of the events are normal and it is not improbable that a large extended family would experience them, I think that it’s not that “normal” like it’s a curse they have like getting assassinated, plane crashes etc etc. It’s a curse in my eyes. In 2011-2012 two Kennedy members died, it was Kara Kennedy Allen and Mary Richardson Kennedy. Kara died by a heart attack whilst exercising and Mary hung herself. So wonder who will die next by this curse.