"on the treatment of workers at a paper products plant owned by Romney's Bain Capital. Kennedy's new wife Vicki proved to be a strong asset in campaigning. Kennedy and Romney held a widely watched late October debate without a clear winner, but by then Kennedy had pulled ahead in polls and stayed ahead afterward. In the November election, despite a very bad outcome for the Democratic Party nationally, Kennedy won re-election by a 58 percent to 41 percent margin, the closest re-election race of his career. Kennedy's mother Rose died in January 1995 at the age of 104. From then"
"Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington Kathleen Agnes Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (""née"" Kennedy; February 20, 1920 – May 13, 1948), also known as ""Kick"" Kennedy, was an American socialite. She was the daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy, sister of future U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and wife of the Marquess of Hartington, heir apparent to the 10th Duke of Devonshire. When her father was serving as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Kathleen made many friends in London and was the ""debutante of 1938."" Working with the Red Cross, she began a romantic relationship with"
"Rosemary Kennedy Rose Marie ""Rosemary"" Kennedy (September 13, 1918 – January 7, 2005) was the oldest daughter born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and was a sister of President of the United States John F. Kennedy, and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy. Rosemary experienced mental disabilities, and displayed less academic and sporting potential than her siblings; she was slower than all of her siblings when it came to achieving many tasks. However, her disabilities were carefully concealed from the public by her prominent family. In her early young adult years, she also had behavioral"
"in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was the first child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy to die from natural causes. Rosemary Kennedy Rose Marie ""Rosemary"" Kennedy (September 13, 1918 – January 7, 2005) was the oldest daughter born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and was a sister of President of the United States John F. Kennedy, and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy. Rosemary experienced mental disabilities, and displayed less academic and sporting potential than her siblings; she was slower than all of her siblings when it came to achieving many tasks. However, her disabilities were carefully"
"her youthful appearance she could compete with the glamour of Jackie Kennedy. She turned 100 in April 2017 and died on 15 July 2017, aged 100. Martha Kyrle Martha Kyrle (née Schärf; 17 April 1917 – 15 July 2017) was an Austrian physician, philanthropist and the daughter of Adolf Schärf, the former federal president of Austria and his wife Hilda (22 April 1886 – 21 June 1956). Kyrle was born in Vienna. As her mother died before her father was elected federal president, it was she who accompanied her father on state visits and other occasions. Although she was just"
"Katherine Jackson Katherine Esther Jackson (born Kattie B. Screws; May 4, 1930) is the matriarch of the Jackson family. Katherine Jackson was born Kattie B. Screws on May 4, 1930, in Clayton, Alabama, to Prince Albert (October 16, 1907 – January 21, 1995) and Martha Screws (née Upshaw; December 14, 1902 – April 25, 1990). The elder of two daughters, Jackson contracted polio at age two, which left her with a noticeable permanent limp. In 1934, her father changed his surname to ""Scruse"", and renamed his daughter ""Katherine Esther"". That year, Jackson's family moved to East Chicago, Indiana, an industrial"
"her relationship with Jackie Kennedy Onassis. She lived her retirement in Salisbury, Connecticut. In the 2016 biographical film ""Jackie"", Tuckerman is portrayed by actress Greta Gerwig. Tuckerman died on August 1, 2018, of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, at an assisted-living center in Salisbury, Connecticut. She was 89. Nancy Tuckerman Nancy Ludlow Tuckerman (October 24, 1928 – August 1, 2018) was the White House Social Secretary during the Kennedy administration. After the Kennedy assassination, she remained the personal secretary to Jackie Kennedy until the latter's death in 1994. Tuckerman (nicknamed ""Tucky"") was the daughter of Betty (née Thompson; 1901-1977) and Roger"
"Marie Kean Marie Kean (27 June 1918 - 29 December 1993) was an Irish actress of stage and screen whose career spanned over 40 years. ""The Stage"" called her one of Ireland's most impressive actresses, and ""an artist of considerable emotional depth and theatrical command.” Kean grew up in the village of Rush, County Dublin, and was educated at Loreto College, North Great George's Street, Dublin. She learnt her craft at the Gaiety School of Acting and was part of the Abbey Theatre company until 1961. Kean's leading role as the kindly matriarch, Mrs. Kennedy, in the Radio Éireann serial"
"neck, and was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. She began chemotherapy in January 1994 and publicly announced the diagnosis when she stated that the initial prognosis was good. She continued to work at Doubleday, but by March the cancer had spread to her spinal cord and brain, and by May to her liver. Onassis made her last trip home from New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center on May 18, 1994. The following night at 10:15 p.m., she died in her sleep at age 64. John F. Kennedy, Jr. announced his mother's death to the press, stating she had been ""surrounded by her"
"She was also the first Catholic to serve as First Lady. On November 22, 1963, Jacqueline Kennedy was riding with the President in an open-air motorcade in Dallas, Texas, when he was assassinated. Following his funeral, she and her children largely withdrew from public view. In 1968, she married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. Following Aristotle Onassis's death in 1975, she had a career as a publishing editor in New York City. She died on May 19, 1994 of Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, aged 64. During her lifetime, Jacqueline Kennedy was regarded as an international fashion icon. Her famous ensemble of a"
"untimely death, and for Senator Edward M. Kennedy briefly. In 1969 she assumed a position in the United States Postal Service Library Division from which she retired in 1992 after thirty one years of public service. After her death in May 1994, Mrs. Onassis remembered Ms. Paredes in her final will, leaving her a total of US$50,000 in gratitude for her assistance and friendship. Ms. Paredes and her son, Gustavo, who was a good friend of Ms. Onassis's son, John F. Kennedy, Jr. attended her burial at Arlington National Cemetery on May 24, 1994. Paredes and her family maintained a"
"as the inspiration for Eunice Kennedy Shriver to later found the Special Olympics, although Shriver told ""The New York Times"" in 1995 that that was not the entire case. In 1983, the Kennedy family gave $1 million to renovate Alverno House. The gift added a therapeutic pool and enlarged the chapel. Rosemary Kennedy died from natural causes on January 7, 2005, at the Fort Atkinson Memorial Hospital in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, at the age of 86, with her surviving siblings, sisters Jean, Eunice, and Patricia, and brother Ted, by her side. She was buried beside her parents in Holyhood Cemetery"
"Ethel Kennedy Ethel Skakel Kennedy (born April 11, 1928) is an American human-rights campaigner and widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy is the third of four daughters and sixth child of George and Ann Brannack Skakel, and was a classmate of her future sister-in-law Jean Kennedy Smith at Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart. Kennedy is one of two surviving Skakel siblings and the longest lived. She and her husband married in 1950 and had eleven children. Their house, Hickory Hill in McLean, Virginia, was the scene of exclusive parties. Shortly after her husband's death, she founded the Robert"
"continued working into late life, publishing books in every decade from the 1950s, her final book being, ""Taste: Acquiring What Money Can't Buy"", released in 2007. Baldrige died of cardiac complications at a nursing facility in Bethesda, Maryland on October 29, 2012. Mary M. Mitchell, a longtime friend and collaborator, confirmed her death. She was survived by her husband, Robert Hollensteiner, and their two children, Clare and Malcolm. Letitia Baldrige Letitia ""Tish"" Baldrige (February 9, 1926 – October 29, 2012) was an American etiquette expert, public relations executive and author who was most famous for serving as Jacqueline Kennedy's Social"
"Nancy Tuckerman Nancy Ludlow Tuckerman (October 24, 1928 – August 1, 2018) was the White House Social Secretary during the Kennedy administration. After the Kennedy assassination, she remained the personal secretary to Jackie Kennedy until the latter's death in 1994. Tuckerman (nicknamed ""Tucky"") was the daughter of Betty (née Thompson; 1901-1977) and Roger Tuckerman (1898-1967). She grew up in Southampton, New York and Farmington, Connecticut. Her father was a successful Manhattan stockbroker. Her aunt (her father's sister) was the decorator Dorothy Draper. She had a sister, Cynthia Tuckerman Gay (died 2014) and a brother, Roger Tuckerman. Her nephew John Gay"
"her battle against lung cancer. On September 16, 2011, two years after her father's death, Kennedy suffered a fatal heart attack in a Washington, D.C., health club after her daily workout. She was 51. She was interred at Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts, alongside her grandparents, Rose and Joseph Kennedy. Kara Kennedy Kara Anne Kennedy Allen (February 27, 1960 – September 16, 2011) was a member of the American political dynasty, the Kennedy family. She was the oldest of the three children of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts and Joan Bennett Kennedy, and a niece of President John F."
"as children and as adults who later assisted their aunt and cousin to refurbish their dilapidated, condemned home. Lee Radziwill Caroline Lee Radziwiłł (née Bouvier, formerly Bouvier Canfield and Ross; ; born March 3, 1933), formerly Princess Caroline Lee Radziwiłł, is an American socialite, public-relations executive, and interior decorator. She is the younger sister of the late First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy. Her niece Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is named after her. She has married and divorced three times, the marriage to third husband Herbert Ross ending in divorce shortly before his death in"
"it was claimed, choosing to enter a hospital for routine medical tests. ""The Kennedy Debutante"", a fictional novelization of Kennedy's life, was published by Berkley Books in 2018. Written by Kerri Maher, it was well received, including being named a ""Best Book of the Week"" by the New York Post. Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington Kathleen Agnes Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington (""née"" Kennedy; February 20, 1920 – May 13, 1948), also known as ""Kick"" Kennedy, was an American socialite. She was the daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Kennedy, sister of future U.S. President John F. Kennedy, and"
"movement. Upon the death of her sister Rosemary Kennedy on January 7, 2005, Shriver became the eldest of the four then-surviving children of Joseph and Rose Kennedy. Her sister Patricia Kennedy died on September 17, 2006, and her brother Edward M. Kennedy died on August 25, 2009, leaving former U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith as the only surviving sibling. Shriver, who was believed to have suffered from Addison's disease, suffered a stroke and broken hip in 2005. On November 18, 2007, she was admitted to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, where she spent several weeks. On August 7,"
"so that he could complete his studies at Harvard Law School. He had been a Harvard football captain and a decorated PT boat captain in World War II. He died in office in 1976. Brooks continued performing in summer stock theater after his death, and hosted the first television interview program in Boston in the early 1950s (on WBZ-TV). She retired from public performances after that, concentrating on raising her family. The couple had four children, the eldest of whom was President Kennedy's godson. Brooks died on August 1, 1995, in Cape Neddick, Maine, aged 80. She was survived by"
"his role in it, but that other members of the Kennedy family had written letters to them. Their only child gone, they never felt that justice had really been done in the case. Kopechne's father died in a nursing home in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania in 2003. Her mother died in a nursing home in Plains Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania in 2007. In 2015, two cousins of Kopechne's in Pennsylvania self-published the book ""Our Mary Jo"", which sought to emphasize the impact of her life rather than discuss Kennedy or Chappaquiddick. It also includes some of the hundreds of condolence letters"
"Kara Kennedy Kara Anne Kennedy Allen (February 27, 1960 – September 16, 2011) was a member of the American political dynasty, the Kennedy family. She was the oldest of the three children of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts and Joan Bennett Kennedy, and a niece of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Kara Kennedy served on the boards of numerous charities and was a filmmaker and television producer. Kara Anne Kennedy was born in 1960 to Joan and Ted Kennedy in Bronxville, New York. In his book ""True Compass"", Senator Kennedy wrote about his joy at"
"Rose Kennedy. A baptismal certificate from the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich shows that the godparents at the July 22, 1951 baptismal were Jean Kennedy and Daniel Walsh, a professor at Manhattanville College who later became a Catholic priest. She was named after her aunt, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington. It was not assumed that the girls in the politically oriented Kennedy family would run for office or become public persons, while she was growing up. However, after her uncle President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, her father wrote her saying, ""As the oldest of the next generation"
"Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend (born July 4, 1951) is an American attorney who was the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Maryland from 1995 to 2003. She ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Maryland in 2002. In 2010 Townsend became the chair of the non-profit American Bridge, an organization whose focus is to raise funds for Democratic candidates and causes. She is a member of the prominent political Kennedy family. Townsend was born as Kathleen Hartington Kennedy in Greenwich, Connecticut, the eldest of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel's 11 children, the eldest grandchild of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and"
"Kerry Kennedy Mary Kerry Kennedy (born September 8, 1959) is an American human rights activist, writer, and president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. She is the seventh child and third daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel. During her 15-year marriage to now-New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, she was known as Kerry Kennedy Cuomo from 1991 to 2003. She is the president of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. She is also a niece of the late President John F. Kennedy and United States Senator Ted Kennedy, and a cousin of former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy and"
"Lee Radziwill Caroline Lee Radziwiłł (née Bouvier, formerly Bouvier Canfield and Ross; ; born March 3, 1933), formerly Princess Caroline Lee Radziwiłł, is an American socialite, public-relations executive, and interior decorator. She is the younger sister of the late First Lady, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, and sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy. Her niece Caroline Bouvier Kennedy is named after her. She has married and divorced three times, the marriage to third husband Herbert Ross ending in divorce shortly before his death in 2001. Caroline Lee Bouvier was born in Southampton, New York to stockbroker John Vernou Bouvier III and socialite"
"Patricia Kennedy Lawford Patricia Helen ""Pat"" Kennedy Lawford (May 6, 1924 – September 17, 2006) was an American socialite and the sixth of nine children of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. She was a sister of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Ted Kennedy. Pat wanted to be a film producer, a profession not readily open to young women in her time. She married English actor Peter Lawford in 1954, but they experienced a serious culture-clash and divorced in 1966. Patricia Helen Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. She attended Roehampton Sacred Heart Convent School"
"Southampton Cemetery. Patricia Kennedy Lawford Patricia Helen ""Pat"" Kennedy Lawford (May 6, 1924 – September 17, 2006) was an American socialite and the sixth of nine children of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. She was a sister of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Ted Kennedy. Pat wanted to be a film producer, a profession not readily open to young women in her time. She married English actor Peter Lawford in 1954, but they experienced a serious culture-clash and divorced in 1966. Patricia Helen Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. She attended Roehampton Sacred Heart"
"that Kopechne's parents received. Because Kopechne had been a great believer in education as well as her Catholic faith, the family members started a scholarship fund in Kopechne's name at nearby Misericordia University. Mary Jo Kopechne Mary Jo Kopechne (; July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969) was an American teacher, secretary, and political campaign specialist who died in a car accident at Chappaquiddick Island on July 18, 1969, while she was a passenger in a car being driven by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. Kopechne was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, although she is sometimes described as being from nearby Forty"
"as matron of the National Home for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, then accepted a matron position at Howard University before retiring at 75 years of age due to a heart condition. She spent most of her remaining years with the Willis family, who had become like family during her mother's tenure with them. Jacobs suffered from a heart condition and her health deteriorated following several years of being a full time nurse to her ailing mother. She died on April 5, 1917 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she was buried alongside her mother in the family plot"
"established by Mellon in memory of her father. Mellon's husband, Paul, died in 1999, aged 91. Shortly thereafter, in May 2000, her daughter Eliza was hit by a truck while crossing a Manhattan street, causing a severe brain injury and full-body paralysis. Eliza spent the remaining eight years of her life under round-the-clock care at Oak Spring Farms, and died in 2008. Caroline Kennedy, daughter of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, sat beside Mrs. Mellon during the funeral. Mellon was a long-time Democrat whose political views often conflicted with those of her husband. In 2004, she expressed interest in presidential candidate John"
"Patrick Bouvier Kennedy Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (August 7, 1963 – August 9, 1963) was the infant child of United States President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. He was the younger brother of Caroline and John Jr.; another daughter was stillborn. Born prematurely, Kennedy lived just over 39 hours before desperate attempts to save him failed, putting the First Family and nation into mourning. Three months later, his death was eclipsed by his father's assassination, but the Kennedy infant's death brought hyaline membrane disease (HMD) into the public consciousness and inspired further research. In August 1963, the 34-year-old"
"Mary Jo Kopechne Mary Jo Kopechne (; July 26, 1940 – July 18, 1969) was an American teacher, secretary, and political campaign specialist who died in a car accident at Chappaquiddick Island on July 18, 1969, while she was a passenger in a car being driven by U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. Kopechne was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, although she is sometimes described as being from nearby Forty Fort, Pennsylvania. She was an only child. Her father, Joseph Kopechne, was an insurance salesman, and her mother, Gwen (née Jennings), was a homemaker. Kopechne was of part Polish heritage. Two of her"