Aviation accidents , murders , death by overdose, traffic accident, lobotomy, homicides, suicides , very serious diseases! This is a summary with titles of the tragedy of the Kennedy family , who has experienced death and mourning in the superlative degree!
After a car accident in 1969, Edward Kennedy - who by then had lost four of his siblings - wondered if "Some awful curse really did haunt the Kennedys ». He was not wrong…
The countless number of tragic deaths that… visited the family has made many consider them “cursed ». The tragedies the Kennedys suffered, combined with their glamor and power, have sparked the imagination of people who see a veil of superstition surrounding the Kennedys. Read the most notable events of the Kennedy "curse" and draw your own conclusions, All this Coincidence? Sure…
In the beginning was Joseph
Rosemary's Lobotomy
Rosemary Kennedy , sister of J.F. K. she was the eldest daughter of Joseph Kennedy. The gynecologist-obstetrician who brought her into the world was late in arriving at the delivery and the midwife, who did not want the baby to be born in the doctor's absence, put her hand in the mother's womb to hold the child in place. But her actions were to mark his health forever!
deficient oxygenation of Rosemary's brain during childbirth caused irreparable damage in her mental functions. As she grew up, she lacked the growth that other children her age had. Her family sent her to schools for "mentally retarded" children and focused their attention on her. As Rosemary reached the age of 20, she began to experience violent mood swings and frequent violent convulsions. Her father then decided to subject Rosemary to a new experimental operation, a lobotomy, choosing not to inform his family until after it was completed.
The lobotomy failed, leaving Rosemary with the mental abilities of a 2-year-old , while taking away her ability to walk and talk. The Kennedy daughter spent the rest of her life in private institutions, hidden from the public eye, as her family believed that if her mental illness became known it could be detrimental to their political ambitions. Rosemary died forgotten by all in 2005.
War takes the first
The Kennedys' eldest son, Joseph Jr , he was charismatic, intelligent and loved by all. His father had ambitions to one day see Joe Jr. President – he would be the first Catholic president – of the United States and had already begun a political career when the United States entered World War II .
Joe enlisted in June 1941 and trained as a Naval Aviator before being transferred to Britain · successfully completed 25 combat missions and volunteered to take part in two top secret missions known as Operation Venus and Operation Anvil .
On one of these missions, in August 1944, the explosives he was carrying in his plane detonated, destroying the plane and killing Kennedy and his co-pilot. Details of his final mission and death were kept secret until the end of the war. Joseph Jr. was only 29 years old when he died. His death is said to have influenced John Fitzgerald Kennedy who made it his life's goal to become President of the USA .
Kathleen is killed in a plane crash
Kathleen Kennedy , Joseph's second daughter, was nicknamed “Kick ” (kicks) for her lively nature. But her marriage was a tragedy, like the entire life of the Kennedys:Kathleen married Lord Hartington in 1944 and they lived happily for less than five weeks before he too was called up to fight in France . Hartington was killed by a sniper during a battle with the Germans in Belgium, almost a month after the death of Kathleen's brother.
In 1948 Kathleen's father served as an ambassador of the United States to the United Kingdom and Kathleen made many friends in London. In 1948 he found in the person of the recently divorced Lord Fitzwilliams the new love of her life. On May 13, 1948, Lady Hartington-Kennedy and Lord Fitzwilliam flew from Paris to the French Riviera for vacation with a small aircraft. The plane fell into a storm and the pilot soon lost control; it then began a frantic descent towards the ground, and despite the captain's efforts to raise it, the pressure inside the fuselage proved fatal. All 4 occupants were killed instantly!
Newborn Patrick dies
On August 7, 1963 , Jacqueline Kennedy gave birth to a premature baby boy, who was quickly baptized and named Patrick · he lived just 39 hours, succumbing to complications of premature labor despite the doctors' desperate efforts to save him. Jackie, in 1956, had miscarried:she was six months pregnant when she began to bleed; she was admitted in a miserable condition to the hospital, where the child - a girl - was pronounced dead. The Kennedys later had two children:Carolina and John Jr. Jackie died of lymph node cancer in 1993 aged just 64. Let's say that the curse of the Kennedy family "touched" the Onassis too via Fireplace…
The murder that shocked the world
It is one of the most famous murders Head of State in History:on November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. The story has been told thousands of times and is well known. The President was 46 years old and had been in office for 1,036 days, or just under 3 years. His death shocked the whole world. John F. Kennedy's family lost not only their president, but also their husband, father, uncle, son and brother. And the curse continues…
And Robert the same fate!
Another prominent member of the Democratic Party, Robert Kennedy (known by his initials:RFK) served as U.S. Attorney General between 1961 and 1964, and then was a senator from New York . By 1968, RFK was the leading candidate for the Democratic top seat, following in the footsteps of his brother John. Shortly after winning the California primary on June 5, 1968, RFK was shot by Sirhan Sirhan , a young Palestinian man who claimed he acted in retaliation for RFK's pro-Israel stance during the Six Day War of 1967. Another violent death among the Kennedy family deaths!
A dead woman in the lake and a career at the bottom
The summer of 1969 Edward (Ted) Kennedy and his staff were on Chappaquiddick Island as part of the presidential campaign. Mary Jo Kopecny he was 28 years old and a key figure in Ted's team. On the evening of July 18 - two nights after the Apollo 11 moon landing - Ted and Mary left a reception together, which he and his cousin Joe Gargan threw to honor 6 women who had worked on the Bob Kennedy campaign .
Somewhere on Dike Bridge Ted lost control of the vehicle he was driving. The car skidded and ended up in Poucha Lake. With the vehicle overturned at the bottom of the lake, Ted was trying to open the door and get to the surface. As for Mary, no one knew if she attempted it or if she lost consciousness. The 37-year-old politician, however, was able to emerge. Kennedy, he claimed, dived again and again to find Mary and help her. Others say he didn't even attempt such a thing.
Kennedy called Joseph Gargan and his friend Paul Markham; they returned to the scene of the accident and tried to retrieve the unfortunate woman; in vain! And what did Ted do? He returned with the other two to his hotel! It took 9 hours for the fire brigade to be informed and to retrieve Mary Kopetsny dead.
Kennedy tried, found guilty for abandoning a victim and was sentenced to a prison sentence 2 months suspended and driving license revoked for 16 months. In 1969 everyone believed that Ted Kennedy would become President of the USA. The Chappaquiddick Incident , as it became known, but "gave" the majority to Jimmy Carter !
Strike from cancer
Edward Kennedy's son and JFK's nephew, Ted Kennedy junior , was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer in his right leg; this led doctors to quickly and successfully amputate it in November 1973, and the cancer did not recur.
Strike from drugs and... tree
The fourth son of Robert Kennedy and Ethel Shackel, David , nearly drowned while swimming in Malibu, aged 13, but was saved at the last minute by his father. The next day David would watch his father's murder live on TV! David Kennedy turned to drug use to deal with the psychological trauma he had experienced, as well as pain from a 1973 car accident that led him to opioids. Despite numerous attempts at rehab, David never broke his addiction; he was found dead in April 1984, of an overdose of a combination of cocaine and drugs.
It was New Year's Eve of 1997 when Michael Kennedy , sixth of Robert and Ethel's 11 children, David's brother, died in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado . Michael Kennedy was not wearing a helmet or other safety equipment and hit a tree. The blow was fatal.
Another plane crash
John Kennedy Jr he was born a few days after his father was elected president of the USA and from the beginning of his life the spotlight fell on him. John Jr. lost his father shortly before his third birthday; he studied law and worked as a barrister until the 1990s when he left the practice to publish George magazine ». On July 16, 1999, while on his way to Massachusetts to attend the wedding of his cousin Rory Kennedy, his private plane, in which he was the pilot, crashed on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean . John's wife, Caroline Bessette, and her sister were on board, and they were killed. John's body was recovered in the following days. It is believed that Kennedy became disoriented and crashed. And if you think that the Kennedys' misfortune ends somewhere there, you are wrong...
And two suicides
In 2012 Mary Richardson Kennedy she is found hanged in her home in one of New York's most affluent suburbs. Mary Richardson Kennedy, 52, was the estranged wife of Robert Kennedy Jr. and for many years she fought her own battle with alcohol and drugs. Mary Richardson had married in 1994 the son of the assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy and nephew of the US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and together they had four children.
In August 2019 the 22-year-old Chirse Kennedy , granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy was found dead in the home she shared with her grandmother in a complex in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts . Circe Kennedy was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead. The forensic report spoke of acute toxicity from methadone, diazepam, nordiazepam, fluoxetine, norfluoxetine and ethanol. Circe Kennedy suffered from depression.
Double choke for the finale
In April 2020 , 40-year-old Maev Fahey Kennedy - granddaughter of the assassinated RFK, brother of the also assassinated JFK - and her 8-year-old son drowned in the sea chasing a ball! After a four-day fruitless search, divers recovered the body of Maev Fahey Kennedy Townsend McKean from the waters of the Chesapeake Bay, on the east coast of the USA.
The 40-year-old Maeve together with the eldest of her three children, Gideon, had set out in a canoe to the sea in search of the ball they had been playing with on the beach. Strong winds were blowing and apparently Maeve underestimated the weather conditions. Eight-year-old Gideon's body was found six days after he disappeared. Mother and son have been added to the macabre, long-running list of members of the Kennedy dynasty who have "gone" violently.
"Don't wish for easy lives. Wish you were stronger", the most famous of the Kennedys, JFK, once said... His Family - those who are left after all - must be laughing bitterly at his quote...
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