Kennedy curse

Jacqueline Kennedy, accompanied by her brothers-in-law, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Senator Ted Kennedy, walking from the White House as part of the funeral procession accompanying President Kennedy's casket to St. Matthew’s Cathedral.

The Kennedy curse is a series of deaths, accidents, assassinations, and other calamities involving members of the American Kennedy family.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The alleged curse has primarily struck the descendants of businessman Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., but it has also affected family friends, associates, and other relatives. Political assassinations and plane crashes have been the most common manifestations of the "curse". Following the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969, Ted Kennedy is quoted saying he questioned if "some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys."[9] However skeptics argue that it is not improbable for a large extended family to experience similar events over the course of several generations.[10][11]

Chronology

Events that have been treated as evidence of a curse include:

Kennedy deaths

Kennedy disabilities

  • November 1941 – Rosemary Kennedy, age 23, struggled to read and write, and she suffered from mood swings, seizures, and violent outbursts. During birth, Rosemary was deprived of oxygen as her mother and nurse waited for the doctor to arrive.[25] As she grew older, she became more rebellious and the family worried she would do something that could tarnish the Kennedy reputation.[26] In an attempt to cure or treat his daughter, Joseph Kennedy secretly arranged for her to undergo a prefrontal lobotomy, which was seen as a promising treatment for various mental illnesses. Instead of saving Rosemary, the now-discredited procedure left her mentally and physically incapacitated. Rosemary remained institutionalized in seclusion, in rural Wisconsin, until her death in 2005.[4][5][6][19][14] Her family remained distant for most of Rosemary's life, but Eunice Kennedy Shriver, her sister, grew close to her later in life. Eunice went on to found the Special Olympics and the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation which researches developmental and intellectual disabilities.[26]
  • December 19, 1961 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., age 73, suffered a massive stroke which left him paralyzed on his right side. He also struggled with aphasia, which severely affected his ability to speak.[27]
  • November 17, 1973 – Edward M. Kennedy Jr., age 12, had his right leg surgically amputated as a result of bone cancer. He underwent an experimental two-year drug treatment to cure the cancer.[28][29]

Other incidents

  • June 19, 1964 – U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy survived a plane crash that killed one of his aides as well as the pilot. The plane was on its way to a Democratic State Convention in Springfield.[30] The plane crashed in an apple orchard near Southampton, Massachusetts. The senator was pulled from the wreckage by passenger (and fellow senator) Birch Bayh. Kennedy spent five months in a hospital recovering from a broken back, a punctured lung, broken ribs, and internal bleeding.[4][5][14][31] Following the crash, Robert F. Kennedy remarked to aide Ed Guthman: "Somebody up there doesn't like us."[32]
  • July 18, 1969 – Ted Kennedy accidentally drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, resulting in the drowning death of 28-year-old passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.[4][5][6][7][14] In his televised statement a week later, Ted said that on the night of the incident he wondered "whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys."[33] Ted did not report the accident to the police until the next morning and pled guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident.[34]
  • August 13, 1973 – Joseph P. Kennedy II was the driver of a Jeep in Nantucket, Massachusetts that crashed and left his passenger, Pam Kelley, paralyzed. Fellow passenger and brother David A. Kennedy was injured.[4][6][19]
  • May 4, 2006 – U.S. Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy crashed his automobile while intoxicated into a barricade on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., at 2:45 a.m. He later revealed an addiction to prescription medications Ambien and Phenergan and pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of prescription drugs, sentenced to one year probation and a fine of $350.[35][36]

See also

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b "Kennedy Family Tragedies". The Washington Post. July 18, 1999. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
  2. ^ Carr, Pat; Hulteng, Lee. "Kennedy Family Tragedies". The Courant. Hartford, Connecticut. Archived from the original on April 23, 2014. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
  3. ^ McGrory, Brian (July 18, 1999). "Family Overshadowed by a Litany of Tragedy". The Boston Globe. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Klein, Edward (2004). The Kennedy Curse: Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-0-312-31293-0.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Jones, Sam; Tran, Mark (August 26, 2009). "History of the Kennedy Curse". The Guardian. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g "The Kennedy Curse". Hartford Courant. Archived from the original on August 28, 2009. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
  7. ^ a b "Is Pat's Crash Part of Kennedy Curse?". Good Morning America. May 5, 2006. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
  8. ^ Lacayo, Richard (August 26, 2009). "Ted Kennedy, 1932–2009: The Brother Who Mattered Most". Time. Archived from the original on August 30, 2009. Retrieved August 26, 2009.
  9. ^ Selk, Avi. "Ted Kennedy spoke of a family curse after deadly Chappaquiddick crash. Maybe he was right". National Post. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
  10. ^ "Kennedy Curse". The Skeptic's Dictionary. Retrieved August 29, 2009.
  11. ^ O'Dowd, Niall (September 18, 2011). "Talk of a Kennedy Curse Is Nonsense, Latest Death of Kara Revives Idle Chatter". IrishCentral. Retrieved May 19, 2012.
  12. ^ Renehan, Edward J. Jr. (2002). The Kennedys at War, 1937–1945. New York: Doubleday. p. 304. ISBN 978-0-385-50165-1.
  13. ^ "Obituary: Major Lord Hartington". The Times. September 19, 1944. p. 6.
  14. ^ a b c d e f g Negrin, Matt (May 16, 2012). "Kennedy Curse: A Political Family's Troubled Life". ABC News. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  15. ^ a b c O'Brien, Shane (September 1, 2023). "Who was Arabella Kennedy?". irishcentral.com. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
  16. ^ "New puzzle added in Florida murder". The Pantagraph. Bloomington, Illinois. January 26, 1974. p. 1. Retrieved September 23, 2021 – via newspapers.com.
  17. ^ Stuart, Reginald (April 26, 1984). "Robert Kennedy's Son David Found Dead In Hotel". The New York Times. Retrieved March 9, 2024.
  18. ^ Balz, Dan (January 2, 1998). "Legacy of Untimely Death Continues". The Washington Post. p. A4. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
  19. ^ a b c King, John (July 17, 1999). "Tragedy Has Repeatedly Stalked Kennedy Clan". CNN. Retrieved February 15, 2008.
  20. ^ "RFK Jr.'s Troubled Estranged Wife Found Dead in NY". Google News. Associated Press. May 16, 2012. Archived from the original on May 20, 2012. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
  21. ^ Spillane, Geoff (November 1, 2019). "Saoirse Kennedy Hill died of accidental overdose, document shows". Fall River Herald News.
  22. ^ Osborne, Mark (April 4, 2020). "Daughter, grandson of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, RFK's daughter, presumed dead in canoe accident". ABC News. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
  23. ^ "The body of Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, was located by Charles County Dive and Rescue". WEAU. Associated Press. April 6, 2020. Archived from the original on April 7, 2020. Retrieved April 7, 2020.
  24. ^ Carlson, Adam; Kantor, Wendy Grossman; Neumann, Sean (April 8, 2020). "Cause of Death Revealed for Kennedy Granddaughter Who Had Vanished in Canoe Accident with Son". People. United States: Meredith Corporation. Archived from the original on April 9, 2020. Retrieved April 9, 2020.
  25. ^ Serena, Katie (November 2, 2017). "The Forgotten Kennedy Sibling Who Was Lobotomized So That JFK Could Succeed". All That's Interesting. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
  26. ^ a b "Rosemary Kennedy, The Eldest Kennedy Daughter (U.S. National Park Service)". National Park Service. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
  27. ^ People: May 22, 1964
  28. ^ BG Series
  29. ^ Clymer, A Biography, pp. 205–208.
  30. ^ "Senator Kennedy Tells of His Rescue in Plane Crash (Published 1964)". The New York Times. October 20, 1964. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
  31. ^ "The Luck of the Kennedys". Check-Six.com. May 8, 2008. Retrieved May 1, 2012.
  32. ^ Larry Tye. Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon, p. 320
  33. ^ Kennedy, Edward. "Address to the People of Massachusetts on Chappaquiddick." 25 July 1969. https://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/tedkennedychappaquiddick.htm
  34. ^ Pruitt, Sarah (September 4, 2018). "Ted Kennedy's Chappaquiddick Incident: What Really Happened". History. Retrieved March 4, 2021.
  35. ^ "Rep. Kennedy entering rehab after crash - May 5, 2006". CNN.
  36. ^ "Life After Fender Bender - Roll Call". August 21, 2009. Archived from the original on August 21, 2009.

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