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Kennedy Families Tragedies

1941 Rosemary Kennedy:
The daughter of Joseph and Rose Kennedy was institutionalized because of retardation and a failed lobotomy.

1944 Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.:
The eldest son of Joseph Kennedy, the family's patriarch, and his wife. Rose. His plane went down over the English Channel during World War II. He was 29 years old.

1963 John F. Kennedy:
The son of Joseph and Rose Kennedy and the 35th president was assassinated in Dallas on November 22. He was 46 years old.

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy:
The son of President Kennedy was born prematurely and died three months before his father's assassination.

1968 Robert F. Kennedy:
The brother of president Kennedy and Sen. Edward Kennedy was shot and killed June 5 in Los Angeles after winning the California Democratic presidential primary. He was 46

1969 Edward M. Kennedy:
The Massachusetts senator and brother of President John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy drove a car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts July 18. Aide Mary Jo kopechne was found dead later in the submerged vehicle.

1973 Edward Kennedy Jr.:
The son of Sen. Edward Kennedy lost his right leg because of cancer.

Joseph Kennedy:
The eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy was involved in a car accident that left a female passenger paralyzed for life. He was convicted of reckless driving and fined $100.

1984 David Kennedy:
The forth child of Robert Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy died from a drug overdose Easter weekend in a Palm beach hotel room. He was 28.

1986 Patrick J. Kennedy:
The teenage son of Sen. Edward Kennedy, now a Democratic congressman for Rhode Island, spent time in a drug rehabilitation clinic for cocaine addiction.

1991 William Kennedy Smith:
The nephew of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was acquitted December 11th of raping a 30-year-old Jupiter, Fla., woman at the Kennedy estate in Palm Beach.

1997 Michael Kennedy:
The sixth child of the late Robert F. Kennedy was killed Dec 31 in a skiing accident at Aspen, Colo. He was 39.

1999 John F. Kennedy Jr.:
The only son of the slain president, his wife and her sister-in-law were killed in a plane crash en route to his cousin Rory Kennedy's wedding in Martha's Vineyard.