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Passengers aboard the RMS Mauretania 2 (launched in 1938).

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Joseph Kennedy Jr

Joseph Kennedy Jr.’s Childhood and Education Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. was born on July 25, 1915, at his parents’ rented summer house in Hull, Massachusetts, near Boston. His father and namesake was the son of a Boston saloon owner and the grandson of Irish immigrants. Joseph Kennedy Sr. made a large fortune in the stock […]

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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 02: Ambassador Caroline Kennedy speaks at American Visionary: John F. Kennedy's Life and Times debut gala at Smithsonian American Art Museum on May 2, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Larry French/Getty Images for WS Productions)

Caroline Kennedy

Caroline Kennedy’s Childhood and Education Caroline Bouvier Kennedy was born on November 27, 1957, in New York City. At the time, her father was a U.S. senator from Massachusetts. She spent the first few years of her life living with her parents in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., before moving into the White House […]

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United States Senator and member of the Democratic Party, Edward 'Ted' Kennedy (1932- 2009) speaking at a press conference in Boston, Massachusetts, 9th January 1979. (Photo by Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

Ted Kennedy

Ted Kennedy’s Childhood and Education Edward Moore Kennedy was born in Boston on February 22, 1932, the youngest of nine children of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. (1888-1969), a wealthy financier who served as the first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and later as ambassador to Great Britain, and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890-1995), the […]

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Jacqueline Kennedy at the launching of the USS Lafayette submarine.

Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier: Early Life and Marriage Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born on July 28, 1929, in Southampton, New York. Her parents, Janet Lee and stockbroker John “Black Jack” Bouvier, divorced in 1942, and Jackie’s mother married lawyer Hugh Auchincloss. After a privileged childhood spent in New York City, East Hampton, Virginia and Newport, Rhode […]

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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, hanging a gold medal around  18-year-old Adonis Brown of Baltimore after winning the mile run in 5 minutes, 12 seconds in the 1972 International Special Olympics in Los Angeles.

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The Kennedy Family Secret That Helped Inspire the Special Olympics

After a mishandling during birth and a brutally botched medical procedure, Rosemary Kennedy was compromised for life—but that would inspire her sister to make a difference.

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10 Things You Didn’t Know About Robert F. Kennedy

As we commemorate the anniversary of his death, here are 10 things you may not know about Robert F. Kennedy.

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A tow truck pulling Senator Edward Kennedy's car out of Poucha Pond after the accident on Chappaquiddick Island that killed Mary Jo Kopechne. (Credit: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)

Ted Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick Incident: What Really Happened

The fateful events at Chappaquiddick ended Mary Jo Kopechne’s life and derailed Ted Kennedy’s presidential ambitions for good.

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How Bobby Kennedy Started the War on Gangs

Long before MS-13, Bobby Kennedy battled J. Edgar Hoover to take on the Mafia.

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2009

Ted Kennedy, “liberal lion of the Senate,” dies at 77

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1999

JFK Jr. killed in plane crash

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1986

Maria Shriver marries Arnold Schwarzenegger

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1991

William Kennedy Smith’s rape trial begins

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