Tragedy has stalked the Kennedy household for generations.
The heartbreak mounted once more this week after Tatiana Schlossberg, President John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter, revealed she is battling a uncommon and aggressive type of leukemia.
Her terminal analysis provides to a staggering record of deaths, disasters and sudden losses which have lengthy fueled discuss of a “Kennedy curse,” shadowing America’s most well-known political dynasty from warplanes and assassinations to overdoses, deadly crashes and heartbreaking sickness.
2025
Caroline Kennedy’s daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, declares in a New Yorker essay terminal most cancers analysis and lower than a 12 months to stay.
2020
Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, the granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, and her son Gideon, 8, drown in a canoe accident on Chesapeake Bay.
2019
RFK’s granddaughter, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, dies at 22 of an unintended overdose on the household compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
2012
RFK Jr.’s spouse, Mary Richardson Kennedy, dies by suicide at age 52 at her Bedford, NY dwelling amid a bitter divorce struggle.
2011
Ted Kennedy’s eldest daughter, Kara, 51, collapses and dies of a coronary heart assault after a exercise at a Washington, DC well being membership. She had beforehand undergone aggressive remedy for lung most cancers years earlier.
1999
JFK’s solely son, John F. Kennedy Jr., 38, his spouse Caroline Bessette and her sister Lauren, die when the small aircraft he was piloting plunges into the Atlantic off Martha’s Winery.
1997
RFK’s son Michael, 39, is killed in a snowboarding accident in Aspen, Colo.
1984
RFK’s son David, 28, is discovered useless of a drug overdose in a Palm Seaside lodge.
1969
Sen. Ted Kennedy drives off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Mass., and aide Mary Jo Kopechne, 28, is discovered useless within the submerged automotive.
1968
President John F. Kennedy’s brother, Robert, is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan on the Ambassador Resort in Los Angeles, simply after profitable the California presidential main
1963
President John F. Kennedy, 46, is assassinated whereas driving in a Dallas motorcade by Lee Harvey Oswald
1963
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, JFK and Jackie’s untimely son, dies 39 hours after delivery.
1948
Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, Joe and Rose Kennedy’s free-spirited daughter, 28, dies in a aircraft crash in France.
1944
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., 29, the eldest Kennedy son, is killed when his explosives-laden Navy bomber blows up midair throughout a secret WWII mission.
