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Jacqueline Kennedy believed successful the Kennedy curse. 

When archetypal her husband, President John F. Kennedy, and past 5 years aboriginal his member Robert F. Kennedy, were assassinated, she thought nary 1 successful the household was safe, slightest of each her ain 2 children, John F. Kennedy Jr. and Caroline Kennedy.

Yet erstwhile she was dying successful 1994, the iconic erstwhile archetypal lady took comfortableness successful her belief that her lad and girl had crossed some invisible threshold, that they were retired of the woods. JFK Jr. thought the same.

But portion 1 crushing stroke aft different has kept speech of the astir blatant of curses—not conscionable periodic misfortune, but the specter of death—alive, antithetic members of the family person processed the ongoing speech successful their ain ways.

"I've travel to judge that it's not what has happened to our household that has been cursed arsenic overmuch arsenic it's the information that we've ne'er been capable to woody with it privately," Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the 5th of Joseph Sr. and Rose Kennedy's 9 children, erstwhile said, according to J. Randy Taraborrelli's 2019 book The Kennedy Heirs: John, Caroline and the New Generation.

While calamity so ran rampant successful Eunice's procreation and proceeded to not fto up a spot successful the next, it has sadly recovered its mode to the younger generations.

Saoirse Kennedy Hill, the 22-year-old lone kid of Bobby Kennedy's girl Courtney Kennedy Hill, died connected Aug. 1, 2019 of a cause overdose. Not the archetypal successful the household to conflict substance maltreatment oregon intelligence wellness troubles, she was recovered unresponsive astatine the family compound successful Hyannis Port, Mass., the dynasty's longtime roost connected Cape Cod. 

According to the Barnstable Town Clerk's Office, Saoirse had methadone (a narcotic symptom reliever), fluoxetine (the antidepressant Prozac), norfluoxetine, diazepam (the anti-anxiety cause Valium), nordiazepam and intoxicant successful her strategy erstwhile she died.

In April 2020, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, girl of Robert Kennedy's eldest child, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, was reported missing and presumed dormant on with her 8-year-old lad Gideon after an evident canoeing mishap connected Chesapeake Bay.

Maeve's husband, David McKean, told the Washington Post that his woman and lad had ventured retired successful the canoe to retrieve a shot that the kids had accidentally kicked into the water outside Kathleen's home successful Shady Side, Md. "They conscionable got farther retired than they could grip and couldn't get backmost in," helium said.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources constabulary shared an overturned canoe had been found.

"She kept connected Daddy's enactment and kept him live successful each of us," Courtney said on The Ryan Turbidy Show on Ireland's RTÉ Radio 1, crediting her mother's spot with keeping them afloat successful the aftermath of her father's decease successful 1968. She was 11, the fifth-oldest of the bunch.

"It's hard erstwhile your astir backstage moments are besides your astir nationalist moments, but it's interesting, too, due to the fact that we person ne'er truly felt unsocial successful immoderate of it," Kerry Kennedy, Ethel and Bobby's seventh child, told Taraborrelli. "We person ever felt astatine 1 with the American public, and I deliberation they person felt the aforesaid dynamic with us."

It's true, nary substance however aged you are, you person ne'er been without a Kennedy successful your life. Not needfully personally, but they've been portion of the corporate American consciousness for astir a century.

Since 1947, erstwhile JFK was archetypal elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, determination person been less than 2 years successful which a Kennedy hasn't held elected office—a little span betwixt Sen. Edward Kennedy's lad Patrick J. Kennedy leaving Congress successful 2011 and Joseph Kennedy III, different 1 of Bobby Kennedy's 34 grandchildren, being sworn successful arsenic a congressman successful 2013. And countless different members of the household person served this state successful immoderate way, beryllium it arsenic ambassadors, furniture members, biology activists, journalists, educators, organizers, artists oregon philanthropists.

Or, connected the different extremity of the civic spectrum, arsenic punchlines, scandalmongers and objects of morbid fascination. And sometimes each of the above.

"When you've been handed unthinkable privilege, entree and power, it's hard not to instrumentality vantage of that," documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy, RFK's youngest child, told the New York Times successful 1997. "You person to perpetually constabulary yourself. Human beings are fallible. Some of america person made atrocious decisions. Others of america person learned from them, painfully."

They're America's royals lone with much offspring, calamity and, astatine times, acold much power connected however their state is governed. But very overmuch similar the royals, and likewise depending connected which rung of the ladder they occupy, each of the Kennedys were calved into the nationalist sphere to 1 grade oregon another.

And arsenic with the royals, speechmaking immoderate Kennedy history, you'll travel crossed the aforesaid archetypal names and nicknames implicit and implicit again, arsenic consequent generations grant the ones that came before, starting with the Machiavellian patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.—Wall Street tycoon, Hollywood workplace head, epic philanderer and governmental visionary. As in, helium envisioned his household reigning implicit all.

Which it did for a fewer abbreviated years, a fleeting epoch known, acknowledgment to Jacqueline Kennedy, arsenic Camelot. 

Two of Joe and Rose Kennedy's 9 children didn't marque it to 30—Joseph Jr., upon whose shoulders their father's expansive designs archetypal rested, and Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy some died successful level crashes successful the 1940s—and eldest girl Rose Marie was lobotomized astatine 23 and remained institutionalized until she died successful 2005.

John F. Kennedy, Joe's second-eldest son, was elected president astatine 43 and assassinated astatine 46, plunging a federation into grief. Then his brother, senator, erstwhile lawyer wide and Democratic statesmanlike campaigner Bobby, was assassinated astatine 42 successful June 1968, six months earlier his 11th child, Rory, was born. His oldest son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was 14 erstwhile it happened.

Brother Edward (or Teddy, oregon Ted) Kennedy, the youngest of Rose and Joe's children, possibly could person been president. But after being involved successful a fatal car mishap connected Chappaquiddick Island successful July 1969 successful which 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, who utilized to enactment for Bobby, was killed, he settled for remaining a legislator until his decease from encephalon crab successful 2009.

But portion the 1960s were, virtually and figuratively, a antithetic time, the ensuing decades continued to beryllium fraught with calamity and ungraded big—untimely deaths, arrests, substance-fueled accidents, intelligence illness, criminal trials—and small. All of it, however, someway proved manageable, and the existent harvest of young Kennedys, from Rep. Joe Kennedy III to Conor Kennedy, who was arrested on with dada RFK Jr. protesting the Keystone XL pipeline and was spotted this summer hobnobbing successful Montauk with the glitterati, are staking their ain assertion to relevance successful the 21st century.

"Yes, we person had immoderate hard knocks," Teddy erstwhile said. "But we person survived due to the fact that we person heart. And bosom matters."

Hearts were broken, but arsenic evidenced by what the Kennedys who lived agelong lives managed to do, they tin besides beryllium awfully resilient. Teddy lived till 77. During his astir 47-year Senate career, more than 300 of the astir 2,500 bills that came retired of his office became law.

Eunice—grandmother of Patrick Schwarzenegger and Katherine Schwarzenegger and laminitis of the Special Olympics—predeceased Teddy by only two weeks successful August 2009; she was 88. Rose Marie was 86 erstwhile she died successful 2005 and Patricia Kennedy Lawford was 82 erstwhile she died successful 2006. (An aspiring movie shaper herself, Pat divorced histrion and Rat Packer Peter Lawford, who threw the enactment astatine which JFK met Marilyn Monroe, successful 1966.)

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However, Teddy's eldest child, girl Kara, died successful 2011 astatine the property of 51 of a bosom attack. A decennary anterior she had beaten lung cancer, undergoing a partial lung removal that allowed her to resume her progressive life. At archetypal she had been devastated by the diagnosis, astatine a nonaccomplishment due to the fact that she had ever been truthful physically steadfast and unsure she had it successful herself to recover.

She thought of something she recalled 1 of her cousins saying: "We don't person to interest astir s--t. We're the f--kin' Kennedys." 

As she began the combat for survival, per Taraborrelli: "I garbage to let myself to extremity up conscionable different casualty of the alleged Kennedy curse. The Kennedy curse ends here, with me."

A noble thought, but yet excessively overmuch of a load for one quality being to bear.

Jean was joined to hubby Stephen E. Smith for 34 years, until his decease successful 1990, a twelvemonth aft which their lad William Kennedy Smith was acquitted aft lasting proceedings connected a complaint of intersexual battery. He was accused of raping a pistillate astatine the Kennedy family's Palm Beach property aft a nighttime of drinking with Uncle Teddy and Ted's lad Patrick.

He told reporters aft the verdict, per the New York Times, "I have an tremendous indebtedness to the strategy and to God and I person a terrific religion successful some of them. And I'm conscionable really, truly happy. So we'll spot you guys later."

The Smith trial, meanwhile, ended up starring authorities—in a roundabout mode that went done writer Dominick Dunne—to look again at the unsolved 1975 murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley in Greenwich, Conn., due to the fact that the proposition was floated (and proved unfounded) that he whitethorn person been astatine the location of his cousins Thomas and Michael Skakel—nephews of Ethel Kennedy (née Skakel)—the night Martha was killed.

Martha was beaten to decease with a play nine extracurricular her family's home, which was near the Moxleys' estate, and Michael and Tommy were questioned astatine the time.

According to Connecticut's Hartford Courant, successful a connection for a never-published publication astir his ain family, Michael described them as being plagued by "chronic illness, alcoholism and a repressive Catholic motivation and intersexual outlook," resulting successful "systemic dysfunction, astatine times surfacing arsenic utmost pathology...I person travel to spot this dysfunction arsenic a terms of wealthiness and powerfulness successful a nine that worships romanticist story astatine the disbursal of truth."

Their narration with the Kennedys, cemented erstwhile their father's sister joined Bobby, was "love-hate," helium wrote. And aft Martha was killed, "an adjacent much aggravated level of chaos came to regularisation our household."

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According to People, their begetter Rushton Skakel hired a squad of backstage investigators to wide the unreality of suspicion implicit his family, but alternatively Tommy and Michael changed their communicative truthful overmuch from what they archetypal told constabulary that they injected caller beingness into the case. 

Michael, who arsenic a young antheral had been successful and retired of rehab for drinking but by past was agelong since sober and joined with a son, was charged with execution successful 2000.

"Michael is 1 of the astir honorable and unfastened radical I know," his relative Douglas Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy's 10th child, told People at the time. "He cares astir radical much than anybody I've ever met, and determination is nary imaginable mode he's progressive successful this."

He was recovered blameworthy successful 2002 and sentenced to 20 years to beingness successful prison. Appealing connected the grounds of inadequate ineligible counsel, he was granted a caller proceedings successful 2013 and freed connected a $1.2 cardinal bond. The Connecticut Supreme Court voted 4-3 to reinstate his condemnation successful 2016, but the aforesaid tribunal again vacated the conviction, paving the mode for a caller proceedings to determination forward. Prosecutors, however, look loath to spell done it each again. 

"Martha was killed erstwhile I was 43, and successful conscionable a fewer weeks, a mates of weeks, I'm going to beryllium 86," Dorthy Moxley, Martha's mother, told NBC News in 2018. "That means fractional of my beingness I person lived with this. So I deliberation I tin unrecorded the remainder of my beingness with it also."

The salient biology lawyer and activistic besides laid retired the lawsuit for his cousin's innocence successful his 2016 book Framed: Why Michael Skakel Spent a Decade successful Prison for a Murder He Didn't Commit.

RFK Jr. isn't 1 to shy away from his convictions, particularly the arguable ones, such arsenic his long-held belief successful the refuted mentation that mercury successful vaccines is straight linked to autism successful children, which prompted his older sister Kathleen, Kathleen's girl Maeve, and his older member Joseph P. Kennedy II to write an unfastened letter in 2019 condemning his ongoing anti-vaccination campaign.

"We emotion Bobby," they wrote connected Politico. "He is 1 of the large champions of the environment. His enactment to cleanable up the Hudson River and his tireless advocacy against multinational organizations who person polluted our waterways and endangered families has positively affected the lives of countless Americans. We basal down him successful his ongoing combat to support our environment. However, connected vaccines helium is wrong."

Making a horrible happening each the worse: Carolyn hadn't wanted to go. She was connected the verge of letting John be his relative Rory's wedding alone. There had been hostility betwixt them and, contempt the photogenic perfection that was the aboveground of their all-too-brief beingness together, Carolyn is said to person ne'er felt particularly comfortable astir her insular in-laws.

In an effort to assistance counsel her sister done the latest bump successful her young marriage, Lauren offered to spell with them. The program was to driblet Lauren disconnected connected Martha's Vineyard to sojourn friends and past proceed to Hyannis Port, wherever the wedding was taking spot astatine the Kennedy compound. (The nuptials were postponed; Rory joined Mark Bailey the pursuing period successful Greece.)

Ted and Robert Jr. were among the mourners who scattered John and Carolyn's ashes astatine oversea connected July 22. Ted besides gave the eulogy for his nephew astatine the ceremonial the adjacent time at St. Thomas More Church connected New York City's Upper East Side.

"We dared to think, successful that different Irish phrase, that this John Kennedy would unrecorded to comb grey hair, with his beloved Carolyn by his side," the legislator said. "But similar his father, helium had each acquisition but magnitude of years."

At the clip of his death, JFK Jr. whitethorn person been feuding with his older sister Caroline because of her husband, Ed Schlossberg, who according to RFK Jr. (in diary entries obtained by the New York Post successful 2013) never cared for Carolyn 1 spot and told her surviving sister Lisa that "Kennedys don't eulogize non-Kennedys" after putting the kibosh connected RFK Jr.'s program to talk astir John and Carolyn astatine the funeral.

Future Real Housewives of New York star Carole Radziwill, who astatine the clip was joined to JFK Jr.'s relative and champion person Anthony Radziwill (son of Jackie Kennedy's sister, Lee), "says she wants to commencement an 'I hatred Ed Club,'" RFK Jr. reportedly wrote. "There would beryllium many, galore members. John & Carolyn would person surely applied."

But Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg was besides grieving an unconscionable loss. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis had died of crab successful 1994, and present her 38-year-old member was gone. The full household was expected to beryllium astatine a wedding, and alternatively they had to program a funeral.

In summation to losing her dada earlier she was born, Rory had been 15 erstwhile her member David Kennedy died of a drug overdose successful a Florida edifice country successful 1984. David was 28. He had been 13 erstwhile helium was watching TV unsocial successful a Los Angeles edifice country and saw the unrecorded sum of his father's murder.

David "was unsocial and expected to beryllium asleep, but the excitement of the time had kept him awake," wrote sister Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, RFK's eldest child, astir that night. "In the aftermath of the tragedy, it was immoderate clip earlier idiosyncratic came to cheque connected him. It was Presidential biographer Theodore White who recovered the lad 'devastated astatine the show helium had conscionable seen.' Without stopping to rationalize why, White ordered a soothing blistery cocoa from country work and cradled and comforted the shaken youngster."

David was inactive a teen erstwhile helium started to conflict with substance abuse. According to the New York Times, helium had been successful Palm Beach to sojourn his "ailing grandmother," household matriarch Rose, who was 93 astatine the time. In summation to cocaine and Mellaril, an antipsychotic, the painkiller Demerol was recovered successful David's system, which authorities concluded helium stole from Rose's home. 

"A batch of the addiction is trauma," Taraborrelli told People in May. "You don't past the decease of your father, successful the lawsuit of JFK oregon Bobby's kids oregon the decease of an uncle without trauma and immoderate turned to drugs arsenic a mode of escaping. Drugs were besides portion of the culture, particularly among immoderate of the young men successful the family. And there's besides entitlement. Each of these things is simply a portion of the puzzle."

Though, of course, helium added, "there were Kennedys that did not usage drugs and did not go addicts."

Indeed, astir of them powered through, scarred but not sunk by loss. Small comfort, however, erstwhile Saoirse was laid to rest connected Aug. 5 astatine Our Lady of Victory Church successful Centerville, Mass. When she was successful precocious school, the pupil paper published an effort she wrote astir battling slump disconnected and connected since mediate school, successful which she acknowledged it would beryllium a conflict she'd combat for the remainder of her life.

"I grew up without a father, and with a sadness for sure, not having him oregon knowing him," Rory Kennedy, who has 3 children with Bailey, told The Guardian successful 2018. "I besides grew up with household who had a existent consciousness of gratitude for the beingness we have, and for each the bonzer gifts. There wasn't a batch of tolerance for feeling similar a victim, oregon feeling atrocious for yourself."

Still, "it's an ongoing process. I've worked connected it. I've…" she paused. "I consciousness pain, sorrow and sadness. That's portion of the process, implicit these galore years. I deliberation that I've also, implicit the years, gotten tools to assistance maine enactment done it successful a affirmative way, turning those experiences into a deeper knowing of others. You spot idiosyncratic other endure and you consciousness that suffering."

She has directed 18 films, including the Emmy-winning Ghosts of Abu Ghraib; Ethel, examining the beingness of her tough-as-nails mother, who volition crook 92 connected April 11; and, astir recently, 2018's Above and Beyond: NASA's Journey to Tomorrow.

"I don't cognize what the aboriginal holds," Jack, present 30, said on Today in 2018 erstwhile asked what relation successful nationalist beingness helium saw himself playing 1 day. "What I bash cognize is, that arsenic a young idiosyncratic successful this country, it's an breathtaking moment. We've got a batch of enactment up of us, a batch of enactment to do, and I'm excited to beryllium a portion of solving the problems."

Jack would hardly beryllium the archetypal Kennedy, antheral oregon female, to beryllium attracted to a glamorous celebrity, the household having been inextricably linked to Hollywood for arsenic agelong arsenic they've been successful nationalist life. Great-grandfather Joe, who merged 2 studios to create RKO successful 1928 and romanced Gloria Swanson for 3 years. His gramps and namesake, JFK, infamously had a fling with Marilyn Monroe. Great-aunt Patricia spent 12 rocky years joined to Peter Lawford, and his mom's archetypal relative Maria was joined to Arnold Schwarzenegger for 25 years earlier they separated.

When Conor dated Swift, helium had conscionable mislaid his parent successful May 2012. Mary Richardson Kennedy, RFK Jr's 2nd woman and parent of 4 of his six children, died by termination a time aft she had been charged with drunken driving—which had occurred 3 days aft Robert filed for divorce.  

Mary had also supposedly weighed successful connected the household lore erstwhile she and Bobby Jr. were having trouble. Her person Alyssa Chapman shared with Taraborelli that Mary told her, "You've heard astir this Kennedy curse? I yet figured retired what it is: The men are dogs. The women, fools."

Also according to The Kennedy Heirs, Conor's narration with Swift was abbreviated but timely, and she played a relation successful helping him get done that acheronian time. The vocalist also duly impressed his family, with the discerning Ethel Kennedy paying the vocalist the utmost of compliments erstwhile Swift reluctantly agreed to get into the h2o and bent onto a enactment portion the yacht pulled her along, similar waterskiing without skis: "She's game," the matriarch said. "She had ne'er sailed before; she sailed. She had ne'er dragged before. She dragged. She played everything other everyone other was doing and she was bully astatine it, nary fuss."