Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sept. 6, 1888 – Nov. 16, 1969 Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald July 22, 1890 – Jan.

Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald July 22, 1890 – Jan. 22, 1995

The family patriarch made his fortune during the 1920s in the The eldest daughter of Boston politician John
stock market and by importing liquor during Prohibition. A Fitzgerald, Rose raised nine children, four of
supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt, he was appointed whom died young and violently. Through the
ambassador to Britain but was recalled in 1940 for undermining loss of her two assassinated sons and the
the war effort. He worked tirelessly to advance the political humiliation of later scandals, she was
careers of his sons and was a major architect of JFK’s bitterly considered an icon of devotion and dignity.
contested 1960 presidential campaign, which raised allegations
of voter fraud, particularly in mayor Richard Daley’s Chicago.

Joseph Patrick John Fitzgerald Rose Marie Kathleen Agnes Eunice Mary Patricia Robert Francis Jean Ann Edward Moore
Kennedy Jr. Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy
July 25, 1915 – Aug. 12, 1944 May 29, 1917 – Nov. 22, 1963 Sept. 13, 1918 – Jan. 7, 2005 Feb. 20, 1920 – May 13, 1948 July 10, 1921 May 6, 1924 Nov. 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968 Feb. 20, 1928 Feb. 22, 1932

Groomed for political
success, he left Harvard
University when the United
States entered the war to
become a navy flier and
died over the English
Channel, launching the
‘Kennedy curse.’
The hero of PT-109 was
elected to Congress in 1946
and edged out Richard M.
Nixon in 1960 to usher in
the White House’s “Camelot”
period, ended by his 1963
assassination in Dallas. It
was later revealed that, while
president, he had torrid
affairs with the likes of
Marilyn Monroe. His stylish
wife, Jackie, widely admired
for her grace after Dallas,
later shocked the country by
marrying Greek shipping
tycoon Aristotle Onassis.
The eldest daughter of
Joseph and Rose Kennedy
suffered from mental
problems and underwent a
lobotomy at 23 that left her
institutionalized for life.
Nicknamed Kick, she served
with the Red Cross during
the Blitz of London, and
married a Brit, William
Cavendish, against her
parents’ wishes. He died in
battle, and she was killed
after the war in a plane
crash in France with her
lover, Peter Fitzwilliam.
Dedicating her life to
working with the disabled,
she helped to found the
Special Olympics and
married R. Sargent Shriver,
who served as director of
the Peace Corps and later
as George McGovern’s
vice-presidential running
mate in 1972.
She died Tuesday. Aug. 11,
2009, at a hospital on
Cape Cod after suffering a
series of strokes.
She married actor Peter
Lawford in 1954 and
became friends with
celebrities such as Frank
Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe.
His brother’s campaign
manager in 1960 and then
his attorney-general, Bobby
Kennedy played a key role in
the ill-fated Bay of Pigs
invasion and the Cuban
missile crisis. Elected to the
Senate the year after JFK’s
death, he was a presidential
front-runner in 1968 when
he too was assassinated.
His wife, Ethel, whom he had
met on a ski trip to Mont-
Tremblant, Que., was
pregnant with their 11th
child.
Like her sister, Eunice, she
devoted much of her time to
people with disabilities and
served as ambassador to
Ireland during the Clinton
administration. Her
husband, Stephen Edward
Smith, was a businessman
who worked in the Kennedy
political machine.
Ted carried on the political
tradition but failed to take
the presidential nomination
away from incumbent Jimmy
Carter in 1980. In nearly 50
years as a senator from
Massachusetts since 1962,
Mr. Kennedy served
alongside 10 presidents
and compiled an impressive
list of legislative
achievements on health
care, civil rights, education
and immigration. He died
Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2009, at
his home on Cape Cod
after a year-long struggle
with brain cancer.

Caroline Bouvier John Fitzgerald Patrick Bouvier Kara Anne Edward Moore Patrick Joseph
Kennedy Kennedy Jr. Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Jr. Kennedy
Nov. 27, 1957 Nov. 25, 1960 – Aug. 7, 1963 –
July 16, 1999 Aug. 9, 1963 Feb. 27, 1960 Sept. 26, 1961 July 14, 1967
The last of John and
Jackie’s children lived
only two days.

The only surviving child
of John and Jackie is
president of the
Kennedy Library
Foundation and chair
of the American Ballet
Theatre. A graduate of
Harvard and Columbia
Law School, she is
married to designer
Edwin Schlossberg,
has worked with New
York’s schools and has
written several books.
Robert Sargent Maria Owings Timothy Perry Mark Kennedy Anthony Paul
Shriver III Shriver Shriver Shriver Shriver
‘John-John,’ the three- April 28, 1954 Nov. 6, 1955 Aug. 29, 1959 Feb. 17, 1964 July 20, 1965 In 2003, she was He is co-founder of The youngest Kennedy
year-old who bravely diagnosed with lung Marwood Group, a elected to office began
saluted his father’s cancer, which at last development company at 21 in Rhode Island
coffin, graduated from report was in in Connecticut. He lost before heading to
New York University law remission. a leg to cancer in Congress in 1994 and
school, served as an 1973. now serves on the
assistant district powerful House
attorney for four years, Appropriations
and founded the Committee. He
political magazine, admitted to cocaine
George. He died with The mother of four and He is president and He was a two-term use as a teenager, and
his wife Carolyn and former NBC News chief executive officer state legislator in says he has been
her sister when his correspondent is now of the Special Maryland and now is diagnosed as clinically
plane crashed off the first lady of Olympics, the vice-president for Save depressed. Blaming
Martha’s Vineyard. California, where her organization founded the Children, a medication, he says he
Their death sparked movie-star husband, by his mother, Eunice. charitable foundation. can’t remember his
allegations of heavy Arnold Schwarzenegger, recent accident —
drinking, drug use, is governor. similarly, his father
infidelity and marital said he blacked out
violence. after Chappaquiddick.

Christopher Sydney Maleia Victoria Robin Elizabeth Stephen Edward William Amanda Mary Kym Maria
Kennedy Lawford Lawford Lawford Lawford Smith, Jr. KennedySmith Smith Smith
March 29, 1955 Aug. 25, 1956 Nov. 4, 1958 July 2, 1961 March 29, 1955 Sept. 4, 1960 April 30, 1967 Nov. 29, 1972

An actor, he is best He was arrested and

known for his role as charged with rape at a
Charlie Brent on the family compound in
daytime soap All My Florida. Acquitted after
Children, but also a much-publicized
appeared last year in trial, he became a
The World’s Fastest physician and an
Indian, starring activist against
Anthony Hopkins. landmines.

Kathleen Joseph Robert David Mary Michael Mary Christopher Matthew Douglas Rory
Kennedy Patrick Francis Anthony Courtney LeMoyne Kerry George Maxwell Harriman Elizabeth
Townsend Kennedy II Kennedy Jr. Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy Taylor Kennedy Kennedy Kennedy
July 4, 1951 Sept. 24, 1952 Jan. 17, 1954 June 15, 1955 – Sept. 9, 1956 Feb. 27, 1958 – Sept. 8, 1959 July 4, 1963 Jan. 11, 1965 March 24, 1967 Dec. 12, 1968
Aug. 25, 1984 Dec. 31, 1997

As lieutenant-governor
of Maryland, she was
the first female
Kennedy to hold
elected office. She ran
unsuccessfully for
governor in Maryland
in 2002.
Sent to Congress by A law professor at New
Massachusetts voters York’s Pace University,
from 1987 to 1999, he is a noted
he retired from politics environmentalist who
to return to Citizens has engaged in protest
Energy Corp., the non- campaigns and written
profit agency he numerous articles and
founded that supplies books. He is partner in
low-cost heating oil to a non-profit company
the needy. that donates its profits
to clean-river
campaigns.
Said to have been the After divorcing her first
hardest hit by his husband, she married
father’s assassination Paul Michael Hill, an
in 1968, he was Irishman who was a
robbed in New York member of the so-
City in 1979 while called Guildford Four —
reportedly attempting wrongly imprison for
to buy heroin, and died bombing a British pub.
of an overdose at a Mr. Hill’s story was the
Florida hotel five years basis for In the Name
later. of the Father, starring
Daniel Day-Lewis.
A political activist who An author and human- A former print Born six months after
worked on his uncle rights advocate, she journalist with the her father’s death, she
Ted’s campaign, founded the Robert F. conservative New York is an award-winning
Michael was alleged to Kennedy Center for Post, he is now a documentary
have had an affair with Human Rights, and is correspondent on the filmmaker. Her cousin,
his babysitter in 1997. married to Andrew Fox News Channel. John F. Kennedy Jr.,
On New Year’s Eve that Cuomo, a former was on his way to her
year, he died when he federal housing wedding when he
crashed into a tree secretary now running crashed his plane.
while playing football to become New York
on skis. State’s attorney-
general.