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Rosemary Kennedy, the third child of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and his wife Rose, is institutionalized because of retardation and a failed full frontal lobotomy. |
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., the eldest son of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, is killed at age 29 when his plane explodes over the English Channel while on a secret World War II bombing mission. |
Just 28, Kathleen Kennedy, daughter of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, dies with her lover when a small plane crashes in the south of France. |
Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, the second son born to John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy, is born nearly six weeks premature on Aug. 7. He dies two days later of respiratory ailments.
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John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated in Dallas on November 22.
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Massachusetts Senator Edward M. Kennedy, brother of John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, is critically injured in a June plane crash. |
Robert F. Kennedy, who served as attorney general under his older brother President John F. Kennedy, is assassinated in Los Angeles while running for president at age 42. |
Edward M. Kennedy's dreams of a presidential bid are dashed when he drives a car off a bridge on Massachusetts' Chappaquiddick Island July 18 after a party. Aide Mary Jo Kopechne is later found dead in the submerged car. |
Joseph Patrick Kennedy III, one of seven sons of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, is involved in a car accident that leaves a female passenger paralyzed for life. |
Edward Moore Kennedy Jr., son of Edward and Joan Kennedy, has his right leg amputated because of bone cancer. Later, in 1985 he founds Facing the Challenge, a nonprofit group devoted to people with physical and mental disabilities. |
David Anthony Kennedy, son of Robert F. Kennedy, dies of a heroin overdose in a hotel near a family vacation home in Palm Beach, Fla. |
Two-term U.S. Rep. Patrick Joseph Kennedy, son of Edward and Joan Kennedy, seeks treatment for cocaine addiction as a teen-ager. |
William Kennedy Smith, son of Jean Kennedy and Stephen Smith, is accused of raping a woman at the family's Palm Beach estate. He is acquitted later that year. |
Son of Robert F. and Ethel Kennedy, Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, who was accused of having an affair with his family's teen-age baby sitter, was killed on December 31 in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colo. He was 39. |
John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy and her older sister Lauren Bessette are killed when Kennedy's single-engine plane crashes off the coast of Martha's Vineyard, Mass. |
Sen. Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy, one of American politics' most enduring figures, is diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor. Tests were conducted after the 76-year-old Massachusetts Democrat had a seizure at his home on Cape Cod. |
