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Sen. Kennedy's Ex-Wife Found Unconscious On Street
News4Jax.com ^ | March 30, 2005 | AP

Posted on 03/30/2005 5:39:00 AM PST by MisterRepublican

BOSTON -- Joan Kennedy, the former wife of U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, was hospitalized with a concussion and a broken shoulder early Tuesday morning after a passer-by found her lying in a Boston street, said her son, U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy.

Joan Bennett Kennedy, former wife of Sen. Edward Kennedy Kennedy, 68, was taken to Tufts New England Medical Center at about 3 a.m. on Tuesday, said Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I.

"We're indebted to some anonymous pedestrian who found her and picked her up and got her help," Patrick Kennedy told the Boston Herald. "I'm enormously grateful for whoever it is out there who did that. She wouldn't be here in this hospital, recuperating, if that person hadn't called and gotten someone to come."

Patrick Kennedy was somber and visibly shaken at the hospital and said he was "very concerned" for the welfare of his mother, according to the newspaper.

Details of exactly what happened and how she ended up in the street were unclear. There was no police report on the incident. Joan Kennedy, who splits time between a home on Cape Cod and a Boston condominium, has struggled with alcoholism in the past.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: joankennedy; kennedyfamily
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1 posted on 03/30/2005 5:39:00 AM PST by MisterRepublican
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To: MisterRepublican

Was she soaking wet?


2 posted on 03/30/2005 5:40:14 AM PST by evolved_rage (A $500 hammer then would require $10,000 of SOX documentation today)
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To: MisterRepublican
Also located at the scene.....


3 posted on 03/30/2005 5:40:52 AM PST by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
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To: MisterRepublican

How much seawater did she spit out?


4 posted on 03/30/2005 5:41:47 AM PST by reagan_fanatic ("Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence" - R. Kirk)
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To: MisterRepublican
Good Samaritans in the USA. That parable has been a guide for millennia.
5 posted on 03/30/2005 5:43:08 AM PST by carumba
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To: MisterRepublican

This is so sad. She was a beautiful, nice girl from a nice middle class background who wound up in that cursed family.


6 posted on 03/30/2005 5:44:21 AM PST by OpusatFR (Just because you put lipstick on a pig doesn't mean it smells better.)
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To: MisterRepublican

poor Joan, the price of marrying a Kennedy..


7 posted on 03/30/2005 5:44:46 AM PST by mystery-ak (Im twitterpatted)
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I feel kinda bad for her...imagine your 60+ year old mother passed out due to alcohol at 3 am, in the city. Man that would suck.....


8 posted on 03/30/2005 5:44:54 AM PST by Pondman88
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Patrick better get her into an institution quick. They better keep her away from any publishers. Imagine all the things she knows about the Kennedy clan.


9 posted on 03/30/2005 5:45:34 AM PST by MisterRepublican (Grand Ayatollah George Greer (PBUH) has declared jihad against the disabled.)
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Patrick Kennedy was somber and visibly shaken (not stirred) at the hospital...
10 posted on 03/30/2005 5:46:45 AM PST by jigsaw (God Bless Our Troops)
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To: mystery-ak
"When things like this happen, it makes you feel as though maybe you should have done more to make sure there is someone with her 24/7 and perhaps that might become necessary."

Gee, Patrick, ya think?
11 posted on 03/30/2005 5:47:55 AM PST by demkicker (John McCain is a power hungry traitor and proved it on 2/19/05 in Iraq)
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To: MisterRepublican

...an oldsmobile was seen fleeing from the scene


12 posted on 03/30/2005 5:48:58 AM PST by JohnLongIsland
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To: MisterRepublican

Was she inside an Oldsmobile?


13 posted on 03/30/2005 5:49:22 AM PST by RushCrush (The FReeper formerly known as Alias. I AM equal time!!)
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To: MisterRepublican
has struggled with alcoholism in the past


should say; "has been known to get sh!t-faced with old Ted in the past"
14 posted on 03/30/2005 5:50:05 AM PST by dagoofyfoot
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To: MisterRepublican

If I were married to him, I'd certainly drink!


Poor woman.


15 posted on 03/30/2005 5:50:15 AM PST by tiamat (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
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To: Puppage

LOL!


16 posted on 03/30/2005 5:51:08 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: OpusatFR
This is so sad. She was a beautiful, nice girl from a nice middle class background who wound up in that cursed family.

My sentiments exactly. Prayers for her.

17 posted on 03/30/2005 5:54:37 AM PST by iconoclast (Conservative, not partisan.)
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To: OpusatFR

Yes, Joan Kennedy's life is a tragedy.


18 posted on 03/30/2005 5:54:44 AM PST by HostileTerritory
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To: MisterRepublican

Where was TK at the time?


19 posted on 03/30/2005 5:55:05 AM PST by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., how many girls did you drown today?")
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To: mystery-ak

poor Joan, the price of marrying a Kennedy..

Joan & Ted divorced in 1982.

20 posted on 03/30/2005 5:56:21 AM PST by elli1
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