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RFK’s granddaughter identified as overdose victim at Kennedy compound
NY Post ^ | 1/8/19 | Kenneth Garger

Posted on 08/02/2019 3:19:52 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

Robert F. Kennedy’s granddaughter reportedly died of an apparent drug overdose at the family’s Cape Cod compound on Thursday — the latest in a long line of tragedies to rock the storied family.

Saoirse Kennedy Hill, 22, was staying at the sprawling Hyannis Port, Mass., home of her grandmother, 91-year-old Ethel Kennedy, RFK’s widow.

By the time medics arrived to the Marchant Avenue mansion at about 2:30 p.m., the young Kennedy was already in cardiac arrest, the Hyannis News reported.

She was rushed to Cape Cod Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The New York Times said the suspected cause was an overdose, but an investigation by Barnstable police is ongoing.

The death jolted a family long haunted by tragedy.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: camelot; cursed; drugs; kennedy; robert
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To: EEGator

Well I try not to judge a whole family by a few of its members. Take the Reagan kids— Ron Jr. and Maureen turned out to be rotgut LIEberals but adopted son Michael is conservative. A total tragedy for this young Kennedy granddaughter to OD.


81 posted on 08/02/2019 6:12:02 AM PDT by tflabo (Prince of Peace, Lion of Righteousness)
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To: surrey

Wiki cleaned up Michael’s page. There’s no mention of the babysitter though it links to articles of it.


82 posted on 08/02/2019 6:14:53 AM PDT by bgill
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To: Snake Skin Sonny
(Although I don't think anyone in that family drives an Oldsmobile, do they?)

Good thing Ted didn't drive a VW... :0)


83 posted on 08/02/2019 6:15:43 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (AOC: The brain of a tea bisquit)
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To: RoosterRedux

Her father is Paul Hill who was unjustly imprisoned 4 years. . Remember the film about him In the name of the Father.


84 posted on 08/02/2019 6:20:24 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Zhang Fei

She is beautiful. Doesn’t look like a Kennedy.


85 posted on 08/02/2019 6:21:37 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: tflabo

As for the Reagans, Mareen and Michael were conservatives, and Patty and Ron,jr. were liberals. What ever happened to Patty. I heard she was dead.


86 posted on 08/02/2019 6:23:14 AM PDT by RightLady (Save Western Civilization.)
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To: EEGator

The girl struggle with mental illness since middle school. That’s when it often surfaces.


87 posted on 08/02/2019 6:26:08 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: gcparent

I just watched that movie a couple days ago. My 21 year old son wanted to watch it to learn about “the troubles” in Northern Ireland.

At the end of the movie it states that Paul Hill went on to marry a Kennedy daughter. This girl was his daughter.

They stated on the Boston NBC news this morning that she had issues with depression and alluded that she MAY have been molested by a relative.

We will probably never know. Just another incident in a family that has a long history of alcohol and drug addiction problems.


88 posted on 08/02/2019 6:46:00 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: sodpoodle

Her name means freedom.
Nothing wrong with honoring her mother with Kennedy as a middle name.


89 posted on 08/02/2019 6:49:35 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: woodbutcher1963

If you saw In the name of the Father it was a great film.


90 posted on 08/02/2019 6:53:05 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: gcparent

Yes, with Daniel Day Lewis.
I still think it was his best film. Better than “My Left Foot”, “There will be Blood” or “Lincoln” which he won an Oscar for each.
He is maybe the best actor of our time.


91 posted on 08/02/2019 7:04:27 AM PDT by woodbutcher1963
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To: EEGator

In 2016, she openly wrote about mental illness, battling depression and a suicide attempt while a student at Deerfield Academy. In the article, she also wrote about a sexual assault “after someone I knew and loved broke serious sexual boundaries with me.”


92 posted on 08/02/2019 7:09:22 AM PDT by GailA (Intractable pain, also known as Intractable Pain Disease Medical Disease 24/7/365 pain for decades.)
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To: GailA

The kennedys are one screwed-up family. I bet their DNA is very defective.


93 posted on 08/02/2019 7:15:53 AM PDT by hal ogen (not funny<font)
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To: Eleutheria5

Hmm...at 91 my Mom was still driving, going to club meetings, and doing her own shopping.

Ethel Kennedy ruled their clan with an iron fist after Mother Rose croaked.

IMO there is more afoot than appears.

Therefore I wonder if there will be an autopsy. Those are never performed on Kennedys.


94 posted on 08/02/2019 7:28:06 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: sodpoodle
Her first name is an Irish name. Another famous actress, Saoirse Ronan, shares the name. It's pronounced SEERshuh.
95 posted on 08/02/2019 7:57:26 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

And that actress was wonderful in the film Brooklyn.


96 posted on 08/02/2019 8:05:48 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: tflabo

Thank you. I don’t get why others on this thread came down so hard on her
She was 22. A college student. She is not responsible for what relatives generations before her did. So dad for her parents. An only child I think.


97 posted on 08/02/2019 8:12:31 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: tflabo

Typo sad


98 posted on 08/02/2019 8:13:17 AM PDT by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Eleutheria5
Very unfortunate that the rabbi’s curse was only 2/3 effective.

3/4 effective if you include joe jr.

99 posted on 08/02/2019 8:21:53 AM PDT by TheRightGuy
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To: sodpoodle

Traditional Irish woman’s name....


100 posted on 08/02/2019 8:37:00 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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