Posted on 04/03/2020 6:34:09 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A grand-niece of President John F. Kennedy and her son drowned after rowing into the rough Chesapeake Bay in Maryland to recover a soccer ball, authorities and witnesses said Friday.
Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, the granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, and her 8-year-old son, Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean, got into the canoe around 4 p.m. Thursday outside her mother’s home in Shady Side, according to the Washington Post.
The child had been kicking a ball with other kids when it fell into the water, and the pair went to retrieve it amid high winds, her husband, David McKean, told the paper.
“[They] popped into a canoe to chase it down. They just got farther out than they could handle, and couldn’t get back in,” David McKean said.
The pair was later sucked into the South River where they drowned, Gov. Larry Hogan said at a press conference Friday.
McKean, 40, is the daughter of former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who she was visiting when the tragedy struck.
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I think you have hit the correct answer. The South River at Shadyside is wide and right at the Chesapeake Bay. The water is very cold now. The wind was blowing up to 40 mph from the northeast. They never had a chance. There are some rules that a pply to all of us.
Favorite ball.
Im sure they both could swim. You dont have your kid in a canoe without a vest.
Death wish.
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