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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The Dead Kennedys: a punk group from back in the day
Very sad.
WILSON!!!!!
Oh, I am so sorry. Seems something like this, there is never any closure but you learn to go on one day at a time.
This family should just stay put of the water. Don’t go near it.
So sorry for your loss.
Visiting. Nobody is supposed to be visiting. They’re supposed to be staying home.
What is it with the Kennedys. They don’t feel the rules apply to them.
So...The last Kennedy that could swim was JFK.
The Kennedys have certainly been involved in enough outrages but this seems to be genuinely tragic.
Yeah. Thanks. He was 25. His mother took her life a year or 2 later (can’t remember right now). So sad for his brother and father.
There is so much tragedy with this family.
If a Kennedy wants to marry you, run.
Probably because of their location of being on an island.
It was very windy yesterday and it is very easy to get in trouble in that area. You really need strong skills in those creeks and coves around Annapolis.Horrible accident. I hope Ethel is well.
The article said the Kennedys have been plagued by tragedies.
Aside from the assassinations of JFK and RFK, most of their tragedies have been self-inflicted.
I’m this case, it is a very sad situation of very young people thinking they are invincible.
I do not understand this— a soccer ball would come back to the shore eventually. They did not have to “row out” to retrieve it— if the winds were as high as is written here. No sense to this at all.
RIP. This is horrible. I am so sorry to hear this.
Mary Jo Kopechne was unavailable for comment.
These are not the brightest people in the country.
There is so much tragedy with this family.
If a Kennedy wants to marry you, run.”
And ESPECIALLY don’t get into an Oldsmobile driven by a Kennedy...
Not the sharpest knives in the drawer. So used to people telling them how great they are they actually believe it and make poor decisions based on overconfidence. Sad even if they are Democrats.
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