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 mothers 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 couldnt 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 Kennedy Karma will Kill your ass, ask Kopechne.
Do you think this all goes back to the sins of Patriarch Joe?
Terrible, I know, but how many damn soccer balls could they have bought to replace the one that floated away? Awful priorities.
And I thought Maryland was under lockdown orders. Are Kennedys exempt from the laws meant for everyone else?
Yes, I know I should be horrified but at what point when somebody sticks their hand in an electric socket and gets shocked should you say “you really should know better”? Darwin celebrates another victim.
I had a rule when I was a scoutmaster on canoe trips.
Your feet gets wet, you better have a life vest on.
And I am 6’4” and 230 lbs of ex army.
They wore them no matter what skill swim level.
Whoa!
No worries. She'll still be voting this November. Count on it.
Yes, especially if the father claims to have seen the incident.
Not unless your last name is Kennedy.
How horrible...RIP.
No bodies? Could she and the boy have been picked up by another boat?
There’s a story that the Kennedy family asked The Dead Kennedys to change their name, so they agreed and announced the new name: Ted’s Next.
YES! I understand, Joe Kennedy was a supporter of Hitler. I heard that Joe Kennedy was a key player in convincing FDR not to allow the German ocean liner St. Louis and its 937 passengers in, almost all Jewish, were turned away from the port of Miami, forcing the ship to return to Europe; more than a quarter died in the Holocaust.
The Bible talks about ......
-Those who bless Israel and my people shall be blessed.
-Those who curse Israel and my people shall be cursed.
GENESIS 12:3
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.
Terrible tragedy. May they Rest In Peace.
Geez, that’s random. Tragic, of course, but just so terribly random. Chasing after a ball in a canoe.
Have the bodies been found ?
.....”The Kennedys seem to make a habit of having these terrible accidents”......
Indeed they do...
I suspect that after the ball floated away, the little Kennedy prince was inconsolable, and his mom felt compelled to risk her life over a trivial ball to stop her narcissistic little angel from crying. Still a sad end.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a6hu6Z7Pkg
Shona Laing “Glad I’m Not a Kennedy”—released even before JFK Jr and many other Kennedy tragedies\
The family tree is felled
Bereavement haunts her will
Wearing her fame like a loaded gun
Tied up in a rosary
To watch her family die...
I like my feet on solid ground......I never like the way I feel in a canoe....far too unstable even trying to get seated! Add wind and rough waters, as what appears to have been possible in this situation, and it’s an accident ready to happen as I see it.
Even so sorry for the family....I’m sure they’re suffering.
[They] popped into a canoe to chase it down”
I wonder whose idea that was?
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