Posted on 06/18/2020 6:43:08 AM PDT by billorites
Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving sibling of President John F. Kennedy and a former ambassador to Ireland, died Wednesday, her daughter confirmed to The New York Times. She was 92.
Smith died at her home in Manhattan, daughter Kym told the Times.
Smith was the eighth of nine children born to Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy, and she tragically outlived several of them by decades. Her siblings included older brother Joseph Kennedy Jr., killed in action during World War II; Kathleen Kennedy, who died in a 1948 plane crash; the president, assassinated in 1963 and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, slain in 1968. Sen. Edward Kennedy, the youngest of the Kennedy siblings, died of brain cancer in August 2009, the same month their sister Eunice Kennedy Shriver died.
Smith, who married Kennedy family financial adviser and future White House chief of staff Stephen Edward Smith in 1956, was viewed for much of her life as a quiet sister who shunned the spotlight. In her memoir “The Nine of Us,” published in 2016, she wrote that for much of the time her childhood seemed “unexceptional.”
“It is hard for me to fully comprehend that I was growing up with brothers who eventually occupy the highest offices of our nation, including president of the United States,” she explained. “At the time, they were simply my playmates. They were the source of my amusement and the objects of my admiration.”
Though she never ran for office, she campaigned for her brothers, traveling the country for then-Sen. John F. Kennedy as he sought the presidency in 1960. In 1963, she stepped in for Jacqueline Kennedy and co-hosted a state dinner for Ireland’s president. The same year, she accompanied her brother — the first Irish Catholic president — on his famous visit to Ireland.
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It sounds as though the author personally disliked the old lady.
How do you “tragically outlive” somebody?
She was OK. He kids are douchey.
But, at this point the shine is somewhat off the Kennedy apple.
The youngest kid (Joe IV?) is running against Markey for Senate. While he would be no better than Markey in the big picture—he has taken a couple of good shots at him during the campaign. I kind of like his prep-school wise assery.
Evidently Ed Markey forgot to leave when he was supposed to. Ha Ha.
RIP.
She also outlived Norma Jean and Mary Jo...
Did any of that Klan ever do any REAL work? Or were they all just government leeches?
Sums up the entire family. All they ever wanted was power, like most Dems.
“All they ever wanted was power,”
You forgot sex for the males.
Odd, that Rosemary wasn’t listed with the other siblings. What did she think about her and her fate?
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