Ethel 2012 HBO Documentary
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ETHEL is a 95 minute feature-length documentary about the life of Ethel Kennedy. Scheduled for broadcast on HBO in 2012, the film was produced and directed
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Robert Kennedy assassination: What happened to RFK's children after he was killed?
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When Robert Kennedy was murdered on June 5, 1968, he left behind 10 children and his wife, who was pregnant with the couple’s 11th child.
Robert and Ethel’s children’s lives were shaped by the dynamics typical in a large family. What wasn’t typical for the children was that whether it be triumphs or tragedies, their lives were played out on a public stage.
Here are profiles of Kennedy’s children and what they have accomplished in the years following their father’s death.
An overview:
Robert and Ethel Kennedy were parents to seven boys and four girls. They are in birth order: Kathleen, Joseph II, Robert Jr., David, Courtney, Michael, Kerry, Christopher, Max, Douglas and Rory.
Two of his children, David and Michael, died at an age younger than Kennedy was when he was killed. The other nine children have all lived more years than their father, who died at age 42.
Five went to law school.
All but two – David and Courtney – earned college degrees.
Kennedy never saw any of his children graduate from prep school.
In 1974, Kennedy’s children were the target of kidnap threats and were assigned Secret Service protection.
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Here’s a look at Kennedy’s children:
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (born July 4, 1951): Robert and Ethel’s first child, Kathleen, was 16 when her father died. Like her father, Kathleen would attend law school, become an attorney and enter politics. She ran for Congress in 1986 but lost the election. She was a deputy assistant attorney general of the United States. In 2002, she became Maryland’s first female lieutenant governor. She has taught college courses at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University and the University of Maryland. She has served as a visiting fellow at Harvard and St. Mary’s College. She has received 12 honorary degrees. She founded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award. She is married to David Townsend, a professor at St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II (born Sept. 24, 1952): Joseph Kennedy was 15 when his father was killed. Named after his grandfather, Joseph Kennedy saw his share of trouble as a young boy. He was known for his quick temper, and he was expelled from several private schools before he graduated from Manter Hall School. He dropped out of college, though he would eventually return and earn his degree. In 1972, he was a passenger on a plane that was hijacked. He and his fellow passengers were released unharmed the next day. In 1973, he injured his brother, David, and paralyzed David’s girlfriend, Pam Kelley, when the Jeep he was driving overturned. He was cited for reckless driving. In 1979, he founded Citizens Energy, a nonprofit organization that raises money to provide discounted heating oil to low-income families. In 1986, Kennedy was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts – a seat that was held by his uncle, John F. Kennedy. and former Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill Jr. Kennedy would serve six terms in Congress. He returned to Citizens Energy in 1999 and remains in charge of the organization. He married Shelia Rauch in 1979, and in 1980 became the father of twin boys. Rauch and Kennedy would divorce in 1991. Kennedy asked the Catholic Church to annul his marriage to Rauch, saying he was not mentally fit to have entered into marriage when he did. The annulment was granted, but Rauch appealed the decision to the Holy See. The original decision was overturned. In the meantime, Kennedy married former staffer Elizabeth Kelly in 1993 in a civil ceremony.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (born Jan. 17, 1954): Robert Kennedy’s namesake, Robert Jr., was 14 when his father died. He was at boarding school when his father was shot, and he, his sister, Kathleen, and brother, Joseph, were flown via Vice President Hubert Humphrey’s plane to Los Angeles to be with their father as he died. He graduated from Harvard and earned a law degree from the University of Virginia. In 1983, he was arrested for heroin possession. He pleaded guilty, and as part of his sentence, he worked with the Hudson Riverkeeper organization, a nonprofit formed to clean up New York’s Hudson River. After his probation was over, he was hired as the organization’s lawyer. From 1986 until 2017, Kennedy worked as an attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council. He continues to work for environmental causes and formed a law firm that represented clients against big business on pollution issues. He is an environmental-law professor at New York’s Pace University and co-host of the radio show “Ring of Fire.” He has written or edited 10 books. Kennedy has spoken out strongly about the use of a mercury-based preservative in vaccinations and has said he believes they are a contributing factor in the development of autism in some children. He has been a vocal supporter of his cousin, Michael Skakel. Skakel was convicted of the 1975 murder of his Greenwich, Connecticut, next-door-neighbor, Martha Moxley. Skakel spent a decade in prison before his conviction was overturned. He was granted a new trial earlier this month. He has said he believes that neither the murder of his father nor the murder of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, were the work of lone gunmen. He has called for the reopening of the investigation into his father’s murder. Robert Kennedy Jr. has been married three times – first to Emily Black, then to Mary Richardson and then to actress Cheryl Hines. Kennedy has six children. Kennedy’s second wife, Richardson, committed suicide in 2012.
David Anthony Kennedy (born June 15, 1955 - died April 25, 1984): David Kennedy was Kennedy’s fourth child and, by all accounts, was very close to his father. On the day his father was assassinated, June 5, 1968, Kennedy saved his 12-year-old son from drowning as David and his siblings were swimming in the Pacific Ocean near Malibu, Calif. He would watch his father be shot on live television hours later. Following the assassination, David became a recreational drug user. He enrolled in Harvard but dropped out. In 1973, five years after his father’s death, he was injured in an accident when the car his brother Joseph was driving overturned, paralyzing his girlfriend and breaking one of his vertebrae. He became addicted to painkillers as a result of the accident and was in and out of rehab facilities for several years. In 1984, after another stint in rehab, he joined family members in Palm Beach, Florida, to celebrate Easter. After spending time with family, he was not seen for several days. He was discovered dead of a drug overdose in a hotel room in Palm Beach. He was 28 years old.
Mary Courtney Kennedy (born Sept. 9, 1956): The second daughter of Robert Kennedy, was 11 when her father died. She chose not to go to college and instead went to work at the Children’s Television Network. She met her first husband, Jeffrey Ruhe, through her work and was married to Ruhe from 1980 to 1990. She married Paul Hill in 1993. Hill, an Irishman, and three others were wrongly convicted for the bombing of a pub in the “Guildford Four” case. Courtney and Hill had a daughter, Saoirse, in 1997. The couple lived in Ireland from 2002 to 2006. They legally separated in 2006.
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (born February 27, 1958, died Dec. 31, 1997): Michael Kennedy, named for an Irish priest (Michael Kennedy) and his uncle John’s college roommate and family friend (Kirk LeMoyne Billings), was 10 years old when his father died. He went on to graduate from Harvard and the University of Virginia. He worked in a private law firm before he took over running Citizens Energy Corporation, the nonprofit company started by his brother, Joseph. In 1994, he helped to run his uncle Edward Kennedy’s Senate re-election campaign. He married Victoria Gifford, the daughter of NFL star Frank Gifford, in 1981. They had three children. In 1997, he was investigated for an alleged affair with his children’s former babysitter. Kennedy was investigated for statutory rape as the babysitter was 16 when the two had sex. He separated from his wife and soon after checked himself into a Maryland rehab center for alcoholics. On New Year’s Eve of that year, Kennedy was killed when he skied into a tree while playing football. His sister, Rory, tried in vain to get his heart restarted by performing CPR.
Mary Kerry Kennedy (born Sept. 8, 1959): Kerry Kennedy was born a day before her sister Cortney’s third birthday and was 8 when her father died. She graduated from college and law school and became a human rights activist. She has traveled extensively, taking delegations around the world in the cause of human rights. She is the president of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights. She is the chair of Amnesty International Leadership Council. She has been honored for her work and has received several honorary doctorates of law. She married Andrew Cuomo in 1990. They divorced in 2005. They have three daughters. She was arrested in 2012 for suspicion of driving while under the influence of a drug. Kennedy said she had accidentally taken Ambien, a sleep aid, and had fallen asleep. She was acquitted of the charges after a blood test showed she had the drug in her system.
Christopher George Kennedy (born July 4, 1963): Christopher Kennedy was born on his sister Kathleen’s 12th birthday. He was 4 when his father was killed. He graduated from Boston College and Northwestern and started a career in business. He was president of Merchandise Mart Properties in Chicago, worked for Archer Daniels Midland and is now the chairman of the Kennedy family investment firm, Joseph P. Kennedy Enterprises. In May 2012, he started the Chicago-based non-profit Top Box Foods, which provides discounted fresh groceries to families who don’t have access to grocery stores. He ran for the Democratic nomination for governor of Illinois but was defeated in the primary in March 2018. He married Shelia Brener in 1987. The couple has four children.
Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy (born Jan. 11, 1965): Matthew Kennedy, known as Max, was born in New York City, the first of Robert Kennedy’s sons born after President Kennedy was assassinated. He was named after Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, a former American Ambassador to Vietnam. He was 3 when his father was killed. He graduated from Harvard and the University of Virginia with a law degree. He served as an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia and as director of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial. He helped to found the Urban Ecology Institute at Boston College and taught classes there. He is a civil and human rights activist and an author, having written two books and several magazine articles. He married Victoria Strauss in 1991. They have three children.
Douglas Harriman Kennedy (born March 24, 1967): Douglas Kennedy, named for former New York Gov. W. Averell Harriman, was just over a year old when his father was assassinated. He graduated from Brown University and pursued a career in journalism. He worked at the New York Post on major breaking stories. He moved to the Fox News Channel as a general assignment reporter. He hosts a biweekly program on the network, "Douglas Kennedy’s American Stories." He was married to Molly Stark in 1998, and they have five children. Kennedy was involved in a scuffle at a hospital after the birth of his youngest child. He said he wanted to take the baby out of the hospital for some fresh air and two nurses tried to stop him. The nurses claimed Kennedy pushed and kicked them while holding the child. He was acquitted of harassment and child endangerment.
Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy (born Dec. 12, 1968): Rory Kennedy never met her father as she was born six months after he was killed. She has made a successful career out of documentary films, producing and directing “Ghosts of Abu Ghraib,” “American Hollow,” “Last Days in Vietnam,” and other films. She graduated from Brown University and formed a film company with some of her classmates. In July of 1999, she was set to marry fellow filmmaker Mark Bailey, but her wedding had to be postponed for two weeks when her cousin, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, and sister-in-law were killed in a plane crash on the way to the wedding. Kennedy and her husband have three children.
EXCLUSIVE: 'There was no monogamy in the Kennedy clan.' Ethel Kennedy knew husband Bobby was a serial cheater who had affairs with actresses Kim Novak and Lee Remick - AND widow Jackie Kennedy
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Bobby Kennedy's first sexual experience was at a w**rehouse in Harlem, at 21 after his father paid for him to have sex with a black woman
Bobby's verdict afterwards was that it 'wasn't bad, but it wasn't fabulous either,' according to a new biography of RFK
Outside of his marriage Bobby's list of conquests included stars like Kim Novak, Lee Remick and the singer Claudine Longet
He was having an affair with Marilyn Monroe too - possibly at the same time as JFK
Ethel 'knew he always came home, not just to the kids but her'
FBI files claimed RFK was sleeping with Jackie Kennedy between 1964 and 1968 - their relationship based on grief and on a long-standing affection
After JFK assassination Bobby wore his brother's bomber jacket with the Presidential seal He drove past Arlington cemetery twice a day to 'visit the President' as if he were still alive
Ethel Kennedy put up with her husband Bobby's affairs because she knew there was 'no tradition of monogamy in the Kennedy clan'.
Bobby's widow understood the Kennedys better than anyone who wasn't born into the family and was fully aware of what she was getting herself into, a new biography claims.
She knew that infidelity was the price to pay for being married to a Kennedy man and that she had to keep her mouth shut under an unspoken contract.
The book says that Ethel loved her husband 'more completely than she dreamed possible' - and this meant she was able to look the other way.
A new book 'Bobby Kennedy: The Making of A Liberal Icon' by Larry Tye also claims that Bobby suffered what would today be called a nervous breakdown after JFK's assassination in 1963.
In the months following, Bobby built a shrine to his dead brother in his office with photographs, books and other mementos.
He wore his brother's bomber jacket with the Presidential seal on it and drove past Arlington cemetery twice a day to 'visit the President' as if he were still alive.
Friends said that Bobby chewed his nails to the quick, lost weight, couldn't sleep - and was haunted by 'an amputation that never healed'.
Bobby was seen as the most puritanical of his eight siblings and he was the one who was asked to be Attorney General by his brother when he became President.
Bobby's tough, bare knuckle political style was just like their wealthy father Joseph P Kennedy
And according to Tye, he also learned his wandering eye from his father as Joseph had a mistress, silent film star Gloria Swanson, and flings with numerous other women.
Tye writes that Joseph passed down to his sons the idea that 'when it came so sexual mores, boys play while girls pray'.
Bobby's first sexual experience was at a whorehouse in Harlem, New York, at 21 after his father paid for him to have sex with a black woman - Bobby's verdict afterwards was that it 'wasn't bad, but it wasn't fabulous either'.
He married Ethel in 1950 when she was 22 and the following year the first of their 11 children was born.
But outside of his marriage Bobby's list of conquests supposedly included stars like Kim Novak, Lee Remick and the singer Claudine Longet.
He supposedly was having an affair with Marilyn Monroe too - possibly at the same time as his brother.
Tye interviewed Ethel, who is now 88, extensively for the book and gave one of the frankest accounts so far of her late husband's dalliances.
The book says: 'Ethel has lived with the rumors for fifty years and she says she long ago stopped listening to or reading them.
'She tried to block them out then too, although they must have hurt.
'She never disclosed any suspicions.
'She also understood Bobby's family better than anyone else who wasn't born into it, and she knew what whatever her church and their said about sex outside marriage, there was no tradition of monogamy in the Kennedy clan.
'She loved her husband more completely than she dreamed possible and still does.
'And she knew he always came home, not just to the kids but her'.
Richard Goodwin, a friend of Bobby's who traveled with him extensively, was more blunt and said that it was a 'Kennedy family tradition' to sleep around, though Bobby was 'much more selective and limited' than his brother Jack.
The other woman Bobby was rumored to have had an affair with was Jackie Kennedy, his brother's widow
FBI files have claimed that the two were sleeping together between 1964 and 1968, and built their relationship on grief and on a long-standing affection between the two.
According to Tye, the night of Jack's funeral Bobby asked her: 'Shall we go visit our friend' and the two got down on their knees in silent prayer at his headstone.
Tye writes: 'They had been close friends before, but not intimate confidants like this.
'While Ethel had always had issues with Jackie, until now they hadn't included jealousy'.
FBI files have revealed that Ethel was so concerned about the affair that at one point she confronted David Ormsby-Gore, British ambassador to the United States during the Kennedy administration, and asked what, if anything, he knew about the relationship.
Tye says that whether or not Bobby was having an affair with Jackie is something 'nobody can say for sure'.
But what is clear is that they were both 'devastated by their loss and each was determined to help the other through'.
Speaking to Tye, Ethel did not comment directly on the speculation. However looking back she admitted that Jackie may not have been entirely bad for her husband and that it may have been she who finally lifted Bobby from his deep despair after Jack's death.
That despair began on that awful day, November 22 1963.
Bobby was at Hickory Hill, the Kennedy family estate in McLean, Virginia, and was having a lunch of tuna sandwiches and creamy clam chowder when the green phone box that is a direct line to the White House rang.
It was FBI director J. Edgar Hoover who said: 'I have news for you. The President's been shot'.
Bobby asked: 'Is it serious?'
Hoover replied: 'I think it's serious. I am endeavoring to get details. I'll call you back when I find out more'.
Hoover had delivered the news with his characteristic monotone which made it all the more ghastly.
And for Bobby it was 'cataclysmic', Tyre writes.
His hand automatically went to his face, unable to hide his anguish, which Ethel saw from the other side of the pool.
He told her: 'Jack's been shot. It may be fatal'.
Thirty minutes later another phone call informed Bobby his brother was dead.
Another thirty minutes later he received a tone-deaf phone call from Lyndon Johnson asking if he had any objections to him being sworn in as President immediately.
Bobby made sure he was at Andrews Air Force base to meet Jackie and his brother's body.
Bobby was the one who inspected his brother's casket in the East Room and told them to close the coffin because it did not resemble Jack.
As Tye writes, even though the entire nation was in mourning: 'Nobody, not even Jackie would grieve as 'deeply or as long as Bobby did'.
The book says: 'The two were closer than any brothers had been at high levels of government, talking in a private code, perpetually interrupting each other and finishing each other's sentences.
'Gone now were the dreams of what they could accomplish side by side..
The sniper's bullet that had penetrated Jack's skull shattered Bobby's own vision even as it broke his heart'.
Standing outside the Lincoln Bedroom in the White House Bobby told Charles Spalding, a scriptwriter who knew both brothers: 'It's such an awful shame. The country was going so well. We really had it going'.
Spalding later recalled that when he shut the door Bobby 'gave way completely and was just racked with sobs'.
Journalist Haynes Johnson said that after the funeral Bobby had eyes that were 'haunted' as if he were in a 'deep, deep deep, black despai
After the burial John Seigenthaler, a former journalist now working at the Justice Department, recalled how Bobby was at Hickory Hill and told him: 'Come in, somebody shot my brother and we're watching his funeral on television'.
Seigenthaler told Bobby that his trademark sardonic humor was 'not funny'. He said: 'And he looked me dead in the eye and said: 'Don't you think I know that'.
Bobby spiraled into what Tye calls a 'deeper, darker stage of mourning' in the months later when he would stare out of the window during meetings at the Department of Justice and could not focus on even reading legal documents.
He could not even refer to his brother's death directly and instead called it the 'events of November 22 1963'.
As Tye writes, Jack's assassination came after Joe Kennedy Jr died during World War II in 1944 and four years before a plane crash would claim Bobby's older sister Kathleen.By then their father had had a stroke and was in a wheelchair and Bobby's sister Rosemary was in an institution in Wisconsin due to failed lobotomy.
On June 6 1968 the 'Curse of the Kennedys' would claim Bobby too when he was assassinated, just like his brother.
Bobby Kennedy: The Making of A Liberal Icon' by Larry Tye is available on Amazon
Friends said he chewed his nails to the quick, lost weight, couldn't sleep
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RFK and children
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Robert Kennedy and Family
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Robert Kennedy assassination: What happened to RFK’s children after he was killed?
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Inside Ethel Kennedy’s cruel neglect of her troubled kids
https://nypost.com/2015/09/13/inside-ethel-kennedys-cruel-neglect-of-her-troubled-kids/
Make Gentle the Life of This World: Robert F. Kennedy
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1969 07 22 Edward Kennedy At The Funeral Of Mary Jo Kopechne Joan
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Through the Haze of Pain’: Robert Kennedy Rises from the Depths
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Robert F. Kennedy - University of Kansas Address
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Ted Kennedy eulogy to his brother Robert 1968
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Eulogy of Bobby Kennedy
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Robert Kennedy Rises from the Depths What It Really All Adds Up to Is Love
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🇺🇸 Who Killed Robert Kennedy? | Al Jazeera World
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RFK's children are divided over talks for a new investigation of his assassination
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RFK photos
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RFK, FBI were warned about book detailing Marilyn fling
https://nypost.com/2017/10/27/rfk-fbi-were-warned-about-book-detailing-marilyn-fling/
Rare Kennedy photos go inside America’s most famous family
https://www.centralmaine.com/2018/09/17/rare-kennedy-photos-go-inside-americas-most-famous-family/
In this October 1936 photo, John F. Kennedy, right, Robert F. Kennedy, second from right, and Patricia Kennedy, front left, pose with friends in Palm Beach, Fla. The Boston-based museum completed an 18-month project in 2018 to catalog and digitize more than 1,700 black-and-white Kennedy family snapshots that are viewable online, giving a nation still obsessed with "Camelot" a candid new glimpse into their everyday lives. Kennedy Family Collection/John F. Kennedy Library Foundation via AP
EXCLUSIVE: More than a bromance - the intimate relationship between John F. Kennedy and his gay friend - from prep school to the White House - where pal had his own room, much to Jackie's chagrin
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Bobby Kennedy || "Shine"
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Visions of hope,1963.-1968.
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Philip A. Goduti, Jr.
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Biography: Philip Goduti, Jr. earned his BA in history from Quinnipiac University in 1997 with a minor in English. He went on to earn a Master of Arts in History from Providence College in 1998 meeting his wife Alyssa. Goduti moved to Hamden, CT to work at Quinnipiac University full time as a Residence Hall Director. It was during that time he started teaching history for the university, eventually going on to earn another Master of Arts at the University of Connecticut in 2005. His master’s thesis, directed by Frank Costigliola, was entitled “To Khrushchev, With Love: Kennedy’s Soviet Policy, 1961” and would eventually serve for the first six chapters of his book Kennedy’s Kitchen Cabinet and the Pursuit of Peace: The Shaping of American Foreign Policy, 1961-1963, published by McFarland and Co., Inc. in 2009.
Goduti continues to teach at Quinnipiac University and also teaches history full-time at Somers High School where he was the 2017 Somers Public Schools Teacher of the Year. His book Robert F. Kennedy and the Shaping of Civil Rights, 1960-1964 was published in 2013 by McFarland and Co., Inc. He has also contributed to American National Biography Online, which is published by Oxford University Press. His most recent book, RFK and MLK: Visions of Hope, 1963-1968, was published in 2017 by McFarland and Co., Inc. He lives in Connecticut with his wife Alyssa and their children Alex, Olivia and Sam.
A Century of Scandal: The Kennedys Have No Competition When It Comes to Tragic, Destructive Romance
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