Children of Robert and Ethel Kennedy
| Name | Birth | Death | Age | Cause of death | Occupation | Spouse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Hartington Kennedy Townsend | July 4, 1951 | Living | 61 | Lieutenant Governor of Maryland (1995–2003) | David Lee Townsend | |
| Joseph Patrick Kennedy II | September 24, 1952 | Living | 60 | U.S. Representative (1987–1999) | Sheila Rauch (divorced); Anne Elizabeth "Beth" Kelly | |
| Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr. | January 17, 1954 | Living | 58 | Environmental Attorney | Emily Ruth Black (divorced); Mary Richardson (Died May 16, 2012) | |
| David Anthony Kennedy | June 15, 1955 | April 25, 1984 | 28 | Drug Overdose | Ambition towards journalism | |
| Mary Courtney Kennedy Hill | September 9, 1956 | Living | 56 | Former Representative of the United Nations AIDS Foundation | Jeffrey Robert Ruhe (divorced); Paul Hill | |
| Michael LeMoyne Kennedy | February 27, 1958 | December 31, 1997 | 39 | Skiing accident | Attorney | Victoria Gifford |
| Mary Kerry Kennedy | September 8, 1959 | Living | 53 | Attorney | Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York and former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (divorced) | |
| Christopher George Kennedy | July 4, 1963 | Living | 49 | President of Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. | Sheila Sinclair Berner | |
| Matthew Maxwell Taylor Kennedy | January 11, 1965 | Living | 47 | Attorney | Victoria Anne Strauss | |
| Douglas Harriman Kennedy | March 24, 1967 | Living | 45 | Journalist | Molly Elizabeth Stark | |
| Rory Kennedy Bailey | December 12, 1968 | Living | 43 | Film director and producer | Mark Bailey |
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“Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.”
—Jane Austen (1775–1817)
“Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.”
—C. John Sommerville (20th century)
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—Barbara Howar (b. 1934)
“The moment when she crawled out onto the back of the open limousine in which her husband had been murdered was the first and last time the American people would see Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis crawl.... She was the last great private public figure in this country. In a time of gilt and glitz and perpetual revelation, she was perpetually associated with that thing so difficult to describe yet so simple to recognize, the apotheosis of dignity.”
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