2023-11-22 16:49:00
John Fitzgerald Kennedy rode in a motorcade through the streets of Dallas in the company of his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, on the sunny morning of November 22, 1963 when he was hit by several shots. Just thirty minutes later, the then president of the United States was declared dead. Six decades following the shocking attack that shook the world, today his three grandchildren, Rose, Tatiana and Jack, perpetuate his legacy.
The Kennedy family history was marked for many years by tragedy.
The beginning of the Kennedy dynasty
On September 12, 1953, then Senator JFK married Jacqueline Bouvier, better known as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, a reporter for the Washington Times Herald whom he had met during a dinner two years before.
The marriage proposal was made by phone while “Jackie O” was covering the coronation of Elizabeth II in London. The wedding took place at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, where the bride wore an ivory silk dress designed by African-American Ann Lowe. Her workshop suffered a flood ten days earlier, damaging the bridal dress and those of the bridesmaids.
After a miscarriage in 1954, the couple welcomed their first daughter, Arabella, in August 1956, but sadly she was stillborn. A year later, her daughter Caroline was born, followed by her only son, John F. Kennedy Jr. (known as John John), in 1960, who died in 1999 in a tragic plane crash in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, along with his wife, Carolyn Bessette, and sister-in-law Lauren.
Shortly before JFK’s assassination in 1963, his fourth child, Patrick, was born, who died two days later due to respiratory problems.
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The marriage’s only surviving daughter, Caroline, was educated in the White House under a plan organized by her mother. Her life changed drastically five days before her sixth birthday, when her father was murdered. After the attack, she, her mother, and her brother moved to Georgetown, Washington, and later to an apartment on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
The heiress studied Law at Columbia University and, in December 2008, expressed her desire to be a senator to replace Hillary Clinton, although she ultimately did not achieve that position.
Over the years, Caroline Kennedy wrote several books, held roles as director of the Office of Strategic Partnerships for the New York City Department of Education, chaired the Kennedy Library Foundation, advised at the Harvard Institute of Politics, and served as United States ambassador to Japan. Additionally, she is a member of the New York and Washington DC bar associations, among other activities.
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During her employment in the Department of Film and Television at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Caroline met exhibition designer Edwin Schlossberg, whom she married in 1986. The couple had three children: Rose Kennedy Schlossberg (35 years old) , Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg (33 years old) and John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg (30 years old).
Jacqueline and John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s first-born child, Rose (named following her maternal great-grandmother Rose Kennedy), was born in New York and educated at the Brearley School on the Upper East Side. Since her childhood, she maintained a close relationship with her grandmother Jackie Kennedy: it was common to see her walking through the exclusive New York neighborhood where they lived, in addition to sharing a notable physical resemblance. After completing school, JFK’s eldest granddaughter studied Literature at Harvard University, graduating in 2010. Although her passion was always cinema, for which she took several courses.
Although politics is not her interest, Rose participated in Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and volunteered during Democrat Alan Khazei’s 2010 Senate campaign.
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In 2016, Rose Schlossberg, together with Mara Nelson-Greenberg, launched End Time Girls Club, an apocalyptic web series on YouTube. “It arose as a response to the way New York City responded to Hurricane Sandy and how people were wildly unprepared, especially girls in damsel-in-distress mode,” the young woman explained at the time.
“I thought it would be interesting to create a world where girls had to be survivors without compromising their beauty factor,” she added.
On May 14, 2022, Rose married hospitality entrepreneur Rory McAuliffe at their home in Ojai, California. The wedding was attended by 300 guests, including Maria Shriver and David Letterman.
Caroline Kennedy’s second daughter, Tatiana, studied History at Yale University and then completed a master’s degree in United States History at the University of Oxford in 2014. She is a renowned journalist and writer committed to the environment, having collaborated as a columnist and a reporter at outlets such as the Times, Bergen Country Record and Bloomberg View.
On the 50th anniversary of his grandfather’s murder, he gave a speech during the wreath-laying at the Runnymede memorial in Surrey, alongside the US ambassador to the UK.
In September 2017, Tatiana married doctor George Moran, her partner since college, on the island of Martha’s Vineyard (Massachusetts), on the Red Gate Farm property owned by her family. The couple have one son, Caroline Kennedy’s first grandchild.
John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, in the footsteps of his grandfather
John Jack, the youngest of JFK’s grandchildren, opts for the name Jack despite having received his first name in honor of his grandfather. His educational background includes studies at The Collegiate School, the oldest educational institution in the United States located on the Upper West Side of New York. After completing school, he earned his degree in History at Yale University in 2015 and subsequently studied law at Harvard, an institution where his maternal grandfather also studied. Additionally, he completed a master’s degree in Law and Business.
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On some occasions he assured that politics might be of interest to him; at 30 years old he has not yet taken a definite step in that area. Previously, he worked as an intern for John Kerry when he was a senator, before he was appointed Secretary of State by Barack Obama. Jack was a collaborator of different media such as The Washington Post y The New York Timesand interned at companies such as Rakuten and Suntory Holdings Limited while accompanying his mother at work in Japan.
In 2020, she did not hesitate to join her mother to give a speech at the Democratic National Convention following the nomination of Joe Biden as a presidential candidate. She expressed her support for Biden, focusing on issues crucial to his generation, such as climate change, systemic racial injustice and healthcare accessibility.
In an interview on the program Today Show 2017, said: “I am inspired by the family legacy of public service, it is something that makes me proud, but I am still trying to carve my own path and I have nothing decided.”
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