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The Kennedy Curse

The Kennedy family was one of the most powerful family in America. Presidents, senators, prominent politicians …But, unfortunately, despite careers, status and power, their personal life was not so successful. Most of the family members died in car accidents, plane crashes, some were murdered…

• Rosemary Kennedy - lobotomy 

Rosemary was a sister of President John F. Kennedy. She  was born with mental and developmental disabilities. When she was 23 years old, her father, Joe Kennedy, arranged one of the first prefrontal lobotomies . However, it only worsen the situation: Rosemary lost the ability to move and speak. Gradually, learned how to stand on her feet, but her hands remained paralyzed. Rosemary spent the rest of her life in an institution in Wisconsin with limited contact with her family.

• Joseph Kennedy Jr. - plane crash 

Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. was the elder brother of John. In 1942, leaving the Faculty of Law, he enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He entered flight training to be a Naval Aviator, and after training, he received his wings and was commissioned an ensign on May 5, 1942. In 1944, he participated in a top-secret mission. Unfortunately, the explosives in the Kennedy-piloted drone detonated prematurely and killed him instantly.

• Kathleen Kennedy - plane crash 

Kathleen Kennedy, the elder sister of John. After her debut in London, she met Billy Hartington, 10th Duke of Devonshire. He was killed on active service in Belgium only four months later. Immediately after his death, Kathleen began an affair with 8th Earl Fitzwilliam. Kathleen and Fitzwilliam died in a plane crash in 1948.

• Patrick Bouvier Kennedy -  lived just over 39 hours

Patrick was the last child of John and Jacqueline. Doctors diagnosed him with infant respiratory distress syndrome (IRDS).

• John Kennedy - murder 

On November 22 1963, John Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas. The assassination shocked the whole America and subsequently became one of the most vivid proofs of the existence of “The Kennedy Curse.”

Ted Kennedy - a series of misfortunes
 
Ted was the youngest brother of John.  On June 19, 1964, Kennedy was a passenger in a private airplane that was flying in bad weather. The plane crashed. The pilot and Edward Moss, one of Kennedy’s aides, were killed. He was pulled from the wreckage by fellow Senator Birch Bayh. In 1969, Kennedy’s car fell off the bridge. One of the woman that he met at a party prior to the accident, was trapped in the car. Kennedy swam to shore and fled the scene.  Kennedy did not report the accident to authorities until the next morning, by which time Kopechne’s body had already been discovered. He died in 2009 from brain cancer.

• Robert Kennedy - murder

Robert was the US Attorney General and the youngest senator in the country. He was shot by 22-year-old Sirhan Sirhan, who claimed that the assassination was his revenge for Kennedy’s support of Israel. After this incident, Jacqueline experienced a fear for her children: “ If they’re killing Kennedys, then my children are targets … I want to get out of this country. ”

• Joseph Patrick Kennedy II - car crash 

In August 1973, a Jeep he was driving overturned, fracturing one of his brother David Kennedy’s vertebrae and permanently paralyzing David’s girlfriend. Because of his injuries, David had to take painkillers, because of which he later died.

• Edward M. Kennedy Jr. - Leg amputation 

In 1973, when Kennedy was twelve, osteosarcoma (a form of bone cancer) was diagnosed in his right leg. The leg was surgically amputated. Interestingly, in 1982, his mother Joan revealed that Kennedy missed by just ten minutes being aboard Air Florida Flight 90, which crashed into the Potomac River on January 13 of that year, killing 74 people. Kennedy was delayed on the drive to the airport and missed the flight.

• David Kennedy - drug overdose 

David Anthony Kennedy was the fourth son of Robert Kennedy.  David was seriously injured, and to stop the pain, doctors prescribed him painkillers. Soon he became addicted. He switched from painkillers to heroin. In 1984, he was found dead on the floor of his suite from an overdose of cocaine, Demerol, and Mellaril.

• Michael LeMoyne Kennedy - skiing accident

He was playing football while on skis with several other members of the Kennedy family when he hit a tree.

• John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. - plane crash

On July 16, 1999, he was on his private jet with his wife Carolyn and her sister that was heading to the wedding of Rory Kennedy. But the plane did not reach its destination. The National Transportation Safety Board determined that pilot error was the probable cause of the crash: “Kennedy’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during a descent over water at night, which was a result of spatial disorientation.”

• Kerry Kennedy - tractor trailer 

In July 2012, Kennedy sideswiped a tractor trailer on Interstate 684 in Westchester County. A toxicology report filed on July 25, 2012, said zolpidem was found in a sample of her blood taken when Kennedy was arrested. She was acquitted of the charges on February 28, 2014.