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  John F. Kennedy - MSN Encarta
Kennedy was the second of nine children of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and his wife, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Rose Kennedy was the daughter of John F. Fitzgerald, who, as mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, was popularly known as “Honey Fitz.” Joseph Kennedy was the son of Patrick Kennedy, a successful businessman and a prominent Boston politician.
Kennedy hoped to fight in the war but in the spring of 1941 he was rejected by the U.S. Army because of the back injury he had received at Harvard.
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 Arlington National Cemetery:: Historical Information
John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was born in the Boston suburb of Brookline, Mass., to Joseph Patrick Kennedy and his wife, Rose, their second child.
Kennedy approached the military with the aim of making it stronger and more flexible, able to engage in limited warfare and possessing a capability for limited warfare while at the same time closing what he had described as a "missile gap" in the strategic arena.
Kennedy called attention to many of the issues: medical care for the disabled and elderly, increased funding for the arts, concern for the environment, and a "war on poverty." Under Johnson, the initiatives became known as "The Great Society" initiative and were passed into law in substantial measure.
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 Joseph Patrick Kennedy II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kennedy again considered running for the governorship in 2002, but opted out, fuelling speculations that he might be holding out for his uncle Ted Kennedy's Senate seat if his uncle had decided to retire in 2006.
His efforts to have the marriage to Rauch annulled led to a controversy: Rauch, who was not Catholic,published a book asserting she was opposed to the concept of annulment because it meant in theory that the marriage had never actually existed.
Kennedy has twin sons from his marriage to Sheila Rauch: Matthew Rauch Kennedy and Joseph Patrick Kennedy III (born Oct. 4, 1980).
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 The American Heraldry Society :: Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Thus it was on the basis of President Kennedy's descent from Patrick Kennedy, who emigrated from County Wexford to Boston in 1845, that an application for a grant of arms was lodged on his behalf and subsequently approved.
Today, the Kennedy arms are still used not only by members of the family, but by the aircraft carrier named in the late President's honor in 1964, christened by his daughter Caroline in 1967, and placed in commission in 1968.
Some have claimed that the Kennedy arms are usually depicted incorrectly, because the colors in the crest wreath, or torse (the small strip of twisted cloth upon which the crest is mounted) do not match those of the mantling, the slashed cloth hanging from the helmet and framing the shield.
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 Kennedy, Joseph Patrick - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kennedy's wife, Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1890-1995, was the daughter of U.S. congressman and Boston mayor John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald.
The return of the Kennedy's; struggling against conservatives and cynics, a new generation of activists tries to assert itself.
Patrick Kennedy's crash another chapter in a family legacy of trouble and triumph
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 John F. Kennedy
Joseph Kennedy had become quite wealthy by the time he was 30 making his fortune in stock-market speculation, motion pictures, shipbuilding and real estate.
Kennedy graduated cum laude from Harvard in 1940, and he used his undergraduate thesis as the basis for a book Why England Slept, which was a study of Britain’s response to German rearmament prior to World War II.
Kennedy was thrown across the deck onto his back, the boat being sliced in half and two of the twelve men aboard were killed immediately.
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Rosemary Kennedy, the third child of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and his wife Rose, is institutionalized because of retardation and a failed full frontal lobotomy.
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., the eldest son of Joseph and Rose Kennedy, is killed at age 29 when his plane explodes over the English Channel while on a secret World War II bombing mission.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy III, one of seven sons of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, is involved in a car accident that leaves a female passenger paralyzed for life.
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 John F Kennedy : Wholesale Golf Equipment : The King of Internet Golf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kennedy was the youngest man elected President; he was the youngest to die.
Kennedy replied by reinforcing the Berlin garrison and increasing the Nation's military strength, including new efforts in outer space.
Kennedy now contended that both sides had a vital interest in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons and slowing the arms race--a contention which led to the test ban treaty of 1963.
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 Robert Francis Kennedy — FactMonster.com
Although Kennedy had supported his brother's intensification of American aid to the South Vietnamese government, he became increasingly critical of Johnson's escalation of the Vietnam War and by 1968 was advocating that the Viet Cong be included in a South Vietnamese coalition government.
Kennedy conducted an energetic campaign and won a series of primary victories, culminating in California on June 4.
Joseph Patrick KENNEDY, II - KENNEDY, Joseph Patrick, II (1952—) KENNEDY, Joseph Patrick, II, (son of Robert Francis...
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Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr., older brother of President John F. Kennedy, was born in Nantasket, Mass., 25 July 1915.
Kennedy was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously for this dangerous mission in the drone Liberator bomber.
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., did not return to the West Coast immediately upon the termination of this combat duty, but instead steamed westward to complete a circuit of the globe.
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 CNN - The Kennedys: A legacy of tragedy, controversy - January 1, 1998
Kathleen Kennedy married William John Robert Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington, who was killed in World War II.
Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968 as he campaigned for the Democratic party's presidential nomination.
His son Joseph (Joe) was involved in a 1973 car accident that left a female passenger paralyzed for life.
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 John F. Kennedy
Patrick Joseph II (PJ), the youngest of those four children helped his mother with the small "notions" store she managed with difficulty.
Senator Kennedy's election in 1960 meant that that the first young children of a president would be at the White House for the first time since Theodore Rossevelt's children at the beginning of the 20th century.
Some of the most touching photographs of presidential children are those of John and Caroline with their father The images of President Kennedy and his young son and John saluting the casket of his slain father on his third birthday are burned into the American psyche.
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 CNN - Family, friends grieve at Michael Kennedy's funeral - January 3, 1998
Kennedy, son of the late U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy, died New Year's eve in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado.
Joseph P. Kennedy II mixed family humor and poetic verse in a eulogy for his brother at the funeral Mass.
Michael Kennedy was the sixth of Robert and Ethel Kennedy's 11 children, and was married to Victoria Gifford Kennedy, the daughter of sportscaster Frank Gifford.
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 Kennedy family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kennedy family is a prominent Irish-American family in American politics and government descending from the marriage of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The Kennedys are often compared to the Adams, Bush, and Taft families as among the most influential American political families.
Patrick Kennedy was a politician involved in the local Democratic Party.
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Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., the oldest child of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy, was born in Massachusetts on July 28, 1915.
Robert Francis Kennedy was born the seventh child of Joseph P. and Rose Kennedy on November 20, 1925.
Kennedy was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1980.
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 Tragic-Dynasty.us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
November 8: John F. Kennedy is elected the 35th president of the U.S. He is the youngest president ever to be elected -- and the first Roman Catholic.
May 25: President Kennedy announces his goal to land a man on the moon and return him to earth before the end of the decade, and before the Soviets do.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, son of Robert Kennedy, is elected to Congress from the 8th District of Massachusetts.
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Kennedy, J.
Kennedy, J. — of Lawton, Comanche County, Okla. Democrat.
John Francis Fitzgerald; grandson of Joseph Patrick Kennedy; nephew of Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr.
Kennedy, Judy — of Phoenix, Maricopa County, Ariz. Democrat.
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 Kennedy Family Tragedies quiz -- free game
Kennedy became the parents of a baby boy, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy.
In 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy was the driver in an accident at Chappaquiddick which resulted in the drowning death of a young woman.
In 1984, Ethel Kennedy was once again visited by tragedy when one of her children died of a drug overdose over the Easter weekend.
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 Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipients - Politicians Who Received the Medal of Freedom in chronological order
Joseph Warren Madden (1890-1972) -- also known as J. Warren Madden -- Born in Damascus, Stephenson County, Ill., January 17, 1890.
Served in the U.S. Army during World War II; delegate to Republican National Convention from Alabama, 1948; U.S. District Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, 1953-55; Judge of U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, 1955-; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals, 1979-81, 1981-92 (5th Circuit 1979-81, 11th Circuit 1981-92).
Served in the U.S. Navy during World War II; served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War; Chief of U.S. naval operations in 1970-74; candidate for U.S. Senator from Virginia, 1976.
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 Sons of Camelot and The Kennedy Men: Books by Laurence Leamer
Robert Francis Kennedy and his wife, Ethel Skakel Kennedy, were there with their seven children.
Bobby may have feared that his responsibility went even further, that the man or men who murdered the president -- be they CIA agents, Cuban exiles, mobsters, or a strange lone man enraged at the attack on Castro's Cuba -- had been egged on by a policy that the attorney general himself had instituted.
One of Bobby's first acts after his brother's assassination was to write a letter to his eldest son, reminding eleven-year-old Joseph Patrick Kennedy II of the obligations of his name.
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 AllRefer.com - Joseph Patrick Kennedy, (Business Leaders, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Harvard, 1912, father of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Edward M. Kennedy (see separate entries).
Kennedy's wife, Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1890–1995, was the daughter of U.S. congressman and Boston mayor John Francis "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald.
See A. Smith, ed., Hostage to Fortune: The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy (2000); J. Dinneen, The Kennedy Family (1960); D. Goodwin, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys (1987); and biographies by R. Whalen (1964) and D. Koskoff (1974).
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 The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Kennedy, O to R
Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose (Fitzgerald) Kennedy; brother-in-law of
Kennedy — of Stewartsville, Warren County, N.J. Republican.
Stewartsville Presbyterian Cemetery, Stewartsville, N.J. Kennedy, Ron — of Munnsville,
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Son of President John F. Kennedy, Patrick was born prematurely in 1963 and died two days later.
Son of Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph was involved in a 1973 car accident that left a female passenger paralyzed for life.
Son of Jean Kennedy Smith, was accused of committing rape in 1991 at the family's Palm Beach, Fla., estate.
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Kennedy's 2 CONT accumulated wealth by 1929 enabled him to establish one million dollar 2 CONT trust funds for each of his children.
After his death in 2 CONT 1963 her mother, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, fiercely guarded her and 2 CONT brother John's privacy to ensure as normal an upbringing as possible 2 CONT away from continuous public scrutiny.
She is the 2 CONT first Kennedy woman to continue the political legacy of her family.
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 JFK: Kennedy Family Tree
Joseph P. Kennedy, center, and his family pose while he was the ambassador to Britain.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy, born Sept. 6, 1888; died Nov. 16, 1969.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II, born Sept. 24, 1952.
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 TIME Magazine: JFK Jr.'S Family Tree --PAGE 1-- JULY 26, 1999
Joseph Patrick Kennedy 1888-1969 Financier, rumrunner and ambassador.
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis 1929-1994 Twice widowed, she was John Jr.'s confidant.
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II 1952-present Former U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
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 JFK Jr's Family Tree   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The youngest ever elected to the presidency and the first of the Roman Catholic faith, John F. Kennedy won the election of November 1960 by a razor-thin margin, but after taking office he received the support of most Americans.
She is also a volunteer fund-raiser for the Kennedy Child Study Center, a New York City school for the developmentally disabled.
Patrick is single, but reportedly has a girlfriend.
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 DIABLOG.US
The tragic history of the Kennedys and vehicles is documented as far back as World War II, though I suspect they were crashing oxcarts in Ireland in the early 1800s.
JFK's elder brother Joseph was shot down in a plane during the war, echoing the dramatic death of his nephew John F. Kennedy, Jr.
In the case of the Kennedy clan the pattern seems to be different.
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 Edward Kennedy | Congress votes database | washingtonpost.com
Edward Kennedy is running in the U.S. Senate, Massachusetts race.
See how Edward Kennedy voted on key votes -- the most important bills, nominations and resolutions that have come before Congress, as determined by washingtonpost.com.
View Edward Kennedy's 2005 official financial disclosure statement, which describes the sources, types and amounts of income earned in 2005.
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