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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.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576731/Kennedy_John_Fitzgerald.html   (752 words)

  
 Kennedy political family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Kennedy family is a prominent family in American politics and government descending from the of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
The Kennedy family is often compared to Adams and the Bush families as among the great American political families.
Actor and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is associated with the Kennedy family his marriage to television journalist Maria Shriver daughter of Eunice Kennedy and Sargent Shriver.
www.freeglossary.com /Kennedy_family   (1025 words)

  
 John F. Kennedy - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, the son of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
Kennedy's spine was subject to osteoporosis triggered by injections of corticosteroids; this led to his using a brace to help support the crumbling vertebrae of his lower back.
Kennedy is the only president people honor on the day of his death because it is burned in the memory of many all around the world old enough to remember.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/JFK   (4410 words)

  
 Senator Edward M. Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In addition, Kennedy is active on a wide range of other issues, including education reform and immigration reform, raising the minimum wage, defending the rights of workers and their families, strengthening civil rights, assisting individuals with disabilities, fighting for cleaner water and cleaner air, and protecting and strengthening Social Security and Medicare.
Kennedy is currently the senior Democrat on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee in the Senate.
Kennedy declined the offer, saying he was flattered, but that he had plans to attend law school and to 'go into another contact sport, politics'.
kennedy.senate.gov /senator/index.cfm   (439 words)

  
 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 predominantly Democratic family is known for its US-style political liberalism.
The Kennedys are often compared to the Adams, Bush, and Taft families as among the most influential American political families.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kennedy_family   (1101 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Kennedy family adds chapter with Patrick   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Kennedy's early morning car crash on Capitol Hill this week was grist for comics and conservative bloggers even before the Rhode Island Democrat and police could sort through the particulars of what had happened.
Kennedy initially blamed the accident on a reaction to prescription drugs that he was taking under a doctor's orders for a bout of stomach flu.
Kennedy did not immediately report the tragedy, and later pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident.
www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-05-06-kennedy-clan_x.htm?csp=34   (982 words)

  
 Sen. Kennedy Pens Book on Family, Country - CBS News
Edward Kennedy was a wide-eyed 14-year-old when his brother Jack, a newly minted congressman, treated him to a personal tour of Washington's landmark buildings _ the White House, the Supreme Court, the House floor.
Kennedy recounts the scene in his new book, "America Back on Track," which is to go on sale April 18.
His family's political success, Kennedy said, is rooted in the personal relationships his grandfather and late brothers forged all across Massachusetts.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2006/04/07/ap/politics/mainD8GRCF0OO.shtml   (384 words)

  
 Biography - Joseph Patrick Kennedy
Kennedy was born into a highly sectarian environment where Irish Catholics saw themselves as the victims of Yankee exclusion.
Kennedy's opponents claim he circulated fabricated charges of atrocities against the Church in Spain on the part of the Spanish loyalists.
Kennedy, of Irish descent, hugely enjoyed his leadership position in London society, which stood in stark contrast to his outsider status in Boston.
www.talanith.com /biography/kennedyjp.html   (1569 words)

  
 sociology - John F. Kennedy
He was the youngest ever to be elected president (not to be confused with the youngest person ever to serve as president, a record held by Teddy Roosevelt), the first U.S. President born in the 20th century, and the youngest president to die.
Kennedy opposed fellow Senator Joseph McCarthy's aggressive campaign to root out supposed Communists and Soviet spies in the U.S. government.
The debates are considered a political landmark: the point at which the medium of television played an important role in politics and looking presentable on camera became one of the important considerations for presidential and other political candidates.
www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/John_F._Kennedy   (3688 words)

  
 Patrick Kennedy Biography (Political Figure) — Infoplease.com
He is a member of the political Kennedy family: his father is Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, and he is the nephew of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy.
Patrick Kennedy entered the Mayo Clinic to be treated for addiction to prescription medicines in May of 2006, after crashing his Mustang convertible into a security barrier near the U.S. Capitol late at night.
Kennedy denied he had been drinking, saying that he had suffered a bad reaction to the prescription drugs Phenergan and Ambien.
www.infoplease.com /biography/var/patrickkennedy.html   (335 words)

  
 jfk1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
With the family morals he received, he was able to tackle the many politicians that underestimated him, his constant health problems and the job of running the most powerful country in the world.
Patrick Kennedy was born in Ireland and fought anti-Irish prejudice and later became a political leader in East Boston.
Even though the family was strict, Jack had a great time with his family in their summer and winter homes.
www.belmont.k12.ca.us /ralston/programs/itech/jfk1.html   (3111 words)

  
 LSS Newsletter Extension of Remarks
Few families have had greater impact on twentieth century politics than the Kennedys, and political scientists need to understand how and why the family achieved such prominence.
I use the story of Kennedy's political emergence to explore the use of fame, how prominence affects the manner in which individuals campaign and govern, and how celebrity influences the actions of reporters, donors, and fellow politicians.
Historians often ignore politics and are unable to decipher the questions that are of interest to political scientists.
www.h-net.org /~lss/Newsletter/jan00/west.html   (1584 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: American Experience: Kennedys: DVD: Marion Ross,Rocky Collins,Matthew Collins (III),Ben Loeterman,Mark ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The father's political miscalculations ended his public role, but the seeds were sown for the political careers of his sons.
With President Kennedy's death, the political force in the family became his brother Robert, who would himself be cut down by an assassin as a senator running for president in 1968.
The Kennedy family has always fascinated America, and this documentary does a fine job of going beyond the superficial glamour to examine the real workings of the family in politics, the sources of their motivation, and the way the family acted as a cohesive political unit.
www.amazon.ca /American-Experience-Kennedys-Stephen-Ives/dp/B0002NY8FS   (871 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Kennedy Weddings: A Family Album: Books: Jay Mulvaney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It's often said that the Kennedys are the closest thing to royalty that we Americans have, and it's true that we share an obsession with them that parallels the British obsession with their royal family.
The images of the Kennedy family weddings are at once glamorous beyond imagination and everyday in their focus on family and the rituals of marriage.
Kennedy Weddings is the result of years of extensive research and has benefited from the unprecedented cooperation of many members of the Kennedy family, most especially of Senator Edward Kennedy's office.
www.amazon.com /Kennedy-Weddings-Family-Jay-Mulvaney/dp/0312242085   (1452 words)

  
 Calendar of Events
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to as JFK, was the 35th President of the United States.
A member of the prominent Kennedy political family, he is considered an icon of American liberalism.
Kennedy is the youngest person ever to have been elected president of the United States, at the age of 43.
www.library.ukma.kiev.ua /amer/movie/john.html   (174 words)

  
 CNN - Tragedy and the Kennedy clan - July 17, 1999
(CNN) -- While the Kennedy family waited Saturday for word on the fate of John F. Kennedy Jr., Kennedy-watchers were reminded of the twin clouds of controversy and tragedy that seem to perpetually surround America's most prominent political family, beginning with the son who was expected to be the political star.
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.
www.cnn.com /US/9907/17/kennedy.tragedies   (496 words)

  
 Kennedy political family
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy - the co-founder of the Profiles in Courage Award, and is the president of the Kennedy Library foundation and the chairwoman of the American Ballet Theatre.
The Kennedys are often compared to the Adams and Bush families as among the most influential American political families.
The Kennedy family is a prominent family in American politics and government descending from the marriage of Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
www.ftppro.com /library/Kennedy_political_family   (803 words)

  
 The History Place - JFK The President
John Fitzgerald Kennedy takes the oath of office and becomes the 35th President of the United States of America, January 20, 1961.
From the beginning and throughout his presidency, international tensions and political conflicts are a major preoccupation.
Another preoccupation of the Kennedy White House is the struggle of African-Americans for equal treatment.
www.historyplace.com /kennedy/president.htm   (1520 words)

  
 Sons of Camelot and The Kennedy Men: Books by Laurence Leamer
It was both a retreat into the safe harbor of family and an assertion that they would go on as they always had.
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.
www.kennedymen.com /book/excerpt2.asp   (921 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Kennedy family
Some families traditionally (and perhaps properly) considered separately are joined together here if linked by marriage or otherwise.
The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries.
The coverage of the site includes certain federal officials, state officeholders and candidates in all 50 states, state and national political party officials, federal and state judges, and mayors (including candidates at election for mayor) of qualifying cities.
politicalgraveyard.com /families/1427.html   (996 words)

  
 TIME 100: The Kennedys
The Kennedy clan, the pre-eminent American political family of our time, seems to be cast in the stars, the distant stuff of legend.
That same family could be the neighbors of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, one of the Kennedy clan's five surviving originals (there were nine).
The founding father of the clan, Joseph Kennedy, came from immigrant stock with all the eccentric genius and anger of his blighted kin, but he was touched by the magic of America.
www.time.com /time/time100/heroes/profile/kennedys01.html   (451 words)

  
 JFK: Robert L. White Collection
John F. Kennedy has countless, world-wide admirers to whom the 35th President of the United States of America will always be remembered as charismatic and special.
Most simply, the Collection is “Everything Kennedy.” Within the Collection, however, are several areas of specific focus including: Kennedy family, political memorabilia, historical paper, Evelyn Lincoln related items, assassination, and the Kennedy legacy.
He is dearly missed by his family as well as his close personal friends and the thousands who had the opportunity to know Robert through his Collection.
www.guernseys.com /Auctions/JFK/Featured.html   (869 words)

  
 The Kennedy Family Posters and photo - John ted robert picture - political poster
These two Kennedy family posters provide you with memorable moments from one of America's most well known families.
John F. Kennedy became President of the United States in 1960 and served until he was killed in November of 1963.
Robert Kennedy was on his way to the Democratic nomination when he was shot in the head at pointblank range.
www.politicalcritic.com /posters_political_kennedyfamily.htm   (212 words)

  
 Sons of Camelot and The Kennedy Men: Books by Laurence Leamer
"Laurence Leamer has captured the essence of this interesting and dynamic family and told their story in a brilliant narrative without parallel in its depth of thought, faithfulness to fact, and pure pleasure for the reader.
In this companion to his vivid portrait of the lives of the Kennedy women he sees the whole tapestry of the Kennedy men, with their magnificent obsessions, and at the start of a new century he reproduces the Kennedy family saga with a mix of compassion, accuracy, intelligence and great human insight - unputdownable!"
The result is an effortless read that draws the reader into the mind of the Kennedys as no book before, or likely will again.
www.kennedymen.com /book/quotes.asp   (641 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Founding Father: The Story of Joseph P. Kennedy: Books: Richard J. Whalen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
What makes the story so great is simply that Joseph Kennedy is a great literary character, a character in the oldest tradition, a flawed figure on a grand stage, moving toward his destiny unaware of his flaws.
Kennedy buying the man a suit and paying for the funeral of that son-is particularly touching.
Kennedy made so much money in so many different arenas-sold out and took his profit on to the next venture-a sixth sense he had for making big money!
www.amazon.com /Founding-Father-Kennedy-Family-Ambition/dp/0895267330   (1018 words)

  
 MichaelMoore.com : Rocker Springsteen takes political tone on tour
Several said they were more interested in hearing the lineup of folk songs, as well as Springsteen tunes including "Cadillac Ranch" and "Ramrod" that were jazzed up with fiddle and tuba solos -- a break from the rock sound the singer called "The Boss" is best known for.
The political tone of the latest album, called "We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions," did not appear to have hurt sales, Conniff said.
Fans noted that Springsteen's views fit in the heavily Democratic state that is home to the Kennedy political family.
www.michaelmoore.com /words/latestnews/index.php?id=7049   (515 words)

  
 Americana Resources - Political: Kennedy Family - Recordings
This Kennedy listing covers a broad area of memorabilia that is both directly, and indirectly, associated with the Kennedy family.
We have attempted to separate out the robot and staff signed autographs from the genuine signatures, particularly where Kennedy family members were involved.
She was so touched by them that she called me to thank me personally and told me that she would always keep these songs as a part of her most cherished possessions...when I produced this record in 1968, I only made 50 copies.
amres.com /catalogs/PLKR.asp   (1011 words)

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