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  Rose Kennedy
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (July 22, 1890 - January 22, 1995) married into the Kennedy family and became its matriarch in the second half of the 20th century, when its members helped shape American politics.
She was the eldest child of John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald[?], a prominent figure in Boston politics who served one term as a member of Congress and later became the city's mayor.
At her death at the age of 104 in 1995, Rose Kennedy was the longest-lived Presidential parent (and or relative) in history.
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  Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She was born Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald in the North End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, and died at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.
At her death from complications of pneumonia at the age of 104 in 1995, Rose Kennedy was the longest-lived Presidential relative in history.
Rose Marie Kennedy, the third child born in the immediate Kennedy family, underwent a lobotomy in 1941 at age 23 after Joe Kennedy was informed that his daughter's mild mental complications could be cured by such an operation.
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 WIC Biography - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Kennedy endured and successfully emerged from tragedy that disregards financial or social standing.
Kennedy, we honored you for your strength, for your faith, for your sacrifices and for your dedication to motherhood.
* Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy died at 105, in 1995.
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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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 Kennedy family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Kennedy family is a prominent 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.
Likely dyslexic and considered to be slightly brain-damaged from birth, Rose Marie Kennedy (her christening name) was rendered incapable of intelligible speech or caring for herself by a lobotomy requested by her father, Joe Sr., that was intended to cure her increasing mood swings and make her more manageable.
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 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The kennedy family is a prominent family in american politics and government descending from the marriage of list of descendants of joseph p....
Patricia kennedy lawford was the sixth child born to joseph p....
Jean kennedy smith was born jean ann kennedy on february 20, 1928 in brookline, massachusetts, the eighth of the nine children of joseph p....
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 Rose: a Biography of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (Books) at Cheryl's Craft Closet
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy is a figure of striking paradoxes: a devout daily communicants regularly attending early-morning mass and one of a handful of women granted the supreme title of papal countess.
Rose Fitzgerald was the youngest high school graduate in Boston, a brilliant student, and both her debut at its graduation made front-page stories.
Rose is also the story of the incredible stoicism of a mother with lost three sons and daughter by violence, whose husband was amused invalid for a long and wearing years-a woman with never complained, who has always been "the glued" that help Kennedys together.
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 John F. Kennedy
Kennedy himself was thrown to the deck and his back re-injured, but he gathered his men on the bobbing bow, all that remained of his boat.
Kennedy took charge of the burned crew m ember, and holding the straps of the man's life vest with his teeth, he towed him to the island.
Kennedy's major problems as president were the Cold War with the Soviet Union and its Communist allies, the resistance of southerners in his own party to the demands of fls for full civil rights, and unemployment.
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rose, common name for some members of the Rosaceae, a large family of herbs, shrubs, and trees distributed over most of the earth, and for plants of the genus Rosa,...
In front of the cottage was a garden wherein stood two rose-trees, one of which bore white and the other red roses.
...I O ROSE the Red and White, Lilly, Their mother dear was dead, And their father married an ill woman Wish d them twa little gude.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
Kennedy, of Irish descent, had little concern for the British, sympathized somewhat with the America Firsters led by Colonel Charles Lindbergh and others who wanted no war with Hitler, supported a policy of United States isolationism, and had no problem with Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement.
Rosemary Kennedy, the third child born in the immediate Kennedy family, underwent a lobotomy in 1941 at age 23 after Joe Kennedy was informed that behavioral issues and mood swings related to his daughter's mild mental complications could be addressed by such an operation.
In a true testament to the cohesiveness of the Kennedy siblings, at her side upon her death were her surviving sisters and Senator Ted Kennedy.
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 Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy Biography - Biography.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Kennedy's steely determination and abiding belief in God made her the embodiment of the Irish Catholic tradition in the United States.
Rose Kennedy was the eldest child of John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a prominent figure in Boston politics who served one term as a congressional representative and later became the city's mayor.
Rose continued dating Kennedy against her father's wishes, and in 1914 the couple was married.
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 The Kennedys, according to Rose - The Boston Globe
But the personal papers of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, to be opened to the public for the first time today, reveal that sometimes she was just Mother, a compulsive scrapbook keeper with an independent streak that could exasperate...
But the personal papers of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, to be opened to the public for the first time today, reveal that sometimes she was just Mother, a compulsive scrapbook keeper with an independent streak that could exasperate her children.
A devoted mother, Rose Kennedy wrote poignantly of her struggle to help her daughter Rosemary, and her frustrations with the lack of services available for mentally challenged people, the beginning of her decades of work on behalf of the disabled.
www.boston.com /news/local/articles/2006/09/28/the_kennedys_according_to_rose   (908 words)

  
 **Tribute to John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr**
Thomas Fitzgerald and Patrick Kennedy both migrated to Boston from Wexford County in Ireland during the potato famine of 1840.
Kennedy died at the age of thirty-five and left behind his wife and four children.
On January 20, 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was sworn into office by Chief Justice Earl Warren, with his left hand placed on the Kennedy Family Bible as he took his oath.
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 American Experience | The Kennedys | People & Events | PBS
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the daughter of Boston politician John Fitzgerald and wife of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr.
John F. Kennedy told an aide that he could not recall his mother ever saying "I love you." An old friend suggested that the president's discomfort with physicality "must go back to his mother and the fact that she was so cold, so distant from the whole thing.
Rose used a separate cottage at Hyannis Port to remove herself from the ruckus of her big family.
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 Kennedy, John Fitzgerald on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
KENNEDY, JOHN FITZGERALD [Kennedy, John Fitzgerald] 1917-63, 35th President of the United States (1961-63), b.
Kennedy won much praise for his stance in the crisis, but some have criticized him for what they held to be unnecessary "brinkmanship." In Aug., 1963, tension with the USSR was eased by conclusion of a treaty that prohibited the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.
On Nov. 22, 1963, President Kennedy was shot and killed while riding in a motorcade in Dallas, Tex. The Warren Commission, appointed by his successor Lyndon Johnson to investigate the murder, eventually concluded that it was the work of a single assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
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 Kennedy Family Members
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy was the oldest of six children born to Josephine Hannon and John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, a colorful and corrupt Boston politician.
Birthplace: New York, N.Y. Caroline, the daughter of John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in New York while her father was serving as a senator from Massachusetts.
The eldest child of Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy, and the eldest grandchild of Rose and Joseph Kennedy, Kathleen at first didn't appear to be destined for political office.
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 Boston's 'new treasure' honors a singular Rose (July 27, 2004)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Maria Shriver and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg arrive for yesterday morning's dedication of the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in downtown Boston.
On a lush expanse of lawn adorned with roses, near Boston's North End, a stone's throw from where she was born, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy was honored by three generations of her family - enough to fill three buses - and the state's political elite.
After her second-oldest child, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, became president, he asked that two lanterns from the Old North Church, like those used by Paul Revere to warn of a British attack, be brought to the Oval Office, Ayres said.
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This one acre garden overlooking Boston Harbor is dedicated to Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, matriarch of one of the most enduring political dynasties in American history.
Born in Boston's North End in 1890 (at 4 Garden Court Street), Rose Kennedy was the daughter of John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, who was a two-term mayor of Boston.
Along with her husband Joe Kennedy, Rose raised nine children and got involved in all of the political campaigns.
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 Welcome to The American Presidency
John F. Kennedy was the second of nine children of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
John Kennedy graduated from the Choate School (which later became the Choate Rosemary Hall) in 1935 in the middle of his class.
Kennedy attended the London School of Economics (today known as the London School of Economics and Political Science) in England and graduated with honors from Harvard University.
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And when Senator Edward Kennedy climbed to the stage this week at a ceremony honoring his mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, (START TO FADE UP NEXT CUT) it was clear that the family is still very near and dear to the hearts of many Democrats… and many Bostonians.
Edward Kennedy's presence at the convention is proving to be a dominant one.
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy instilled a love of those lanterns in her family.
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 North End Walk
The birthplace of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (1890-1995), daughter of John F. Fitzgerald, who became the first Boston-born Irish-American mayor in 1905, and mother of President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy, probably was a bow fronted building like the one at No. 6 Garden Court.
Rose Kennedy devoted her life to raising her nine children and was active in special education as well as in her sons' political campaigns.
In 1862, it became a Roman Catholic Church and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy and her father were christened here.
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 John F Kennedy National Historic Site (National Park Service)
The modest frame house at 83 Beals Street in Brookline was the first home shared by the president's father and mother, Joseph P. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, and represents the social and political beginnings of one of America’s most prominent families.
Four of the nine Kennedy children were born while the family resided at 83 Beals — Joe, Jr., John, Rosemary, and Kathleen.
When John Kennedy was four years old, his parents sold the house and moved to a larger residence nearby, where they lived until 1927.
www.nps.gov /jofi   (448 words)

  
 POTUS -- President John Fitzgerald Kennedy
From a PBS broadcast of the same name, this essay excerpt by Richard Reeves discusses some of the issues and events that molded Kennedy.
Kennedy establishes goal of landing a man on the moon.
Kennedy outlines the U.S. response to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
www.potus.com /jfkennedy.html   (530 words)

  
 AmericanHeritage.com / Young Jack Kennedy
Hamilton argues that Joseph and Rose Kennedy, much praised in their day as model parents, were anything but admirable, but he prosecutes his case with such unrelenting vehemence that after a time the reader begins to sympathize with the accused.
Kennedy’s wartime role before, during, and after the sinking of PT-109, blown out of proportion by some early biographers, then minimized by his posthumous detractors, is shown here to have been almost everything the campaign literature with which his proud father flooded the electorate said it was.
In 1941 and 1942 Kennedy seems to have mused aloud to her of heading West after the war to run a ranch, out from under his father’s watchful eye, perhaps with Arvad at his side.
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 Irish Echo Online - News
The matriarch who held the Kennedy Dynasty together for much of the 20th century will have her name permanently enshrined in Boston on Monday, July 26, as the Kennedy family and local officials formally dedicate the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, a boulevard of parks, cultural institutions and waterfront amenities that will be completed in 2007.
Her father, John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald, served two terms as mayor, and under his leadership Boston was restored as one of the "great seaports of the East Coast," according to City Hall sources.
Ironically, the demolished highway portion of the Central Artery that made way for the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway was named the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway in honor of Rose's father.
www.irishecho.com /newspaper/story.cfm?id=14900   (651 words)

  
 Internet Public Library: POTUS
From a PBS broadcast of the same name, this essay excerpt by Richard Reeves discusses some of the issues and events that molded Kennedy.
Kennedy establishes goal of landing a man on the moon.
Kennedy outlines the U.S. response to the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
www.ipl.org /div/potus/jfkennedy.html   (559 words)

  
 NRCBL: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Collection on Women, Infants and Children   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature is home to the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Collection on Women, Infants and Children.
This collection, established on April 14, 2003 on the occasion of the awarding of an honorary degree to her daughter, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, is named in Mrs.
Kennedy's honor in remembrance of her lifelong support for the welfare of the family.
www.georgetown.edu /research/nrcbl/nrc/collections/rkennedy.htm   (220 words)

  
 John Fitzgerald Kennedy
In April, a force of anti-Castro Cubans, trained by the Central Intelligence Agency, staged an unsuccessful attempt to establish a beachhead at the Bay of Pigs, Cuba.
Kennedy was the youngest elected president at 43 years old, and the youngest to die in office at 46 years old.
Kennedy was the only president to win a Pulitzer Prize -- for his biography Profiles in Courage.
www.seattleu.edu /artsci/history/us1945/prez/kennedy.htm   (425 words)

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