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  Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 parent (and/or relative) in history.
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 his daughter's mild mental complications could be cured by such an operation.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /rose_kennedy.htm   (542 words)

  
 Rose Kennedy Greenway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Greenway, a series of parks and public spaces named in honor of Kennedy family matriarch Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, is the final part of the massive Central Artery/Tunnel (Big Dig) project that put Interstate 93 underground and removed the obsolete elevated freeway that served as the main highway through downtown for more than 40 years.
As a result, the waterfront and North End section of town (where Rose Kennedy was born) was cut off from the rest of the city.
The Rose Kennedy Greenway was officially dedicated on July 26, 2004.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rose_Kennedy_Greenway   (350 words)

  
 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 born Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald in Boston, Massachusetts, and died 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 parent (and or relative) in history.
wikipedia.lotsofinformation.com /wiki/index.php/Rose_Kennedy   (155 words)

  
 Search Results for "Rose ..."
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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 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.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/kennedys/peopleevents/p_rose.html   (519 words)

  
 KENNEDY ROSE : MusicWeb Encyclopaedia of Popular Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kennedy was teaching choral music in junior high school when she decided to try her luck in Nashville '76; raised in Eau Gallie FL, Rose was a folk singer while attending Florida State U, worked in Atlanta '71--4; moved to Nashville '76.
Rose signed to Capitol and Epic as a solo singer with several minor country hits '77--80; became singer, guitarist with Calamity Jane along with Kennedy, Marshall Chapman and Linda Hargrove, the latter two being replaced by Mary Fielder and Linda Moore; signed to Columbia with minor country hits '81--2 and one self- titled album.
Formed Kennedy Rose '85, opened for Sting on his Soul Cages tour, signed to his Pangaea Records; their first album Hai Ku '90 gained cult status, second Walk The Line '94 had Ray Kennedy as co-producer and a great pop-country sheen, seamless harmony, good lyrics and melodies.
www.musicweb-international.com /encyclopaedia/k/K29.HTM   (243 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Temporary garden sprouts overnight for Rose Kennedy Greenway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Just a stone's throw from Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy's birthplace, in the shadow of the city's North End, rose bushes and pin oak trees have sprung up overnight in preparation for Monday's dedication of the greenway that will bear her name.
Rose Kennedy was born and baptized just a few blocks down Hanover Street and, 104 years later in 1995, her funeral took place there, in St. Stephen's Church.
Her husband, Joseph Kennedy, was born about 500 yards away, and they raised their family of future political leaders -- including President John F. Kennedy and two U.S. senators -- not far away in Brookline.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/07/25/temporary_garden_sprouts_overnight_for_rose_kennedy_greenway   (641 words)

  
 American Experience | The Kennedys | Timeline | PBS
September 6: Joseph Patrick Kennedy is born in Boston to former stevedore, saloon owner, and local politician Patrick Joseph Kennedy and his wife Mary Augusta Hickey, daughter of an affluent family from suburban Brockton, Massachusetts.
July 22: Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald is born in Boston to local politician John F. Fitzgerald and Mary Josephine Hannon.
February 20: Joe and Rose's fifth and youngest daughter, Jean Ann Kennedy, is born.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/kennedys/timeline   (936 words)

  
 National Catholic Reporter: Rose Kennedy balanced sad and glad with faith - Obituary
In the pews of St. Francis, Rose Kennedy prayed the rosary attended Mass -- daily for many years -- and exposed her children to the meaning of the sacraments, as she had been taught in her own Irish Catholic girlhood in Boston.
Rose Kennedy, one of six children and the mother of nine, had the financial security that the wealth of her husband provided.
But the maternal guidance of Rose Kennedy -- her insistence on service -- can be seen today in the humane politics of Sen. Ted Kennedy, the innovative work of Eunice Shriver for the mentally retarded, the creativity of Jean Smith and her program, Very Special Arts.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_n14_v31/ai_16662207   (699 words)

  
 Articles - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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 graduated from Dorchester High School in 1906, then attended school at a "strict French convent", as she was prohibited from attending the secular Wellesley College that she wished to attend, and became her father's travelling companion, visiting many countries in Europe in 1908, and also the newly built Panama Canal.
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.
www.gaple.com /articles/Rose_Kennedy   (657 words)

  
 A Biography of John Fitzgerald Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kennedy went to the hospital every day to be by his son’s side, and about a month later Jack took a turn for the better and recovered.
Kennedy was appointed United States Ambassador to England and moved there with his whole family, with the exception of Joe and Jack who were at Harvard.
Kennedy was the first President to ask Congress to approve more than twenty two billion dollars for ‘Project Apollo’, which had the goal of landing an American man on the moon before the end of the decade.
www.jfklibrary.org /jfk_biography.html   (3108 words)

  
 Family Tree
Rose’s ancestors, like Joe Kennedy’s, were Irish farmers who came to the United States in the mid-1800s to escape the potato blight.
Kennedy was one of Franklin Roosevelt’s prime financial backers in his 1932 presidential campaign.
Kennedy's gallant courage during the tragedy of her husband's assassination won her the admiration of the world.
www.kennedy-web.com /tree.htm   (2103 words)

  
 WIC Biography - Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Kennedy's daughters Eunice, Patricia and Jean actively contribute to the world around them, making a difference and teaching their children to do the same.
With the death of her oldest son, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., in World War II, her daughter Kathleen, a beloved and creative woman, and later the assassinations of John and Robert; Mrs.
Kennedy, we honored you for your strength, for your faith, for your sacrifices and for your dedication to motherhood.
www.wic.org /bio/rkennedy.htm   (309 words)

  
 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy was the oldest of six children born to Josephine Hannon and John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald, a colorful and corrupt Boston politician.
The so-called “Kennedy curse” started when daughter Rosemary was institutionalized following a lobotomy, Joe, Jr., was killed during the war, and Kathleen died in a plane crash in 1948.
Rose's husband suffered a stroke in 1961 and died in 1969.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0920652.html   (266 words)

  
 Profiles -> Artist Details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A Los Angeles native, born in Hollywood and raised in Venice, Rose warmed to electronic dance music when she hooked up with Mark Lewis and Taylor at the New York Music Seminar (before it was moved to South Beach and became the WMC).
Thus, Rose’s ambitions to splice genres within her sets to include different forms of house music, breakbeats, jungle, etc. “A lot of local DJs are moving towards the same Digweed sound.
Apart from her DJing schedule, Rose is beginning production work as well, Rose’s promo CD is currently in the works, and will be ready in September of 2001.
www.vibeflow.com /profiles/artist_detail.php3?artist_id=rose   (532 words)

  
 John F Kennedy National Historic Site (National Park Service)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
When John Kennedy was four years old, his parents sold the house and moved to a larger residence nearby, where they lived until 1927.
In 1965, the house was designated a National Historic Landmark and was later repurchased and restored by the Kennedy family as a memorial.
Kennedy provides visitors with an evocative glimpse of family life in the early Brookline years.
www.nps.gov /jofi   (442 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Kennedy Women : The Saga of an American Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Although Rose Kennedy was considered a tradditional matriarch, no other book had touched her subconcious desire to enter into politics or her intial revulsion of Joe Sr's womanizing.
For Rose was a woman so strong and who suffered great disloyalty by her husband which she took all gracefully all for the sake of her family and what she supposed the public expected of them.
The Kennedys pushed their tragedies to the inner recesses of their minds.They refused to let others see the negative side of their lives, and carried their problems and burdens inwardly taking pains not to show their broken hearts.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0449911713?v=glance   (2396 words)

  
 Kennedy, Robert F. --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Kennedy, Robert F. attorney general and adviser during the administration of his brother Pres.
Kennedy, Joseph P. American businessman and financier who served in government commissions in Washington, D.C. (1934–37), and as ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
Young, energetic, and tough-minded, Robert Kennedy emerged from the shadow of his older brother, President John Kennedy, to become a forceful political figure during the late 1950s and 1960s.
www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9045088   (819 words)

  
 NRCBL: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Collection on Women, Infants and Children   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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   (223 words)

  
 Rose Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy (de julio el 22 de 1890 - de enero el 22 de 1995) casó en la familia de Kennedy e hizo su matriarch por la mitad segundo del vigésimo siglo, cuando sus miembros ayudaron a políticas del americano de la forma.
En su muerte en la edad de 104 de 1995, Rose Kennedy era el padre presidencial largo-vivido (y o pariente) en historia.
Nombran a la Rose Kennedy Greenway en Boston, Massachusetts para ella.
www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ro/Rose%20Kennedy.htm   (180 words)

  
 JFK: Kennedy Family Tree
Joseph P. Kennedy, center, and his family pose while he was the ambassador to Britain.
He and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald were married on Oct. 7, 1914.
They had four children, including William Kennedy Smith who was acquitted of rape in 1991 at the family's Palm Beach estate.
www.sptimes.com /News/111199/JFK/family-tree.shtml   (439 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.
It could be served in the Maryland assembly by delegate Mark Shriver, nephew of the martyred John Kennedy (and one of 29 grandchildren of Joe and Rose).
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)

  
 Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Public comment period this week on Rose Kennedy Greenway parking   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
A public comment period was scheduled to begin this week on a parking plan for the Rose Kennedy Greenway, the 30-acre central park atop the $14.6 "Big Dig" road construction project in downtown Boston.
BOSTON -- A public comment period was scheduled to begin this week on a parking plan for the Rose Kennedy Greenway, the 30-acre central park atop the $14.6 "Big Dig" road construction project in downtown Boston.
A Boston Transportation Department plan would provide between 125 to 175 on-street parking spaces alongside the Greenway -- which will stretch from the North End neighborhood to Chinatown -- although many will be reserved for trolleys and tour bus pick-up and drop-off areas.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/10/18/public_comment_period_this_week_on_rose_kennedy_greenway_parking   (309 words)

  
 Hundreds Gather in North End to Pay Respects to Rose Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The casket of the matriarch, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy rested before the altar of St. Stephen's Church here in the city's North End, where she was baptized 104 years ago.
There they sat in the front rows Tuesday, as provocative to the American imagination as they have ever been: Ted Kennedy and his remaining siblings, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her husband, Sargent, Jean Kennedy Smith and Patricia Kennedy Lawford.
Granddaughter Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the new lieutenant governor of Maryland, was one of the pallbearers.
www-tech.mit.edu /V114/N66/kennedy.66w.html   (437 words)

  
 WHDH-TV - Boston - Agreement Reached On Rose Kennedy Greenway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
BOSTON -- City and state officials have agreed to create an independent, nonprofit organization to run the Rose Kennedy Greenway, the swath of parkland and open space created by the demolition of the Central Artery in downtown Boston.
Mitt Romney, Mayor Thomas M. Menino, U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, and Turnpike Authority chairman Matthew J. Amorello will sign the document creating the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy on Monday morning in the mayor's office, the Boston Globe reported.
Rose Kennedy was the the mother of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Kennedy.
www.whdh.com /news/articles/local/B47518   (508 words)

  
 Rose Kennedy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy was the complex, spunky and powerful matriarch of the Kennedy clan.
Kennedy and US District Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and US Senator Ted Kennedy.
Claudette plays her with flair and demonstrates that though some called Rose Kennedy a saint, she was completely human.
www.claudettescharacters.com /rose/rose.html   (70 words)

  
 Morning Edition (NPR): Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Dead at 104@ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
BOB EDWARDS, Host: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, matriarch of modern America' s most famous political family, died yesterday.
Rose Kennedy was the daughter of a former Boston mayor, and her political life continued through her children.
She quietly endured as tragedies claimed four of her children, including President John Kennedy and Senator Robert Kennedy.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1P1:28265167&refid=ip_almanac_hf   (176 words)

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