With their wealth and power, the Kennedy family has been touted as the closest thing to royalty in America. Having left their homeland of Ireland in the 1840s to escape the potato famine, the Kennedys ...

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 ...

The descendants of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy have included a president, senators and congressmen. But along with the glory, there has been unspeakable sorrow. President John F.

When Ethel Kennedy died on Oct. 10 at age 96, she left a lasting legacy that her grandchildren can carry on. Several of her grandkids posted a statement from the family two days before her death with ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/kennedys-bio-joseph-patrick/ His father P. J. would have named him after himself, Patrick Joseph, but his mother ...

In a mood of mingled relief and regret Chairman Joseph Patrick Kennedy of the U. S. Maritime Commission wrote President Roosevelt last week: “I should like to report in relinquishing my post that the ...