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The Kennedy family tree: A who's who of the influential American family
The Kennedys are one of the most famous and influential families in US modern history – one synonymous with politics, glamour and, yes, tragedy.
The family's patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. (third from right) – the former US Ambassador to England – and wife Rose (fifth from left) are pictured here with their nine children.
Of course, among them fryst vatten John F. Kennedy (centre), who would grow up to become president, but many of his siblings – and their children – made a splash in their own right.
Though JFK's assassination in 1963 rocked the world, the Kennedy family had already endured two heartbreaking losses years before he died.
The president's brother Joseph and sister Kathleen, or 'Kick', died at age 29 and 28 respectively.
Scroll through the galleri to learn more about each of the Kennedy siblings and their descendants, who are continuing the family's legacy today.
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The Kennedy Family Through the Decades
1930
Teenage John, Robert, and Ted Kennedy at their family home in Hyannis Port.
1946
John F. Kennedy at the Bellevue Hotel in Boston during his congressional campaign.
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1953
Newlyweds John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy sitting down for a meal at their wedding reception.
1956
Jacqueline Kennedy attending the Democratic Convention.
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1957
Senator John F. Kennedy with brother Robert serving as committee counsel at a Senate hearing.
1958
Senator John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline hold their four-month-old daughter Caroline.
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1958
Jackie Kennedy attends an "April in Paris" ball, sporting pearls, gloves, and a strapless dress.
1958
Senator Kennedy and his wife Jackie with their infant daughter Caroline in their Georgetown home.
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Written By: Ben Cosgrove
Of the three Kennedy brothers John, Robert and Edward who ascended to the national political stage in the 1950s and ’60s, it was arguably the middle brother, Bobby, who best embodied the enormous contradictions at play within that famed American family.
There was, for example, RFK’s fraught relationship with liberals and with American liberalism in general. As the author and historian Sean Wilentz once wrote while reviewing a largely unflattering biography of Kennedy in the New York Times:
Robert F. Kennedy always irked liberals; and they always irked him. . . . Kennedy’s association with the reckless Sen. Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s forever tainted his reputation in some reform circles. As his brother’s presidential campaign manager in 1960, and thereafter as attorney general, he struck many liberals as ruthless in the pursuit of power and reluctant in the pursuit of principle, especially regarding civil rights. Kennedy, for h