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[Maestra1]

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@chessylady wrote:

That is so sad, hope they are found alive.

I hope so too, but the empty canoe has been found.

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[SeaMaiden]

Kennedy deaths

• August 12, 1944 – Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. died when the BQ-8 aircraft he was piloting accidentally exploded over East Suffolk, England. (A BQ-8 was a B-24 Liberator converted into a radio-controlled flying bomb. For more information, see Project Anvil).[9]
• May 13, 1948 – Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy, formally known as Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, died in a plane crash in France.[4][5][6][10]
• August 9, 1963 – Patrick Bouvier Kennedy died of infant respiratory distress syndrome two days after his premature birth on August 7th (the 20th anniversary of his father's rescue after the sinking of PT-109).
• November 22, 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was later shot dead by Jack Ruby two days later. In 1964, the Warren Commission concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin. However, in 1979, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that the assassination was the result of a conspiracy and that Oswald did not act alone.[11]
• June 5, 1968 – On the night of his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedywas shot by Sirhan Sirhan in the Ambassador Hotel; Kennedy died the following day. [4][5][6][10]
• April 25, 1984 – David A. Kennedy died of a drug overdose in a Palm Beach, Florida hotel room.[4][5][6][12][10]
• December 31, 1997 – Michael LeMoyne Kennedy died in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado.[1][4][5][6][12][10]
• July 16, 1999 – John F. Kennedy Jr. died when the plane he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The crash was attributed to pilot error and spatial disorientation. His wife and sister-in-law were also on board and also died.[4][5][6][10]
• September 16, 2011 – Kara Kennedy died of a heart attack while exercising in a Washington, D.C. health club. Kara had reportedly suffered from lung cancer nine years earlier, but she had recovered after the removal of part of her right lung.[13]
• May 16, 2012 – Mary Richardson Kennedy committed suicide on the grounds of her home in Bedford, Westchester County, New York.[10][14]
• August 1, 2019 – Saoirse Roisin Kennedy Hill died of an accidental drug overdose at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.[15][16][17]

Other incidents

• November 1941 – Rosemary Kennedy, age 23, struggled to read and write, and she suffered from mood swings, seizures, and violent outbursts. In an attempt to cure or treat his daughter Joseph Kennedy secretly arranged for her to undergo a prefrontal lobotomy, which was seen as a promising treatment for various mental illnesses. Instead of saving Rosemary, the now-discredited procedure left her mentally and physically incapacitated. Rosemary remained institutionalized in seclusion, in rural Wisconsin, until her death in 2005.[4][5][6][12][10]
• October 3, 1955 – Ethel Kennedy's parents, Ann and George Skakel, died in a plane crash in Oklahoma. [18]
• December 19, 1961 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. suffered a massive stroke which left him paralyzed on his right side. He also struggled with aphasia, which severely affected his ability to speak.[19]
• June 19, 1964 – U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy survived a plane crash that killed one of his aides as well as the pilot. The senator was pulled from the wreckage by passenger (and fellow senator) Birch Bayh. Kennedy spent five months in a hospital recovering from a broken back, a punctured lung, broken ribs, and internal bleeding.[4][5][10][20] Following the crash, Bobby Kennedy remarked to aide Ed Guthman: "Somebody up there doesn't like us." [21]
• July 18, 1969 – Ted Kennedy accidentally drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, resulting in the drowning death of 28-year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne.[4][5][6][7][10] In his televised statement a week later, the senator said that on the night of the incident he wondered "whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys."[22]
• August 13, 1973 – Joseph P. Kennedy II was the driver of a Jeep that crashed and left his passenger, Pam Kelley, paralyzed. Fellow passenger, brother David A. Kennedy, was injured.[4][6][12]
• November 17, 1973 – Edward M. Kennedy Jr., age 12, had his right leg surgically amputated as a result of bone cancer. He underwent an experimental two-year drug treatment to cure the cancer.[23][24]
• April 1, 1991 – William Kennedy Smith was arrested and charged with the rape of a young woman at the Kennedy estate in Palm Beach, Florida. The subsequent trial attracted extensive media coverage.[25] Smith was acquitted.[1][3][4][12]
• April 2, 2020 – Robert F. Kennedy's granddaughter, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, and her 8-year-old son Gideon went missing after paddling out near Annapolis.[26]

[sunshine45]

it is so sad. this family sure does have its share of tragedies!

i heard about this yesterday but did not realize it was the kennedy-townsend family at that time. they have been searching the waters all day. before his covid-19 updates today, governor hogan did talk about this and had been in touch with the former lt governor.

i hope that some miracle occurs......i really do.......

[Kachina624]

Times have sure changed; not a word about this Kennedy Family disaster on the local or national news tonight.

[4kitties]

😢😢😢

[proudlyfromNJ]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

Times have sure changed; not a word about this Kennedy Family disaster on the local or national news tonight.

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@Kachina624  Well, there is a pandemic going on now. I don’t remember that coinciding with any other Kennedy tragedies. I don’t think it has anything to do with changing times. Just my opinion though.

[sunshine45]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

Times have sure changed; not a word about this Kennedy Family disaster on the local or national news tonight.

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it is online on all of the major news sites.....and of course has been on our local news in maryland.

Coast Guard officials received a report of "two individuals were seen struggling to return to shore in a canoe" near Herring Bay, 10 miles south of Annapolis, and were "not seen again," according to a statement Friday from the Coast Guard.

Capt. Erik Kornmeyer of the Anne Arundel Fire Department told CNN that a call from a "concerned citizen" came in at 4:30 p.m. ET Thursday.

Queen Anne Police Department, Arundel Police Department, Maryland Natural Resource Police, and Maryland State Police have been assisting in the search, the Coast Guard said in a statement Friday.

(via CNN)

[AuntG]

In any other time, this would have been a big news story, but I only learned about it on Yahoo. Very tragic.

[sunshine45]

according to our local 11pm et  news........the search has turned from rescue to recovery.

[Pearlee]

This was the lead story on our local news right now. It is now a recovery effort according to former Gov Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.