Random Reasons Why People Believe In "Kennedy Curse" (14 items)

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  (#3) Kathleen Kennedy Died in a Plane Crash in 1948

  The brief life of the fourth Kennedy child, Kathleen, was marred by tragedy. At 24, she married British royal William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington - just two months later he was shot dead by a sniper during World War II. Four years after his death, she started dating Peter Fitzwilliam, another British royal. He was in the process of divorcing his wife. She planned to marry Fitzwilliam but wanted to get her father's blessing first. Kathleen and Peter were planning to take a short vacation to the French Riviera together before meeting her father in Paris to discuss their plans, but their plane crashed before they arrived. There were no survivors. She was 28.
  
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  (#12) John F. Kennedy, Jr. Was Killed in a Plane Crash

  The only surviving son of John and Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy ,Jr. was a magnet for press attention from birth. He'd worked in nonprofit publishing and was considering getting into politics, but died in 1999 in a small plane crash, which also killed his wife and her sister.
  
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  (#2) Joseph Kennedy, Jr. Was Killed During World War II

  The eldest of the nine Kennedy children, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was being groomed for a political career, but he was killed in August 1944 while training for a secret mission. Kennedy had volunteered for Operation Anvil, a plan to load surplus heavy bombers with explosives and use them as remote-piloted drone missiles. The project required the plane to take off with a pilot, who would parachute out before the missile was aimed. Kennedy was training as a pilot for an Anvil mission when the plane he was flying blew up over England.
  
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  (#10) Robert's Son David Died at 28

  The fourth of Robert F. Kennedy's eleven children, David A. Kennedy,  first nearly drowned at age 13, then was watching TV as news reports of his father's assassination were broadcast. The death of his father deeply affected David and he became a heavy drug user. He was injured in the jeep accident that paralyzed his girlfriend, then was the target of kidnapping threats later. At age 28, he overdosed on cocaine and painkillers and was found dead in a hotel room in Miami.
  
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  (#11) Robert's Son Michael Was Killed in a Skiing Accident

  Robert F. Kennedy's sixth child, Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, was killed at age 39 in a skiing accident. The family had been playing football on skis and Michael went into a tree headfirst while not wearing a helmet.
  
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  (#1) Rosemary Kennedy

  Rosemary Kennedy was the first daughter of Rose and Joseph Kennedy. During Rosemary's birth, Rose went into labor very quickly, and Rosemary entered the birth canal before the doctor arrived. A nurse told Rose to keep her legs closed to prevent her from giving birth until the doctor showed up. This cut off the oxygen to Rosemary's brain and likely led to her intellectual disabilities. After a fairly quiet childhood, Rosemary began to have violent mood swings. She also had gait issues, including an infamous stumble in front of the King of England.

  After becoming more rebellious and erratic, Rosemary was given a lobotomy in 1941. She was 23 years old. The procedure was fairly new, and as such, it's likely that too much of her brain was removed. It left her unable to walk, speak, or urinate, and she was institutionalized. The Kennedy family essentially erased her from their public profile, and her lobotomy wasn't made public for 20 years. She died in 2005 of natural causes.
  

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