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The Kennedy Family
The Kennedy family is a well-known political and entertainment family that is both very successful and very unlucky. The trouble seems to have started back when the children of Joseph and Rose Kennedy grew up. They exceeded their parents in both fame and success. However, they exceeded their parents and just about every other famous family in tragedy as well. Because of this, some say they there is a Kennedy family curse. There is no way of saying if that is true or from whence such a thing would have come, but it is certain that Kennedys should be careful.
Assassinations
Easily the most infamous of all the Kennedy tragedies, the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is perhaps the most memorable event in all of 20th century United States history. On November 22, 1963, the president and his wife were happily waving to a crowd in Dallas, Texas from their topless limousine. At 12:30 local time, three (or four) shots changed history. Most likely coming from the Texas School Book Depository, these bullets killed the president and seriously wounded Governor Connally. The shooter was Lee Harvey Oswald, who was killed himself shortly thereafter while in police custody. Some believe he did not act alone. It appears that we will never know.
John F. Kennedy’s little brother Robert looked to be on the fast track to follow in his brother’s footsteps. He was running for president when he was shot and killed by a man whose sole motivation appeared to be Robert’s support of Israel. The shooting occurred in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. Robert was able to speak and asked if everyone was okay. Twenty-six hours later, he died of his wounds.
A Surgery That Should Not Have Happened
Long before John was assassinated, his little sister Rosemary suffered a tragedy that can well be blamed on ignorance and possibly ambition. Young Rosemary was a bit of trouble for her family. She was emotional and ran away from her lodgings at a convent. Of course, she was a young woman and had every right to travel where she wanted, but she was seen as mentally retarded by her overachieving family. Study of her letters and achievements show that she was more likely of average intelligence. Nonetheless, her father had a lobotomy performed on her when she was 23 years old. They essentially cut into her brain until she was unable to speak properly. She spent the rest of her life in an institution.
The Kennedys and Airplanes
On August 12, 1944, three years after Rosemary’s surgery, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. was flying over England when the plane he was piloting exploded. He did not survive the incident. As a Navy pilot, he had been participating in Operation Aphrodite. The plane he was in was meant to be deliberately crashed into a target via remote. He was to bail with his crew before this happened. However, the explosives on board detonated too soon. Ten minutes later and he would have been jumping out.
Four years after Joseph’s crash, yet another crash took a Kennedy life. On May 13, 1948, Kathleen Cavendish nee Kennedy died in France with her fiancé when their plane crashed. She was only 28 years old and a widow already. It was to be her second marriage.
On June 19, 1964, Ted Kennedy was in a plane crash that killed two others. He survived with a broken back, punctured lung and other injuries.
On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy, Jr. died when a plane he was flying crashed near Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. It was determined that the crash was his fault. He was simply inexperienced. He was 38 years old.
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Joseph & Rose Kennedy treated their children 'differently' to how we do nowadays. Their children were raised on 'competition, competition & more competition even if you have to kill to be first'. In every book written about the Kennedy family, that's how they were raised, with no love, hugs, etc,. The children's personality was not taken into account, i.e., Rosemary Kennedy. Old Joe wanted to be rid of her as she didn't 'follow the rules'.
Maybe this 'curse' is karma for raising their children as robots instead of loving, feeling human beings.
I do agree with you that they did the absolute wrong thing with Rosemary. There is nothing in any of her correspondence or attitude to suggest she was anything except perhaps of average intelligence and perhaps a bit emotionally unstable (who isn’t?). I do think that the curse is just coincidence, though. A family that does a lot of traveling, is in the political spotlight and in the media spotlight is bound to have problems. They also had a lot of money, which explains why John, Jr. decided it was a good idea to try to fly a plane without help while essentially still in the crawling stage as a pilot.