Caroline kennedy children 2019

The Kennedy family has been a fixture of American history, society, politics, pop-culture and beyond for well over 100 years, starting with Joseph P.

Kennedy Sr., the austere politician and businessman born in 1888, who with his wife Rose Kennedy — herself the daughter of a former Boston mayor — welcomed nine children, including former President John F.

Kennedy.

Kennedy, who was assassinated in November of 1963, was the second born of the nine children; some of his siblings include the late attorney general and presidential hopeful Robert "Bobby" Kennedy, who was also assassinated, in 1968, Edward "Ted" Kennedy, infamous for the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident, and Rosemary Kennedy, who was left permanently incapacitated at 23 after her father, also infamously, arranged to have a lobotomy performed on her.

Since 1947, there has always been at least one member of the Kennedy family