| Birth | 15 June 1955 Washington, District Of Columbia, USA |
| Birth of a sister | 9 September 1956 (Age 14 months) Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
younger sister -
Mary Courtney KENNEDY
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| Birth of a brother | 27 February 1958 (Age 2) Washington, District Of Columbia, USA
younger brother -
Michael LeMoyne KENNEDY
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| Birth of a sister | 8 September 1959 (Age 4) Washington, District Of Columbia, USA
younger sister -
Mary Kerry KENNEDY
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| Birth of a brother | 4 July 1963 (Age 8) Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
younger brother -
Christopher George KENNEDY
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| Birth of a brother | 11 January 1965 (Age 9) Manhattan, New York, USA
younger brother -
Matthew Maxwell Taylor KENNEDY
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| Birth of a brother | 24 March 1967 (Age 11) Washington, District Of Columbia, USA
younger brother -
Douglas Harriman KENNEDY
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| Death of a father | 6 June 1968 (Age 12) Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, USA
father -
Robert Francis KENNEDY
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| Birth of a sister | 12 December 1968 (Age 13) Washington, District Of Columbia, USA
younger sister -
Rory Elizabeth Katherine KENNEDY
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| Relationship 16-20 | David Anthony KENNEDY is your third great aunt's first cousin four times removed's wife's uncle.
Source:
Geni.com
Publication: MyHeritage Ltd
Citation details: 16 connections Text: Shortest in-law relationship
You →Ruth ALTER COHEN your mother →Frieda DRUKARSH ALTER her mother →Raizel (Galia) BARANSKI DRUKARSH her mother →Avraham (Tzvi) Hersh BARANSKI her father →Szymon BARANSKI his brother →Hinda KLEJNMINTZ BARANSKI his wife →Tauba (Tybie) DRUCZJAN KLEJNMINTZ her mother →Liba DRACZANA SPIEGEL her sister →Chana Sura SPIEGEL CIESIELSKA her daughter →Jack CIESELSKI CHELSKY her son →Dr. Morris Bernard CHELSKY his son →<private> CHELSKY MCKEAN his daughter →<private> MCKEAN her son →Maeve KENNEDY MCKEAN his wife →Kathleen KENNEDY TOWNSEND her mother → David Anthony KENNEDY her brother |
| Death | 25 April 1984 (Age 28) Palm Beach, Florida, USA Cause of death: Drug overdose
Source:
Newspapers: USA
Publication: various United States newspapers
Text: ROBERT KENNEDY'S SON DAVID FOUND DEAD IN HOTEL By Reginald Stuart, Special To the New York Times April 26, 1984 David Anthony Kennedy, 28 years old, who had led a deeply troubled life since the assassination of his father, Robert F. Kennedy, was found dead this morning in his room at a hotel here. He had suffered heroin and alcohol addiction, but the cause of his death was not immediately determined. There were ''no signs of foul play,'' said Sgt. Henry L. Marchman, spokesman for the Police Department of Palm Beach. The results of a preliminary autopsy tonight were being studied. In Washington, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, David's uncle, issued a statement that said in part, ''We all pray that David has finally found the peace that he did not find in life.'' At the age of 13, watching television alone in a Los Angeles hotel room on June 5, 1968, David Kennedy saw his father fatally shot as the New York Senator celebrated his victory in the California Democratic Presidential primary. At a family outing at Malibu the day before, the boy was rescued from an undertow by his father, according to the text his sister Kathleen wrote for a book titled ''Kennedy: The New Generation.'' Of the night of the assassination, she wrote: ''He was alone and supposed to be asleep, but the excitement of the day had kept him awake. In the aftermath of the tragedy, it was some time before someone came to check on him. It was Presidential biographer Theodore White who found the boy 'devastated at the sight he had just seen.' Without stopping to rationalize why, White ordered a soothing hot chocolate from room service and cradled and comforted the shaken youngster.'' In recent years, Mr. Kennedy had dropped out of Harvard University, worked as a news reporter and undergone treatment for heroin and alcohol addiction. Tonight, after the preliminary autopsy, Rich Black, chief investigator for the Palm Beach medical examiner's office, said investigators were ''leaning toward natural or accidental death,'' United Press International reported. Editors’ Picks Who Wears Crop Tops to the Office? If You Raised Money After a Fire, Can You Spend It on a Vacation? New York’s Hottest Club Is … the Bar at Moynihan Hall? ''An accidental overdose is still a possibility,'' the news agency quoted him as saying. ''I think we can successfully rule out the possibility of suicide.'' He said laboratory tests had been ordered but that results would not be known for four to eight days. Mr. Kennedy, who had been living in Boston, had come to Palm Beach to visit his ailing grandmother, Rose Kennedy. His body was found today by the hotel secretary, Elizabeth Barnett, who was sent to the room at about 11:30 A.M. in response to a long distance call from a family member trying to determine whether he had left to catch a plane. When his room phone did not answer, the desk secretary was sent to check the room, according to Gerald H. Beebe Jr., a hotel spokesman. Mr. Beebe said Mr. Kennedy was seen Tuesday by hotel personnel. ''He was in fine spirits,'' he said, adding that a desk clerk remembered the young Mr. Kennedy waving as he walked by the front desk. Mr. Beebe said that Mr. Kennedy checked into the hotel Friday and that other family members also stayed at the hotel over the weekend, all gathered for some vacation time and to visit Rose Kennedy, the 93-year-old family matriarch whose mansion is about five miles from the hotel. Mr. Beebe said David Kennedy ''had made frequent visits to his grandmother's house.'' The hotel spokesman said the rest of the family had checked out of the hotel before today. Senator Kennedy has often stood in as a father for the children of his brothers Robert and former President Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1963. In his statement on David Kennedy's death, the Massachusetts Democrat echoed the sense of tragedy that family members and friends said had plagued the young man. ''It is a very difficult time for all of the members of our family, including David's mother, Ethel, and his brothers and sisters who tried so hard to help him in recent years,'' the statement said. ''All of us loved him very much. With trust in God, we all pray that David has finally found the peace that he did not find in life.'' Sergeant Marchman of the Palm Beach force said police paramedics responded to a call for assistance from the hotel at about 11:35 A.M. The police spokesman said the body was found face down on the floor between the beds in his two- room, first-floor suite. For several hours, the police sealed off the first-floor wing housing Mr. Kennedy's suite. About 2:15 P.M., a priest arrived, went to the Kennedy suite and left about 10 minutes later, the police said. Shortly afterward, Mr. Kennedy's body was taken to the medical examiner's office. David Kennedy, the fourth of 11 children, had led a troubled life since his father's death, according to public records and published accounts of Kennedy family life. Within two years of the assassination, friends and relatives said David and his older brother, Robert Jr., were experimenting with marijuana and amphetamines, according to a January article in McCall's magazine. Last year Robert Jr. was given a two-year suspended sentence for heroin possession. On Sept. 5, 1979, David Kennedy reported being mugged and robbed of $30 cash in the lobby of a Manhattan hotel described by New York City police as a ''narcotics location'' for dealers and users. A week later, Sept. 13, Mr. Kennedy was reported hospitalized in Norfolk, Mass., for treatment of a rare infection of the lining of the heart known as bacterial endocarditis. Doctors say the infection is sometimes associated with narcotics abuse. A version of this article appears in print on April 26, 1984, Section A, Page 1 of the National edition David Anthony KENNEDY (1955–1984) |
| Burial | after 25 April 1984 Brookline, Holyhood Cemetery, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Source:
Find A Grave
Publication: Find a Grave Memorial (Ancestry)
Text: David Anthony Kennedy
Birth 15 Jun 1955 Washington, District of Columbia, District of Columbia, USA Death 25 Apr 1984 (aged 28) Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA Burial Holyhood Cemetery Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, USA Family Members Parents Robert Francis Kennedy 1925–1968 Siblings Michael LeMoyne Kennedy 1958–1997 Maintained by: Find a Grave Added: 31 Dec 2000 Find a Grave Memorial 2469 |
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