Tatiana, the granddaughter of former US President John F. Kennedy, tragically passed away, but other untimely deaths have also affected the Kennedy family over the years.
The Kennedy family’s tragic legacy has been thrust back into the spotlight following the death of Tatiana Schlossberg. It was revealed yesterday (December 30) that Tatiana, the granddaughter of late US President John F. Kennedy, had died aged 35.
A climate journalist by profession, Tatiana revealed in November that she had been diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer and had been given just one year to live.
Her revelation came in an essay for The New Yorker, where she announced her diagnosis of acute myeloid leukaemia. In the piece, entitled ‘A Battle With My Blood’, she also expressed a heartbreaking worry about her children, reports the BBC.
Tatiana and her husband George Moran, who have two children, Edwin and Josephine, wrote: “My first thought was that my kids, whose faces live on the inside of my eyelids, wouldn’t remember me.”
She continued, “I have tried my best to be good, to be a good student, good sister, and good daughter, and to protect my mother without getting angry or upset.”
There is nothing I can do to stop her life, and I have added a new tragedy to our family’s lives.
Tragedy appears to have haunted the Kennedy dynasty for more than eight decades. While many people are familiar with the circumstances surrounding JFK’s assassination in Texas, in 1963, numerous other significant deaths have also marked the family’s history.
Indeed, there have been so many that rumours persist of a so-called ‘Kennedy Curse’ — a term used to describe the many untimely deaths that have afflicted the political dynasty, spanning from air disasters to overdoses.
It all began in 1944, when Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., the eldest child of Joseph Sr. and Rose Kennedy, died during a covert mission in the Second World War after his military aircraft exploded.
Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, the sister of Joseph P., also lost her life in an accident that occurred only three years later. When JFK’s son, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, passed away shortly after birth, tragedy struck him personally in 1963.
Five years later, in 1968, JFK’s brother Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. However, the catalogue of unusual deaths within the family did not end there.
In a controversy known as the Chappaquiddick incident in 1969, Ted Kennedy, brother of both JFK and RFK, drove his car off a bridge and killed Mary Jo Kopechne, a young woman.
In 1984, David Anthony Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy’s son, died of a drug overdose in a Florida hotel. Thirteen years later, in 1997, Michael L. Kennedy, another of RFK’s sons, was killed in a skiing accident.
These names only account for one-fifth of the alleged 15 deaths linked to the so-called “Kennedy Curse,” according to estimates.
Ted Kennedy, the author of The Kennedy Heirs, claimed to be the original author of the phrase when asked about its origins.
He revealed to People: “Generally, they did not believe in the curse. It was Ted Kennedy who came up with the concept of the curse after Chappaquiddick, during a public address, when he said he wondered if perhaps that explained the terrible things that had happened to the family, including the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.
Source: Mirror
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