An 18-year-old Kick was considered the debutante of the year in London, she was “a sunflower among pale English roses.”
Photo: Courtesy Smithsonian Channel
Was she more cursed than Rosemary, who the master of the Kennedy Cult had lobotomized?
Kick with her mother Rose, and sister Rosemary, before being presented at court in London in 1938. Kick’s brother Joe Jr. died in August, 1944, with Billy killed in action less than a month later.
Was she more cursed than Rosemary, who the master of the Kennedy Cult had lobotomized?
Kick with her mother Rose, and sister Rosemary, before being presented at court in London in 1938. Kick’s brother Joe Jr. died in August, 1944, with Billy killed in action less than a month later.
Photo: Getty Images
[From article]
[From article]
She was rich and reckless, and so free-spirited that everyone called her Kick. She defied her family to marry the man she loved — only to soon lose him and a brother to war. By 28, she too was gone, dying in a plane crash alongside her married lover.
But as far as Kathleen Kennedy’s mother was concerned, she’d already gone to hell.
The brief, largely unpublicized life of John F. Kennedy’s favorite sister is the stuff of Shakespeare, rife with wealth, fractured loyalties and tragic death. And now it’s on TV:Airing tonight at 8 on the Smithsonian Channel, “Million Dollar American Princesses”tells a haunting story, narrated in part by Kick’s namesake — the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
http://nypost.com/2016/01/16/jfks-forgotten-free-spirited-sister-was-the-most-cursed-of-them-all/
JFK’s forgotten free-spirited sister was the most cursed of them all
By Barbara Hoffman
New York Post
January 16, 2016 | 12:53pm
But as far as Kathleen Kennedy’s mother was concerned, she’d already gone to hell.
The brief, largely unpublicized life of John F. Kennedy’s favorite sister is the stuff of Shakespeare, rife with wealth, fractured loyalties and tragic death. And now it’s on TV:Airing tonight at 8 on the Smithsonian Channel, “Million Dollar American Princesses”tells a haunting story, narrated in part by Kick’s namesake — the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
http://nypost.com/2016/01/16/jfks-forgotten-free-spirited-sister-was-the-most-cursed-of-them-all/
JFK’s forgotten free-spirited sister was the most cursed of them all
By Barbara Hoffman
New York Post
January 16, 2016 | 12:53pm
No comments:
Post a Comment