Part 5: Vacationing like the Kennedy's -- Staycation

It is highly possible that the Fitzgerald/Kennedy family union should have stayed home, like a Staycation. I think the public appearances did no more than give loathsome murderers target practice.

Marriage and children -- Look at this line up of misery -- 9 children... three living, two died of "natural conditions." Four died of unnatural and suspicious circumstances.

On October 7, 1914 Rose married Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. after a courtship of more than seven years. They first lived in a home in Brookline that is now the John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site. Rose and Joseph had the following nine children:

Name	Birth	Death	Achievements	Marriage	Cause of death
Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Jr.	July 25, 1915	August 12, 1944	United States Navy aviator		Naval airplane crash on August 12, 1944 over the English Channel
John Fitzgerald Kennedy	May 29, 1917	November 22, 1963	United States Representative (1947-1953) United States Senator (1953-1960) President of the United States (1961-1963)	September 12, 1953 to Jacqueline Lee Bouvier.	Assassinated on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas
Rosemary Kennedy	September 3, 1918	January 7, 2005	Underwent a lobotomy in 1941 which left her incapacitated; she was institutionalized from 1949 until her death.		Natural causes
Kathleen Agnes Kennedy	February 20, 1920	May 13, 1948	Marchioness of Hartington	Married on May 6, 1944 to William Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington.	Airplane crash over Sainte-Bauzille, Ardèche, France.
Eunice Mary Kennedy	July 10, 1921		Founder of Special Olympics	Married on May 23, 1953 to Robert Sargent Shriver.
Patricia Kennedy	May 6, 1924	September 17, 2006		Married on April 24, 1954 to British actor Peter Lawford; divorced in 1966.	Complications from pneumonia
Robert Francis Kennedy	November 20, 1925	June 6, 1968	United States Attorney General (1961-1964), United States Senator (1965-1968)	Married on June 17, 1950 to Ethel Skakel	Assassinated on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, California.
Jean Ann Kennedy	February 20, 1928		United States Ambassador to Ireland (1993-1998)	Married on May 19, 1956 to Stephen Edward Smith.
Edward Moore Kennedy	February 22, 1932		United States Senator (1962-present)	Married on November 29, 1958 to Joan Bennett; divorced on December 6, 1982. Remarried in 1992 to Victoria Reggie.

Rose was predeceased by her husband, Joseph, in 1969, and four of her nine children: Joseph Jr. in 1944, Kathleen in 1948, John F. in 1963 and Robert in 1968. Just eight months after John F. was assassinated, Rose's mother, Mary, died at the age of 98.

Rosemary Kennedy died on January 7, 2005 at the age of 86 and Patricia Kennedy Lawford died on September 17, 2006 at the age of 82, both from natural causes. As of April 2008, only three children are still living: 86-year old Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 80-year old Jean Kennedy Smith and 76-year-old Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy.

The word for May 23 is staycation

A vacation that is spent at one's home enjoying all that home and one's home environs have to offer.

Even though I live and work in New York, I don't always get to enjoy all it has to offer, what with my work commitments, but I sure did have an awesome time here during my spring staycation.

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