The Kennedys are known for John Fitzgeraldwho was the youngest president of the USA and went down in history after being violently murdered in a public ceremony.
However, this was neither the first nor the last tragedy that the family had, but rather they suffered many more, to the point that it is spoken of «the curse of Kennedy«.
Recently, another misfortune was known that shakes the lineage: Tatiana Schlossbergone of the former president’s granddaughters, revealed that she has a deadly cancerwhich could end his life before reaching 40 years of age.
Beyond John Fitzgerald: All the Deaths in the Kennedy Family
The first tragedy of the Kennedy date of 1944since in that year, Joseph P. Knowny Jr.who was 29 years old and was the oldest of the 8 brothers by John Fitzgeralddied after the war plane he was crewing exploded while heading to northern France, as part of a secret American mission in World War II.
Four years later, Kathleen Kennedyanother 28-year-old sister of John, had the same fate as Joseph, since passed away in a plane crash in France.
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., the eldest Kennedy, died in World War II. Photo: WikipediaLater, on August 23, 1956, the future president of the United States suffered the loss his first daughterArabella, who was stillborn.
A similar event happened in August 1963a year that would be the darkest in family history, when John’s next child, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, died 39 hours after birthdue to a respiratory illness.
Finally, in November that year, The event that marked the Kennedys forever occurred: John Fitzgeraldwho was 46 years old and at that time the president of his country, was shot to death while he was driving in his official car through the city of Dallas, Texas.
John F. Kennedy, the day of his assassination. Photo: WikipediaHowever, despite the impact and repercussion of this crime, the «Kennedy curse» would not end and would hit the family again five years later.
In June 1968, Robert Francis Kennedy, A third brother of John, who also wanted to be president, was giving a speech at the Hotel Ambassador of Los Angeles, when Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a 24-year-old Jordanian, shot him at point blank rangecausing injuries that, two days later, caused him to death, at 42 years of age.
As if the above were not enough, Robert’s death would not be the only one in his family, since, decades later, two of his children lost their lives: David, who at just 28 died of a drug overdose in 1984, and Michael, 39, who died in 1997 after a skiing accident.
The tragedies continued with another son of his own John F. Kennedy. In 1999, His third son, who had the same name as him, diedalong with his wife, after the plane he was piloting crashed in the Atlantic.
In the 21st century, the Kennedy curse claimed its first victim in 2011, when Black Mother, the eldest daughter of Edward Moore Kennedy, John’s younger brother, suffered a heart attack after working out at a Washington DC gym and died at his 51 years old.
In 2019, Saoirse Kennedy Hill, one of Robert F. Kennedy’s granddaughters, died at the age of 22 from an accidental overdose, while a year later, another of them, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, drowned in a canoe accident.
When more than five years had passed and hopes were raised that the curse had ended, this Saturday, November 22the family was once again dismayed, since Tatiana Schlossberggranddaughter of John Fitzgerald, announced that she suffers from a terminal disease.
The sad announcement of John F. Kennedy’s granddaughter: «I have added a new tragedy to our family»
Tatiana Scholssberg, of 35 years, She is the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, the only living direct descendant of the former president.
Tatiana Scholssberg, JFK’s granddaughter, announced that she has terminal cancer. Photo: AP/Steven SenneHe spent a childhood without problems and, although he studied History, he has an outstanding work as a journalist. However, yesterday, when it was another anniversary of his grandfather’s death, he surprised everyone by publishing an essay in the magazine The New Yorker, in which He announced that he suffers from irreversible cancer.
In detail, she explained that, in May 2024, just when she had just given birth to her second child, she received the diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia.
Since then, he said, he has had two bone marrow transplants, several rounds of chemotherapy, and participated in experimental clinical trials. However, he has a strange variant of the disease, known as «Inversion 3», which did not allow him to overcome it.
Now, he said, a doctor warned him that he could have «one more year of life.»
«All my life I tried to be a good daughter, a good sister, a good person. And now I have added a new tragedy for our familyand there is nothing I can do to avoid it,» he stated, in clear reference to the curse that people of the Kennedy lineage endure.
