Virginia Joan Kennedy (neÃÆ' Â © Bennett , born September 2, 1936) is an American socialite, musician, writer, and former model, and is the first wife of US Senator Ted Kennedy.
Early life
Virginia Joan Bennett was born at Mother Cabrini Hospital in New York City. He grew up in a Roman Catholic family, in the suburbs of Bronxville, New York. Her parents are Harry Wiggin Bennett Jr. (1907-1981) and Virginia Joan Stead (1911-1976). His father was a graduate of Cornell University and later worked as an advertising executive. Bennett grew up with one younger sister, Candace "Candy," (born 1938). He attended Manhattanville College (at that time was the school of the Sacred Heart), in Purchase, New York. Manhattanville is also the alma mater of his future mother-in-law, Rose Kennedy, and her future sister-in-law, Jean Kennedy Smith and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. In 1982, Bennett received his MA in Education from Lesley College, now known as Lesley University. As a teenager, he works as a model in television commercials.
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Wedding, family and divorce
In October 1957, at the ordination of a gym at Manhattanville College to commemorate another Kennedy sister, Kathleen - who died in a plane crash in France in 1948 - Jean Kennedy Smith introduced Joan to her younger brother Edward - Ted, who later became a student. at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville. After the couple got engaged, she became nervous about marrying someone she did not know well, but Joe Kennedy insisted that the wedding should continue, and they married on November 29, 1958, in Bronxville, New York. A small family wedding was held just weeks after Ted's older brother, US Senator John F. Kennedy, won his re-election for the US Senate seat representing Massachusetts in 1958. Joan had three children with Ted Kennedy: Kara Kennedy (1960-2011) Edward M. Kennedy Jr. (Ted Jr.) (born 1961), and Patrick J. Kennedy (born 1967).
Two of their children are victims of cancer. Ted Jr. developed bone cancer at the age of 12, resulting in the loss of some of his right foot in 1973, and Kara was treated for lung cancer in 2003. Princess Kara Kennedy died of a heart attack at the age of 51 on September 16, 2011.
Ted suffered a severe back injury in a plane crash in 1964 while campaigning for his first Senate term. He assumed a complete campaign schedule for a successful re-election in 1964. He had previously won a special election in November 1962 to serve the last two years of his six-man Senate six-year-old brother; John has resigned from the US Senate in his election in November 1960 as the 35th US President.
In July 1969, Ted Kennedy was involved in a car accident on a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts that resulted in the death of his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne. Despite being pregnant and confined to bed after two previous miscarriages, Joan attended the Kopechne funeral. Three days later she stood beside her husband in a local court when she pleaded guilty to leaving the crash site. She suffered a third miscarriage shortly afterwards.
The couple split up in 1978 after twenty years of marriage. He then told McCall's magazine about alcoholism and his job to stay calm. They stayed together legally married during the failed 1980 presidential campaign, then announced plans to divorce in 1981; The divorce was settled in 1983.
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Next life
In 1992, he published The Joy of Classical Music: A Guide for You and Your Family . Kennedy has worked with a children's charity, remains a master pianist and has taught classical music to children.
In recent years Kennedy has been shaped by chronic alcoholism, which has developed during his marriage. The alcohol problem increases with sporadic, uneven, drunk driving, court-ordered rehabilitation and the return of drinking. This ultimately causes kidney damage, with the possibility of dialysis and prolonged complications. In July 2004, his son Ted Jr. has been appointed as its legal guardian; in 2005 her children were given temporary guardianship. That year, he was hospitalized with a concussion and a broken shoulder after being found lying on a Boston street near his home. In 2005, he asked a second cousin, financial planner Webster E. Janssen of Connecticut, building trust to control his property. This violates the guardianship of his sons. His children then take legal action against Janssen, remove him as trustee and then file a complaint against him with the Securities and Exchange Commission of the United States. In October, he was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent surgery. He agreed to a strictly ordered guardianship and his inheritance was placed in a new trust overseen by two court-appointed guardians.
Regardless of the brief relationship shortly after his divorce, he has not remarried yet or pursued another relationship. She attends Ted's funeral at the Kennedy complex in Hyannis Harbor. In 2005, he lived in Boston, Massachusetts, and Cape Cod.
See also
- The Kennedy family
- Kennedy's family tree
Bibliography
- Kennedy, Joan Bennett (1992). The Joy of Classical Music: A Guide for You and Your Family . Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, New York. ISBN 978-0-385-41262-9.
References
Further reading
- Chellis, Marcia (1985). Live with Kennedys: The Joan Kennedy Story . Simon & amp; Schuster. ISBN 978-0-8161-4058-9.
External links
- Joan Bennett Kennedy at IMDb
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