  david anthony kennedy (june 15, 1955 &ndash; april 25, 1984) was the fourth of eleven children of robert f. kennedy.    ==life== david anthony kennedy, born on june 15, 1955, was the fourth child of robert f. kennedy and ethel kennedy. as a child, david was shy, introverted and sensitive, and shared a particularly strong bond with his father. on june 4, 1968, eleven days before his 13th birthday, kennedy nearly drowned while he and his siblings were swimming in the pacific ocean near the malibu, california beach house of hollywood film director john frankenheimer, a kennedy family friend. kennedy had been knocked over by a wave and was trapped on the bottom by the undertow. his father dove under the water and rescued him, scraping and bruising his own forehead in the process. frankenheimer gave senator kennedy theatrical makeup to hide the bruise, as he would be appearing on television hours later. at just after midnight on june 5, david watched on tv as his father claimed victory in the california presidential primary election; the 12-year-old then watched as the same broadcast reported his father's assassination moments later. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20074651,00.htmlthe event left an emotional scar on david and he began recreational drug use s
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