Claim: Ted Kennedy was a U.S. senator.

The Kennedy Compound consists of three houses on six acres -LRB- 24,000 m ² -RRB- of waterfront property on Cape Cod along Nantucket Sound in Hyannis Port , Massachusetts , United States . It was once the home of American businessman and political figure Joseph P. Kennedy , Sr. , his wife Rose , and two of their sons , President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy . Their youngest son , Senator Ted Kennedy , lived in his parents ' house , and it was his main residence from 1982 to 2009 . He died of brain cancer at the compound in August 2009 .   Ted Kennedy also bought President Kennedy 's house from his daughter , Caroline Kennedy . This house now belongs to Ted Kennedy , Jr. .   President Kennedy used the compound as a base for his successful 1960 U.S. Presidential campaign and later as a summer White House and presidential retreat until his assassination in November 1963 . In 2012 , the main house was donated to the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate .