who all died in the kennedy family?
As early as 1944, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., older brother to John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, was killed when the plane he was flying on a World War II mission exploded over the English Channel. His sister, Kathleen Kennedy Cavendish, died in a plane crash in France four years later.
April 25, 1984 â David A. Kennedy died of a cocaine and pethidine overdose in a Palm Beach, Florida hotel room. April 1, 1991 â William Kennedy Smith was arrested and charged with the rape of a young woman at the Kennedy estate in Palm Beach, Florida. The subsequent trial attracted extensive media coverage.
Other Victims of the Curse. Several nephews of the late John F. Kennedy have also died or were injured under unusually tragic circumstances. In 1973, 12-year-old Edward Kennedy, Jr., son of Ted Kennedy, lost his right leg to bone cancer.