The Kennedy family has long been rooted in American politics. Here's what you need to know about the family tree.

At the controls was Navy Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., 29, the oldest son of a former U.S. ambassador to Britain, and a man who carried the promise of one of the great political families in American ...

His proctor remembers him only as Joseph P. Kennedy's son, a quiet youth who had no claims to notoriety. At Choate Jack had evinced little interest in academics and much in athletics. At the ...

The heated national political climate of the past several years has frayed relations in many American families, including the famed Kennedy clan. Family members have gone public with their ...

"The decision of our brother Bobby to run as a third party candidate against Joe Biden is dangerous to our country," begins the statement, which was signed by Rory Kennedy, Kerry, Joseph P.

By Louis M. Lyons Joseph P. Kennedy was sitting in his shirtsleeves eating apple pie and American cheese in his room at the Ritz-Carlton. His suspenders hung around his hips. It was the setting ...

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but his mother reversed the names so Joseph wouldn’t be immediately marked as Irish. Joe Kennedy came from a comfortable home; P. J. was in the liquor business, engaged in local politics and had ...