kennedycamelot:Camelot Kids: Kathleen Kennedy ☆Kathleen Hartington Kennedy was born on
kennedycamelot: Camelot Kids: Kathleen Kennedy ☆ Kathleen Hartington Kennedy was born on July 4, 1951 to Robert and Ethel Kennedy. Kathleen is the oldest Kennedy of her generation and was named after her late aunt, Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy who married William Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington. Kathleen was nine when her uncle, Senator John F. Kennedy, was elected President and her father, Robert F. Kennedy, was named his attorney general. During much of her childhood Kathleen lived at Hickory Hill, an estate in Mclean, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, D.C. Kathleen was twelve when her uncle was assassinated in November 1963. Kathleen’s father was devastated as was her entire family. Shortly after the funeral Robert F. Kennedy wrote a letter to his eldest child saying: “As the oldest of the next generation you have a particular responsibility… be kind to others and work for your country." Just five years later Robert F. Kennedy would also killed by an assassin’s bullet. Kathleen was sixteen years old. -- source link