#David Kennedy

[strryhaze]

bobby & david kennedy

“There was some level on which David tapped his father’s sensitivity. You would find him walking with David or with his arm around David. David just seemed to need it.”

— chuck mcdermott.

“If his father’s death hit David harder than the others, it was because there had been a special bond between them—both were the runts of the litter, sandwiched into the middle of a large family. He was the only one in the family who hadn’t been enthusiastic about the run for the presidency. For weeks after his father’s announcement, David had been plagued by recurring nightmares about Bobby’s death. Distraught over episodes that seemed premonitory, and missing the special attention his father had given him, David had gotten in trouble for throwing rocks at cars passing by Hickory Hill. The day of the California primary, he had joined his father in Los Angeles. The two of them had been swimming and he had felt himself being carried out by the undertow when his father grabbed him, scraping his own head on the ocean floor as he reached for David’s slippery arm. With a teenager’s melodrama, David had decided that he owed his father a life and would look for an opportunity to pay him back in the years ahead. That night as he sat in front of the television set in his room in the Ambassador Hotel and watched [his father] bleeding on the floor downstairs, one of the thoughts he had was that the debt would be forever undischarged.”

“As the worst year of their young lives came to a close, they decided to surprise their mother at Christmas with a book comprised of letters about their father. David’s said: ‘Daddy was very funny in church because he would embarrass all of us by singing very loud. Daddy did not have a very good voice. There will be no more football with Daddy, no more swimming with him, no more riding and no more camping with him. But he was the best father there ever was and I would rather have him for a father for the length of time I did than any other father for a million years.”

— the kennedy’s, peter collier & david horowitz.

“David looked at himself in those pictures like they were a strange sort of mirror. He looked at them half a dozen times at least, mesmerized by them, and he kept asking me questions. There was a tremendous desire to know his father, to really know him.”

— john seigenthaler.

“David and Bobby were so close. They were inseparable. David was small, a runt like Bobby had been.” Ethel then explained to Noelle (her secretary) that David had always been a very sensitive youngster, very introverted, "not like the other boys. He and I would go and pick flowers while his brothers were killing each other with their crazy games", Ethel recalled with a smile.

— ethel kennedy.

“I think about death a lot. Time hasn’t erased the death of my father from my mind. My family thinks I’m no good and that I’ll never beat my problem. They’ve written me off. I’m trying to get it together, but it’s so difficult. I’m having a terrible time at it. And the thing I want most in the world is the approval of my family, but they want nothing to do with me. All I want is to be with my father.”

— david kennedy, april 1984.

“Like his family, his friends had all wondered at one time or another if he would kill himself; but when it finally came his death was nonetheless shocking. ‘I keep asking myself why. Why David? Why now? All I can come up with is that maybe his father was looking down from heaven and saw all the hell these people were putting him through and said, ‘Come on, You’ve suffered enough. It’s time you were up here with me.’”

— nancy narleski.

Years after David Kennedy’s death, his cousin, Patrick Kennedy recalled a haunting and heartbreaking recollection he had with his father, Teddy, sitting beside his cousin’s casket: “My father remembered Bobby telling him that, as a father, he needed to spend more time with David. He also recounted a story Uncle Bobby had told him just before his own death. On the day before the California primary, the Robert Kennedys had gone swimming in Malibu, to relax together. David had been knocked over by a wave and got caught in the undertow, and his father had come to his rescue. When Uncle Bobby told my father this story, he talked about ‘the undertow’ in broader terms, how there was an undertow in life and David, who was only then thirteen, already seemed vulnerable to it. And then, just hours later, Uncle Bobby was murdered as David watched the TV coverage in their hotel room upstairs. It was unbelievably poignant to hear my father tell this story. David was in the casket next to us. And I wasn’t that much older than David when his father worried whether he could survive the undertow.”

[joansiesbeloved]

kerrykennedyrfk: “Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are, one equal temper of heroic hearts, made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” - Alfred, Lord Tennyson. My parents were inspired by many of Tennyson’s lines. I hope 2025 brings you the inspiration to move heaven and earth. Wishing you strength, courage, and the will to strive, to seek, and to find. With enormous gratitude for your support, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year! 💙🎄

[dreamofstarlight]

Robert and Ethel Kennedy with their seven children in 1961

[k3rplunked]

these were the first 4 pages of my new sketchbook :3

my severen sketches are kinda ass 😭 ima need to redraw them at some point 🙏

[kennedy-family-library]

These moments will be forever remembered💖💝❤️✨️

[musicmags]

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[petit-papillion]

"Fred has earned his spurs in all the junior categories, and has an exceptional pedigree. He’ll know the business from nuts and bolts all the way through. This is a people business, and he will know who the stars are in terms of engineers and designers. He’s been at the coalface long enough and I think, given a little bit of time, and if Ferrari doesn’t do what they often do by getting wobbly knees and pulling the rug from under them, they’ll let him get on with it. I remember when Jean Todt started, he had a tough couple of years till he got the pieces in place. And, when he did, they were dynamite, and I think Fred is in that process.

There’s a great phrase, ‘Hindsight is foresight to a gobshite’. It is exceptionally difficult to tell what the future is. You can get the best people and get them in a solid working environment, and good things will come from that. They’ve got the brand, they’ve got the pedigree the team management, the finance, the drivers, and there’s no reason why they should not be at the sharp end.

I would be amazed if they’re not able to incrementally move that to the front. It’s not a silver bullet. It’s all those incremental pieces in there. If I was a betting man, I’d have my money on Ferrari.

So you can’t make a decision about where you are now, you have to have a little bit of foresight and try and see, ‘Have I got the right people with me? Are they working in the right modus operandi? Have we got the right finances to make it work?' If those pieces are in place, again, good things will come [for Charles]. With Frederic on board, I’d be amazed if he doesn’t begin to show that this thing is turning around. I think the reward will come for Charles."

David Kennedy (Former F1 driver, multiple Le Mans winner & former junior category team boss rival of Fred Vasseur)

Source: PlanetF1

[eliorosb3rg]

there has only been five drivers to drive under the irish flag and they got a grand total of 16 points but i adore them all

[strryhaze]

bobby only holding david’s hand like he’s never beating the favorite son allegations

this was rfk jr’s villain origin story

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[joansiesbeloved]

Happy Heavenly Birthday Bobby! He would have been 99 today. 🤍

[dreamofstarlight]

RFK Family Portrait at Hickory Hill - 1957

[k3rplunked]

cunty as hell !!! honesty ppl dog on ava tom but they’re just all straight mfs that can’t comprehend how hard he served, did he need sunglasses that big? no but he looked cunt as hell in em !! LMAO david’s there too i can’t ever not draw david, i see a cool pic of them i gotta draw it it’s just the law, he lures me in with his pretty face �� but i’ve kinda just been throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks lately with my art i just really wanna be able to expand and improve and the gift lyrics because uhhh idk i just like them LMAO

angels and airwaves has a chokehold on me and i’m okay with that !! i love pretty tom delonge space sounds !!

[kennedy-family-library]

Swearing-in ceremony and reception for President Kennedy Cabinet Secretaries, January 21, 1961.