#Pat Kennedy Lawford

[thekennedyclan]

May 14th, 1965 - JFK Jr. with his uncles at the unveiling of the JFK Memorial in Surrey, UK.

[tedkennedyswife]

December 1969 - The Kennedys skiing in Vail, Colorado.

[strryhaze]

Which of his sisters was Bobby closest to? 🩷

i would say he was closest to patricia! they were the closest in age as he was born right after her.

rose shared an anecdote about them in her memoir: “The summer when he was twelve and she was barely fourteen, both went to camp and both became dangerously ill: she with acute appendicitis requiring an emergency operation. She was joined at the same hospital a day or two later by Bobby, another emergency case, with pneumonia. Neither knew the other was there. 

Pat says: “They told me at the hospital that there was a little boy down the hall who really liked Cokes and comics and things, but they didn’t say who it was—they thought I’d be so upset. I think we traded a few comic books and sent a few oral messages back and forth, but it was days before we realized we were doing this with each other.”’

i don’t know all too much about the intricacies of their dynamic but i do know they always had a very special sibling bond. when jfk died, obviously patricia and bobby were devastated. as her marriage to peter started to crumble, bobby was usually the one who would try to steer his sister away from the bottle. but while jack’s death devastated her, bobby’s death absolutely crushed her and left her depending more and more on alcohol.

patricia kennedy lawford leaving the hospital on june 6, 1968 after bobby was declared dead .

her children began worrying about her. shortly after bobby’s death, she moved to paris with her daughters. in her son’s memoir, christopher wrote: “my mother would talk about jfk’s death. it was rare, but she did. bringing up the death of uncle bobby though… was just something we didn’t do. not for a long time.”

this was a year after bobby’s death during his memorial service in june of 1969.

pat sitting on his lap and bobby’s head laying on her shoulder 😭😭😭😭

this last one was captioned ‘skiing with beauty’ (bobby) by pat herself :((

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L-R: Kathleen "Kick" Kennedy Cavendish, Patricia Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, and Eunice Kennedy in Hyannis Port, 1944.

colorized by me!

[mrskennedy]

The State Funeral of President John F. Kennedy. November 24th, 1963.

photographed: Jacqueline Kennedy, Jean Kennedy Smith, Lady Bird Johnson, Present Lyndon B. Johnson, Peter Lawford, and Patricia Kennedy Lawford.

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Rest in peace, my beautiful Pat🕊💖🙏

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obsessed with pat in this photo actually

[joannkennedy]

Joan Kennedy photographed with Ethel Kennedy, Pat Lawford, and Lem Billings at the 1960 Democratic National Convention.

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“If truth be told, the Kennedys were a highly dysfunctional family,” claimed Oleg Cassini, Jackie’s chief fashion designer during her days as First Lady. “Jack Kennedy was a sex and amphetamine addict, and Teddy was an out-and-out alcoholic. Joan Kennedy, Teddy’s wife drank more than he did. Jack’s sisters, particularly Pat Lawford and Jean Smith, also drank to excess. They had good reason. Their spouses, Peter Lawford and Steve Smith, thought nothing of stepping out on them. Lawford was a drug abuser, while Smith had sadomasochistic tendencies—he paid women for the express privilege of beating them up. Ethel Kennedy, on the other hand, has always been an emotional cripple. She’s unstable. She gave birth to eleven children but knew nothing about raising a family. She’s the world's worst mother.”

HELLO??? the drama in this one quote…….

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Jackie Ethel Joan: The Women of Camelot - NBC - March 4-5, 2001

Biographical Drama (2 episodes)

Running Time: 163 Minutes Total

Stars:

Jill Hennessy as Jackie Bouvier Kennedy

Lauren Holly as Ethel Skakel Kennedy

Leslie Stefanson as Joan Bennett Kennedy

Daniel Hugh Kelly as John F. Kennedy

Robert Knepper as Robert F. Kennedy

Matt Letscher as Ted Kennedy

Harve Presnell as Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.

Charmion King as Rose Kennedy

Wayne Best as George Smathers

Walker Boone as Steve Clark

Christopher Britton as Ted's Doctor

Catherine Bruce as Sister Mary Leo

Adam Cabral as John F. Kennedy Jr.

Thom Christopher as Aristotle Onassis

William Colgate as Richard Nixon

Beau Dunker as Ted Kennedy Jr.

David Eisner as Schiff

Greg Ellwand as Peter Wilson

Madison Fitzpatrick as Caroline Kennedy

Richard Fitzpatrick as Frank Peters

Linda Goranson as Lady Bird Johnson

Paul Thomas Gordon as Peter Lawford

Kate Hemblen as Joan's Nanny

Shannon Hile as Elaine Mitchell

Tom Howard as Lyndon B. Johnson

Jeno Huber as Prince Stanisław Albrecht Radziwiłł

Jamie Johnston as Young Patrick Kennedy

Geoff Kahnert as Sargent Shriver

Ray Kahnert Bobby's Priest

Tamsin Kelsey as Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Anne L'Espérance as Cathy

Sarah Lafleur as Marilyn Monroe

Shawn Lawrence as Alex Carter

Gene Mack as Rosey Grier

Louisa Martin as Maude Shaw

Kaya McGregor as Pat Kennedy

Nicole Michaux as Jean Ann Smith

Julia Pagel as Kathleen Kennedy

Rosemary Pate as Kara

Karl Pruner as Clinton Hill

Matt Sadowski as Joseph P. Kennedy II

Jeffrey Smith as Jim Ketchum

Joy Tanner as Lee Bouvier

Bruce Vavrina as Roger Mudd

Jonathan Whittaker as Lem Billings

Brad Wietersen as Stephen Edward Smith

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[thekennedyclan]

1954 - 'Newlyweds return - Film and video star Peter Lawford and his bride of April, Patricia Kennedy, make a lunch stop at the Harwyn Club upon their arrival in New York for the first time since their marriage.

[tedkennedyswife]

1970 - Joan, Ted, Pat & Ethel. No info except for the year and source (Women's Wear Daily).

[strryhaze]

from l-r: nancy tuckerman, bobby kennedy, jackie kennedy, patricia lawford, joan kennedy, jean smith kennedy, lem billings, lee radziwell, stanislaw radziwell, & teddy kennedy

the friend group is friendgrouping

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Peter Lawford and fiancée Patricia Kennedy walking in Central Park, New York, 1954.

(colorized by me!)

[mrskennedy]

Jackie Kennedy and her sisters- in- law Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Pat Kennedy Lawford, & Jean Kennedy Smith arrive in Atlantic City, New Jersey to attend ceremonies for the Democratic National Convention on August 18th, 1964.