#eunice kennedy shriver

[joansiesbeloved]

Members of the Kennedy Family at a memorial mass dedicated to the late President JFK who had been assassinated three months earlier. Circa, January 19th, 1964. Gifs made by me. Footage is from an archive.

“I don’t remember it as a sad occasion. I remember it being rather joyful because of all the people who came because they loved Jack and they wanted to be a part of the Mass,” - Joan.

[kennedycore]

Little known fact: JFK lived with his sister Eunice for 3 years during his time as a congressman in the late 1940s.

Here they are photographed together in the house itself, located on 34th Street NW, Washington D.C.

Jack would later end up moving out in 1951.

[mrskennedy]

“Jackie, surely as much as Jack, helped make the magic we called Camelot. But when an assassins bullets shattered the dream, she showed the world that there was an unimagined strength beneath the silk. Her courage, her dignity, her grave restraint in the face of such horror held this nation together and showed us how to grieve.”

- Hugh Sidney

[leeradziwilll]

Lee Radziwill photographed at the Kennedy’s house in West Palm Beach on Christmas Day, 1962. Also photographed are Eunice Kennedy Shriver and John F. Kennedy Jr.

[dreamofstarlight]

The Kennedy Family in Palm Beach, Florida - December 1937

[voguefashion]

Lee Radziwill (wearing Armani), Richard Meier, Maria Shriver, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Sargent Shriver, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg (wearing Carolina Herrera), Jean Kennedy Smith, Victoria Reggie Kennedy, Ted Kennedy and Patricia Kennedy Lawford, at the Metropolitan Museum's Costume Institute Gala Exhibition of “Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City on April 23, 2001.

[sjnjournal]

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone."

- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

[onlythejaneway]

Okay, fellow amateur internet detectives, this is so random but… anyone who read Kate Mulgrew’s memoirs knows that her mother Joan attended school with, and became a lifelong friend of, Jean Kennedy Smith, spending many vacations at the family compound, and was even JFK’s personal secretary in the early days of his political career before she married Kate’s father.

Look at the above photo. Is it just me or is the woman on the right Kate’s mother?? The article is from Town and Country and lists her as an ‘Unidentified Woman’.

What do you think??

Unidentified Woman | Joan Mulgrew

(baby Kate with her mother Joan)

(Bonus pic with JFK for LoLs)

[kennedy-family-library]

The wedding of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy - June 17, 1950.

[joannkennedy]

Members of the Kennedy family attend a memorial mass at in honor of John F. Kennedy. January 19, 1964.

photographed: Rose Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Ted Kennedy, Joan Kennedy, Jacqueline Kennedy

[wanderingmind867]

I hate the Kennedy family. I know they're a big deal in US politics, but they're almost all awful people. Let's discuss:

Family Patriarch Joseph Sr was an antisemitic man who wanted to compromise with Hitler. He was also a defeatist and very pessimistic. After like 1 year in England, he was convinced that the Nazis would win and that "democracy was finished in Britain". Quite a stellar man, no?

Then there's the story of how he gave one of his teen daughters a lobotomy because she had an intellectual disability. I'm not kidding. Rosemary Kennedy was given a lobotomy and shuffled off to a home, all because her dad thought she wasn't good enough.

Not like some of the kids were much better. JFK was a womanizer who constantly slept around on his wife. Joseph Jr died at 29, but that's a good thing. He was the oldest of the kids, and he openly praised Hitler and Eugenics. RFK cheated as much as JFK, and his son is now a nut who claims vaccines cause autism.

Finally, their youngest kid was Ted. Ted Kennedy also sucked. I know he died of Brain Cancer like my mom did, but I'm calling it as I see it. Ted Kennedy was drunk and drove and off a bridge. He had another passenger with him: 28 year old Mary Jo Kopechne. Ted Kennedy swam out of the car to safety, but went back to his hotel and slept soundly as she drowned. He never bothered to rescue her. And he did all this while his wife was pregnant! What a sleazy man.

The only Kennedy branch I respect are the Shrivers. Eunice Kennedy-Shriver was the founder of the Special Olympics. She was also the closest to Rosemary before the lobotomy. Eunice was the best of the lot. Besides Eunice and Rosemary, the rest of the family can go to hell for all I care. America's worst dynasty. A bunch of sleazy people in that family.

[joansiesbeloved]

The Kennedy Family at Hyannis Port, Summer of 1961.

This pic is SO cute omfjdjnfjesugnesgksngj :')

[kennedycore]

A clip of Eunice, Rosemary, and Jack talking to the press on a ship sailing to London to meet their father, Ambassador Joe Kennedy, 1938.

JFK says to Rosemary “Bye, Rosie!” and she replies with “Bye, Jack!”

Some of the only recorded footage we have of Rosemary!

Credit: kinolibrary.com

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Eunice Kennedy and R. Sargent Shriver at their wedding reception in the Starlight Room of the Waldorf, May 23, 1953. The ceremony had taken place at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

Photo: New York Daily News via Getty Images/The Knot

[mrskennedy]

Jackie Kennedy chats with Eunice Kennedy Shriver at an Inaugural Ball in Washington D.C, January 20th, 1961

also pictured are Rose Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy

[dreamofstarlight]

Eunice, Pat, and Jean