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NTSB official blasts media
Rory Kennedy weds in Athens
Trees planted in Israel for Kennedy
NTSB: No signs of breakup, fire
Kennedy searchers honored
Kennedys return to work on Capitol
Engine brought to Williamsport
Memorial held for Bessette sisters
Wreckage to Coast Guard Station
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Kennedy Family tragedies
BOSTON -- A small aircraft piloted by John F. Kennedy Jr., son of the assassinated president and an heir to the Kennedy political dynasty, was missing after taking off for a family wedding Friday night, authorities said Saturday.
The following is a chronology of other tragedies which have hit the Kennedy family over the years:
1941--Rosemary Kennedy, daughter of Joseph and Rose, is institutionalized because of retardation and failed lobotomy. She is now 80 years old.
1944-- Joseph Kennedy Jr., one of nine children of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, four of them brothers, killed in aircraft crash during World War II. He was 29.
1948-- Kathleen Agnes Kennedy, Joseph's sister, killed in plane crash in France. She was 28.
1963-- President John F. Kennedy assassinated in Dallas. He was 46.
1963-- Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, son of John and Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of respiratory problems at the age of three months.
1964--Edward Kennedy, brother of John and Robert, is critically injured in a plane crash near Springfield, Mass.. An aide, Edward Moss, is killed.
1968-- Robert F. Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles during presidential campaign. He was 42.
1969-- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy drives car off bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts. Aide Mary Jo Kopechne is later found dead in a submerged car.
1973-- Robert Kennedy's son Joseph involved in car accident that left a female passenger paralyzed for life.
1973-- Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's son Edward Jr. has right leg amputated because of cancer.
1984-- David A. Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy, dies of heroin overdose in a hotel neat family vacation home in Palm Beach, Fla.
1986-- Patrick Kennedy, son of Sen. Edward Kennedy, then a teenager and now a US congressman, sought treatment for cocaine addiction.
1991-- William Kennedy Smith, a nephew of the Kennedy brothers, accused of raping a woman at the family's Palm Beach estate. He is later acquitted.
1997-- Michael Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy, killed in skiing accident. He was 39.
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