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Joan Bennett Kennedy
Former Model + Author + Pianist
Female
Born
Sep 2, 1936
Age
76
Hometown
New York
Other Names
Bennett, Virginia...
Joan Bennett Kennedy is an American is the former wife of U.S. Senator from Massachusetts Edward "Ted" Moore Kennedy.
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Joan Bennett Kennedy
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CHILDHOOD
1936
Birth
Born on September 9, 1936.
TWENTIES
1957
20 Years Old
In October 1957, at the dedication of a gymnasium at Manhattanville College in memory of another Kennedy sister, Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington — who had died in a plane crash in 1948 — Jean Kennedy introduced Joan to her brother Ted, then a student at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville. They were married on November 29, 1958, in Bronxville, New York.
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1964
27 Years Old
Her husband suffered a severe back injury in an airplane crash while campaigning for his first full term in the U.S. Senate. She assumed the full campaign-appearance schedule for his successful re-election in 1964. He had earlier won a special election in November 1962 to serve the final two years of his brother John's U.S. Senate term; John had resigned from the U.S. Senate upon his 1960 election as U.S. President.
THIRTIES
1969
32 Years Old
In July 1969, her husband was involved in a car accident off Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts that killed his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne.
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FORTIES
1980
43 Years Old
The couple remained together during his failed 1980 U.S. presidential campaign, announcing plans to divorce in 1981; the divorce was finalized in 1982.
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FIFTIES
1992
55 Years Old
In 1992, she published the book The Joy of Classical Music: A Guide for You and Your Family.
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LATE ADULTHOOD
2004
67 Years Old
In July 2004, her son Edward had been appointed her legal guardian; in 2005 her children were granted temporary guardianship.
In 2005, she was hospitalized with a concussion and a broken shoulder after being found lying in a Boston street near her home.
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