Heartbreaking
The Kennedy Curse in Pictures -- It's Hard to Deny It's Real Now (PHOTOS)
There's no question the death of Mary Richardson Kennedy is tragic. The estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was just 52 years old, and she left behind young children with her apparent suicide. But all this talk of the Kennedy curse tends to make me a little uncomfortable.
Are we talking about a loss of life because we're saddened by tragedy? Or are people so hellbent on proving some sort of superstitious hocus pocus that they'll grasp at any straw? Is there really a Kennedy curse?
I wasn't convinced. So I went poking through the history of the Kennedy clan.
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And I hate to say it, but there might be something to this whole "curse" thing after all. Young deaths. Criminal scandals. Folks with tangential relations getting caught up in painful incidents?
It's all there in black and white and sometimes color photographs. Mary Kennedy's death is yet another sad story in a list of sad stories.
Take a look and be honest, do you think the Kennedys are cursed?
Image via Getty Images
President John F. Kennedy's Assassination
President John F. Kennedy Jr. was just 46 years old on the fateful Friday, November 22, 1963, when Lee Harvey Oswald shot him in Dallas, Texas. The assassination left a nation without its 35th president. But it also left the Kennedy family without a brother, a husband, a father.
Image via JFK Library
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femaleMIKE
Mary resembled Jackie O.
femaleMIKE
I refuse to go through the slideshow
taylor
dirtiekittie
i second @femaleMike. the slide shows are terrible. i get that you want to increase page views, but i wish you'd go back to just single page formatting.
to the kennedy point - i think they are no more "cursed" than any other family. they just happen to be a *very* high profile family with many members who are actively known for politics, or being married into the politics.
Christie
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.LoVeMyBuG.
Yay I'm not the only one ANNOYED with the dumb slideshows!
linzemae
the4mutts
As for the topic, they're not cursed. Plenty of families suffer more tragedy than this. They're just high profile enough for it all to get noticed
sweetcherry_59
The slideshows SUCK! I refuse to click through thast shit.