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Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was an American businessman, investor, philanthropist, and politician. He is known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children and was a patriarch of the Kennedy family, which included President John F. Kennedy, attorney general and senator Robert F. Kennedy, and longtime senator Ted Kennedy.
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Joseph P. Kennedy: Father of the Kennedy brothers. After making his fortune as a bootlegger during Prohibition , he has loaned millions of dollars to the mafia through the Teamsters Pension Fund. Jimmy Hoffa : President of the Teamsters union, Hoffa maintains close connections to organized crime, lending the mafia millions of dollars through ...
In 1941, Joe Kennedy Sr. organized for his daughter, then 23, to have a lobotomy, with disastrous consequences. Eunice and Rosemary Kennedy pictured aboard the S. S. Manhattan in New York in 1938 ...
Born from an unexpected snub at an exclusive country club, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr.’s purchase of the Malcolm Cottage in 1928 laid the foundation for what would become a legendary family retreat ...
Joseph Kennedy Sr., 1938. Logevall's heavily researched biography begins with a brief description of the life of Kennedy's grandparents and takes note of the early life of his father Joseph as a good, though not exceptional, student at Boston Latin, and a particularly high-achieving athlete in High School.
Joseph P. Kennedy II. Pool - Getty Images. Just a year younger than Kathleen, Ethel and RFK's oldest son has been in and out of the spotlight over the years for both political ambitions and ...
Rose Kennedy (left) and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. in 1940 Rose Kennedy was a strict Catholic [ 11 ] throughout her life. Even after her 100th birthday, she rarely missed Sunday Mass and maintained an "extremely prudish" exterior. [ 13 ]