The Kennedy family is once again gathering to celebrate the Fourth of July, but this year, without matriarch Ethel Kennedy.

Nine months later they start their family when Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. is born on July 25, 1915. He will be known as Joe Jr. May 29, 1917 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, known as Jack, is born.

Having left their homeland of Ireland in the 1840s to escape the potato famine, the Kennedys—starting with Boston-born Patrick Joseph “P.J.” Kennedy—built their future from the ground up ...

It was a vacation destination for the Kennedy children while their father, Joseph Patrick Kennedy, served as the US Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1940.

P aramount Pictures, declared Joseph Patrick Kennedy, “is a chain of incompetent, unbusinesslike and wasteful practices” for which another receivership seemed inevitable. That was five years ...

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the daughter of Boston politician John Fitzgerald and wife of Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr., was the matriarch of a large and ambitious family.

My Brief Career as a Kennedy Speechwriter. In 1992, Congressman Joseph P. Kennedy II went on a fact-finding trip to Germany. Before he came home, he needed a punch line.