Caroline Kennedy
Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born
November 27,
1957 in
New York, New York) is the daughter and only surviving child of
U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife,
Jacqueline. Her brother
John F. Kennedy Jr. died in
1999.
Kennedy lived from age three until just after her sixth birthday in the
White House. After the
assassination of her father in November
1963, she lived with her mother and brother in
New York City (in the penthouse apartment at 1040
Fifth Avenue, on the
Upper East Side of
Manhattan).
In 1972, she went to
Concord Academy in Massachusetts. She later interned with both her uncle US Senator
Edward Kennedy, and
The New York Daily News. She began working at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York in 1980, where she met her husband, the noted exhibit designer
Edwin Schlossberg. They have two daughters and one son:
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Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, born in
1988, (named after her great-grandmother)
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Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg, born in
1990, (named after Edwin's grandmother and his former colleague, the lithographer Tatiana Grossman)
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John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, born in
1993 (named after his grandfather)
She graduated from
Harvard University and from
Columbia Law School after completing her education at
Brearley School and
Convent of the Sacred Heart.She and
Ellen Alderman have written two books together on civil liberties:
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In Our Defense - The Bill of Rights In Action (1990) and
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The Right to Privacy (1995)
Upon her mother
Jacqueline's death in 1994, Caroline was instrumental in planning a private funeral service, when there were plans in progress for a more public event. Caroline reasoned that her mother would have wanted it this way, as she was, for the most part, a person who valued her privacy and dignity. The funeral was thus an invitation-only event, attended by mostly family and close friends. Although invited, President
Bill Clinton did not attend the funeral for this reason, as it might have attracted too much unwanted attention (he did attend and speak at the burial however). First Lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton attended both events.
She was one of the founders of the
Profiles in Courage Award, given annually to someone who exemplifies the type of courage examined in her father's book of the same name. The award is generally given to elected officials who, acting in accord with their conscience, risk their careers by pursuing a larger vision of the national, state or local interest in opposition to popular opinion or powerful pressures from their constituents. In May 2002, she presented an unprecedented Profiles in Courage Award to representatives of the
NYPD, the
New York City Fire Department, and the military as representatives of all of the people who acted to save the lives of others during the
terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. [
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She is currently (
as of 2006) the president of the Kennedy Library Foundation, and is the chairperson of the
American Ballet Theatre. Kennedy is also an adviser to the
Harvard Institute of Politics, a living memorial to her father.
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