Two members of the Kennedy family, including a grand-niece of assassinated president John Kennedy, were missing on Friday after a canoe ride, according to Maryland authorities, another tragedy in the most famous political dynasty in the United States. . Maeve Kennedy McKean, 40, and her son Gideon, 8, did not return Thursday from a trip to Chesapeake Bay, said Larry Hogan, governor of this neighboring state of Washington, announcing the "bad news » During a press briefing . "Intensive research has been carried out since last night with the police, the coast guard and the fire department," said Hogan.
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Maeve is the daughter of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, eldest daughter of former Minister of Justice Robert Kennedy, killed in 1968, and niece of President John Kennedy, murdered in 1963. The Kennedy clan, one of the great families of life American politics, has experienced many tragedies. John F. Kennedy, then president of the United States for three years, was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963. In June 1968, his younger brother Robert, in a good position to win the Democratic primaries for the presidential election, was killed in Los Angeles. One of Robert Kennedy's sons, David, died at the age of 28 of a cocaine overdose in a Florida hotel in 1984. In 1999, the son of "JFK" died with his wife Carolyn and his sister-in-law Lauren in the plane crash he was flying in Massachusetts. Saoirse Kennedy Hill, a granddaughter of Robert Kennedy, also died of an overdose last year, at the age of 22.
