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		</div><p>The Kennedy dynasty has been touched repeatedly by tragedy, most recently with the daughter and a grandson of Robert F Kennedy’s eldest daughter going missing on a canoe trip.</p>
<p>Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, and her son Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean, eight, did not return to shore at Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, on Thursday.</p>
<p>Kathleen Kennedy Townsend said in a statement: <em>“With profound sadness, I share the news that the search for my beloved daughter Maeve and grandson Gideon has turned from rescue to recovery.”</em></p>
<p>Here are some other instances which have hit the family:</p>
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<li><strong>Joseph R Kennedy Jr:</strong> Died in a plane crash during the Second World War aged 29.</li>
<li><strong>Rosemary Kennedy:</strong> Had been institutionalised since 1941 because of mental health problems and due to the effects of a failed lobotomy. She died in 2005.</li>
<li><strong>Kathleen Kennedy:</strong> Married William John Robert Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington. He was killed in the Second World War, she later died in a plane crash in 1948 aged 28.</li>
<li><strong>President John F Kennedy:</strong> Assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963 aged 46.</li>
<li><strong>Patrick Kennedy:</strong> The president’s son Patrick was born prematurely in 1963 and died two days later, three months before his father’s assassination.</li>
<li><strong>John F Kennedy Jr:</strong> Killed with his wife and sister-in-law when their small plane crashed off Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, in 1999. He was 38.</li>
<li><strong>Robert F Kennedy:</strong> Assassinated in Los Angeles in June 1968. He was 42.</li>
<li><strong>David Kennedy:</strong> RFK’s son died in 1984 of a drug overdose in a hotel after being ousted from the family holiday home at Palm Beach. He was 28.</li>
<li><strong>Joseph Kennedy:</strong> He was involved in a 1973 car accident that left a female passenger paralysed for life.</li>
<li><strong>Michael Kennedy:</strong> RFK’s son was killed in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado, aged 39 in 1997.</li>
<li><strong>Edward M Kennedy:</strong> Drove a car off a bridge on Massachusetts’ Chappaquiddick Island in 1969 after a party, killing aide Mary Jo Kopechne. She was 28.</li>
<li><strong>Edward Kennedy Jr:</strong> His right leg had to be amputated in 1973 because of cancer.</li>
<li><strong>Patrick Kennedy: </strong>The former congressman sought treatment for cocaine addiction as a teenager in 1986.</li>
<li><strong>Mary Richardson Kennedy: </strong>The estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr took her own life in May 2012 aged 52.</li>
<li><strong>Saoirse Kennedy Hill: </strong>Died aged 22 of a drugs overdose after being found unresponsive at a home at the Kennedy compound on Cape Cod in 2019.</li>
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