Caroline Kennedy
Caroline Kennedy was born in 1957 to then Senator John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy. She grew up in Georgetown Washington DC and moved to the White House when she was 3. Her younger brother, John, was born just shy of her third birthday.She is the iconic little girl of JFK and grew up riding ponies and flying airplanes. She was pictured on a pony named Macaroni and that is the picture Neil Diamond says inspired the hit song Sweet Caroline.
Just 5 days before her 6th birthday, her father was assassinated and within two weeks she, her mother, and brother moved from the White House back to Georgetown. Soon the house became a tourist attraction and they again moved, but now to the Upper East Side in Manhattan.
Her mother wanted her to grow up out of the public eye and moved both children to Greece, where she married Aristotle Onassis. Caroline told a family friend that she never really like Aristotle.
Caroline was interested in photojournalism and graduated from Harvard in 1980.However, she decided she could not observe people as they were too busy watching her.
She married Edwin Schlosberg in 1986 and they have three children: Rose, John, and Tatiana.
She earned her law degree from Columbia in 1988 and served much of her career on Boards of various schools, charities, and like organizations. She dabbled in politics but never fully committed herself.
In 1999, upon the death of her handsome brother JFK Jr, Caroline became the lone survivor of the former President's immediate family.
Vocabulary
1. Senator
2. Just shy of
3. iconic
4. assassinated
5. christened
6. photojournalism
7. observe
8. dabbled
9. committed
10. lone survivor
Unscramble the words:
1. elon rovrusi
2. niccoi
3. bledbad
4. stuj hys fo
5. rotnesa
6. edstreihcn
7. desasasisnta
8. detmoctim
9. msroujlain
10. versebo
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He was born in 1974.
Three girls played nicely.
Sixty-two marbles spilled out.
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Very fine entry! The story of the Kennedys is both magical and sad. A few years ago we visited the childhood home of JFK in Brookline, MA. It was very interesting to see how they lived before they became very wealthy. I lived quite close to the Kennedy apt in Manhattan in the 1980s.
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