David McKean, Maeve Kennedy Townsend Mckean and their children, including Gideon, second from right), in 2019. – Mr. Pont
The body of the grand-niece of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK), Maeve Kennedy McKean, missing since last Thursday, was found on Monday. Maeve Kennedy McKean, 40, hadn’t returned from a canoe trip with his son Gideon, 8, in Chesapeake Bay, in the region of Washington.
The search for Gideon’s body will resume on Tuesday, said Washington Post, citing Maryland state police. The family announced on Saturday that Maeve and her son were presumed dead. This is a new drama for the most famous dynasty of United States, regularly struck by the tragedy since the Democratic President’s assassination in 1963 in Dallas.
They would have been swept away by the current
The body of Maeve Kennedy McKean was found a few kilometers from the house of his mother, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, where the family had been isolated due to the pandemic of coronavirus, underlined the Washington Post. Maeve and her son went out in a canoe to retrieve a fallen balloon and were probably swept away by the strong current, the newspaper said, citing relatives and the police.
The victims’ mother and grandmother, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, is the oldest daughter of former Minister of Justice Robert Kennedy. John’s brother was killed in 1968 when he was well placed to win the Democratic primaries for the presidential election.
The family suffered other tragedies: one of Robert Kennedy’s sons, David, died at the age of 28 of a cocaine overdose in a hotel in Florida, in 1984. Another of his sons, Michael, died of a collision with a tree during a ski descent in 1997 in Colorado.
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