Hi Mat Baker, just a heads up that I've sent two emails on your website about a couple missing charts of US and Canadian history I purchased in 2023. The shipping label says 4 but I only received 2 in the box. Not sure if your email form is working but thought I would send it to you this way. Thanks,
Matriarch Rose Kennedy once famously commented that her life could be described as the title of a Michelangelo biography called "The Agony and the Ecstasy". In that same interview in the 1970s, the interviewer asked, in polite terms, if she was at least happy to have had her son be president despite the assassination, and she said "No", that no success could overcome the horror of assassinations.
Honestly, poor woman. You lose your eldest to war, your next two sons to assassinations. Your eldest daughter is subjected to a medical procedure you never gave consent for that destroys her. Like, how much grief can one woman bear? Her and Ethel Skacel… man. You’ve got to be a powerful person with fortitude beyond comprehension not to be utterly consumed by grief.
@@Chaotic_PixieYeah, you could be one of the most awful rude nasty people and I still wouldn't wish for all the tragedy that Rose Kennedy saw in her life. She lived until 104, almost 105. Even with that much time, she saw a lot of awful things befall her family.
@Petey0707 The hell you even talking about? Kennedy wasn't the one who got the US involved in the war directly, he was dead by a few years by the time it even happened??
I thought about that but decided against it because in her case, her tragedy was the direct result of her own father's actions, not some sort of outside force or unexpected accident. I think that's an important point to be remembered.
@@UsefulChartsHe acted under medical advice and the procedure was done by a doctor, so it's not like he did it himself. It was just a bad medical decision to perform a procedure that wouldn't be made today.
I think Rosemary should count as part of the curse. Her initial mental delays were caused by a botched birth that left her brain without oxygen for a time which caused her future behavioral problems. She then had the lobotomy so not to have those behavioral problems interfere with her brother's political careers. She may not have died from it but it sounds pretty cursed to me.
Here's a connection for you. Jackie Bouvier's sister was married to William A. V. Cecil Cecil was the younger son of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900-1976) and English-born aristocrat John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890-1954). He was the grandson of George Washington Vanderbilt II and Lord William Cecil, the great-grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt and William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter. His maternal great-great grandfather was railroad and steamship baron, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Jackie's distant cousin is Anderson Cooper of CNN, who's mother was Gloria Vanderbilt, daughter of millionaire equestrian Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt of the Vanderbilt family and socialite Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and Reginald's patrilineal great-grandfather was business magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-great-grandfather, Jan Aertson or Aertszoon ("Aert's son"), was a Dutch farmer from the village of De Bilt in Utrecht, Netherlands, who emigrated to New Amsterdam (later New York) as an indentured servant in 1650.[ The Dutch van der ("of the") was eventually added to Aertson's village name to create "van der Bilt" ("of the Bilt"). This was eventually condensed to Vanderbilt. Jan's son, Anthony Janszoon van Salee was one of Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-great-great-grandfathers. Jan and Anthony were privateers working out of Morocco and Anthony is thought to be the first Muslim in the colonies. Anthony's daughter Annica, married Thomas Southard. Their daughter Abigail was the great-great-grandmother of Cornelius Vanderbilt Thomas and Annica's son, Isaac, is a direct line ancestor of my mother, whose grandfather was Lawrence Southard of Iowa. That makes me a distant cousin to both Cooper and Jackie. Yeah, the Kennedy's have a VERY illustrious family line.
If you watch "Grey Gardens", you'll see they call each other big/little Eee-die, not Ed-ie, same as most people shorten the common pronunciation of Edith. Also, it's "You-niss" for Eunice, not how you were saying it "You-neice".
Put yourselves to better use for society & the operations of this world, people. Focusing on the mispronunciation of a Kennedy, a Johnson, a Reagan, a Bush, a Trump, or any political 'dynasty' is to use your time poorly. Come back into the present, work for the benefit of people not yet born and hope to Heaven that humans on this Earth will be able to thrive on this dying planet. It's time to mature before your time here is not only wasted, but over. Millions of people have given their spare time to help their communities, and asked for no special recognition, reward or payment. My parents were two who did that very thing. Nobody will know their names, their tribulations or their good works, given to the town & county, year in & year out. Give a hoot about future lives. Be respectful of the dead but stop glorifying those that have become celebrities, please. (especially the long-dead ones) Happy New Year, 2025!
Rosemary should be considered a close-call case because of how bad her lobotomy went and how she survived through the instutionalisation and had sympathetic family on the other side.
In the alt-history streaming series "For All Mankind", Ted Kennedy's ill-fated vacation never happened because of the surprising news that the Soviets landed a man on the Moon first. He then went on to beat Nixon in 1972, but lost to Reagan in '76.
Would love to see analyses of other American political dynasties (Rockefeller already done) - I recall the Udalls of Arizona, Frelinghuysens of NJ, Pryors and Hutchinsons of Arkansas, Bennetts of Utah, Bayhs of Indiana, Byrds of Virginia, Burdicks of North Dakota, Thurmonds of South Carolina, etc, etc, etc
You skip over Patricia Kennedy and Peter Lawford's oldest son Actor and Drug Addiction Activism Christopher Lawford. While he spent a lot of his youth addiction to drugs, he became clean and was an actor on the soap opera All My Children as Charlie Brent. Later o he became a writer and a world drug addiction advocate. He died in 2018 of a heart attack.
He also had a role in "13 Days" the Cuban missile crisis film starring Kevin Costner. Lawford portrayed the naval aviator Cmdr William Ecker who was sent in on a low level surveillance flight over Cuba during the crisis. He gave an excellent performance, sad that he died so young.
Chris Lawford lasted one semester at Fordham Law School the mysteriously transferred to Boston College Law School. He then dropped out of law school . Rumor was that arose donated bucks to both schools
Great presentation! 👏It really put things together from all the different stories (and deaths) over the years. In a basic way so my brain could understand 😂Thanks for all the work you do Matt! 🌟
When my dad was a young man, he once caddied for Jackie O., while she was golfing at the country club where he worked. He said that she was dignified, had impeccable manners, was very kind, and that she tipped generously, unlike many of the wealthy people that golfed there. It was either in Massachusetts or Rhode Island (we're New Englanders), but I don't know which country club/golf course he worked at, at the time. For a while, he worked at the Pleasant Valley Country Club; it may have been there, but I don't know for sure..
Re: the supposed curse. If a family has that many members, a certain percentage will die early, also a certain percentage won't. It's not likely in my little family with 2 siblings and only one child. If a family has that many politicians, they're going to take more plane trips than any average family.
Well, as of today, the Kennedys have also produced a member of the presidential cabinet. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is currently President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
19:31 he’s married to Amy Kennedy who ran for New Jersey’s second congressional district but lost narrowly in the 2020 election. Also Jack Schlossberg is definitely someone to watch lol 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙💙
Well I have heard about Kennedy Family Tree originating from Ireland back to date: 900 A.D. In a fact, the Kennedy family immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts during the Great Potato Famine occurred in Ireland. My close college friend at Gallaudet University told me about Kennedy curse in the story while having our chats in the college cafeteria on the campus as I still was at Gallaudet University during my old college days.
If there was some sort of cause for the curse, I think it was what happened to Rosemary. It's sickening that a father would ever do that to their own child
I definitely agree that what he did wasn't helpful at all. But it wasn't her cause of death. If she got the lobotomy as a teen & died at 86, she probably didn't die from it.
Also not so fun fact Ethel Skakel Kennedy's nephew Michael were accused of killing Martha Moxley. He was convicted in the 2000s but got out on appeal. My mom;s friend found Martha's body. My mom says Michael did it, but my aunt is convinced his brother Tommy did it. So yeah
I noticed once you hadn't done the Adamses yet, so that could definitely be in the future sometime. I wonder if any American politics charts that don't have to relate to genealogy would be good since while we have political families we don't have any hereditary political offices.
Teddy Kennedy’s accident at Chappaquiddick was not less than a year after Bobby’s assassination. Bobby Kennedy died on June 6, 1968. Chappaquiddick occurred on July 16-18, 1969. That’s more than a year, not less than.
Rfk jr's son with Richardson is Connor Kennedy, who is onow to have dated Taylor Swift, so i gues that makes her an unoficial part of the family tree as well. He would later serve as a volunter in Ukraine
I know its a busy enough family tree to navigate and I think you did brilliant. One snip-et that could've been included is: One of the '+5 other Children' under RFK was Courtney Kennedy, (Its here daughter Saoirse who's mentioned). In Irish history a small footnote is on Courtney because her husband Paul Hill was/is one of the Guildford Four. A group of (mostly) Irish individuals who were falsely blamed/ pinned by English Police as IRA bombers during the Troubles. The movie 'In the name of the Father' (starring Daniel Day-Lewis) covers alot of this incident.
These family trees are so intriguing, seeing the patterns in family history. I read in the Alexander Hamilton biography that his lineage can be tracked to the 14th century in Scotland, do you think you’d do a video on that 👀👀
@19:36 just for clarity, after Patrick J. Kennedy snr, there has been Patrick J. Kennedy jnr, Patrick J. Kennedy II, Patrcik J. Kennedy II, Patrick J. Kennedy II (no typo, I did there has been 3 of them), and Patrick J. Kennedy III. Perhaps someone should thought that one through.
I'm sorry but I don't think RFK Jr. is most known for his conspiracy theories. I would argue he is most known for his work as attorney. I knew about RFK Jr. due to his work as an attorney far before I learned about his stances on specific topics.
From what I’ve read, Rosemary was capable of taking care of herself despite her mental limitations. She was mildly handicapped in that regard. But the lobotomy completely destroyed her.
Hey, which family tree generating software do you use to create connections between individuals within the tree (who aren’t direct siblings)? for example if making a family tree , and I need to show how cousins are related from both maternal and paternal side (I need to connect it).
William Cavendish was connected to British politics. His uncle was Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who served while JFK was President. I’m surprised that wasn’t mentioned.
Back in the 1980s I was recruited on campus to a group known as the Local Church, where I spent 5 years during a time in my life when I was searching, having been raised Catholic. As I recall, they closely followed Witness Lee and were strongly influenced by Watchman Nee and J.N. Darby. There was a lot of talk about them being a cult and I left and never looked back. To my knowledge, they are still active all over the U.S. and overseas. I wonder if they would fit on the chart under Plymouth Brethren???
The video fails to mention that the original Kennedy in America, Pat, or Patrick Kennedy, died when his son P.J. Kennedy was just an infant of less than a year old. It was his widowed mother that raised him, and she was Bridgett Murphy of Wexford, Ireland. She molded him, financed his first business venture which was a tavern, and which led to his political career. There is more Murphy in the first political Kennedy, P.J., than there is Kennedy. And hence the generations since.
10:46 Probably not since because Jack has probably become a social media star as he has been posting a lot of videos on his instagram. Half are funny but the other half can be cringe.
Great video as usual, though I would like to note that before RFK Jr. was known for conspiracy theories and vaccine misinformation, he was known for being an environmental lawyer.
The original Rat Pack was started in the late 40s-early 50s by Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, and others. They met at Bogart and Bacall’s mansion and when Bogart died in 1957, Frank Sinatra took over.
Did you know that according to Geni the bloodline of John F. Kennedy is going back to "George Douglas, born 1469", who connects the Kennedys to the Habsburg family? Starting with George Washington a lot of American Presidents are connected to the Habsburg family. According do some sources the Habsburg family has bloodlines back to the Roman Caesars, Pharaos and even Chinese Emperors. But this is probably normal for genealogy going back a long time, as all modern people are more or less directly connected.
Very informative video. Please note that Joseph P. Kennedy had a long extra marital affair with silent actress Gloria Swanson. She mentioned this in her autobiography. Arnold Schwartzenneggar mentioned in his biography Total Recall that when he and Maria were house hunting, a realtor showed them a house that had an underground tunnel which connected the houses where Joseph and Gloria lived. She was an owner of a silent film studio and allowed him access to the studio's funds, but he left her for his wife and absconded with the studio's money, leaving her bankrupt.
Did I miss mention of Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy who died in a plane crash with her married lover in 1948? The family didn't attend the funeral as they were ashamed of her affair with a married man - and a protestant one at that.
Her dad did attend the funeral. Nobody else was ashamed of the affair other than her mother. Her siblings didn’t attend the funeral because JFK who was supposed to plan their plane tickets broke down and couldn’t bring himself to go. Later on they did visit her grave and stayed close with the Cavendish family.
I think you're right about Jack, JFK's grandson, He has a bright future a head of him, as for the Kennedy name male line it would be Joseph who is now a news anchor, and once served as a representative
Great video Matt. Joe Kennedy III seemed to be on the rise in Massachusetts a few years back. I think he erred by taking on the incumbent Democratic Senator from Ed Markey. Ed became the first politician to beat a Kennedy in Mass, on a pretty grand stage nonetheless. Ed is an effective and popular Senator and Joe may have overplayed his hand in taking him on when he did. I think he may have had more success taking on Elizabeth Warren but maybe he didn't want to wait a few more years because of Presidential ambitions or maybe he didn't want to take on another Harvard elite.
there's a kennedy dynasty in other independent fiefdoms of the historical british isles plus I think the butler dynasty claimed ormonde eventually in ireland and was it shared...anyway irish kennedys were grouped according to hair colour i.e. the red kennedys, etc.. another thing is peerage for ormonde exists in the british system also
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Kinda hilariously messed up that they named a whole airport after JFK considering this family's history with planes
I found that funnier then it should be lol
Australia named a swimming pool after a Prime Minister that drowned.
That's like naming an airport after Joseph Joestar.
Yeah, exactly!
for me it’s that it’s in New York and not Massachusetts where he’s from.
Well, today I was not expecting to discover Schwarzenegger to be Pratt's father-in-law.
Found that out like 6 years ago
I knew that but didn't know his wife was a daughter of a Kennedy
@@SardGuard and at the same time, JFK is the granduncle of Arnold's children from his marriage
He is also a Republican. Who was married into a Democrat family. They didn't speak out against him. But, didn't back him really either.
@SardGuard Maria Shriver's mother was Eunice Kennedy, who, among so many other things, founded the Special Olympics. ❤
Matriarch Rose Kennedy once famously commented that her life could be described as the title of a Michelangelo biography called "The Agony and the Ecstasy". In that same interview in the 1970s, the interviewer asked, in polite terms, if she was at least happy to have had her son be president despite the assassination, and she said "No", that no success could overcome the horror of assassinations.
Honestly, poor woman. You lose your eldest to war, your next two sons to assassinations. Your eldest daughter is subjected to a medical procedure you never gave consent for that destroys her. Like, how much grief can one woman bear? Her and Ethel Skacel… man. You’ve got to be a powerful person with fortitude beyond comprehension not to be utterly consumed by grief.
@@Chaotic_PixieYeah, you could be one of the most awful rude nasty people and I still wouldn't wish for all the tragedy that Rose Kennedy saw in her life. She lived until 104, almost 105. Even with that much time, she saw a lot of awful things befall her family.
@@Chaotic_PixieNot to mention a daughter killed in a plane crash.
Seems like karma considering he ignited an imperialist war in Vietnam which was little more than a genocide.
@Petey0707 The hell you even talking about? Kennedy wasn't the one who got the US involved in the war directly, he was dead by a few years by the time it even happened??
I think Rosemary should be considered a victim of the curse, too.
If there was such a thing as a curse I would agree.
and ted
although he did not die, he was involved in some interesting deaths
I thought about that but decided against it because in her case, her tragedy was the direct result of her own father's actions, not some sort of outside force or unexpected accident. I think that's an important point to be remembered.
@@UsefulCharts Have you thought about doing other US political families like the Clinton's for example?
@@UsefulChartsHe acted under medical advice and the procedure was done by a doctor, so it's not like he did it himself. It was just a bad medical decision to perform a procedure that wouldn't be made today.
Did you just casually end that video with Dietrich sleeping with both father and son?!
That's what I thought I heard...🤨
That's what's claimed, yeah.
Yeh she was insane. First I heard her was when Michael Cane talked about her on Graham Norton. I googled and found all sorts of stuff 😳
lol i was a bit disturbed with that!
Idk man, if my last name was Kennedy, I’d probably avoid going on an airplane.
Well, the airplane could always come to you...
JFK Jr. used to fly into JFK airport all the time, before he died in a plane crash.
Kennedy- the irl joestars
Or go for a ride in convertible, with the top down, in Dallas.
Id be more scared of the CIA
This was one the greatest and well-presented family trees I have ever seen, absolutely mind-blowing
I think Rosemary should count as part of the curse. Her initial mental delays were caused by a botched birth that left her brain without oxygen for a time which caused her future behavioral problems. She then had the lobotomy so not to have those behavioral problems interfere with her brother's political careers. She may not have died from it but it sounds pretty cursed to me.
She lived the longest, correct ?
Here's a connection for you. Jackie Bouvier's sister was married to William A. V. Cecil Cecil was the younger son of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1900-1976) and English-born aristocrat John Francis Amherst Cecil (1890-1954). He was the grandson of George Washington Vanderbilt II and Lord William Cecil, the great-grandson of William Henry Vanderbilt and William Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Exeter. His maternal great-great grandfather was railroad and steamship baron, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Jackie's distant cousin is Anderson Cooper of CNN, who's mother was Gloria Vanderbilt, daughter of millionaire equestrian Reginald Claypoole Vanderbilt of the Vanderbilt family and socialite Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, and Reginald's patrilineal great-grandfather was business magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt,
Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-great-grandfather, Jan Aertson or Aertszoon ("Aert's son"), was a Dutch farmer from the village of De Bilt in Utrecht, Netherlands, who emigrated to New Amsterdam (later New York) as an indentured servant in 1650.[ The Dutch van der ("of the") was eventually added to Aertson's village name to create "van der Bilt" ("of the Bilt"). This was eventually condensed to Vanderbilt. Jan's son, Anthony Janszoon van Salee was one of Cornelius Vanderbilt's great-great-great-great-grandfathers. Jan and Anthony were privateers working out of Morocco and Anthony is thought to be the first Muslim in the colonies. Anthony's daughter Annica, married Thomas Southard. Their daughter Abigail was the great-great-grandmother of Cornelius Vanderbilt Thomas and Annica's son, Isaac, is a direct line ancestor of my mother, whose grandfather was Lawrence Southard of Iowa. That makes me a distant cousin to both Cooper and Jackie.
Yeah, the Kennedy's have a VERY illustrious family line.
Wow, nice! So much information! 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
If you watch "Grey Gardens", you'll see they call each other big/little Eee-die, not Ed-ie, same as most people shorten the common pronunciation of Edith. Also, it's "You-niss" for Eunice, not how you were saying it "You-neice".
Love the channel but pronunciation of names (just Google it!) could be better.
@@kathrynstemler6331 Yeah. Definitely a lot of mispronunciations in several videos.
Thank you I was just about to say this when I was watching the video.
Thank you! That was killing me!!
Put yourselves to better use for society & the operations of this world, people. Focusing on the mispronunciation of a Kennedy, a Johnson, a Reagan, a Bush, a Trump, or any political 'dynasty' is to use your time poorly. Come back into the present, work for the benefit of people not yet born and hope to Heaven that humans on this Earth will be able to thrive on this dying planet. It's time to mature before your time here is not only wasted, but over. Millions of people have given their spare time to help their communities, and asked for no special recognition, reward or payment. My parents were two who did that very thing. Nobody will know their names, their tribulations or their good works, given to the town & county, year in & year out. Give a hoot about future lives. Be respectful of the dead but stop glorifying those that have become celebrities, please. (especially the long-dead ones) Happy New Year, 2025!
Rosemary should be considered a close-call case because of how bad her lobotomy went and how she survived through the instutionalisation and had sympathetic family on the other side.
"And they lived happily ever after"
"And then they died in a plane crash"
In the alt-history streaming series "For All Mankind", Ted Kennedy's ill-fated vacation never happened because of the surprising news that the Soviets landed a man on the Moon first. He then went on to beat Nixon in 1972, but lost to Reagan in '76.
This sounds interesting, I"ll have to look for it!
Thank you for most balanced presentation of this family I can remember seeing.
They have done some good as a family. But they are not perfect people.
Would love to see analyses of other American political dynasties (Rockefeller already done) - I recall the Udalls of Arizona, Frelinghuysens of NJ, Pryors and Hutchinsons of Arkansas, Bennetts of Utah, Bayhs of Indiana, Byrds of Virginia, Burdicks of North Dakota, Thurmonds of South Carolina, etc, etc, etc
The Bayhs were from Indiana, not Idaho. Great suggestions nonetheless
@@saw7191 Apologies, I meant the Churches.
I loved the cat photobombing the pic of big edie
Ethel Skakel have a nephew who killed a girl, the girl named Martha Moxley
I remember seeing a documentary on that case. Dark.
It inspired the pilot episode of Cold Case
I was waiting for a mention of that.
@@laurameisenhelter9186Why? They are only related to Ethel. This isn’t about her family tree.
@@bbybella9937 Yes, the Skakels would be a whole other video as far as tragedies and scandal!
NICE! American political dynasties have always fascinated me 💫
yes. more american political dynasties. i think because the US is a young country it makes these very interesting
Yep,they have already done,I think the Washingtons and the Roosevelts,but what about the other 2 Pres.dynasties ( Adams,Harrisons) ? 👌👍
@@MrSinclairn Bushes too.
You skip over Patricia Kennedy and Peter Lawford's oldest son Actor and Drug Addiction Activism Christopher Lawford. While he spent a lot of his youth addiction to drugs, he became clean and was an actor on the soap opera All My Children as Charlie Brent. Later o he became a writer and a world drug addiction advocate. He died in 2018 of a heart attack.
He also had a role in "13 Days" the Cuban missile crisis film starring Kevin Costner. Lawford portrayed the naval aviator Cmdr William Ecker who was sent in on a low level surveillance flight over Cuba during the crisis. He gave an excellent performance, sad that he died so young.
Chris Lawford lasted one semester at Fordham Law School the mysteriously transferred to Boston College Law School. He then dropped out of law school . Rumor was that arose donated bucks to both schools
I'm actually related to the Kennedy's. Rose Fitzgerald and my Great grandmother were first cousins.
Take a Gray Hound and leave the top up on convertibles.
You are Rose Fitzgerald's first cousin three times removed.
Avoid airplanes
Don't worry if you're not in politics you're fine. 😊
Not even the Kennedy curse could take Ahnold from us. The Terminator ain't going out like that.
Even if he does, he'll be back.
😂😂😂😂😂
Didn’t he have a baby with the housekeeper?
@@busterbluesun Yup. Look up the Bill Burr bit about Arnold, it will explain all lmao
Great presentation! 👏It really put things together from all the different stories (and deaths) over the years. In a basic way so my brain could understand 😂Thanks for all the work you do Matt! 🌟
When my dad was a young man, he once caddied for Jackie O., while she was golfing at the country club where he worked. He said that she was dignified, had impeccable manners, was very kind, and that she tipped generously, unlike many of the wealthy people that golfed there. It was either in Massachusetts or Rhode Island (we're New Englanders), but I don't know which country club/golf course he worked at, at the time. For a while, he worked at the Pleasant Valley Country Club; it may have been there, but I don't know for sure..
ok but how did you not mention that RFK Jr. was an environmental lawyer who had a number of amazing successes doing so
Because it’s all kind of overshadowed by his more recent off the rails behavior, unfortunately.
@@CapitalCLYDE the media chooses to push that shit tho. i dont agree w it but his other policies are golden.
His latest book is a good read.
As more facts become revealed to the world, it will be found to be quite fact-filled.
@@cindyknudson2715 he uses lots of citations.
It doesn't fit the narrative.
Rosemary went through a lot and still outlived most of her siblings.
Re: the supposed curse. If a family has that many members, a certain percentage will die early, also a certain percentage won't. It's not likely in my little family with 2 siblings and only one child. If a family has that many politicians, they're going to take more plane trips than any average family.
Thank you. At least one logical comment.
Not to mention when you piss in the CIAs cornflakes they tend to make you disappear
14:40 RFK was AG before being Senator, and he was shot TWO months after MLK not one.
imagine if a kennedy marries a bush
Well I have something similar that happen in my class. THERE IS A GIRL IN MY CLASS NAME JACQUELINE BUSJ
Bush*
@@xXBlossomBearXx Why. Didn't. You. Just. Edit. Your. Comment?
@@Ghostyboydead i didn’t had the option for some reason and my YT was laggy
Love this channel! Always good stuff! Thank you, Matt.
Well, as of today, the Kennedys have also produced a member of the presidential cabinet. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is currently President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
19:31 he’s married to Amy Kennedy who ran for New Jersey’s second congressional district but lost narrowly in the 2020 election.
Also Jack Schlossberg is definitely someone to watch lol 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💙💙💙
Well I have heard about Kennedy Family Tree originating from Ireland back to date: 900 A.D. In a fact, the Kennedy family immigrated to Boston, Massachusetts during the Great Potato Famine occurred in Ireland. My close college friend at Gallaudet University told me about Kennedy curse in the story while having our chats in the college cafeteria on the campus as I still was at Gallaudet University during my old college days.
If I was a member of this family, I would never get on a plane or go skiing again
They'd still get you if you got out of line.
Or drive through downtown Dallas with the top down.
John F. Kennedy, Jr. was never called John John by the family. That nickname was entirely invented by the press.
As if a lobotomy wasn't horrifying enough. Now I must contemplate a botched lobotomy.
🧠🤦🏽♂️
It was considered state-of-the-art, leading-edge treatment at the time.
Update : Ethel Kennedy sadly died on Thursday 10 October 2024 (1 day ago)
If there was some sort of cause for the curse, I think it was what happened to Rosemary. It's sickening that a father would ever do that to their own child
I definitely agree that what he did wasn't helpful at all. But it wasn't her cause of death. If she got the lobotomy as a teen & died at 86, she probably didn't die from it.
Also not so fun fact Ethel Skakel Kennedy's nephew Michael were accused of killing Martha Moxley. He was convicted in the 2000s but got out on appeal. My mom;s friend found Martha's body. My mom says Michael did it, but my aunt is convinced his brother Tommy did it. So yeah
take a shot every time Matt says "plane crash"
i'm drumpk
Bobby Kennedy did.
@@jabber1990 lol
@@MidwestArtMan lolz
4:13 young Sheldon what are you doing here 😭
I noticed once you hadn't done the Adamses yet, so that could definitely be in the future sometime. I wonder if any American politics charts that don't have to relate to genealogy would be good since while we have political families we don't have any hereditary political offices.
Yeah, this will be a respectful comment section
Ngl the comments on UsefulCharts are usually pretty tame, and that's even on discussions of Atheism, Christianity, The Bible, or The Torah
i'm disappointed so far
I kinda like it!
your post is the only inflammatory one I've seen tbh
Well he did mentioned the Israeli Palestinian conflict so this comment section as no chance
@@divinesleeper You think that comment is inflammatory?
Great video I'll be able to remember a lot of this off the top of my head
RFK Jr is no longer in the race. He pulled out and endorsed Trump.
One of the most famous political families in the US.
It may be topped by the Trump family.
THE most famous
@@virginiasanchis1717 I agree tbh
Pat did have a well known child. Her son Christopher Lawford was an actor. I remember him from All My Children and he was also in Blankman.
Christopher Lawford was also in the movie Thirteen Days, which had to do with the Cubin Missile Crisis during the Kennedy Administration.
This was a fascinating and informative video. Thank you
Teddy Kennedy’s accident at Chappaquiddick was not less than a year after Bobby’s assassination.
Bobby Kennedy died on June 6, 1968. Chappaquiddick occurred on July 16-18, 1969. That’s more than a year, not less than.
Thank you for the accurate pronunciation of Ó Cinnéide at the beginning! 😄😄
Rfk jr's son with Richardson is Connor Kennedy, who is onow to have dated Taylor Swift, so i gues that makes her an unoficial part of the family tree as well.
He would later serve as a volunter in Ukraine
I know its a busy enough family tree to navigate and I think you did brilliant. One snip-et that could've been included is: One of the '+5 other Children' under RFK was Courtney Kennedy, (Its here daughter Saoirse who's mentioned). In Irish history a small footnote is on Courtney because her husband Paul Hill was/is one of the Guildford Four. A group of (mostly) Irish individuals who were falsely blamed/ pinned by English Police as IRA bombers during the Troubles. The movie 'In the name of the Father' (starring Daniel Day-Lewis) covers alot of this incident.
I’m writing a book right now where JFK Jr doesn’t die, and he marries Princess Diana (also doesn’t die). The two go on to be president and First Lady.
@@moonlightbay4814Go back and read the comment again. They said that their book is about JFK, Jr. not JFK, Sr.
@@Janice360 Ohhhhhh
Thank you!
Send a link to your book or draft if you can! Sounds interesting 😊
So it's a horror story. Cool.
@@takemeaway285 how so?
Hawaiian Family Tree video would be cool
These family trees are so intriguing, seeing the patterns in family history. I read in the Alexander Hamilton biography that his lineage can be tracked to the 14th century in Scotland, do you think you’d do a video on that 👀👀
@19:36 just for clarity, after Patrick J. Kennedy snr, there has been Patrick J. Kennedy jnr, Patrick J. Kennedy II, Patrcik J. Kennedy II, Patrick J. Kennedy II (no typo, I did there has been 3 of them), and Patrick J. Kennedy III. Perhaps someone should thought that one through.
I'm sorry but I don't think RFK Jr. is most known for his conspiracy theories. I would argue he is most known for his work as attorney. I knew about RFK Jr. due to his work as an attorney far before I learned about his stances on specific topics.
Well, RFK jr was opposing the Democratic Party, how else do you expect the obviously politically biased UsefulCharts to frame it?
why didn’t you mention rfk jr’s environmental record?
I wish someone would point out Trump's environmental record to RFK Jr.
From what I’ve read, Rosemary was capable of taking care of herself despite her mental limitations. She was mildly handicapped in that regard. But the lobotomy completely destroyed her.
She was an embarrassment to Joe . This is how he tried to fix her.
As a star wars fan, you were scaring me with those 2 Kathleen Kennedys
Hey, which family tree generating software do you use to create connections between individuals within the tree (who aren’t direct siblings)? for example if making a family tree , and I need to show how cousins are related from both maternal and paternal side (I need to connect it).
William Cavendish was connected to British politics. His uncle was Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who served while JFK was President. I’m surprised that wasn’t mentioned.
Back in the 1980s I was recruited on campus to a group known as the Local Church, where I spent 5 years during a time in my life when I was searching, having been raised Catholic. As I recall, they closely followed Witness Lee and were strongly influenced by Watchman Nee and J.N. Darby. There was a lot of talk about them being a cult and I left and never looked back. To my knowledge, they are still active all over the U.S. and overseas. I wonder if they would fit on the chart under Plymouth Brethren???
Why do these people keep going on planes?
Planes are faster than other means of transportation.
Ethel Skakel Kennedy also had a nephew named Michael Skakel who was accused of murder as a young man.
He was convicted in 2002 for the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley.
The video fails to mention that the original Kennedy in America, Pat, or Patrick Kennedy, died when his son P.J. Kennedy was just an infant of less than a year old. It was his widowed mother that raised him, and she was Bridgett Murphy of Wexford, Ireland. She molded him, financed his first business venture which was a tavern, and which led to his political career. There is more Murphy in the first political Kennedy, P.J., than there is Kennedy. And hence the generations since.
10:46 Probably not since because Jack has probably become a social media star as he has been posting a lot of videos on his instagram. Half are funny but the other half can be cringe.
Wishing that someday a new Coolidge would emerge.
The Coolidge Dynasty kind of petered out, eh?
Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys!
Great video as usual, though I would like to note that before RFK Jr. was known for conspiracy theories and vaccine misinformation, he was known for being an environmental lawyer.
It does get tricky tho when more and more "misinformation" gets proven to be the truth as the actual facts are revealed over time.
I wish someone would point out Trump's environmental record to RFK Jr.
Sure Ted accidentally crashed his car…he still never called for help and a woman died. Normal people go to prison.
Agreed.
The people of Massachusetts love him.🤷🏽♀️
The rat pack was not from the 1940s. The majority of their movies were made during the 1960s including ocean 11.
The original Rat Pack was started in the late 40s-early 50s by Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, and others. They met at Bogart and Bacall’s mansion and when Bogart died in 1957, Frank Sinatra took over.
Did you know that according to Geni the bloodline of John F. Kennedy is going back to "George Douglas, born 1469", who connects the Kennedys to the Habsburg family?
Starting with George Washington a lot of American Presidents are connected to the Habsburg family. According do some sources the Habsburg family has bloodlines back to the Roman Caesars, Pharaos and even Chinese Emperors.
But this is probably normal for genealogy going back a long time, as all modern people are more or less directly connected.
10:06 John : 🫡
Caroline : 😐📕
Great chart!! (Typo in Rosemary's last name)
6:25 as I heard ........... That IJN Destroyer is Ayanami class : Amagiri, right?
SHAME ON YOU for your description of RFK Jr! I don't support him. But no mention of his ACTUAL CAREER as an environmental lawyer??!
Very informative video. Please note that Joseph P. Kennedy had a long extra marital affair with silent actress Gloria Swanson. She mentioned this in her autobiography. Arnold Schwartzenneggar mentioned in his biography Total Recall that when he and Maria were house hunting, a realtor showed them a house that had an underground tunnel which connected the houses where Joseph and Gloria lived. She was an owner of a silent film studio and allowed him access to the studio's funds, but he left her for his wife and absconded with the studio's money, leaving her bankrupt.
Great family tree video. You should do more of those. I'd suggest the Bushes. Thanks, Matt!
You're just in time!
Correction: Joan and Victoria Kennedy are also still alive
they are spouses not siblings
@@eileensmith05 no Matt said Ethel Kennedy is the only living person from that generation but Victoria and Joan are also still alive
@@aaravnovids2017 Ethel has no living siblings, only in laws
@@eileensmith05 Ethel was a spouse of a Kennedy just like Joan and Victoria.
I've been mistaken. I thought of Ethel as a kennedy sibling.
I love how he had to put Schwarzenegger in a smaller size 😂
Jack Schlossberg looks like the type of guy who’d break your hand in a handshake. Somehow I think of that as a positive
Rosemary's last name is misspelled "Keneddy"??
Not the only one. At least three people misspelled there. A bit sloppy.
Crap.
Did I miss mention of Kathleen 'Kick' Kennedy who died in a plane crash with her married lover in 1948? The family didn't attend the funeral as they were ashamed of her affair with a married man - and a protestant one at that.
Her dad did attend the funeral. Nobody else was ashamed of the affair other than her mother. Her siblings didn’t attend the funeral because JFK who was supposed to plan their plane tickets broke down and couldn’t bring himself to go.
Later on they did visit her grave and stayed close with the Cavendish family.
13:44 Matt, you skipped over Golden Boy!
Thanks for update to this line, great video!
Aideen Kennedy was a news presenter in Northern Ireland.
Great video! Didn't know so many people were connected to this family
I think you're right about Jack, JFK's grandson, He has a bright future a head of him, as for the Kennedy name male line it would be Joseph who is now a news anchor, and once served as a representative
Great video Matt. Joe Kennedy III seemed to be on the rise in Massachusetts a few years back. I think he erred by taking on the incumbent Democratic Senator from Ed Markey. Ed became the first politician to beat a Kennedy in Mass, on a pretty grand stage nonetheless. Ed is an effective and popular Senator and Joe may have overplayed his hand in taking him on when he did. I think he may have had more success taking on Elizabeth Warren but maybe he didn't want to wait a few more years because of Presidential ambitions or maybe he didn't want to take on another Harvard elite.
there's a kennedy dynasty in other independent fiefdoms of the historical british isles plus I think the butler dynasty claimed ormonde eventually in ireland and was it shared...anyway irish kennedys were grouped according to hair colour i.e. the red kennedys, etc.. another thing is peerage for ormonde exists in the british system also
De butlers were the earls of Ormond seated at Kilkenny castle ireland . These Kennedy’s came from Wexford
W Userful Charts, Love your videos! Also why do you not show more of the family and just say the couple has x more kids!
Usually if someone on his chart is a private person he doesn't have a picture for them. Or there isn't room on the chart for a picture 😊
Watched 3x and played for my sons… thx for the in depth breakdown of American history
Imagine being in JFK's family tree, being the son of Chris Pratt and the grandson of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
This is low-key like a sims 4 legacy challenge family.
Boiling RFK Jr.’s career down to buzzwords and headlines that aren’t even true is exactly the reason this country is failing.
“Mostly known” does not equal to facts.
It’s probably best practice to never get into a motorized vehicle with a male member of the Kennedy family.
... and keep the top up.
I'm interested to hear more about what "Countess of the Holy See" means! That's not a title I've ever heard before.
Vote for RFK