For years stories have been told about The Kennedy family and how their  ANNCESTORS  were cursed by an old Gypsy woman.

The story goes  back to when the Kennedy Family were in Ireland and were Farm and land owners there, according to the story one of the Kennedy boys a son of Joe Kennedy's Great Great Grandfather had his way with a young Gypsy girl, whose family had set up camp in one of the Kennedy's fields.

 

The girls Father and Grandmother turned up at the Kennedy's home and demanded compensation from the head of the House for what had happened to  the gypsy girl. But Kennedy was not going to pay for his sons crime and came out with his rifle and ordered the family off his land.

 

It was said that as they left the field they had to pass by the Fine House and the old Gypsy woman stood at the big open gates and shouted her curse. The curse was that "Every male that bore the Kennedy name  from that day would die a violent death" .

 

It was not long after that the Kennedy family emigrated to America and so a new "Dynasty" was born.

 

Lets take a look at the history of the Kennedy Family , Lets see if it was really an Old Gypsy's curse that brought so much tragedy into the Kennedy Family:

 

The Kennedy family were considered "The Royal Family" of America  a powerful family loved and admired by the American people.

But then "The Kennedy curse" was to strike out at the family again as members of the family lost their lives at a young age and under strange circumstances.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Starting with Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr the father of The Assassinated President John Fitzgerald Kennedy lets take a look at how the "Curse" dogged their lives.

 

Joseph Patrick Kennedy sr was the man who was responsible for the family's  rise to power , He held a leading position in the Democratic Party and the Irish Catholic Community in America, He also ran a successful business earning his fortune by buying and merging several Movie studios in Hollywood, He also imported and distributed alcohol after Prohibition although rumour had it that he was one of the main bootleggers during the prohibition years.

 

Other rumours circulated that  He had worked alongside members of organised crime and was part of the bootlegging operation . Frank Costello who was a mob figure stated that he helped make Joe Kennedy rich.

 

Joe Kennedy then launched his political career  during this time he became a close adviser to the then President Franklin D Roosevelt gaining the appointment as Inaugural Chairman of the U.S.  S.E.C. "Securities and Exchange Commission .

 

He became the Ambassador of the U.S in the United Kingdom  a position that allowed him to form ties with  the British Nobility, He also witnessed the early stages of world war II.

 

Joseph Kennedy was born into a high profiled political Family of East Boston,

In 1914 he married Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald, who was the eldest daughter of the then Boston Mayor John Francis Fitzgerald.

The marriage joined together two of the city's most prominent political families.

 

As Joe Kennedy's wealth and power grew he formed associations with the likes of the Rothschild's, and William Randolph Hearst who was a newspaper mogul and would later help launch John F Kennedy's political career.

 

Joe had also become part of several "Elite" groups like the Knights of Malta and the Pilgrim Society which surrounded itself in a shroud of secrecy and has various high powered families within its membership including the Rockefellers,  Vanderbilts, J.P. Morgan and British Royals, It also  has  heads of various other organisations  like  The Skull and Bone Society, Freemasons, Knights Templar,

Presidents of the Federal reserve Bank, Executives from several Major corporations and companies alongside several Media Moguls.

The Pilgrim Society is widely considered to be the most influential "Elite Group" in existence.

 

During his time as Ambassador in Great Britain Joe Kennedy became good friends with the British Royal Family and in 1944  on the 6th of May His Daughter Kathleen married William Cavendish who was the Duke of Devonshire, The Duke was also The Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England, which was the governing body for the majority of Freemasons in England, Wales, United States and the Commonwealth.

The marriage saw Kathleen Agnes Kennedy become known as The Marchioness of Hartington  as her husband also held the title of The  Marquis of Harrington. The marriage  was short  lived when the Duke a serving Major of the British army was killed by a sniper on the 9th September 1944, Aged 26  in Heppen Occupied Belgium . One month after Joseph Patrick Kennedy jr was killed in action on 12th August 1944 , He was the Eldest son of Joe and Rose Kennedy  and the one Joe snr had aspirations of becoming President of the United States. His daughter Kathleen now a widow died 4 years later in a plane crash in Saint-Bauzile, Ardeche France on May 13th 1948 she was 28.

 

After his daughters death it is said that Joe Kennedy made the following statement:

 

 “If Kathleen and her husband were living, I’d be the father of the Duchess of Devonshire (first Lady-in-Waiting to the Queen) and the father-in-law of the head of all the Masons in the World”.

 

Joseph Kennedy's hopes of becoming a Presidential Candidate were dashed  when the threat of a Nazi Invasion became known,

He stated at the time   “Democracy in Great Britain is finished”, adding that the “battle for Britain is not about democracy, that is all bunk”

Kennedy was apparently caught sympathizing with Hitler and his Nazi Movement, He had also been quoted professing various Anti-Semitic statements while in discussions with the Astor Family, This resulted in an outcry and he then realized that this would now prohibit him from ever running for President of the United States.

He decided to put all his efforts behind his plans for his sons , he worked steadily in the background to get his son John Fitzgerald Kennedy  into Government and on to the presidential Election trail. He knew he had the wealth and the right connections to bring his plans to reality.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROSEMARY WITH HER FATHER JOE BEFORE THE OPERATION

 

Rose Marie "Rosemary" Kennedy was the third child and eldest daughter  of Joe and Rose and was born with  mental problems she was described as "Mentally retarded and erratic being prone to mood swings" The Doctors told Joe that a "Prefrontal Lobotomy" could cure the condition , Joe knew if left un-treated she would become an embarrassment to his family, So at the age of 23 Rose Marie was forced to have the experimental operation .

 

This is the account of that operation performed on Rose Marie Kennedy.

 

 

 

“We went through the top of the head, I think she was awake. She had a mild tranquilizer. I made a surgical incision in the brain through the skull. It was near the front. It was on both sides. We just made a small incision, no more than an inch.” The instrument Dr. Watts used looked like a butter knife. He swung it up and down to cut brain tissue. “We put an instrument inside,” he said. As Dr. Watts cut, Dr. Freeman put questions to Rosemary. For example, he asked her to recite the Lord’s Prayer or sing “God Bless America” or count backwards….. “We made an estimate on how far to cut based on how she responded.” ….. When she began to become incoherent, they stopped.

 

The operation went terribly wrong and left Rose Marie with a mental age of a 2 year old child she was unable to walk or talk intelligibly, she was also incontinent. On hearing the Doctors prognosis Joe Kennedy decided the best course of action was to place Rose Marie in an institution  she was there until her death on the  7th January 2005 aged 86. Her name was never mentioned again in the family home.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now originally Joe Snr had wanted his namesake and eldest son to become the President of America but that died when his son died, but he did not give up on his dream for to have  his sons in high political office and so he focussed  on obtaining a political career for his second born son John Fitzgerald Kennedy who would in later years become known as JFK.

 

Over the next few years Joe Kennedy used all his high powered connections to further his Sons political career it had been said that Joe called in many favours to help his son on the road to the Whitehouse.

JFK's candidacy got the full backing and support from the Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst who used his media empire to get JFK into power.

In 1961, JFK was elected The President of the United States of America and although it was by a very slim margin, his  Good looks and photogenic style made him the perfect Face for President, However it was not long after taking his office that JFK began to realize he was nothing more than a glorified puppet, His 23 months in the Whitehouse are often just associated with the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement , But JFK had taken other actions which were not widely publicised which could shake the foundation of two major institutions, one being The Federal Reserve and the second being the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A.).

 

Read  part 2  of the story next month .