Then-Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) delivers a speech at George Washington University in 2004. (Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press) When Ted Kennedy feared that flunking a Spanish test would make ...

NEW YORK — A new biography of former first lady Jackie Kennedy details an affair she had with architect Jack Warnecke, months after John F. Kennedy’s assassination. In an excerpt of “Jackie: Public, ...

TED KENNEDY: A Life. By John A. Farrell. Penguin Press. 752 pages. $40. In his new biography of Ted Kennedy, John A. Farrell describes a letter Joseph Kennedy sent his youngest son telling the ...

See PEOPLE's picks for the best new books about the Kennedy family Carly Tagen-Dye is the Books editorial assistant at PEOPLE, where she writes for both print and digital platforms. Much has been ...

Edward Kennedy, known as Ted, was the youngest of nine children, 17 years younger than his brother John F. Kennedy. As a United States senator, he served the people of Massachusetts for 47 years.

Jackie Kennedy was well aware of John F. Kennedy‘s womanizing ways. Before marrying the future president, she knew what she was getting herself into. Although the first lady would often turn the other ...

Intense public scrutiny follows every Kennedy son and daughter. Revelations of an affair made front-page news forty years after John Kennedy’s death, and biographies have been written on Kennedys who ...

For years, the enduring public image of Ethel Kennedy was as the stoic widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, who marked the passing years kneeling with their many children at her husband’s grave in ...

"What he discovered in those last couple of years was that politics was a part of his DNA," says historian Steve Gillon, a friend of John’s Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's ...

James Harvey Kennedy was born on May 25, 1970 (Jamie Kennedy age: 51) in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. Kennedy has five siblings; he has one older brother and four older sisters. His family is Catholic.

When Ted Kennedy feared that flunking a Spanish test would make him ineligible to play football at Harvard, he sent a friend in his place in hopes of securing a higher score. It was the second time ...