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Joseph Patrick Kennedy (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was an American businessman, investor, and politician. He is known for his own political prominence as well as that of his children and was the patriarch of the Irish-American Kennedy family, which included President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General and Senator Robert F. Kennedy ...
Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was a prominent United States businessman and political figure, and the father of President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy. He was a leading member of the Democratic Party and of the Irish Catholic community.
Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. is a very complicated figure with a variety of identities over the course of his life: a son, a brother, a student, a husband, a father, a financier, a film producer, and a public servant, but his wealth, his career, and indeed his entire life is often reduced to one-word: bootlegger.
Rumors have swirled for decades that Joseph P. Kennedy, whose nine children included President John F. Kennedy, and U.S. Senators Robert and Edward Kennedy, made his early fortune as a bootlegger...
Joseph Jr. was often described as the most like his father, and, sure enough, Joseph Sr. shared his views. He called for America to make a peace pact with Hitler. In England, he tried to keep Winston Churchill out of office, hoping Neville Chamberlain would make an alliance with Germany.
Joseph P. Kennedy, in full Joseph Patrick Kennedy, (born September 6, 1888, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.—died November 18, 1969, Hyannis Port, Massachusetts), American businessman and financier who served in government commissions in Washington, D.C. (1934–37), and as ambassador to Great Britain (1937–40).
Joseph P. Kennedy is best known for being the father of three political leaders: President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, who served as a U.S. senator and attorney ...
In 1928, Joseph Kennedy Sr. sold two of his small film studios, creating RKO Pictures, best known for allowing 24-year-old wunderkind Orson Welles to make Citizen Kane, the revered film chronicling the rise and fall of Charles Foster Kane, an illustrious yet treacherous American magnate.
The Kennedy Family. Joseph P. Kennedy; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Rosemary Kennedy; Kathleen Kennedy; Eunice Kennedy Shriver; R. Sargent Shriver; Patricia Kennedy Lawford; Robert F. Kennedy; Ethel Skakel Kennedy; Jean Kennedy Smith; Stephen E. Smith; Edward M. Kennedy; Victoria Reggie Kennedy; Media Galleries; Interactives ...
Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. Birth. 6 Sep 1888. East Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA. Death. 18 Nov 1969 (aged 81) Hyannis Port, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, USA. Burial. Holyhood Cemetery.