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Kinda hilariously messed up that they named a whole airport after JFK considering this family's history with planes

I think Rosemary should be considered a victim of the curse, too.

Well, today I was not expecting to discover Schwarzenegger to be Pratt's father-in-law.

Did you just casually end that video with Dietrich sleeping with both father and son?!

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.

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.

Idk man, if my last name was Kennedy, I’d probably avoid going on an airplane.

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".

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.

This was one the greatest and well-presented family trees I have ever seen, absolutely mind-blowing

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.

Ethel Skakel have a nephew who killed a girl, the girl named Martha Moxley

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.

I loved the cat photobombing the pic of big edie

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

"And they lived happily ever after" "And then they died in a plane crash"

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.

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.

NICE! American political dynasties have always fascinated me 💫

imagine if a kennedy marries a bush

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! 🌟

Love this channel! Always good stuff! Thank you, Matt.

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.

The rat pack was not from the 1940s. The majority of their movies were made during the 1960s including ocean 11.

Great video I'll be able to remember a lot of this off the top of my head

ok but how did you not mention that RFK Jr. was an environmental lawyer who had a number of amazing successes doing so

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.

Not even the Kennedy curse could take Ahnold from us. The Terminator ain't going out like that.

The WASP hated the Catholic Irish gain prominence in politics in the mid 20th century

14:40 RFK was AG before being Senator, and he was shot TWO months after MLK not one.

I'm actually related to the Kennedy's. Rose Fitzgerald and my Great grandmother were first cousins.

Thanks for update to this line, great video!

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.

Hawaiian Family Tree video would be cool

Great family tree video. You should do more of those. I'd suggest the Bushes. Thanks, Matt!

One of the most famous political families in the US.

4:13 young Sheldon what are you doing here 😭

Thank you for the accurate pronunciation of Ó Cinnéide at the beginning! 😄😄

Why do these people keep going on planes?

This is low-key like a sims 4 legacy challenge family.

Great video! Didn't know so many people were connected to this family

The history is fascinating enough. The lurid overlay detracts more than adds.

Yeah, this will be a respectful comment section

They were probably so rich that they were able to take many plane rides. Probability.

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

Great chart!! (Typo in Rosemary's last name)

wow,pretty good info,thanks😮

Correction: Joan and Victoria Kennedy are also still alive

take a shot every time Matt says "plane crash"

The term “brain worms” had long been used a joke to explain the behaviour of various crackpots. When a case of an actual worm being found in a woman’s brain in Australia became publicized, it seemed like a coincidence. Then came RFK Jr.

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

Thank you for the video

Nothing bad ever happens to the Kennedys!

Love your videos Matt! Are their any other political families that you could do?

Wishing that someday a new Coolidge would emerge.

The RFK Jr slander is crazy

I'm interested to hear more about what "Countess of the Holy See" means! That's not a title I've ever heard before.

You're just in time!

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).

Grey Gardens was turned into a Broadway musical

Aideen Kennedy was a news presenter in Northern Ireland.

If I was a member of this family, I would never get on a plane or go skiing again

Love the video

Pronunciation: Edith, and Edie are pronounce like E like EAT. Eunice is pronounce. U-niss. :)

Was introduced to RFK through his tiktok and for the longest time was in support of him without doing any other research. He was a third option and was appealing as polarization only gets worse. One day, i happened to look him up (since we are only drawing closer to elections) only to discover the batshit conspiracy theories. Guess it was too good to be true. Research is important and I’m trying to be better. People that want your vote only tell you what you want to hear

RFK jr should be known for successfully suing corporations for a variety of horible things, cleaning the Hudson River, being a practical environmentalist, defender of the constitution....

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.

13:44 Matt, you skipped over Golden Boy!

If you haven't done the Carter family then you should. Surprise people with a certain famous singer that was marrief to another famous singer.

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.

6:25 as I heard ........... That IJN Destroyer is Ayanami class : Amagiri, right?

So glad Jack Schlossberg is represented 😂

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!

sometimes Kennedy is spelled with one 'd' and two 'n', and sometimes in this video, it is spelled with two 'd' and one 'n'. Was that a translation error or perhaps different branches of the family went with different spellings in the time before modernization? Or perhaps just a typo?

I'd love to see a Trudeau family tree video

Oh, but please, it's not big & little Eddie. 🤦

I would argue RFK Jr's entire life is part of the Kennedy Curse. He brings shame on the family every day.

I reckon you should have little missed curse icons around Teddy

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.

You should look into John Cogswell and check out his family tree…

The nephew with Rosemary Kennedy is one of the Shrivers. I think it is Mark Shriver.

What is funny, is they all have that Osmond like grin!

As if a lobotomy wasn't horrifying enough. Now I must contemplate a botched lobotomy.

They really should avoid airplanes

My grandfather’s family are Shrivers and I think we’re related to Sargent Shriver (although I’m not sure how)

Could you make a chart of the Harry Potter family tree?

I like that the pic of Chris Pratt is from Guardians

10:06 John : 🫡 Caroline : 😐📕

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.

My grandmother actually read a book about Rosemary Kennedy.

Will this go on sale on your store?

where did you get the picture of rosemary kennedy? also, shes a victim of the curse.

Still waiting for the family tree of the X-men's character Hope Summers. I wish you good luck if you try! Hahah

(You misspelled Kennnedy in the entry for Rosemary; you may want to correct it before folks download the chart.)

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

Id like to see a breakdown of Bush family

I love how he had to put Schwarzenegger in a smaller size 😂

Rosemary's last name is misspelled "Keneddy"??

WHY DO THESE PEOPLE EVEN LEAVE THEIR HOUSES AT THIS POINT?