David Anthony Kennedy (June 15, 1955 – April 25, 1984) was born in Washington, D.C. He was the fourth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
As a 13-year-old, he watched his father's assassination on television on June 5, 1968. The event left an emotional scar on Kennedy. He began recreational drug use shortly thereafter.
A 1973 Jeep accident, in which his eldest brother, Joseph Kennedy II, was driving and charged with ...
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David Anthony Kennedy (June 15, 1955 – April 25, 1984) was born in Washington, D.C. He was the fourth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
As a 13-year-old, he watched his father's assassination on television on June 5, 1968. The event left an emotional scar on Kennedy. He began recreational drug use shortly thereafter.
A 1973 Jeep accident, in which his eldest brother, Joseph Kennedy II, was driving and charged with reckless driving, left his then-girlfriend, Pamela Kelley, paralyzed. David sustained a fractured vertebra and became addicted to the painkillers he was given in the hospital. He began using heroin intravenously that autumn in his final year at Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts.
Kennedy spent several years as a student at Harvard University, pursuing a major in American history before dropping out in 1976. He had ambitions of being a journalist and spent several months as an intern for a Tennessean newspaper in 1974. Some staff there...
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