Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Jr. (July 25, 1915 – August 12, 1944) was an American bomber pilot during World War II. He was the eldest of nine children born to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Elizabeth (née Fitzgerald) Kennedy.
The elder brother of future U.S. President John F. Kennedy, he had been expected to become the family's political standard-bearer, especially after his father's political exile for apparent defeatism during the adve...
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Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Jr. (July 25, 1915 – August 12, 1944) was an American bomber pilot during World War II. He was the eldest of nine children born to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, Sr., and Rose Elizabeth (née Fitzgerald) Kennedy.
The elder brother of future U.S. President John F. Kennedy, he had been expected to become the family's political standard-bearer, especially after his father's political exile for apparent defeatism during the advent of World War II. However, he was killed in action, and the task fell to his brother John.
Kennedy graduated in 1933 from the Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall), at that time an all-male preparatory school in Wallingford, Connecticut. He then entered Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduating in 1938. (Political historian Theodore White was a classmate.) Kennedy participated in football, rugby, and crew, and he served on the student council. He spent a year studying under the tutelage of Harold Laski at the London School...
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