What relation was william kennedy smith to Ted Kennedy?
William Kennedy Smith (born September 4, 1960) is an American physician whose work focuses on landmines and the rehabilitation of people disabled by them. He is a member of the prominent Kennedy political family and is famous for a well-publicized 1991 rape trial in which he was acquitted. Family Main article: Kennedy family W.K. Smith is the second of four children of Stephen Edward Smith and Jean Kennedy Smith. His mother is a daughter of Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; he is the nephew of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Ted Kennedy. William Kennedy Smith is the natural brother of Stephen Edward Smith, Jr. and the brother of adopted sisters Kym and Amanda. [edit] Education and career He attended boarding school at Salisbury School in Salisbury, Connecticut. He then went on to receive his undergraduate degree from Duke University, completed premedical postbaccalaureate studies at Bryn Mawr College, and his M.D. degree from Georgeto
Kennedy was the shyest and most-guarded of the Kennedy children. Her mother said of her youngest daughter, “She was born so late, that she only was able to enjoy the tragedies, and not the triumphs.” She attended Manhattanville College (at the time a Sacred Heart school), Purchase, New York, where she met and befriended two future sisters-in-law: Ethel Skakel, who married the late Robert F. Kennedy in 1950, and Joan Bennett, who married Edward “Ted” M. Kennedy in 1958. On May 19, 1956, in a small chapel of the Roman catholic St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City, New York, she married Stephen Edward Smith. The Smiths maintained a lower profile than some other members of the extended Kennedy family. During the early 1960s, they settled in New York City. Smith gave birth to two sons, Stephen Smith, Jr. (born 1957) and William Kennedy Smith (born 1960), and adopted two daughters, Amanda Mary Smith (born 1965) and Kym Maria Smith (born 1972 in Vietnam). Smith and her husband were present
Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) — Senator Edward Kennedy, whose life was marked by triumph and tragedy as he evolved from a dubious choice for high office into one of the most influential senators in U.S. history, has died. He was 77. A Massachusetts Democrat, Kennedy died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port on Cape Cod, his family said in a statement. A malignant brain tumor was diagnosed in May 2008 and doctors operated on it the following month. “We’ve lost the irreplaceable center of our family,” the family said in the statement. “He loved this country and devoted his life to serving it.” Sources: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?
