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Edward L. Kennedy (June 26, 1905 – November 29, 1963) [1] was an American journalist best known for being the first Allied newsman to report the German surrender at the end of World War II, getting the word to the Associated Press in London before the surrender had been officially announced by Supreme Allied Headquarters.
After Robert Kennedy's assassination in 1968, Ted was the most prominent living member of the Kennedy family and the last surviving son of Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. John F. Kennedy had said in 1957, "Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in ...
Edward Coverley Kennedy was born 31 August 1879, only son (there were two daughters) of Edward Briggs Kennedy (1842-1914), of Deanyers, Hall Lane, Upper Farringdon, near Alton, Hampshire, and Caroline Edith (died 1935), daughter of Colville Coverley Jackson (1804-1858), a magistrate and collector in the Bengal Civil Service, sometime of Agra, [2] and granddaughter of Sir John Jackson, 1st ...
Edward Moore Kennedy Jr. (born September 26, 1961) is an American lawyer and politician. He is a partner at Epstein Becker & Green, a firm headquartered in New York City, and previously represented Connecticut's 12th State Senate district in the Connecticut State Senate from 2015 to 2019.
Ted Kennedy in 1968. U.S. Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy, aged 37, and his cousin, Joseph Gargan, aged 39, [Notes 1] planned to race Kennedy's sailboat, Victura, in the 1969 Edgartown Yacht Club Regatta on Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19, 1969, after having forgone the previous year's Regatta, because of the assassination of Kennedy's brother, Robert, that June. [13]
Ted Kennedy was a staunch supporter of Israel while in the Senate, [23] and was mourned by Israeli leaders such as Shimon Peres and Avigdor Lieberman as a "friend to Israel" when he died. [24] According to one tally, Ted Kennedy voted 100 percent in concert with positions taken by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee . [ 25 ]
Ted Kennedy signed up to do the book in the autumn of 2007. [2] Kennedy received a reported $8 million advance for the work. [3] It was written with the help of Pulitzer Prize-winning collaborator Ron Powers and was based on contemporaneous notes taken by Kennedy throughout his life, hours of recordings for an oral history project, and long interviews.
Ed Kennedy (outfielder) (1856–1905), Major League Baseball outfielder Ed Kennedy (rugby union) , Australian rugby union player Edward Kennedy (journalist) (c. 1905–1963), journalist who first reported the German surrender in World War II