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Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr. (July 25, 1915 – August 12, 1944) was an American naval aviator who was a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy.He was a member of the Kennedy family and the eldest of the nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy.
John F. Kennedy: World War II – Navy and Marine Corps Medal: Commanded a PT boat. Earned Navy and Marine Corps Medal for heroism in the PT-109 Incident. [21] George H. W. Bush: World War II – Distinguished Flying Cross: Years of service: 1942–1955 (on active service 1942–1945).
This halo effect of the war benefited the successful political campaigns of John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan, and Jimmy Carter. However, after the 1988 presidential election, the shine had dulled on military-veteran politicians, and through 2012, "the candidate with the better military record lost."
On July 16, 1999, John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her older sister Lauren Bessette were killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts.
Here, Eunice Shriver, Jacqueline Onassis, Kara Kennedy and her dad, Teddy (at the time a Democratic candidate for president), and Ethel Kennedy hanging out together. Bettmann - Getty Images 1980
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. – naval aviator, elder brother of future President John F. Kennedy, killed in World War II. Robert Kerrey – former U.S. Senator ; Navy SEAL commander during the Vietnam War and first SEAL officer to win the Medal of Honor for classified raid in which he lost his lower leg by a Viet Cong grenade.
While the Kennedy family has long kept many stories behind closed doors, the longtime mistress of Kennedy patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy is spilling a ton in her new self-published memoir.
USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (DD-850) is a former United States Navy Gearing-class destroyer.The ship was named after Lieutenant Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., a naval aviator, son of the former U.S. Ambassador to Britain, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., and older brother of future President John F. Kennedy.