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January 26, 2011 | Theatre,
Keeping Up With The Kennedys
July 10, 1921: Joe and Rose Kennedy’s third daughter, Eunice Kennedy, is born.
May 6, 1924: A fourth daughter, Patricia Kennedy, is born.
November 20, 1925: A third son, Robert Kennedy, is born.
February, 1926: Joe Sr. enters the movie business as a producer.
September, 1927: The Kennedy family moves to Riverdale, New York. They will continue to live in the New York area, summering at Hyannis Port on Cape Cod, Massachusetts and maintaining a residence in Palm Beach, Florida.
February 20, 1928: Joe and Rose’s fifth and youngest daughter, Jean Ann Kennedy, is born.
October 29, 1929: The New York stock market crashes. Anticipating problems, Joe Sr. has already liquidated his substantial long-term investments. Joe will later deny, then admit, that he continued to make money in the stock market by selling short while the market fell.
1932: Joe Sr. energetically backs Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s successful bid for the presidency.
February 22, 1932: Edward (Teddy) M. Kennedy is born
July 2, 1934: FDR appoints Joe Sr. chairman of the new Securities and Exchange Commission, charged with regulating the manipulation of stock prices that Kennedy had mastered decades earlier.
January, 1938: Joseph Kennedy becomes the first Irish-American ambassador to the Court of St. James’s, and the Kennedys move to London.
June, 1938: Joe Jr. graduates from Harvard College. Joe Sr.’s pique at not being offered an honorary degree from the university prevents him from attending his son’s graduation.
October, 1940: Joe Sr. returns to the United States, asking to be relieved of his ambassadorial post.
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