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Jack Schlossberg didn’t fairly love this story of his household.
The grandson of President John F. Kennedy and Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis revealed that whereas he and his mom Caroline Kennedy didn’t watch Love Story about his uncle John F. Kennedy Jr. and his spouse Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, he did present his mother one clip from the present that includes actress Grace Gummer as Caroline.
“I showed her a clip of her,” Jack shared on the April 15 episode of Next Question With Katie Couric, “and we were laughing so hard.”
“The person was freaking out,” he recalled concerning the scene, “and we’re just laughing so hard as if that’s how my mom acts.”
The 33-year-old was additionally amused by actor Ben Shenkman’s portrayal of his father Edwin Schlossberg—particularly due to the costume decisions that had been made.
“They had my dad dressed up in some plaid outfit,” Jack laughed. “My dad’s the most stylish guy I’ve ever met, so it’s funny.”
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Host Katie Couric additionally famous that his dad and mom had been perhaps not “portrayed in a very positive way,” a sentiment Jack agreed with.
“The two nicest, most dignified, private people in the whole world,” he added of his mother and pa, “who do nothing but help others.”
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And whereas he and his household weren’t followers of Love Story, Jack—who’s presently operating for congress—emphasised that he had “no problem with anyone who liked the show or watched it.”
“I’m glad my uncle John was so cool,” he stated. “It’s not surprising that people—once they remember who he was—want to dress like him and be like him. He was awesome. He was a smart, attractive person who cared about politics and tried to blend politics and media in his time, just like I’m trying to do right now with social media and politics and our campaign.”
“My issue is—we have a lot of serious problems facing our country, and my family, we’re not just celebrities,” he defined. “We’re not just icons. These are public servants.”
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Jack—whose sister Tatiana Schlossberg died Dec. 30 following a battle with myeloid leukemia—has not held again from sharing his ideas about Love Story, regardless of creator Ryan Murphy claiming Jack had no right to be upset as a result of he probably didn’t have a transparent reminiscence of his late uncle.
“Hey @ryanmurphyproductions,” Jack wrote on Instagram in July. “My earliest memories are of John calling me Jackolatern and ‘the nudist,’ picking me up from school, his Pontiac convertible.”
“I remember being the ring bearer at his wedding and the day he died,” Jack continued. “I remember Wyclef singing at his funeral.”
For a deep dive into Jack and the Kennedy household, maintain studying.
Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Kennedy
Joseph Patrick “Joe” Kennedy married Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald on Oct. 7, 1914.
By 1932, they’d 9 youngsters collectively: Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., John F. Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Patricia Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Jean Kennedy and Edward Kennedy.
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
Born July 25, 1915, Joe Jr. was going to be president, so far as his father was involved.
He was a delegate to the 1940 Democratic National Convention and deliberate to run for Congress after he bought out of the Navy. But the 29-year-old and his co-pilot Wilford John Willy had been killed Aug. 12, 1944, when explosives they had been carrying detonated prematurely whereas on a bombing run that was a part of Operation Aphrodite.
Neither pilot’s physique was ever recovered and their names are amongst these on the Tablets of the Missing on the Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial honoring casualties of World War II.
John F. Kennedy
It was John, born May 29, 1917, who made it to Congress, then grew to become a U.S. senator and finally was elected president in 1960.
He married Jacqueline Bouvier on Sept. 12, 1953, and so they welcomed daughter Caroline Kennedy on Nov. 27, 1957, and son John F. Kennedy Jr. on Nov. 25, 1960.
A daughter, Arabella, was stillborn in 1956 and son Patrick, born prematurely on Aug. 7, 1963, lived for less than 39 hours.
JFK was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963, one of the defining events of the 20th century.
Caroline Kennedy
Caroline, the U.S. ambassador to Japan throughout the Obama administration and to Australia for the Biden administration, married Edwin “Ed” Schlossberg in 1986.
They share daughters Rose Kennedy Schlossberg (born June 25, 1988) and Tatiana Kennedy Schlossberg (May 5, 1990) and son John “Jack” Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg (Jan. 19, 1993).
TV producer Rose went to Harvard like her mother and married restaurateur Rory McAuliffe in 2022.
Tatiana—a journalist who did not know on the time that her 2014 New York Times article about a dead bear being found in Central Park involved her cousin RFK Jr.—graduated from Yale and married school sweetheart George Moran in 2017. They welcomed a son, Edwin Jr., in 2022, and a daughter in 2024.
In November 2025, Tatiana shared in an essay for The New Yorker that she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia, a uncommon blood most cancers, which her docs have stated is terminal. She died on Dec. 30. She was 35.
Jack Schlossberg
Jack—a Yale alum, graduate of Harvard’s JD/MBA program and quite the hoot on social media—spoke on the 2024 Democratic National Convention and was a political correspondent for Vogue protecting the latest presidential election.
“I am inspired by my family’s legacy of public service,” he told Vogue in 2024. “I take that very severely, and I would like to contribute in my very own approach. I’ve massive goals, however I additionally know that I’m attempting to make a constructive impression as we speak.”
That starts with a run for congress, Jack announcing in November 2025 he would seek a seat representing New York’s 12th congressional district.
John F. Kennedy Jr.
Rosemary Kennedy
Rosemary (at right, with sister Kathleen and mom Rose) was born Sept. 13, 1918.
While she attended a special boarding school for students with learning difficulties, Rosemary had behavioral issues that led to her father’s decision to have her undergo a prefrontal lobotomy when she was 23.
Rosemary emerged from the experimental procedure—which was touted as a potential cure for mental illness and Joe did hope it would help her—severely disabled and spent the rest of her life (she lived till Jan. 7, 2005) institutionalized.
“All alongside I had continued to consider that she may have lived her life as a Kennedy woman, just a bit slower,” Rose told historian Doris Kearns Goodwin years later. “But then it was all gone in a matter of minutes.”
Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy
Born Feb. 20, 1920, Kathleen got a kick out of life, hence her jaunty nickname.
She married William Cavendish, the Marquess of Hartington, in a civil ceremony in London on May 6, 1944—against her mother’s wishes, as her beloved wasn’t Catholic, so the bride’s big brother Joe Jr. was the only member of her family who attended the wedding.
A month later, William, a major in the British Army, was killed by a sniper in Belgium.
She remained in England and fell for still-married William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 8th Earl Fitzwilliam. Before he could secure a divorce, they both died when the plane carrying them to the French Riviera crashed on May 13, 1948.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Eunice was born July 10, 1921.
The devoted philanthropist and founder of the Special Olympics married Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. on May 23, 1953.
They had five children—Robert “Bobby” Shriver III (born April 28, 1954), Maria Shriver (Nov. 6, 1955), Timothy (Aug. 29, 1959), Mark (Feb. 17, 1964) and Anthony (July 20, 1965).
Maria Shriver
Maria wed Arnold Schwarzenegger on April 26, 1986, on the Kennedy household compound in Hyannis Port, Mass.
The energy couple reigned as governor and first girl of California from November 2003 till January 2011, however they split up not lengthy after as soon as Arnold confessed to fathering a son, Joseph Baena, with the household’s longtime housekeeper.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
When she died at 88, Eunice had 19 grandchildren, together with Maria’s 4 children together with her now-ex-husband: Katherine Schwarzenegger (born Dec. 13, 1989), Patrick Schwarzenegger (Sept. 18, 1993), Christina Schwarzenegger (July 23, 1991) and Christopher Schwarzenegger (Sept. 27, 1997).
Katherine wed Chris Pratt on June 8, 2019, and so they share three youngsters, Lyla (Aug. 6, 2020), Eloise (May 21, 2022) and Ford (Nov. 8, 2024). The actor can also be dad to son Jack (born Aug. 17, 2012) with ex-wife Anna Faris.
Patricia Kennedy Lawford
Patricia, born May 6, 1924, introduced the Rat Pack into the household when she married Peter Lawford on April 24, 1954.
Her marriage to the British actor produced sons Christopher Lawford (born in 1955), Sydney Maleia Lawford (1956), Victoria Francis Lawford (1958), and Robin Elizabeth Lawford earlier than they divorced in 1966.
Peter, who died in 1984, was an in depth confidante of his brother-in-law JFK and is generally credited with introducing the future president to Marilyn Monroe throughout a go to to the Lawfords’ Malibu residence.
Patricia handed away in 2006. Her thrice-married son Christopher died after struggling a coronary heart assault in 2018.
Robert F. Kennedy
The son known familiarly to the whole country as Bobby Kennedy married Ethel Skakel on June 17, 1950.
They went on to have 11 children: Kathleen, Joseph II, Robert Jr., David, Courtney, Michael, Kerry, Christopher, Maxwell, Douglas and Rory.
Ethel was pregnant with Rory when Bobby was fatally shot on June 6, 1968, shortly after winning the California Democratic primary.
David Kennedy died of a drug overdose on April 25, 1984, at the age of 28. Michael Kennedy was killed on Dec. 31, 1997, when he slammed into a tree while on skis and simultaneously tossing a football around during a family trip to Aspen, Colo. The 37-year-old shared three children with wife Victoria Gifford.
Her husband died when their eldest child was only 16, but Ethel Kennedy went on to be a grandmother of 34. Two of her grandchildren have died: Courtney and husband Paul Hill‘s daughter Saoirse Hill, 22, in 2019 of an accidental drug overdose and Kathleen and husband David Townsend‘s daughter Maeve Kennedy McKean, 40, in a 2020 canoeing accident.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
RFK Jr., born Jan. 17, 1954, is a thrice-married father of six.
He shares son Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy III (born 1984) and daughter Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy (born 1988) with first spouse Emily Black.
They divorced in 1994 after 12 years of marriage.
Robert F. Kennedy III
RFK III has been married to CIA analyst turned creator and TV host Amaryllis Fox since 2017.
They share daughter Bobby (born Jan. 7, 2019) and son Cassius Watts Thoreau Kennedy (Aug. 30, 2021), in addition to Amaryllis’ daughter Zoë from a earlier relationship.
Kick Kennedy
“I like to say life is only a assortment of experiences—some good, some unhealthy—and the extra you will have the higher,” the Stanford grad informed Town & Country in 2012.
And merely figuring out Ben Affleck “in passing,” as a supply put it, introduced Kick Kennedy to the highest of the trending bar in August 2024 days after Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from the actor.
Affleck’s rep was quick to shut down romance speculation, telling E! News, “Everything about him and Kick is unfaithful.”
So nothing about being a Kennedy had really changed in a decade. Or a century.
“People ask me, ‘What’s it like to be a Kennedy?'” she told T&C. “Maybe it is simply the temperature of the water, however I’m identical to, ‘I do not know.’ When I see my face or title within the tabloids, I get a knot in my abdomen. It’s simply not me—it is studying one thing that is not actual.”
But she did feel a kinship with the great aunt she was named for, who died two years before her father was born.
“It’s humorous how related we’re,” Kick mused. “She was enjoyable and social and a performer in some ways.”
RFK Jr. married Mary Richardson in 1994 and so they went on to have 4 youngsters: Conor Richardson Kennedy (born July 25 ,1994), Kyra LeMoyne Kennedy (Aug. 22, 1995), William Finbar “Finn” Kennedy (Nov. 8, 1997) and Aidan Caohman Vieques Kennedy (July 13, 2001).
The couple had been legally separated when Mary died by suicide in 2012.
Father and sons: Conor, Aidan and RFK III.
Conor Kennedy
Kyra Kennedy
Kyra, an everyday among the many high-fashion set, lives in Milan.
She stated in an Aug. 27, 2024, video posted in partnership with Elle and Bvlgari that she’s engaged on a venture in reminiscence of her late mom.
“Have I skilled a rebirth in my life?” she asks in the clip. “Yes, I positively have. As somewhat woman, I used to be one individual. And after I grew to become a younger grownup, I did an entire 180.”
RFK Jr. married Curb Your Enthusiasm star Cheryl Hines in 2014.
The actress shares daughter Catherine Young (born March 8, 2004) with ex-husband Paul Young.
In wishing her dad a happy Father’s Day in 2018, Kick wrote on Instagram, “Thanks for giving me all these wacky brothers and sisters!”
Kerry Kennedy
Ethel and RFK’s seventh child shares three daughters—twins Mariah Kennedy-Cuomo and Cara Kennedy Cuomo (born in 1995) and Michaela Kennedy-Cuomo (born in 1997)—with ex-husband Andrew Cuomo.
Kerry and Andrew, who was governor of New York from 2011 to 2021, married in 1990 and separated in 2003 before divorcing in 2005.
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