Robert F. Kennedy Jr is convinced that a lone gunman was not solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and said his father believed the Warren Commission report was a “shoddy piece of workmanship”.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr's estranged wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy, who had fought drug and alcohol problems, has been found dead at the family property.

Eunice Kennedy Shriver was celebrated by family members as a passionate humanitarian and a pious woman devoid of vanity, hours after thousands of mourners flocked to a church to pay their respects to the founder of the Special Olympics.

Caroline Kennedy is interested in the Senate seat that would open once Hillary Clinton becomes US Secretary of State, according to a close relative who says the powerful Kennedy clan is fully behind her rising to the office previously held by her uncle.