JFK: The Irish Connection

THE last of JFK’s Irish cousins has recalled the devastating day news of his assassination reached the rural homestead where the Kennedy story began.

JFK: The Irish Connection

Retired farmer Pat Kennedy, 72, said the anniversary will bring emotions flooding back of the clan coming together in shock and disbelief only months after the US president had paid them a celebrated visit.

“I remember the evening when word came through quite well,” said Pat, the last direct male descendant of the Kennedys who fled the Irish famine for Boston in the 1840s.

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