In 1969, Ted Kennedy drove his car off of a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts, plummeting into a tidal channel ...
In past interviews with PEOPLE, Joan opened up about not fitting in with the famous family and struggling to find her place in the Camelot era For a time, Joan muted her sorrows with alcohol, but ...
Three months before her death, Joan Kennedy made her last public appearance at the annual Kennedy Fourth of July gathering. Joan, the first wife of Sen. Ted Kennedy, died peacefully in her sleep at ...