Thursday, January 20, 2011

Family Tree

The Kennedy's have been in the news a lot lately, for a ton of reasons.  Most notably, today is the 50th anniversary of JFK's inauguration speech (re: "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country").  But also because of the death of Sargent Shriver (married to Eunice Kennedy), who was the founding director of the Peace Corps.  By extension, the Peace Corps have been in the news a lot because reports have been surfacing about the safety of woman volunteers.

ANYWAY. Its hard to keep all these people separate and to know who did what and who was married to who and who skied into a tree and died and so forth.  Time to stop your worrying - the NYT has created an amusing interactive Kennedy Family Time Line which straightens everything out for us.  Memorize this and wow people at your next dinner party!

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