“Our beloved Tatiana left us this morning. She will remain forever in our hearts”, reads the statement released on social media by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum announcing the passing of Tatiana, daughter of former US ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy (one of JFK’s three children) and designer Edwin Schlossberg, Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg, born May 5, 1990 in New York, was a journalist specializing in environmental issues, he had worked for the New York Timescollaborated, among others, with The Atlantic And The Washington Post and wrote the book in 2019 Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have.
Since 2017 she was married to urologist George Moran. The two, who met at Yale University, had two children, three-year-old Edwin and one-and-a-half-year-old Josephine. During the birth of her second daughter in May 2024, doctors noticed abnormalities in her blood and shortly thereafter she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of acute myeloid leukemia with a rare genetic mutation. Despite chemo, two bone marrow transplants and experimental treatments, the disease progressed to the point of death. Tatiana had made her diagnosis public in a moving essay on The New Yorkerin which she spoke not only about the illness but also about the sense of tragedy that hovers over the family, and the psychological burden of having to deal with a terminal illness while raising young children: “My first thought was that my children, whose faces live permanently on the insides of my eyelids, would not remember me.” And he hadn’t spared her criticism of his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., current Secretary of Health, calling him “an embarrassment” for his positions against state-funded medical research and vaccines.
THE KENNEDY “CURSE”
From the Second World War onwards, the Kennedy family suffered a series of deaths: violent deaths due to attacks, absurd accidents, illnesses, which contributed to fueling the legend that a “curse” rested on the Kennedys. Here are some of the Kennedys who died prematurely or were involved in crime cases:
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. — Death in War (1944)
John and Robert’s older brother, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., died in an explosion during an air mission in World War II, before the Kennedy family rose to political prominence.
Kathleen Kennedy — Plane Crash (1948)
Kathleen “Kick” Kennedy, JFK’s sister, died in a plane crash in France after the war.
JFK — Assassination (1963)
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas on November 22, 1963 during his presidency, one of the most traumatic events in modern American history.
Robert F. Kennedy — Assassination (1968)
JFK’s brother, senator and presidential candidate, Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles on June 6, 1968 after winning the Democratic primary in California.
Ted Kennedy – Chappaquiddick Incident (1969)
In July 1969, Ted Kennedy was involved in a car accident in Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts, in which Mary Jo Kopechne drowned. The event severely damaged Ted’s political reputation.
Michael Kennedy – skiing accident (1997)
The sixth of the eleven children of Robert Francis Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, he died in a skiing accident on New Year’s Eve 1997 in Aspen, Colorado, at just 39 years old, after hitting a tree on a ski slope while playing in the snow with his relatives.
John F. Kennedy Jr. — Plane Crash (1999)
John F. Kennedy Jr., JFK’s son, lost his life in a plane crash in July 1999 while flying a small plane towards Martha’s Vineyard with his wife and sister-in-law.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis — Cancer (1994)
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, JFK’s wife, died in 1994 from complications related to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the age of 64. Encyclopedia Britannica
Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean and her son — Drowning (2020)
Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, and her son Gideon, died in a tragic drowning accident in 2020 while canoeing on the Chesapeake Bay.
