Given previous rulings like Roper v. Simmons (see This Week for March 1, 2005), Justice Kennedy’s opinion in Kennedy v. Louisiana was entirely predictable, but that doesn’t make it any less ...

Joseph Kennedy Sr., starting from a solidly middle class family in Boston, created a fortune that gave his children and grandchildren the freedom to pursue public service. Kennedy’s business ...

At the controls was Navy Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., 29, the oldest son of a former U.S. ambassador to Britain, and a man who carried the promise of one of the great political families in American ...

Four of Joseph Kennedy’s daughters pose with friends in this group shot (left to right): Nancy Tenney, Patricia Kennedy, Eunice Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, Jean Kennedy, Julia Reed, Kate Thom.

Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend on Friday, one day after the two went missing in the Chesapeake Bay. Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. (September 6, 1888 – November 18, 1969) was a prominent ...

Kennedy, 1959. Library of Congress. The tide of political power was changing in Boston at the turn of the twentieth century. Irish ward bosses like John F. Fitzgerald and Patrick Joseph Kennedy ...