Posted on 04/03/2020 6:34:09 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A grand-niece of President John F. Kennedy and her son drowned after rowing into the rough Chesapeake Bay in Maryland to recover a soccer ball, authorities and witnesses said Friday.
Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, the granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, and her 8-year-old son, Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean, got into the canoe around 4 p.m. Thursday outside her mother’s home in Shady Side, according to the Washington Post.
The child had been kicking a ball with other kids when it fell into the water, and the pair went to retrieve it amid high winds, her husband, David McKean, told the paper.
“[They] popped into a canoe to chase it down. They just got farther out than they could handle, and couldn’t get back in,” David McKean said.
The pair was later sucked into the South River where they drowned, Gov. Larry Hogan said at a press conference Friday.
McKean, 40, is the daughter of former Maryland Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, who she was visiting when the tragedy struck.
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May God rest their souls.
I had a cousin who drowned in the Mississippi river. Does that get a headline?
The Kennedys seem to make a habit of having these terrible accidents.
RIP.
Always life vests!!!!
What is it with the Kennedys and death by drowning? (Ted, where were you? Or your ghost.)
A soccer ball that could be replaced.
Rowing a canoe?
Probably can generate more propulsion force than paddling.
Having money does not equate to having good common sense.
Terrible. Kathleen Townsend has had her Dad killed, a brother OD and now her daughter and grandson drown while visiting them.
Always life vests!!!!
She was much to smart for that....she was a Kennedy after all!
“ Always life vests!!!!”
Nah, it can’t happen to me.
They died over a soccer ball in the water.
I think it’s a hubris that’s passed from generation that they are invincible.
You’d think they’d learn.
Or maybe there’s just a dumb gene in old joe that was passed down
Never marry a Kennedy.
What a horrible event. May they rest in peace.
My nephew in the Meramec, just west of St. Louis. Never found him. 5/31/2013
No but it gets my condolences.
I am sorry you lost your cousin.
I am very close with some of mine. Almost like brothers.
When you make a deal with Satan those things tend to happen.
>> Always life vests!!!!
Definitely.
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