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Search for Kennedy family members missing in Chesapeake Bay has ‘turned from rescue to recovery’
Washington Post ^ | 4/4/2020 | Rachel Weiner, Peter Hermann, Dana Hedgpeth

Posted on 04/04/2020 4:02:33 AM PDT by sodpoodle

Authorities continued searching Friday for two members of the Kennedy family who disappeared in the Chesapeake Bay after they had set out in a canoe to retrieve a ball in the water — a mission that family said “turned from rescue to recovery.”

Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, 40, and her 8-year-old son Gideon Joseph Kennedy McKean went missing near Annapolis on Thursday evening while the family had gathered at a waterfront house owned by McKean’s mother, family and authorities said.

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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: again; kennedy; kennedys; rfk
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More tragedy on the water.
1 posted on 04/04/2020 4:02:33 AM PDT by sodpoodle
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To: sodpoodle

Her name long enough?


2 posted on 04/04/2020 4:12:22 AM PDT by cranked
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Tragic. Particularly the loss of a young child.


3 posted on 04/04/2020 4:14:51 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: sodpoodle

The Kennedys are allowed to gather?


4 posted on 04/04/2020 4:18:15 AM PDT by RealVirginia
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To: sodpoodle

It’s a shame. There isn’t more than 4 feet of water through much of Herring Bay. They could have ditched the canoe and walked to shore.


5 posted on 04/04/2020 4:19:36 AM PDT by golux (In Memory of Kenny Bunk)
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To: sodpoodle

Very sad situation.


6 posted on 04/04/2020 4:21:06 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Scapegoating is a textbook coping mechanism.)
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To: cranked

Royalty...in their own minds.


7 posted on 04/04/2020 4:22:58 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: sodpoodle

The Kennedys do have a strained relationship with water don’t they.


8 posted on 04/04/2020 4:24:17 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: golux

And to retrieve a ball? The Kennedys can afford enough balls to fill Madison Square Garden.


9 posted on 04/04/2020 4:24:18 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: sodpoodle
A canoe in three foot waves? Not the best craft in that position. No personal flotation devices? With a child on board, too? Crazy move.


10 posted on 04/04/2020 4:26:18 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Die-ggl,TWT,FCBK,NYT,WPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antf,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP,MSNBC)
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To: Right Wing Assault

The Kennedy’s are not a smart family.


11 posted on 04/04/2020 4:27:14 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Stresses pile on top of one another and lead to panic and exhaustion.

I will wager they had no PFDs, (the water was cold,) they made the trip hurriedly, the boy had little canoeing experience, the boat “sailed away,” she got tired trying to control it or even turn it around (which is difficult in a strong breeze with a light passenger,) panic ensued, they got too high in the boat instead of kneeling, and tipped over somewhere near the channel.

Sometimes a canoe and the wind can be stronger than you are.

It has happened to me!

Should it happen to you, do not panic, stay low in the boat, get to land as long as it takes, as close as the nearest land is, and ditch the boat.


12 posted on 04/04/2020 4:34:37 AM PDT by golux (In Memory of Kenny Bunk)
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To: Bonemaker
I’m sorry but that made me laugh. Totally inappropriate but it did. I guess this quarantine is getting to me.
13 posted on 04/04/2020 4:36:47 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: cranked

Mave Kennedy Town-(over>)send McKean.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a two-sided gravestone..


14 posted on 04/04/2020 4:40:07 AM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON.)
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To: RealVirginia

I caught that, too.


15 posted on 04/04/2020 4:40:51 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: sodpoodle

I’m sick of every 28th cousin of someone named Kennedy being in the news referred to as Kennedy family. John and Jacqueline Kennedy were treated as royalty during their lives, and that continues. Drop it. There is no royalty in this country, and the president and his wife are gone.


16 posted on 04/04/2020 4:45:08 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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Just changing the subject!!!!!

question - how many threads are virus related?


17 posted on 04/04/2020 4:55:56 AM PDT by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers)
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To: golux
Sometimes a canoe and the wind can be stronger than you are. It has happened to me!

Ah, memories: me, a canoe, the Ohio River … stronger than you … yeah, been there, done that.

Sad story. A mom and an eight year old kid. RIP.

18 posted on 04/04/2020 4:59:22 AM PDT by sphinx
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To: sodpoodle
Anyone ever wonder if this family has some place somewhere in the world, remote on some island, and just decides they can't hack in the real world, or maybe the corruption has caught up with them and/or their lives are in danger, or for whatever reason it's just time to disappear? Not necessarily talking about the assassinations or the difficult ones to pull off.

Surely they are a low IQ bunch - or at least a deluded bunch even for the relatively higher IQ ones - with booze and drug problems that could contribute to the outlier statistics on the deaths they post, but I've often wondered about the types of deaths many famous people die - and this crew seems to do it over and over. You just wonder whether they decided there was nothing they could do to repair their lives, they were overwhelmed, and they had the means and resources to just ... disappear.

It would be tin foily if I was saying 'this is certainly what's going on' ... I'm more just saying ... 'makes you wonder.' And I don't really care ... it's just an interesting thought when it comes up.

Fame ain't always fun, it's a lot of pressure (not speaking from personal experience) ... the Kennedy's suffer from chronic mental illness and addiction problems. If I experienced what some of them must experience I might just say 'you know what, time to check out, but since we're rich and connected, checking out doesn't have to mean suicide, let's just start over.'

Almost like Galt -> but invert the quality of the character and purpose, and also no loss to civilization - in fact not hard to argue, a net gain, a true win win :-)

19 posted on 04/04/2020 5:03:25 AM PDT by tinyowl
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And airplanes...and ski slopes.


20 posted on 04/04/2020 5:06:28 AM PDT by ex91B10 (Powered by the Penguin)
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