Patricia Kennedy Lawford
Patricia Kennedy Lawford (born Kennedy Lawford divorced, born May 6, 1924 in Brookline, Massachusetts, † September 17, 2006 in New York City ) was a sister of John F. Kennedy and mother of actor Christopher Lawford.
Life
Patricia Kennedy Lawford was born the sixth child of Joseph and Rose Kennedy. Like her father, she was of child fascinated by travel and the world of the stars. After her graduation she moved to Hollywood in the hope, as he there to take root. Finally, There she met at a party, the British actor Peter Lawford, a member of the legendary Rat Pack, know. Full fire and flame they gave in February 1954 announced their engagement. On 24 April 1954, the wedding was held, and the couple moved to Santa Monica.
However, her husband had with her Catholic upbringing and her overbearing family problems, they in turn did not get along with his drug and alcohol addiction and its affairs. However, after her brother John F. Kennedy 's assassination, they also began to drink, and the marriage broke up. On 1 February 1966 she divorced in Gooding Idaho.
Through her marriage to Pat Kennedy Lawford mediated the soon close contacts of the Kennedy family to Frank Sinatra and other Hollywood stars. Especially Sinatra, who was a close friend of Lawford at the time, then was strongly committed to John F. Kennedy's presidential candidacy. It enabled by its - at the express request of family patriarch Joseph Kennedy used it - contacts with the Mafia from Chicago to Sam Giancana the narrow victory of Kennedy in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1960 Giancana mobilized voters in ultimately fallen short of Kennedy U.S. state of West Virginia..
Kennedy died at the age of 82 years on 17 September 2006 in your house in Manhattan on pneumonia
Swell
Children
- Christopher Kennedy Lawford ( b. 1955 ), who like his father was an actor
- Sydney Maleia Lawford ( b. 1956 )
- Victoria Francis Lawford ( b. 1958 )
- Robin Elizabeth Lawford ( b. 1961 )