This home was purchased in 1928 by family patriarch, diplomat, and businessman Joseph P. Kennedy for his wife, Rose, and their nine children. The Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port holds almost as much ...

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 ...

Indeed, politician and patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. served as an ambassador to the U.K. from 1938 until the late 1940s, ...

His proctor remembers him only as Joseph P. Kennedy's son, a quiet youth who had no claims to notoriety. At Choate Jack had evinced little interest in academics and much in athletics. At the ...

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“Kennedy knew his way around Tinseltown, like his father did,” said Logevall, referring to Joseph P. Kennedy, who was active in Hollywood during the 1920s, “so it’s not surprising that he ...

but his mother reversed the names so Joseph wouldn’t be immediately marked as Irish. Joe Kennedy came from a comfortable home; P. J. was in the liquor business, engaged in local politics and had ...

Read about the Kennedy fortune. Unlike many wealthy families, the Kennedys were not wiped out by the stock market crash of 1929. Legend has it that not long before the crash, Joseph P.