Michael LeMoyne Kennedy
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy (February 27, 1958 – December 31, 1997) was an American lawyer, businessman, and activist in Massachusetts. He was the sixth of eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy. Kennedy also served as the manager of the non-profit organization Citizens Energy. He died in Aspen, Colorado, in 1997 after inadvertently skiing into a tree.
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy
February 27, 1958
December 31, 1997 (aged 39)
Skiing accident
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Early life, family, and education[edit]
Michael LeMoyne Kennedy was born on February 27, 1958, in Washington, D.C. He was named LeMoyne for Kirk LeMoyne Billings, the preparatory school roommate of his paternal uncle, John F. Kennedy, and a Kennedy family friend.[1] He was five years old when his uncle was assassinated and ten years old when his father was assassinated. Kennedy spent his childhood between the family's homes in McLean, Virginia and Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.[2][3]
Kennedy graduated from Harvard College in 1980 and subsequently earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1984.[4] In 1985, Kennedy was admitted to the Massachusetts bar.[5]
Kennedy married Victoria Denise Gifford, daughter of former professional football player and sportscaster Frank Gifford[6] and Maxine Avis Ewart, on March 14, 1981, in New York City.[7] They had one son, Michael LeMoyne Kennedy Jr. (born January 9, 1983), and two daughters, Kyle Francis Kennedy (born July 6, 1984) and Rory Gifford Kennedy (born October 14, 1987). The family resided in Cohasset, Massachusetts.[8]
Death[edit]
Kennedy died on December 31, 1997, as the result of a skiing accident in Aspen Mountain, Colorado. He was playing football while on skis with several other members of the Kennedy family when, at approximately 4:15 p.m., he hit a tree. Kennedy was not wearing a helmet or other safety equipment. The family had been admonished by the ski patrol to cease the activity.[24] After the accident, Kennedy was taken to Aspen Valley Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:50 p.m.[25]
He was interred on January 3, 1998, in the family plot at Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts.[26]