Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

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CKS's wedding dress is eerk!

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Thank you for all the pictures

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Caroline with Tatiana:

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She's one of these women who looks better and better with age, isn't she?

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BORN: Nov. 27, 1957

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy was born in November 1957, the second child of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and Senator John F. Kennedy. Her brother, John Jr., with whom she was extremely close, arrived in 1960. Together they symbolized a new age in Washington, D.C.: a young, vibrant family, headed by a charismatic, brilliant father and elegant, sophisticated mother. But Caroline's early exposure to family tragedy shattered that idyll. First, the death of a second brother, Patrick, who was born prematurely. Then, three months later, the tragedy that shook the world: the assassination of her father, the 35th president of the United States.
Jackie and the children closed ranks, supported by Bobby Kennedy, the late president's brother. But when Bobby, too, was killed by an assassin's bullet in 1968, Jackie took decisive action. She married Aristotle Onassis, a Greek shipping tycoon, in October of that same year. This was her attempt to find for her family a measure of financial and personal security. Caroline and John attended private school on New York's Upper East Side, and spent summers on Onassis' private island, Skorpios in Greece. Jackie was determined that her children would have normal childhoods: she protected them from the intrusions of the press, and encouraged them to succeed on their own terms.
In 1972 Caroline entered Concord Academy in Massachusetts. Her interests included film, photography and social issues. In 1973 she interviewed coal miners in Tennessee for a documentary, and the following summer she visited drug rehab centers in Hong Kong and worked as an intern at her Uncle Ted's Washington office. After graduating from Concord, she studied art appreciation in London.
Caroline was drawn to the media as a career and interned at the New York Daily News in 1977. She graduated in 1980 with a degree in fine arts and then began working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. While there, she met Edwin Schlossberg, a cultural historian who was quiet, affluent, artistic and intellectual. They fell deeply in love but moved forward slowly.
She graduated from Harvard University, and then Columbia Law School. In 1986, she married Edwin Schlossberg on Cape Cod. They have 3 children, Rose born in 1988, Tatiana born in May 1990, and John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, born in 1993.
She published her first book in 1990, "In Our Defense - The Bill of Rights In Action," and co-wrote her second book, "The Right To Privacy," a Constitutional study, which was published in the Fall of 1995.
Caroline continues to keep the inspiration and the memory of her father alive. In 1989 she was a co-founder of the Profiles in Courage Awards, which are given annually to politicians who perform acts of political bravery. Upon her mother's death in 1994, she assumed her place as an honorary chairwoman of the American Ballet Theatre. She is also the president of the Kennedy Library Foundation.
Tragedy struck again on 7/16/1999 when John Jr.'s plane went down into the ocean off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. During the painful first year after the loss, Caroline held fast to her Catholic faith, relatives and public duties, but kept grounded by tending to her kid's colds, homework and meals, often cooking dinner in spite of live-in help.
Though Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg inherited her mother's press-shy nature, she has always been cognizant of the legacy left by her father. The legacy of public expectation that Kennedys, often dubbed "America's Royal Family," can and will live public lives. With encouragement by her mother and brother, she has forged her own path in life. This allows her to answer her own phone, spend time with her husband, and walk her children to school.

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Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg

Champion of civility

By Romesh Ratnesar

July 26, 1999
Web posted at: 4:27 p.m. EDT (2027 GMT)

In 1960, on the night John F. Kennedy returned from the Democratic National Convention as the party's nominee for President, his two-year-old daughter Caroline toddled out of the family's Hyannis Port home to greet her father. Immediately a fusillade of photographers' camera bulbs went off, and the frightened Caroline turned away. "Don't be afraid," J.F.K. told her. "They won't hurt you." In the 39 years since, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg has rarely run willingly into the glare of public attention. Instead she has allowed her cousins to inherit the Kennedy legacy of political ambition and her younger brother to assume the role of family icon. Meanwhile, she has tended to her three children, walked anonymously through New York City's streets and granted few extended interviews, except during publicity rushes for her two books. "She is first and foremost a wife and mother," says Paul Kirk Jr., chairman of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation and a family confidant. "That's a key priority for her. She saw how important it was to her as a child."
And yet if her life has been more guarded than her brother's was, it is far from cloistered. Her mother was more glamorous and socially adroit, but Caroline shares Jackie's cultivated charm and has steadily expanded her own profile as a patron of culture and the arts. And though not driven to politics as were J.F.K. and his brothers, she has nonetheless compiled a ledger of quiet but diligent service to the public, and to her father's legacy, that reflects a commitment to civic life and a belief in the value of rigorous, reflective debate. "She has a strong sense of personal responsibility," says historian David McCullough, who sits with Caroline on the panel that hands out the Kennedy Library's annual Profile in Courage Awards. "She knows she has serious work to do. And in that sense, I've always felt she is very much a Kennedy."
Her political education came early. During Caroline's summers as a Harvard undergraduate, her uncle Ted insisted that she work in his Senate office as an intern. "He wanted her to understand how the Senate operated and what her father's place was in it," says a longtime Kennedy friend. "He made sure...she would meet the players." After college, she worked for five years at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and met her husband, the interactive-media designer Edwin Schlossberg. In 1988 she graduated from Columbia Law School and gave birth to their first child, Rose. Soon after, she began researching a book on the Bill of Rights, In Our Defense, with her friend and law-school classmate Ellen Alderman. The two canvassed the country, interviewing professors, attorneys and prison inmates. "She was very, very serious," says Richard Burr, a death-penalty expert who advised the authors. "She had done a lot of homework on specific cases already, which is rare." Rarer still was her gentility. Both times she interviewed Jack Boger, then a lawyer with the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, Caroline sent him a handwritten thank-you note.
Caroline refused to exploit her mother's publishing contacts for her book, but she wasn't disingenuous about her star wattage. "If my name makes more people want to read it," she told an interviewer in 1991, "that's fine." Says Vanden Heuvel: "She understands that because she is well known, she can get attention for the causes she's interested in. She is unpretentious about it, but she knows what its benefit can be." With the book's publication, Caroline stepped into a more visible role. After Jackie's death in 1994, she assumed her mother's place in the New York cultural scene, becoming an honorary chairwoman of the American Ballet Theatre and in 1997 joining the board of the Citizens Committee for New York City, which supports local volunteer service groups. She took over as president of the Kennedy Library Foundation in Boston. She rarely misses quarterly board meetings and often phones library staff members with ideas for new programs and exhibits.
She helped found, in 1989, the library's Profile in Courage Awards, an honor given to public officials for acts of political bravery. The 12-member panel meets every year for two days of vetting the nominees; in those sessions, Caroline is known for her intense preparation and affinity for discussion. She personally telephones winners and presents the awards at an annual ceremony at the library. This year's event, which honored Senators Russ Feingold and John McCain, was Caroline and John Jr.'s last public appearance together. Alan Simpson, the former Wyoming Senator who is director of the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics at Harvard, was reminded of Caroline's forebears. "When I saw her step forward to make those awards, I saw the same poise and warmth and desire to participate in politics and carry on the Kennedy name."
Few think Caroline has designs on elected office, but she has become more aggressive lately about promoting public service. In May she touted the Profile in Courage Award on the Today show "as a way of showing how important it is for people to continue to celebrate and expect political courage." In politics, Caroline picks her moments. She turned down an invitation to serve as chairwoman of the Democratic National Convention in 1992, but she stumped for Teddy and her cousin Patrick, a Rhode Island Congressman, late in the 1994 campaign. In 1998 she lent her name to the campaign against an anti-affirmative-action initiative in Washington State and gave a speech at a U.N. ceremony in which she implored the U.S. Senate to ratify an international treaty on children's rights.
Even after John's death, she will probably stay behind the curtain of the public stage, pouring her energies again into her family life. Her most recent book with Alderman, The Right to Privacy, was read by some as a veiled protest written by a woman uneasy with the public's demands on her personal space. It is actually much more--a scholarly but accessible work that aims, in some small way, to raise public understanding of a complex legal problem. "I hope it will show people there is a process for working things out," she said in 1995. "To the extent that we are all educated and informed, we will be more equipped to deal with the gut issues that tend to divide us." It's a quaint notion, perhaps more easily received in her father's time than our own. Caroline's greatest public service has come in trying to revive it.

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Caroline Kennedy lone survivor of Camelot

Graphic: The recoveryGraphic: The searchGraphic: Plane's demiseAudio/videoReaders remember JFK Jr.Tragic family tree NEW YORK (AP) - She was the little girl who walked her dad to the Oval Office each morning and rode a pony on the White House lawn. Grown up now with a family of her own, Caroline Kennedy appears to be the last survivor of Camelot.
On Sunday, the day after her brother's plane went missing, Caroline Kennedy stayed far from the media and far from the rest of the Kennedy clan gathering in Massachusetts.
Ms. Kennedy, husband Edwin Schlossberg and their children aged 12, 9 and 6 were waiting out the search at a home they have in the Hamptons on eastern Long Island, a summer playground for the rich and famous.
It was a characteristically discreet way for a very private woman to handle her very public life.
Ms. Kennedy, who had been out West rafting with her family before her brother was reported missing, returned to Long Island Saturday. She had not planned to attend the wedding of Rory Kennedy at Hyannis Port, Mass., but it was not clear why.
JFK Jr., 38, was en route to the wedding when his plane disappeared. His wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, were also on board.
Ms. Kennedy, 41, was extremely close to her brother. They were children together in the brief presidency that came to be known as Camelot after the legend of King Arthur, going on 6 and 3 when their father was assassinated in 1963.
Together, they endured the murder of their uncle, Robert F. Kennedy, in 1968, and adjusted when their mother, Jacqueline Kennedy, married Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis the same year. They did well in private schools in New York, avoided drugs and scandals - and were kept far from the rest of the Kennedy clan.
''Jackie had made it a strict rule not to allow Caroline and John Jr. to fraternize with their Hickory Hill cousins,'' author Jerry Oppenheimer wrote in ''The Other Mrs. Kennedy,'' his book about Robert's wife, Ethel. Robert and Ethel Kennedy's homestead in Virginia was known as Hickory Hill.
Richard Burke, a former aide to another Kennedy brother, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said in the book that Caroline had previously spent time there ''but with all that stuff going on out at Hickory Hill - especially the problems the boys were having - Jackie just didn't want Caroline and John there.''
As adults, Caroline and John often joined forces, presenting an award to preservationists in their mother's honor, and launching another award in their father's memory. They allowed an auction house to sell off 5,000 items from their mother's estate, and later blocked someone else from selling some of their father's diaries.
But while JFK Jr.'s love life and career as a magazine publisher have always been tabloid fodder, Caroline Kennedy, a lawyer, was wary of the limelight. Her brother addressed the Democratic National Convention in 1988, but she declined to serve as convention chairwoman four years later. And while JFK Jr. walked out to talk to reporters camped outside the Fifth Avenue building where their mother died in May 1994, Caroline Kennedy kept her thoughts to herself.
It's not that she shuns the public eye. She rides the subway and walks her kids to school. She appears frequently at arts events, co-chaired a gala fund-raiser for the American Ballet Theater and last spring presented an award to Hillary Rodham Clinton at Lincoln Center.
In 1995, she happily chatted with reporters about the legal issues in The Right to Privacy, a book about privacy law which she wrote with a law school classmate. But any question that poked into her own privacy was parried with: ''I'm not going to tell you.''
She had earlier abandoned a career as a photojournalist because every time she tried to take pictures, someone was taking a picture of her. Her tall figure, honey-colored hair and shy smile were always bound to attract the cameras.
Now, as hopes fade for finding her brother alive, ''There's a kind of pathos of the lonely survivor,'' said Peter Collier, author of The Kennedys: An American Drama.
When Caroline Kennedy married Schlossberg, a designer of museum interiors and exhibits, her brother served as best man, and gave this toast: ''All my life there has just been the three of us - Mommy, Caroline and I.''
Now, there is just the one.

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Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is the daughter and only surviving child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Her brother John F. Kennedy, Jr. died in a plane crash in 1999.
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[edit] Early life

Kennedy was born in New York, New York and lived there until just after her third birthday, when her family moved to the White House. After the assassination of her father in November 1963, she lived with her mother and brother in New York City, in the penthouse apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
In 1967, she christened the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy, which was in active service until March 23, 2007.

[edit] Education

She graduated from Radcliffe College/Harvard University and Columbia Law School, after completing her education at Brearley School and Convent of the Sacred Heart, and Concord Academy in Massachusetts.

[edit] Marriage

After interning with her uncle U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy, and at The New York Daily News, Caroline Kennedy began work at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1980, where she met her husband, the exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg.[1]

[edit] Children

They have two daughters and one son:

• Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, born in 1988, (named after her great-grandmother Rose Kennedy)
• Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg, born in 1990, (named after Edwin's grandmother and his former colleague, the lithographer Tatiana Grossman)
• John Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg, born in 1993 (named after his maternal grandfather and his maternal grandmother's maiden name)

Kennedy lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn with her husband Edwin Schlossberg, president of Edwin Schlossberg Inc., a multi-disciplinary design company that specializes in interactive exhibit design and museum master-planning, and family.

[edit] Death of her mother

Upon her mother Jacqueline's death in 1994, Kennedy was instrumental in planning a private funeral service, when there were plans in progress for a more public event. The funeral was instead an invitation-only event, attended by mostly family and close friends.

[edit] Work

Kennedy is an attorney, editor, and writer.
Kennedy and Ellen Alderman have written two books together on civil liberties:

• In Our Defense - The Bill of Rights In Action (1990) and
• The Right to Privacy (1995)

On her own, she has edited these New York Times best-selling volumes:

• A Patriot’s Handbook
• The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children
• Profiles in Courage for Our Time

She is one of the founders of the Profiles in Courage Award, given annually to a person who exemplifies the type of courage examined in her father's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same name. The award is generally given to elected officials who, acting in accord with their conscience, risk their careers by pursuing a larger vision of the national, state or local interest in opposition to popular opinion or powerful pressures from their constituents. In May 2002, she presented an unprecedented Profiles in Courage Award to representatives of the NYPD, the New York City Fire Department, and the military as representatives of all of the people who acted to save the lives of others during the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.[1]
Kennedy is currently President of the Kennedy Library Foundation, a Director of both the Commission on Presidential Debates and of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and Honorary Chairman of the American Ballet Theatre. Kennedy is also an adviser to the Harvard Institute of Politics, a living memorial to her father.
In addition, Kennedy has represented her family at the funeral services of former Presidents Ronald Reagan in 2004 and Gerald Ford in 2007, and at the funeral service of former First Lady Lady Bird Johnson in 2007.
Caroline Kennedy also represented her family at the dedication of the William J. Clinton Presidential Center and Park in Little Rock,

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Archives from 1986:

CAROLINE BOUVIER KENNEDY TO WED EDWIN SCHLOSSBERG

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Published: March 2, 1986
The engagement of Caroline Bouvier Kennedy and Edwin Arthur Schlossberg has been announced by her mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis of New York. A summer wedding is planned.
Miss Kennedy, the daughter also of the late President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, graduated from the Concord Academy and Radcliffe College. The future bride, a first-year student at the Columbia University School of Law, was the manager and coordinating producer in the office of film and television at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until last August. She is the vice president of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation in Boston. Her mother is an editor at Doubleday & Company in New York.
Mr. Schlossberg, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred I. Schlossberg of New York and Palm Beach, Fla., graduated from the Birch Wathen School and Columbia College. He received a Ph.D. degree in science and literature from Columbia University. The future bridegroom, the author of nine books, is president of Edwin Schlossberg Inc., a New York company specializing in the design of museum interiors and exhibitions. His father is president of Alfred Schlossberg Inc., a New York textile company.
Miss Kennedy is a granddaughter of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Hyannis Port, Mass., and the late Joseph P. Kennedy, who served as Ambassador to Britain, and of Mrs. Bingham W. Morris of Washington and the late John Vernou Bouvier 3d.