MICHAEL LEMOYNE KENNEDY 1958-1997

Kennedy Jr., Robert F. ; Joseph P. Kennedy II

Edité par Privately Issued [1998], 1998

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20 pages; Original stiff white wrappers. [Three line quote from Edith Hamilton] Michael LeMoyne Kennedy / 1958-1997. Unpaginated. Saddle-stiched with two metal staples. A memorial volume created for and by the family of Michael Kennedy, sixth child of Robert Francis Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy. Contents: two Eulogies, the first by his elder brother Joseph P. Kennedy II (pp. [1-6] followed by a Eulogy by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (pp. 7-13); these are followed by two briefer Homilies -- by Reverend Gerard Creedon (pp. 14-16) and Father Charles J. O'Byrne, S.J. (pp. 17-19). The final leaf of the text is devoted to 8 quotes from the BIble, six poets and inventor Carl Schurz. The front wrapper is blank on its verso; both recto and verso of the rear wrapper are blank. Joseph P. Kennedy's Eulogy has a date at the end "January 3, 1998" -- the date the deceased was interred in the family plot at Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts. Michael Kennedy died in Aspen, Colorado on the afternoon of the last day of 1997. He was simultaneously engaging in two sports in which he was notably gifted: football and skiing. He struck a tree at speed on Ajax Mountain just after catching a football while skiing downhill with family. Reportedly he had just turned to a friend and said "This is great!" The deceased followed a path shared by others in his famous family -- earning a B.S. degree from Harvard College in 1980 and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1984. At the time of his death, he had been running Citizens Energy Corporation, a non-profit founded by his brother Joseph. He had also a major role as co-chairman of the Walden Woods Project, a non-profit organization seeking to preserve Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts. In 1994, he co-founded "Stop Handgun Violence" in Massachusetts. The energy firm and both advocacy groups are still active, twenty five years later. Michael Kennedy also played a central role in successful campagns for his brother Joe's candidacy for a seat in the U. S. Congress, and his uncle Ted's successful 1994 race to be re-elected to his U. S. Senate seat -- a race in which the challenger was Mitt Romney and that Senator Kennedy recalled as his most difficult election campagn. "Every one of his brothers and sisters, his mother and all our family, turned to him again and again," Joseph Kennedy said of his brother. "And he turned, heart and soul, to the task our father set, which has inspired each of us and people everywhere - to make more gentle the life of [the] world.". N° de réf. du vendeur 43363

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Titre : MICHAEL LEMOYNE KENNEDY 1958-1997

Éditeur : Privately Issued [1998]

Date d'édition : 1998

Reliure : Wrappers

Etat : Very Good+

Edition : First Edition; First Printing.