Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed

by Maureen Callahan

For inconvenient women everywhere

The pattern originates with the ruthless patriarch, Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., a financially and sexually rapacious man who fathered nine children.

his daughters were bred for marriage and babies, worthless as anything else in his eyes.

“There’s an unwritten rule in Massachusetts,” John told her, “whereby members of my family can commit murder and mayhem”—

Cigarettes and cocaine helped kill her hunger.

And as per Kennedy tradition, burying troublesome women alone was nothing new to them.