This valuable documentary tells the story of Eunice Kennedy, the sister of JFK and Bobby, who transformed the lives of disabled people all over the world
You sometimes have to ask yourself how different the world might have been if the Kennedy women (save, perhaps, clan matriarch and eventual papal countess Rose) had been given their druthers rather than the men. Fewer discarded mistresses, forced abortions and Chappaquiddicks, for sure. Almost certainly less mob entanglement, fewer siblings made presidents’ attorney generals and that kind of thing. Maybe a slightly broader remit to benefit society beyond the Bostonian elite and its hangers-on. And they had just as fabulous hair and teeth.
Who’s to say? If anyone has written the counterfactual already, that’s a novel I would love to read. Until then, we got a taste of what might have been in this tribute to the fifth of Rose and Joseph Sr’s nine offspring, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, AKA The Kennedy Who Changed the World.
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