BOSTON (WPRI/AP) — Joan B. Kennedy, the former wife of Senator Edward (Ted) M. Kennedy, was laid to rest on Wednesday.

With the recent news of Joan Kennedy’s death, memories of a long and complicated chapter in American politics have surfaced again. She had once been married to Ted Kennedy. Joan Kennedy, born Joan ...

Late Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s first wife, Joan Kennedy, died at her home in Boston on October 8, 2025. She was 89.

The death of Joan is being described as the end of the Camelot era as she was the last remaining member of the family's famed ...

In July 1969, Ted was involved in a fatal car accident when he drove his vehicle off a narrow bridge in Chappaquiddick Island ...

Joan Bennett Kennedy, the first wife of a U.S. senator, the mother of a congressman and the sister-in-law of a slain ...

Joan Bennett Kennedy, the first wife of a U.S. senator, the mother of a congressman and the sister-in-law of a slain ...

BOSTON — Joan B. Kennedy, the former wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy who endured a long and troubled marriage marked by family ...

Joan Bennett Kennedy, the former wife of the late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, died Wednesday morning in her sleep at her home in Boston, according to her family. She was 89 years old. The ...

Married to Senator Ted Kennedy for more than two decades, Joan Kennedy was also a mental health advocate and patron of the ...

David Kennedy died of a drug overdose on April 25, 1984, at the age of 28. Michael Kennedy was killed on Dec. 31, 1997, when he slammed into a tree while on skis and simultaneously tossing a football ...

Joan Kennedy was one of the first prominent women in the U.S. to acknowledge her struggles with mental health and alcoholism ...