Kara Anne Kennedy was a member of the American political family, the Kennedy family.
18 Facts About Kara Kennedy
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Kara Kennedy was the oldest of the three children and only daughter of US Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts and Joan Bennett Kennedy, and a niece of President John F Kennedy and Senator Robert F Kennedy.
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Kara Kennedy served on the boards of numerous charities and was a filmmaker and television producer.
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Kara Kennedy died of a heart attack in 2011 at the age of 51.
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Kara Anne Kennedy was born in 1960 to Joan and Ted Kennedy in Bronxville, New York.
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Kara Kennedy spent her early years in Virginia and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
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Kara Kennedy attended the National Cathedral School in Washington, DC and Trinity College, Hartford.
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Kara Kennedy was a producer for the television program Evening Magazine at station WBZ-TV in Boston.
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Kara Kennedy produced films for VSA arts, formerly known as Very Special Arts, an organization founded by her aunt Jean Kara Kennedy Smith to encourage participation in the arts by persons with disabilities.
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One of Kara Kennedy's best known projects was a film she produced on Chris Burke, the actor with Down syndrome who starred in the television series Life Goes On.
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Kara Kennedy revealed that the film project had as much of a positive impact on her as it did on the viewing audience.
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Kara Kennedy was a reading tutor and was preparing to join the Board of Reading Partners at the time of her death.
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Kara Kennedy was on the National Advisory Board of the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
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When she married, Kara Kennedy dropped her middle name "Anne" and replaced it with her maiden name "Kara Kennedy" as her new middle name.
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In 2002, at age 42, Kara Kennedy was diagnosed with lung cancer.
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Kara Kennedy revealed her close relationship with her father, and the role he played in helping her to wage her battle against lung cancer.
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On September 16,2011, two years after her father's death, Kara Kennedy suffered a fatal heart attack in a Washington, DC health club after her daily workout.
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Kara Kennedy is interred at Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts alongside her paternal grandparents, Rose and Joseph Kennedy.