Edward Kennedy (C) was the youngest of nine children in the family. Photo taken in London, 1939.
Edward Kennedy married Joan Bennett in New York on November 29, 1958. The Archbishop of New York is personally blessing them in this file photo.
After John Kennedy was elected the 35th U.S. President, Edward Kennedy started to run the campaign for the senator seat left vacant by his oldest brother. He was elected the U.S. Senator for Massachusetts in 1962.
After John Kennedy was assassinated, Edward Kennedy (R, front), together with Robert Kennedy (L, front) and Jacqueline Kennedy (C, front), attended the funeral.
The airplane Edward Kennedy took from Washington to Massachusetts crashed on June 19, 1964. The pilot and Edward Moss, one of Kennedy's aides, were killed. Kennedy was pulled from the wreckage by fellow Senator Birch E. Bayh II and spent months in hospital recovering from a severe back injury, a punctured lung, broken ribs and internal bleeding.
File photo shows Edward Kennedy at the Senate budget hearing in 1967. In 1968, his brother Robert Kennedy was shot and died during his presidential campaign.
On the night of July 18, 1969, Edward Kennedy was on Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts at a party. Leaving the party, Kennedy was driving home with 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne as his passenger, when Kennedy drove off Dike Bridge. Kennedy escaped the vehicle safely and left the scene. But he did not call authorities until Kopechne's body was discovered the following day. Kennedy pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of an accident and was given a sentence of two months in jail, suspended. In this photo, a trailer is pulling his car out from the water.
Edward Kennedy gave an endorsement to Obama on January 28, 2008. Kennedy's endorsement raised the possibility of improving Obama's vote-getting in the primaries.
On May 20, 2008, doctors announced Kennedy had a malignant glioma, a type of cancerous brain tumor.
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