Courtney Kennedy Hill
| Courtney Kennedy Hill | |
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| Born | Mary Courtney Kennedy September 9, 1956 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 🏛️ Political party | Democratic |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Jeffrey Robert Ruhe (m. 1980; div. 1991) Paul Michael Hill (m. 1993; sep 2006) |
| 👶 Children | 1 |
| 👴 👵 Parent(s) | Robert F. Kennedy Ethel Kennedy |
| Family | Kennedy |
Mary Courtney Kennedy Hill (known as Courtney,[1] born September 9, 1956, in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American human rights activist.[2] She is the fifth of the eleven children of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel.
Early life and education[edit]
Mary Courtney Kennedy was born on September 9, 1956, to Ethel (née Skakel) and Robert F. Kennedy.[3] She attended the University of California[3][4] and Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, where she studied history and literature.[4]
Career[edit]
She formerly worked at Children's Television Workshop and was a representative for the United Nations AIDS Foundation.[5] In 1988, she served as treasurer of the congressional reelection campaign of her brother Joseph P. Kennedy II.[6][7] At the time, she lived in both New York and Washington, D.C.[6] She was a board member of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and director of the fund-raising for Robert F. Kennedy Memorial.[6] She continued to serve as a fund-raiser for her brother's political campaigns.[3]
Personal life[edit]
While at the Children's Television Workshop, she met ABC sports producer Jeffrey Robert Ruhe. The couple married on June 14, 1980, in Washington, D.C.[1][3] Ruhe married Courtney Kennedy in ceremony at the Holy Trinity Church in Georgetown followed by a reception at Kennedy home in Hickory Hill, Virginia.[3]
They divorced in 1991,[8] a year after she met an Irishman named Paul Michael Hill.[9] Courtney Kennedy married Paul Hill on June 26, 1993, on a boat in the Aegean Sea.[8][10] At the time, Paul Hill was out on bail while appealing his conviction;[11] he had been unjustly imprisoned for 15 years after being convicted of several bombings carried out by the IRA. No evidence linked him to either the bombings or to involvement with the IRA.[12] Confessions of himself and three others (collectively called "The Guildford Four") were coerced and the purported interrogations notes were fabricated by the police some time later.[13][14]
The couple had one daughter, Saoirse Roisin Kennedy Hill who was born on May 22, 1997. On August 1, 2019, Saoirse died from an apparent drug overdose at the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, at the age of 22.[15]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Taraborrelli, J. Randy (2012-04-24). After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family--1968 to the Present. Grand Central Publishing. p. 256. ISBN 9780446584432. Search this book on
- ↑ Mehren, Elizabeth (August 1, 1999). "Kennedy's Ship of Public Service Resumes Course". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Latham, Caroline; Sakol, Jeannie (1989-10-01). The Kennedy encyclopedia: an A-to-Z illustrated guide to America's royal family. NAL Books. p. 214. ISBN 9780453006842. Search this book on
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Bly, Nellie (1996). The Kennedy Men: Three Generations of Sex, Scandal and Secrets. Kensington Books. p. 257. ISBN 9781575661063. Search this book on
- ↑ MacGuire, James P. (2017-03-15). Real Lace Revisited: Inside the Hidden World of America’s Irish Aristocracy. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 152. ISBN 9781493024926. Search this book on
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Bly 1996, p. 295.
- ↑ "Kennedy's children strive to carry on father's work". El Paso Times. The Associated Press. June 5, 1988. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Bly 1996, p. 340.
- ↑ Mulvaney, Jay (2002-06-20). Kennedy Weddings: A Family Album. Macmillan. p. 154. ISBN 9780312291600. Search this book on
- ↑ "Saoirse Kennedy Hill's father sobs as he lays 22-year-old daughter to rest". The Telegraph. 2019-08-06. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-08-08.
- ↑ "Kennedy clan rallies behind in-law Hill". The Orlando Sentinel. February 24, 1994. p. A-7. Retrieved August 3, 2019.
- ↑ Holt, Richard (2010-06-04). "The Guildford Four: in the name of justice". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2019-08-03.
- ↑ Toolis, Kevin (1990-02-25). "When British Justice Failed". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-08-03.
- ↑ O'Keeffe, Cormac; October 10; 2017 (2017-10-10). "Call for fresh probe into Guildford Four prosecution". Irish Examiner. Retrieved 2019-08-03.
- ↑ Seelye, Katharine Q.; Martin, Jonathan (2019-08-01). "Saoirse Kennedy Hill, Granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy, Dies After Overdose". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-08-02.
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