Caroline Kennedy

About Caroline Kennedy

Caroline Bouvier Kennedy (born November 27, 1957) is an American author and attorney. She is the daughter and only surviving child of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. An older sister, Arabella, was stillborn in 1956. Her brother John F. Kennedy, Jr. died in a plane crash in July 1999. Another brother, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, died two days after his birth in 1963.

Kennedy was born in New York City and is named after her aunt Lee Radziwill (whose first name is Caroline). She lived in the Washington, DC neighborhood of Georgetown until just after her third birthday, when her family moved to the White House. Following her father's assassination in November 1963, she moved with her mother and brother in mid-1964 to New York City. They lived in the penthouse apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.

In 1967, she christened the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy, which was in active service until March 23, 2007.