BOSTON (AP) — Joan B. Kennedy, the former wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy who endured a troubled marriage marked by family tragedies, her husband’s infidelities and her own decades-long struggles with alcoholism and mental health, died on Wednesday. She was 89.
The former Joan Bennett, one of the last remaining members of a family generation that included President John F. Kennedy, was a model and classically-trained pianist when she married Ted Kennedy in 1958.
Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass, center, with his wife, Joan Kennedy, and Russia’s Chief of International Relations Vasily Vysotin, third from left, at the airport, Thursday, April 18, 1974, Moscow, Russia.
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