"What he discovered in those last couple of years was that politics was a part of his DNA," says historian Steve Gillon, a friend of John’s Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's ...

Then-Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) delivers a speech at George Washington University in 2004. (Manuel Balce Ceneta / Associated Press) When Ted Kennedy feared that flunking a Spanish test would make ...

TED KENNEDY: A Life. By John A. Farrell. Penguin Press. 752 pages. $40. In his new biography of Ted Kennedy, John A. Farrell describes a letter Joseph Kennedy sent his youngest son telling the ...

In 'JFK Jr.: An Intimate Oral Biography,' we hear about the life and tragic death of John F. Kennedy's only son, who died at age 38 Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for ...

A new biography of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy reveals a sore spot between her and husband John F. Kennedy Jr. The book, Once Upon A Time: The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, out this month ...

John F. Kennedy Jr. and his wife, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, were facing a rocky patch in their marriage before they met an untimely end. On July 16, 1999, a single-engine private plane Kennedy Jr. was ...

Ted Kennedy gave varying explanations for his behavior in the hours after his infamous car crash on Chappaquiddick Island. He said he’d been trying to get help as fast as he could. He said he was ...

Intense public scrutiny follows every Kennedy son and daughter. Revelations of an affair made front-page news forty years after John Kennedy’s death, and biographies have been written on Kennedys who ...

When Ted Kennedy feared that flunking a Spanish test would make him ineligible to play football at Harvard, he sent a friend in his place in hopes of securing a higher score. It was the second time ...