Tatiana Schlossbergová, a well-known environmental journalist and granddaughter of former US President John F. Kennedy, succumbed to acute leukemia.
At the age of 35, environmental journalist and granddaughter of the assassinated US President John F. Kennedy, Tatiana Schlossberg, died on Tuesday. TASR informs about it according to AP and NBC News.
“Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will remain in our hearts forever,” the family wrote on social media. In an article for The New Yorker last month marking the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather’s assassination, Schlossberg announced that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation a year ago.
Fighting the disease
She spent five weeks in a New York hospital, where she underwent chemotherapy and later a bone marrow transplant. “The doctor told me he could keep me alive for a year, maybe. My first thought was that my children, whose faces live permanently on the inside of my eyelids, would not remember me,” she wrote.
Kennedy’s granddaughter was a respected environmental journalist, working for example for The New York Times, The Atlantic or The Washington Post. She often criticized her cousin, current Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy. In the past, she called him a “disgrace to herself and the rest of her family.”
Family background
Tatiana Schlossberg was the second child of Caroline Kennedy, daughter of John F. Kennedy and former United States Ambassador to Japan, and artist Edwin Schlossberg. At the time of the assassination of the former American president on November 22, 1963, Tatiana’s mother Caroline was only six years old.
