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. Schlossberg last month in an article for The New Yorker magazine on the 62nd anniversary of her grandfather’s assassination, she announced that she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation a year ago.
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, won’t remember me.” she wrote.
Kennedy’s granddaughter was a respected environmental journalist, she worked, 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.”
Tatiana Schlossberg was the second child of the daughter of John F. Kennedy and former United States Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy 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.
