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Nov 18, 1973 · WASHINGTON, Nov. 17 (UPI) —The 12‐year‐old son of Senator Edward M. Kennedy had his right leg amputated today in an operation for cancer. A hospital spokesman said the condition of Edward Moore...
Ted Kennedy Jr. and Rep. Patrick Kennedy, sons of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, said that “True Compass” — the massive memoir the late senator was racing to complete before brain cancer took...
Sep 17, 2011 · Edward Kennedy Jr. himself was a survivor after losing a leg to bone cancer as a child. And Patrick Kennedy had surgery in 1988 to remove a non-cancerous tumor that was pressing against his...
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He is the brother of Kara (1960–2011) and Patrick J. Kennedy (born 1967). In 1973, when Kennedy was twelve, osteosarcoma (a form of bone cancer) was diagnosed in his right leg. The leg was surgically amputated on November 17, 1973.
He died there on May 18 at the age of 71. His funeral was held at St. John the Evangelist Church in Winthrop, Massachusetts, on May 21. The Boston Globe reported that hundreds of mourners lined the streets to watch Kennedy's funeral procession and businesses in East Boston closed to honor him. [7]
During his time in Congress, Patrick J. Kennedy was the lead author of the landmark Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (Federal Parity Law), which requires insurers to cover treatment for mental health and substance use disorders no more restrictively than treatment for illnesses of the body, such as diabetes and cancer.
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Patrick Joseph Kennedy II (born July 14, 1967) is an American retired politician and mental health advocate. [1] From 1995 to 2011, he served as a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from Rhode Island's 1st congressional district, and was the first Generation X member of congress when he was elected in 1995. [2]
