I. Ken ‧ nedy /ˈkenədi, ˈkenɪdi/ BrE AmE ( also JFK )
New York's main international airport
II. Kennedy, Charles BrE AmE
(1958–) a British politician from Scotland who became the leader of the Liberal Democrats in 1999. In 1983 he became the youngest MP in Parliament at that time. In 2006 he ↑ resign ed as leader of the Liberal Democrats after admitting that he had an ↑ alcohol problem.
III. Kennedy, Edward BrE AmE ( also Ted )
(1932–) a US politician in the ↑ Democratic Party who is the brother of John F. Kennedy. In 1969 he was involved in a car accident at ↑ Chappaquiddick in which his female passenger died. When he tried to become elected President of the US in 1980, many people remembered this accident and were unwilling to support him. He has been a US ↑ senator for Massachusetts since 1962.
IV. Kennedy, Jack ‧ ie /ˈdʒæki/ BrE AmE ( also Jackie Kennedy Onassis )
(1929–94) the wife of John F. Kennedy, who became very popular when she was the ↑ first lady of the US from 1961 to 1963 because she was considered very beautiful and fashionable. In 1968, five years after Kennedy's death, she married Aristotle ↑ Onassis .
V. Kennedy, John Fitzgerald BrE AmE
(1917–63) a US politician in the Democratic Party, also known as Jack Kennedy and JFK, who was President of the US from 1961 to 1963. He was an extremely popular president, and he planned to improve education, the system of medical care, and ↑ civil rights in the US, although it was Lyndon B. Johnson who achieved most of these plans after Kennedy’s death. In 1961 Kennedy ordered the ↑ invasion of the Bay of Pigs in Cuba, and he was strongly criticized for this. Two years later he was shot in Dallas, Texas, and Lee Harvey Oswald was accused (↑ accuse ) of killing him..
VI. Kennedy, Ni ‧ gel /ˈnaɪdʒ ə l/ BrE AmE
(1956–) a British musician who plays the ↑ violin and the ↑ viola . He has recorded most of the important violin ↑ concerto s , and his record of Vivaldi's Four Seasons sold many copies and was bought by people who do not normally listen to ↑ classical music. He is known for wearing informal clothes and for having a ↑ spiky ↑ hairstyle . Some people think that his appearance has helped make classical music more popular with young people. He now prefers to be known just by the name Kennedy.
VII. Kennedy, Rob ‧ ert Fran ‧ cis /ˈrɒbət ˈfrɑːnsəs $ ˈrɑːbərt ˈfræn-/ BrE AmE ( also Kennedy, Bobby )
(1925–68) a US politician in the ↑ Democratic Party who was the brother of John F. Kennedy. He became a ↑ senator for New York in 1965. In 1968, when he was trying to become elected President of the US, he was shot.
VIII. Kennedy, Sir Lu ‧ do ‧ vic /ˈluːdəvɪk/ BrE AmE
(1919–) a British writer and broadcaster who fought against MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE . He is best known for his book 10 Rillington Place , in which he said that Timothy Evans was ↑ innocent of the murder of his wife and baby. Evans was ↑ execute d in 1950, but given a ↑ pardon in 1966.