Joan Bennett Kennedy, the first wife of the late Massachusetts Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and mother of former Rhode Island U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, died in her sleep at her home in Boston on Oct. 8 at ...

Joan B. Kennedy, the first wife of late Senator Ted Kennedy, died on Wednesday after living a quintessentially-Kennedy rollercoaster life that saw extreme highs and depressing lows in both her ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Joan Bennett Kennedy, the first wife of a U.S. senator, the mother of a congressman and the sister-in-law of a slain president, has died at the age of 89, U.S. Health Secretary ...

BOSTON -- Joan B. Kennedy, the former wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy who endured a troubled marriage marked by family tragedies, her husband's infidelities and her own decades-long struggles with ...