SeacoastNH.com Presents
Historic Portsmouth #350  

What better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s day than with three smiling O’Kennedy brothers? Jack, Bobby, and Teddy Kennedy all campaigned in Portsmouth in the 1960s as seen in three rare photos from the Athenaeum collection. An historic series of black and white pictures show Senator John F. Kennedy mingling shoulder-to-shoulder with citizens of Portsmouth at a campaign rally. (Continued below)  

When Irish Guys are Smiling  

Robert is seen here going house-to-house in town, also in the 1960 campaign. A young Edward is seen here years later during his own campaign in 1969 with Margaret Smith at Wentworth by the Sea. By then assassins had taken both of his brothers. The surviving Senator from Massachusetts, hailed as “The Last Lion,” continued through four more decades of triumph and tragedy until his own death in 2009. (Courtesy Thomas C. Wilson and Smith Collections archived at the Portsmouth Athenaeum)

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