Caroline Kennedy Honors Daughter Tatiana Schlossberg, Dead at 35, at JFK Courage Awards
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Updated · The Boston Globe · Jun 1
Caroline Kennedy Honors Daughter Tatiana Schlossberg, Dead at 35, at JFK Courage Awards
9 articles · Updated · The Boston Globe · Jun 1
At the JFK Profile in Courage ceremony in Boston, Caroline Kennedy tearfully remembered Tatiana Schlossberg as someone who "represented everything my parents stood for" after her death in December at 35.
Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and mother of 2, died after revealing a terminal cancer diagnosis; she had been diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia shortly after giving birth in May 2024.
Kennedy also praised son Jack Schlossberg, now running for New York's 12th Congressional District seat, for more than a decade of work advancing the JFK Library Foundation and his grandfather's legacy.
This year's awards went to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the people of Minnesota's Twin Cities, recognized for defending democratic institutions, human rights and immigrant communities during violent federal immigration raids.
Bruce Springsteen appeared by video to salute the Twin Cities honorees and invoked the deaths of protesters Renee Good and Alex Pretti, widening the ceremony's focus from family remembrance to public courage.
How will a new generation of Kennedys redefine public service after being shaped by such a personal tragedy?
What does a young mother's public battle with leukemia reveal about the urgent challenges in modern cancer treatment?