Two missing members of Kennedy family now presumed dead

Two members of the Kennedy political dynasty, consisting of a grand-niece of John F. Kennedy, at the moment are presumed dead when they went lacking during a canoe trip, the family said Saturday.

It seems to be the latest chapter of heartbreak for a circle of relatives that has suffered tragedy after tragedy, within the form of premature deaths, due to the fact President Kennedy himself turned into assassinated in Dallas in 1963.

This time it involves a grand-niece of the late president, Maeve Kennedy McKean, 40, and her eight-12 months-old son Gideon. They disappeared Thursday at the same time as canoeing in the South River in Maryland, close to the large Chesapeake Bay, Governor Larry Hogan said Friday.

The Coast Guard, police and firefighters immediately released a search however did no longer find the missing Kennedys.

“It has been greater than 24 hours, and the probabilities they have got survived are impossibly small. It is apparent that Maeve and Gideon have handed away,” husband David McKean wrote on Facebook early Saturday.

The rescue operation has now shifted to one of locating the bodies, said Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the mom and grandmother of the missing two.

Kennedy Townsend, 68, is a former Maryland lieutenant governor, and the daughter of Robert F. Kennedy, the onetime US attorney general in his brother’s administration.

RFK become himself slain in 1968 as he campaigned for president five years after his brother’s death.

In 1999 John F. Kennedy Jr. And his spouse and sister-in-law died while the small plane he turned into piloting crashed off the Massachusetts coast.

Saoirse Kennedy Hill, a granddaughter of RFK, died of what changed into dominated an accidental drug overdose closing years at age 22.

David Kennedy, a son of Robert, died at age 28 of a cocaine overdose at a Florida hotel in 1984.

Another son of RFK, Michael, died in a snowboarding accident in Colorado in 1997.