ADVERTISEMENT
As history reflects on the 20th century, Joan Bennett Kennedy will be remembered as a woman who endured the most intense era of American political scrutiny with her humanity intact. She witnessed history, bore its excesses, and ultimately composed her own redemption. Her passing marks the close of an era of American royalty that will never return, yet her melody endures—a soft, lasting echo reminding us that, while power erects monuments and enacts laws, it is the quiet resilience of the human spirit that truly prevails.
ADVERTISEMENT