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Robert F Kennedy: Search for granddaughter and her young son – BBC News, BBC News

Robert F Kennedy: Search for granddaughter and her young son – BBC News, BBC News
        

                                 David McKean, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean and family attend the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Hosts 2019 Ripple Of Hope Gala & Auction In NYC on December 12, 2019 in New York City Image copyright                   Getty Images                                                        
Image caption                                      Maeve Kennedy McKean, pictured here with her husband and their children, was last seen with her son on Thursday                              
Authorities are searching for Maeve Kennedy McKean, – granddaughter of assassinated presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy – and her young son.

Mrs McKean and her son, eight-year-old Gideon, were last seen on Thursday evening in a canoe off Chesapeake Bay .

“They just got farther out than they could handle and couldn’t get back in,” said Ms McKean’s husband, David McKean, to the Washington Post newspaper.

The Coast Guard has reportedly covered 2, square miles in its search.

The agency is joined by the Maryland Natural Resources Policy and the Anne Arundel County Fire Department in looking for the pair. Crews on boats and in helicopters have all been engaged in the search.

Ms McKean is the daughter of Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, the former Maryland lieutenant governor. She works as a public health and human rights lawyer and is executive director of Georgetown University’s Global Health Initiative.

“At this time our family asks for privacy and that everyone keep Maeve and Gideon in their prayers,” the family said in a statement.

Mr McKean told the Washington Post that his family was staying at a waterfront home in Maryland owned by his wife’s mother. While playing by the water at : (local time) : (GMT) on Thursday, Mrs McKean and Gideon “popped into a canoe” to chase after a ball that had rolled away, Mr McKean said.

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Image caption                                      Mrs McKean – with her cousin, Congressman Joe Kennedy at a DC rally – is part of the Kennedy political dynasty                              

Two people – unnamed – were seen drifting several miles off shore 30 minutes later, according to a press release from a local fire department.

The wind in that part of the bay was around 41 miles per hour on Thursday night, with waves reaching three feet high, the Coast Guard said.

Mr McKean did not disclose whether or not the canoe had been found, but the Maryland Department of Natural Resources told US media that an overturned canoe matching the description of the McKean’s boat had been found on Thursday evening.

The family, an American political dynasty, has been beset by tragedy.

The assassination of President John F Kennedy was followed just five years later by the murder of his brother – and Mrs McKean’s grandfather – Robert F Kennedy.

In August, 30 – year-old Saoirse Kennedy Hill – granddaughter to Robert – was found dead at the famed family compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts.

            

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