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Joan Kennedy, Who Married Into a Dynasty, Dies at 89

The wife of Senator Edward Kennedy for a quarter of a century, she both basked and struggled in the reflected glare of a political family in the spotlight.

© George Tames/The New York Times

Joan Kennedy with her husband at the time, Edward M. Kennedy, in Boston in 1979, when he announced his campaign for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination. Their children Kara Ann and Patrick joined them for the event.
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