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Two members of Kennedy family missing on US canoe trip
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Maeve Kennedy McKean attends the 2019 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple Of Hope Awards on December 12, 2018 in New York City. April 3, 2020 John F. Kennedy's grand niece Maeve Kennedy McKean and her eight years old son Gideon have been reported missing since yesterday afternoon after they failed to return from a canoe ride on Chesapeake Bay. (Via AFP/Michael Locccisano / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA )
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wo members of the Kennedy US political dynasty, including a grand-niece of assassinated president John F Kennedy, were missing Friday after they went canoeing.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's daughter and eight-year-old grandson disappeared Thursday after boating on the South River in Maryland, Governor Larry Hogan told reporters.
An intensive search has been underway since Thursday.
"On behalf of the people of Maryland, I expressed our most heartfelt sympathies and prayers to her and to her entire family during this difficult time," Hogan said.
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.
The iconic American clan has had more than its share of tragedy.
RFK was himself slain in 1968 as he campaigned for president five years after his brother's death.
In 1999 John F Kennedy Jr and his wife and sister-in-law died when the small plane he was piloting crashed off the Massachusetts coast.
Saoirse Kennedy Hill, a granddaughter of Robert F Kennedy, died of what was ruled an accidental drug overdose last year at age 22.
