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Joseph P Joe Kennedy Sr — Part 6
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MARGARET HAMILL ™~.
Tee amy
"Zt one tine Hr. Sanill used the professional sane
Giovanni HILLO. Se had a passport issued in that same. irs.
Wamill also had a passport issued in that sane, as well as
their 3 children.
"Mrs. Hamill said she was the illegitimate daughter
of Joseph Kennedy, Jr. who was killed during the war, and a
woman from New England who was the daughter of Scandinavians.
Mer natural parents lived with her in Barcelona, Spain about
1936 or 1937 and she remembers taking walks with her parents
when she was only a year or go old. Her mother died when ashe
was very young.
“Hrs. Rosensweig took her is Ser cars aad she
became her foster daughter. Mrs. Rosensweig had had a
daughter born in 1924 who disappeared about 1940 (her where-
abouts even to this day are unknown, both Mra. Hamill and
Mrs. Rosensweig said). Mrs. Rosensweig documented Mrs.
Hamill with her own daughter's birth certificate, and that
is the reason that Mrs. Mamill‘s passport shows she was born
in Virginia in 1924, whereas she was actually born in
Massachusetts about 1935. It so happens she appears to be
much older than her actual age, according to ire. Haniil,
but that is a thing of mature. (She does, in fact, appear
to be much older.)
"Mra. Hamill said she had never intended or
expected that use of her real nane, Kennedy, would ‘open
up any doors’ to her and she did not in any way wish to
bring discredit to that same or the well-known family of
the late President. She had actually promised that fanily
whe would not publicize who she was. Still, she had decided
she wanted to be known for who she really is, and it is ealy
fair to her children. Severtheless, she had kept it a secret
through the years but it leaked to the press in some way and
she couldn't keep it a secret any longer.
, bout the conference, Mrs. Hamill referred |
to many menbers of the Kennedy family by first name. She --.
gaid ‘Bobby’ had no time for her but ‘Ted, Jack, ax and Grandpa‘
knew who she was. ‘She said ‘when Grandpa gets better I an
going to appeal to Bim.° Her grandmother, sie said, BAG
absoiutely refused to see her. Out of context she said
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