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unusual facts about John Kennedy


Gilbert Burnet

He married three times, firstly to Lady Margaret Kennedy, daughter of John Kennedy, 6th Earl of Cassilis (died 1684); secondly to Mary Scott (died 1698), a Dutch heiress of Scots descent, and thirdly to Elizabeth Berkeley (née Blake), a religious writer of some note, who died in 1709.


1957 Philadelphia Phillies season

John Kennedy, the team's first black player, made his debut with the Phillies on April 22, 1957 at Roosevelt Stadium against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Daniel C. Carpenter

After Superintendent John Kennedy was attacked by a mob and hospitalized, overall command of the police force fell to Commissioner Thomas Coxon Acton and John G. Bergen while Carpenter took command of police squads on the streets.

Henry Charles Andrews

He lived in Knightsbridge and was married to the daughter of John Kennedy of Hammersmith, a nurseryman who assisted Andrews in the descriptions of the plants he illustrated.

Les Incompétents

According to the band, in an interview with John Kennedy on XFM, their name is pronounced as it is written, with the French plural for 'the' pronounced like the English name 'Les', as if it is a British person's attempt at speaking French.

Maybe the Moon

Daryl Hannah who, at the time, was dating Jackie's son John Kennedy, Jr., had optioned the book to produce a film version.

Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town

Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town also found its way onto airwaves in the United Kingdom through John Kennedy at XFM and Jane Gazzo at BBC6.


see also

Baltimore Plot

It is a New York Police Department detective named John Kennedy, played by Dick Powell, who contacts the administration about the conspiracy, and who boards the train hoping to discover whether any of the plotters are on board before they reach Baltimore.

Charles St Clair, 17th Lord Sinclair

Charles St Clair was born in 1914, the son of the Archibald St Clair (later the 16th Lord Sinclair), and his wife Violet Kennedy, daughter of Col. John Kennedy.

Fernaig manuscript

It then passed through the hands of Dr Mackintosh-Mackay, Dr W.F. Skene and the Reverend John Kennedy of Arran who finally bequeathed it to Glasgow.

John Patrick Kennedy

According to peace activist Maire Leadbeater, John Kennedy passed information on left-wing groups like the Philippines Solidarity Group to the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, the country's main domestic intelligence agency.

Randolph Wemyss

He was born in Wemyss Castle on 11 July 1858, the eldest son on James Hay Erskine Wemyss and Augusta Millicent Anne Mary Kennedy Erskine, youngest daughter of the Honourable John Kennedy Erskine of Dun in the County of Forfar.

Richard Zussman

In the summer of 2008, Zussman worked in Washington, D.C. as a television reporter for KTAL in Shreveport, Louisiana covering the Senate race between John Kennedy and incumbent Mary Landrieu.

Stewartstown, County Tyrone

In 1587, he married Margaret, daughter of Sir John Kennedy of Blairquhan Castle, Ayrshire.

William John Kennedy

William John Kennedy (1919–2005), better known as Uncle Jack Kennedy, was a lifelong activist for the rights of Australian Aborigines, a Wotjobaluk clan elder of the people who spoke the Wergaia language in the Wimmera region of western Victoria, Australia.