While the Kennedy Curse has already been discussed in a previous list, we have to come back to it because there’s been another victim since that list was published. The death in question was that of the second wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who committed suicide in 2012. That incident revived talk about the infamous curse that has haunted the Kennedy family for ages, which begs the question: Who started this curse?
If the stories are to be believed, it was John F. Kennedy’s great-grandfather Thomas Fitzgerald who started it all. In 1842, he discovered a chest full of gold coins in an Irish village. Supposedly, the coins were cursed, and the village from which he took them was soon destroyed. Fitzgerald fled with his treasure to Boston, where he used it to start his own business and was soon filthy rich.
Another origin story of the curse came from JFK’s father, Joseph, who had an unfortunate run-in with some Jews. According to the tale, he told a rabbi and his students to stop their prayers while they were on a passenger ship together. Angry, the rabbi cursed him and claimed that his descendants would suffer great misfortune. In another version, it was a Jewish father who placed the curse on Joseph after he refused to help his sons escape from a concentration camp. In yet one more account of the curse, it was an entire Jewish village that cursed Kennedy after they discovered he was dealing weapons to the Nazis. The man must have had some serious issues.
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