The Kennedys are good at killing someone else … or getting themselves killed … or killing themselves … or brushing with the law in other lethal/legal matters.

2 people were killed in Teddy's airplane June 19, 1964.

Mary Jo Kopechne was killed in Teddy's car July 18, 1969. The professional diver said she did not drown … she suffocated over a 2-3 hour period while criminally negligent Teddy was leaving the scene of an accident and seeking alibis. He did not report the accident until the next day, after other people had found the scene and reported it. No autopsy was ever performed.

JohnJohn Kennedy killed his wife, her sister, and himself in his airplane off Martha's Vineyard.

Jack Kennedy stupidly got himself killed in 1963, thinking he was invincible and everyone loved him.

Bobby Kennedy got himself killed in 1968, thinking he would become President.

Ted had to give up on the idea of becoming President because after his fiascos, he had nothing to offer.

David A. Kennedy, son of Robert, died of a drug overdose in a Palm Beach, Florida, hotel April 25, 1984. He was 28.

In 1991, William Kennedy Smith, son of Jean Kennedy, the sister of Ted, Bobby and Jack Kennedy, was tried and acquitted on a charge of rape, represented by Miami-based criminal defense attorney Roy Black in a trial that attracted extensive media coverage. The incident began on the evening of Good Friday, March 29, 1991, when Smith, then 30 years old, was in a bar (named Au Bar) in Palm Beach, Florida, with his uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy, and his cousin Patrick J. Kennedy. Smith met Patricia Bowman, a 29-year-old woman and another young woman at the bar. The five then went to a nearby house owned by the Kennedy family. Smith and the 29-year-old woman walked along the beach. The woman alleged that Smith raped her; Smith testified that they had consensual sex. Although three women were willing to testify that Smith had sexually assaulted them in incidents in the 1980s that were not reported to the police, their testimony was excluded. Smith was acquitted of all charges. In 2004, a former employee of the Center for International Rehabilitation alleged that Smith had sexually assaulted her in 1999, and brought a civil action against him. Smith denied her charges, calling them "outrageous" and saying that "family and personal history have made me unusually vulnerable to these kinds of charges" and resigned from the CIR. On January 5, 2005, the court dismissed the employee's lawsuit. Later in 2005, Smith settled with another employee who accused him of sexual harassment.

Joseph Kennedy, a son of Robert and Ethel Kennedy, withdrew from the Massachusetts gubernatorial race in the wake of publicity surrounding his request for an annulment of his first marriage and accusations that his younger brother Michael Kennedy had had sex with his teenage babysitter. Cousin John Kennedy, Jr., called the pair “poster boys for bad behavior” in the September issue of his George magazine. In 1997 the news broke that Michael was having an affair with the family's former babysitter. Allegations were reported that the affair had begun three years before, when the babysitter was 14 years old. Kennedy took and passed three polygraph tests claiming he had not had sex with the Cohasset teen until she was 16, the legal age of consent in Massachusetts at the time. Kennedy was placed under investigation for statutory rape. The babysitter, however, did not cooperate with prosecutors. Shortly after the scandal began, Kennedy and his wife separated. After the affair, he checked himself into a Maryland rehab center for alcoholics. Michael Kennedy died on December 31, 1997, in a skiing accident in Aspen Mountain, Colorado. He was playing football while on skis with several other members of the Kennedy family when at approximately 4:15 p.m. he hit a tree. Kennedy was not wearing a helmet or other safety equipment. Some have stated that the family had been previously warned by the ski patrol to cease the activity. Following the accident Kennedy was taken to Aspen Valley Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 5:50 p.m.

Michael Skakel, a nephew of Ethel Skakel Kennedy, was finally found and convicted of the bludgeoning murder of Martha Moxley. Martha Moxley (August 16, 1960 – October 30, 1975) of Greenwich, Connecticut, was a 15-year-old American high school student who was murdered in 1975. She was last seen alive spending time at the home of the Skakel family, across the street from her home in Belle Haven. Michael Skakel, also 15 at the time, was convicted in 2002 of murdering Moxley and sentenced to 20 years to life. In 2013, he was granted a new trial by a Connecticut judge and released on $1.2 million bail. On December 30, 2016, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 4–3 to reinstate Skakel's conviction. The Connecticut Supreme Court vacated the conviction on May 4, 2018 and ordered a new trial.

Several years ago, Patrick Kennedy, Teddy's son, drunk as a skunk in a parking lot, rammed his car into a barricade at the US Capitol in the wee hours of the morning. Kennedy has acknowledged being treated for cocaine use during his teenage years, and admitted that he abused alcohol and other drugs while he was a student at Providence College. He sought treatment for an OxyContin addiction in 2006. Due to his experience with addiction, Kennedy advocates against the legalization of marijuana. On May 4, 2006, Kennedy crashed his automobile into a barricade on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., at 2:45 a.m. A United States Capitol Police official said the congressman had appeared intoxicated when he crashed his car. According to Kennedy, he was disoriented from the prescription medications Ambien and Phenergan. Anonymous sources are alleged to have seen Kennedy drinking at the nearby Hawk & Dove bar prior to the accident. Kennedy also stated to officers that he was "late for a vote". However, the last vote of the night had occurred almost six hours earlier. The standard field sobriety test was not administered, and Kennedy was driven home by an officer (double standard?). On May 5, 2006, Kennedy admitted publicly that he had an addiction to prescription medication and announced he would be readmitting himself to a drug-rehabilitation facility at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota where he had sought treatment for prior addictions. He has stated that he has no recollection of the car crash. On May 8, 2006, Kennedy got a show of support when he was endorsed by the Rhode Island Democratic Party. On June 5, 2006, Kennedy was released from drug rehabilitation. On June 13, 2006, Kennedy made a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to a charge of driving under the influence of prescription drugs. He was sentenced to one-year probation and a fine of $350. Two of the three charges (reckless driving and failure to exhibit a driving permit) were dismissed. He was also ordered to attend a rehabilitation program that includes weekly urine tests, twice-weekly meetings with a probation officer, near-daily Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and a weekly meeting of recovering addicts. On June 12, 2009, Kennedy announced that he had again entered rehab, for an indefinite time at an undisclosed facility. In a statement to the press, Kennedy said that his recovery is a "life-long process" and that he would do whatever it takes to preserve his health: "I have decided to temporarily step away from my normal routine to ensure that I am being as vigilant as possible in my recovery", Kennedy said.

Lots of the Kennedys had drinking and substance abuse problems. Many had marital fidelity problems.

Only God knows what else has gone on in that reckless, arrogant family.

Charles Darwin would have been especially interested in this family, as he explored survival and extinction of various species.

In contrast, the evil Clintons, who are very familiar with rape and sexual assault, and other abuses, public and private, have much better overall survival skills.