Edward Kennedy Has Passed Away

The last surviving Kennedy brother, Senator Edward Kennedy, has died at the age of 77.

The Kennedy family released a statement on Wednesday saying:

“Edward M. Kennedy, the husband, father, grandfather, brother and uncle we loved so deeply, died late Tuesday night at home in Hyannis Port (Massachusetts).”

Known as ‘Teddy, his brothers were President John Kennedy, assassinated in 1963, Senator Robert Kennedy, fatally shot while campaigning for the 1968 Democratic presidential nomination, and Joe Kennedy, a pilot killed in World War Two.