Tatiana Schlossberg, JFK's Granddaughter, Dead at 35

Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and the granddaughter of President John F. Kennedy, has died. She was 35.

The JFK Library Foundation shared the tragic news on Tuesday in a moving post.

"Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts."

The post is signed by George, Edwin, and Josephine Moran; Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose, and Rory.

Her Terminal Cancer Diagnosis

It was back in November -- exactly 62 years after her grandfather was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald -- when Schlossberg revealed in an emotional essay in The New Yorker that she had been battling with a "rare mutation" of acute myeloid leukemia.

The daughter of Caroline Kennedy was diagnosed with terminal cancer in May 2024 after she gave birth to her second child, and doctors noticed her white-blood-cell count was "strange."

"I did not—could not—believe that they were talking about me," she wrote in her essay. "I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant. I wasn't sick. I didn't feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew."

Schlossberg underwent two bone-marrow transplants, as well as chemo and immunotherapy, and even some clinical trials, but doctors tragically informed her that she had less than a year to live.

The Kennedy Legacy

Schlossberg was the second of Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg's three children. Caroline, of course, is JFK's eldest daughter, after JFK and Jackie had a stillbirth in 1956.

JFK and Jackie also shared sons, John F. Kennedy Jr, who tragically died in a plane crash in 1999, and Patrick, who died just days after he was born.

Following JFK's assassination in 1963, tragedy struck the Kennedys again in 1968, when Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1968 while campaigning for president at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Caroline would go on to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Australia and Japan. Her son, Jack, will follow in his mom and grandfather's political footsteps and run for U.S. Congress in New York.

Schlossberg is survived by her husband, George, their son and daughter, as well as her parents, Caroline Kennedy and Ed Schlossberg, and her siblings, Rose and Jack Schlossberg.