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Caroline Bouvier Kennedy Schlossberg (born November 27,1957) is the daughter of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline. Since the 1999 death of John F. Kennedy Jr., she is the only surviving child of John F. Kennedy. Caroline Kennedy should not be confused with her late sister-in-law, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy.
Caroline Kennedy lived from age three until just after her sixth birthday in the White House. After the assassination of her father in November 1963, she lived with her mother and brother in New York City (in the penthouse apartment at 1040 Fifth Avenue, on the Upper East Side of Manhattan).
In 1972, she went to Concord Academy in Massachusetts. She worked on a documentary on the lives of Tennessee coal miners. She later interned with both her uncle senator Ted Kennedy, and The New York Daily News. She began working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1980, where she met her husband, the noted exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg. They have three children.
She graduated from Harvard University and from Columbia Law School.
She and Ellen Alderman have written two books together on civil liberties:
- In Our Defense - The Bill of Rights In Action (1990) and
- The Right to Privacy (1995)
She was one of the founders of the Profiles in Courage Award, given annually to someone who exemplifies the type of courage examined in her father's book of the same name. The award is generally given to elected officials who, acting in accord with their conscience, risk their careers by pursuing a larger vision of the national, state or local interest in opposition to popular opinion or powerful pressures from their constituents. In May of 2002, she presented an unprecedented Profiles in Courage Award to representatives of the NYPD, the FDNY, and the military as representatives of all of the people who acted courageously to save the lives of others on September 11, 2001.
She is currently (as of 2004) the president of the Kennedy Library Foundation, and is the chairperson of the American Ballet Theatre.
