From the moment former President John F. Kennedy stepped into the White House in the early 1960s, wife Jacqueline Kennedy on his arm, his sprawling brood has been making headlines.

The lasting impact of JFK's assassination alone pretty much guaranteed that his family would remain in the news forever.

Add in the fact that he was one of nine siblings and that many of those Kennedys dealt with their own tragedies —U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy 's 1968 assassination, just five years after his brother's and the 1999 plane crash that felled John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette , to name a few—and you'll understand the rapt fascination into the massive family, often considered America's version of royalty.

As for the discussion of their various misfortunes, "I've

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