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Kara Kennedy, daughter of Teddy Kennedy, has died of a heart attack at 51

Posted on Saturday, September 17, 2011 at 02:37 AM

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Kara Kennedy, oldest child of Senator Edward Kennedy has died of a heart attack sources told Irish Central.

She took ill at a Washington D.C health club on Friday night and died soon after.

Former Rep. Patrick Kennedy released a statement saying his sister Kara, oldest child of late Sen. Ted Kennedy, had died.

She had previously survived a near fatal bout with lung cancer and had been in remission from the disease.

She was just 51.

Kara Kennedy Allen was born February 27, 1960 to Teddy and Joan Kennedy, she has two siblings, Teddy Junior and Patrick, the former Congressman.

Kara was a graduate of Tufts University in Massachusetts and was a producer for VSA arts, a non profit organization founded by her aunt Jean Kennedy Smith.

She was on the National Advisory Board of the National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. and a director emerita and a national trustee of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

Previously she was a producer for the television program 'Evening Magazine' in Boston.

She was married to Michael Allen a professional sailor in 1990 and they had two children, Grace and Max.

In 2002, at age 42, she was diagnosed with lung cancer that was first deemed inoperable but working with her father they identified a treatment that helped save her life at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

On August 12, 2009, she accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama on behalf of her father who was terminally ill at the time.

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BallinaLass | Sep 19, 2011, 10:00 AM EDT

Very sad. Deep condolences to her husband and their children, as well as the extended Kennedy family.

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manhattan | Sep 18, 2011, 11:14 AM EDT

Eiriiamach, loved your response to those disgusting comments by Falconflash. People are sharing there heartfelt sympathy on the death of Kara and this fanatic calls her family abortionists? In dealing with people like the falcon I have always found them to be a very cold and uncaring people who have thought of themselves as protectors of the unborn but care little for those already here.

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JackieLynn | Sep 18, 2011, 07:30 AM EDT

That's so sad. I'm not a huge Kennedy fan overall, but she always seemed like a really good person. Like she'd be a fierce friend. And RIP to Ms Mondale, too.

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LacarourSeanB | Sep 18, 2011, 01:01 AM EDT

Godspeed, Kara. There'll be a Rosary said for you here within the next day. Condolences to and prayers for, Kennedy clan.

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eiriamach | Sep 18, 2011, 12:43 AM EDT

What? Even the death of a Kennedy becomes a pretext for an anti-abortion rant on Irish Central? Shoddy, falconflash! If you have no respect, try to pretend so that the rest of us can be spared your mean-spiritedness.

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falconflash | Sep 17, 2011, 09:47 PM EDT

Heartfelt condolences on the loss of a loved one, of course, oaklongan, but spare me the "outstanding Kennedy family" stuff.......these Kennedys are all big-time abortionists, and as such DON'T have the American people at heart.... the murder of unborn children has no excuse. A family shame.

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oaklongan | Sep 17, 2011, 08:13 PM EDT

Heartfelt Condolences for the Good and Outstanding Kennedy Family who have had the Best Interests on behalf of the Anerican People at Heart.

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Woodman | Sep 17, 2011, 06:32 PM EDT

This should be lesson to everyone. She'd be alive today if she stayed out of the gym. Remember. Exercise Kills.

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AngelPrecious | Sep 17, 2011, 03:06 PM EDT

Manhattan, they both have died and I also find it unreal! May they both be resting in peace!

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manhattan | Sep 17, 2011, 02:58 PM EDT

I just read that Walter Mondale's daughter died today of a brain tumor, she also was 51. Did Irish Central get it mixed up? If both died at the same age on the same day and both were famous politicians daughters , it would be unreal.

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biggles008 | Sep 17, 2011, 02:05 PM EDT

It's sad. R.I.P

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torbreezy | Sep 17, 2011, 01:32 PM EDT

Requiescat in pace . . . .

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runningmom | Sep 17, 2011, 12:45 PM EDT

This is very sad. Another loss for the Kennedy family. What is incredible is that Walkter Mondale's daughter, Eleanor, passed away today at the age of 51. May they rest in peace.

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McNamara31 | Sep 17, 2011, 12:28 PM EDT

God Bless Kara, and peace to her family.

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Niall O'Dowd | Sep 17, 2011, 12:08 PM EDT

Maine Miss we would never report such a story without the full facts. It has now been confimed by NBC among others

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