{"id":74224,"date":"2025-12-31T00:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74224\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:13:07","slug":"tatiana-schlossberg-granddaughter-of-jfk-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/74224\/","title":{"rendered":"Tatiana Schlossberg, granddaughter of JFK, has died"},"content":{"rendered":"

By MARC LEVY and SARAH BRUMFIELD, Associated Press<\/p>\n

Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, one of three grandchildren of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died after she was diagnosed with leukemia last year. She was 35.<\/p>\n

Schlossberg, daughter of Kennedy\u2019s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, revealed\u00a0she had terminal cancer<\/a>\u00a0in a November 2025 essay in The New Yorker. A family statement disclosing her death was posted on social media Tuesday by the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts,\u201d the statement said. It did not disclose a cause of death or say where she had died.<\/p>\n

\"FILEFILE \u2013 Caroline Kennedy, ambassador of the United States to Australia, left, arrives with her husband, Edwin Schlossberg, center left, and her children, Tatiana Schlossberg, center right, and Jack Schlossberg, right, Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023, before the presentation ceremony for the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, in Boston. (AP Photo\/Steven Senne, File)<\/p>\n

Schlossberg told of being diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia in May 2024 at 34. While in the hospital for the birth of her second child, her doctor noticed her white blood cell count was high. It turned out to be acute myeloid leukemia with a rare mutation, mostly seen in older people.<\/p>\n

In the essay,\u00a0\u201cA Battle With My Blood,\u201d<\/a>\u00a0Schlossberg recounted going through rounds of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants and participating in clinical trials. During the most recent trial, she wrote, her doctor told her \u201che could keep me alive for a year, maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schlossberg also criticized policies pushed by her mother\u2019s cousin, Health and Human Services Secretary\u00a0Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a>, in the essay, saying policies he backed could hurt cancer patients like her. Her mother had urged senators to reject his confirmation.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs I spent more and more of my life under the care of doctors, nurses, and researchers striving to improve the lives of others, I watched as Bobby cut nearly a half billion dollars for research into mRNA vaccines, technology that could be used against certain cancers,\u201d the essay reads.<\/p>\n

Schlossberg had worked as a reporter covering climate change and the environment for The New York Times\u2019 Science section. Her 2019 book \u201cInconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don\u2019t Know You Have\u201d won the Society of Environmental Journalists\u2019 Rachel Carson Environment Book Award in 2020.<\/p>\n

Schlossberg wrote in The New Yorker essay that she feared her daughter and son wouldn\u2019t remember her. She felt cheated and sad that she wouldn\u2019t get to keep living \u201cthe wonderful life\u201d she had with her husband, George Moran.<\/p>\n

While her parents and two siblings tried to hide their pain from her, she said she felt it every day. Her siblings, Rose and Jack Schlossberg, are JFK\u2019s other grandchildren.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor my whole life, I have tried to be good, to be a good student and a good sister and a good daughter, and to protect my mother and never make her upset or angry,\u201d she said. \u201cNow I have added a new tragedy to her life, to our family\u2019s life, and there\u2019s nothing I can do to stop it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schlossberg\u2019s mother Caroline was 5 years old when her father, President Kennedy, was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. She was 10 when her uncle, Robert F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Los Angeles in 1968 while he was running for president.<\/p>\n

Caroline\u2019s brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in 1999 when the single-engine plane he was piloting plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, near Martha\u2019s Vineyard, Massachusetts. His wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, also died in the crash.<\/p>\n

Levy reported from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Brumfield from Cockeysville, Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By MARC LEVY and SARAH BRUMFIELD, Associated Press Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, one of three grandchildren of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179,38420],"class_list":{"0":"post-74224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news","11":"tag-tatiana-schlossberg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}