Caroline Kennedy Honors Late Daughter at JFK Courage Award

Caroline Kennedy publicly honored her late daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, for the first time during an emotional speech at the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award ceremony on Sunday. The event was held at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston.

Kennedy, the 68-year-old daughter of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, grew emotional as she remembered her daughter, who died in December at age 35 after a battle with acute myeloid leukemia. "Most of all, we remember Tatiana, who served on the board of this library and represented everything my parents stood for in her beautiful, amazing, and too-short life," Kennedy told the audience.

Tatiana Schlossberg was an environmental journalist and a member of the Profile in Courage Award Committee. She had shared her diagnosis in a November essay, revealing the leukemia was terminal and had been discovered through routine blood tests after the birth of her second child. She is survived by her husband, George Moran, and their two young children.

In her speech, Kennedy framed public service as a family endeavor, expressing gratitude for relatives in attendance, including Schlossberg's in-laws and her son,...