Environmental journalist Tatiana Schlossberg, certainly one of three grandchildren of the late President John F. Kennedy, has died after she was identified with leukemia final 12 months. She was 35.
Schlossberg, daughter of Kennedy’s daughter, Caroline Kennedy, and Edwin Schlossberg, revealed she had terminal most cancers in a November 2025 essay in The New Yorker. A household assertion disclosing her loss of life was posted on social media Tuesday by the John F. Kennedy Library Basis.
“Our lovely Tatiana handed away this morning. She’s going to all the time be in our hearts,” the assertion mentioned. It didn’t disclose a reason behind loss of life or say the place she had died.
Schlossberg instructed of being identified with acute myeloid leukemia in Could 2024 at 34. Whereas within the hospital for the start of her second baby, her physician seen her white blood cell depend was excessive. It turned out to be acute myeloid leukemia with a uncommon mutation, principally seen in older folks.
Within the essay, “A Battle With My Blood,” Schlossberg recounted going by means of rounds of chemotherapy and two stem cell transplants and collaborating in scientific trials. Throughout the latest trial, she wrote, her physician instructed her “he might preserve me alive for a 12 months, possibly.”
Schlossberg additionally criticized insurance policies pushed by her mom’s cousin, Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., within the essay, saying insurance policies he backed might harm most cancers sufferers like her. Her mom had urged senators to reject his affirmation.
“As I spent an increasing number of of my life beneath the care of docs, nurses, and researchers striving to enhance the lives of others, I watched as Bobby lower almost a half billion {dollars} for analysis into mRNA vaccines, know-how that may very well be used in opposition to sure cancers,” the essay reads.
Schlossberg had labored as a reporter masking local weather change and the atmosphere for The New York Occasions’ Science part. Her 2019 e-book “Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impression You Don’t Know You Have” received the Society of Environmental Journalists’ Rachel Carson Surroundings E-book Award in 2020.
Schlossberg wrote in The New Yorker essay that she feared her daughter and son wouldn’t keep in mind her. She felt cheated and unhappy that she wouldn’t get to maintain dwelling “the fantastic life” she had together with her husband, George Moran.
Whereas her mother and father and two siblings tried to cover their ache from her, she mentioned she felt it daily. Her siblings, Rose and Jack Schlossberg, are JFK’s different grandchildren.
“For my complete life, I’ve tried to be good, to be a great pupil and a great sister and a great daughter, and to guard my mom and by no means make her upset or indignant,” she mentioned. “Now I’ve added a brand new tragedy to her life, to our household’s life, and there’s nothing I can do to cease it.”
Schlossberg’s mom Caroline was 5 years outdated 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 whereas he was working for president.
Caroline’s brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in 1999 when the single-engine aircraft he was piloting plunged into the Atlantic Ocean, close to Martha’s Winery, Massachusetts. His spouse, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, additionally died within the crash.
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Levy reported from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Brumfield from Cockeysville, Maryland.
