Patrick Bouvier Kennedy

Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (August 7, 1963 – August 9, 1963) was the youngest child of United States President, John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy and brother to Arabella, Caroline and John Jr. Patrick Bouvier Kennedy was born by emergency caesarean section five and a half weeks early at the Otis Air Force Base Hospital in Bourne, Massachusetts. His birth weight of 4 pounds 10+⁄2 ounces (2.11 kg) medically classified him as premature. Right after his birth, he was transferred to Boston Children's Hospital where he died two days later of hyaline membrane disease. His obituary in The New York Times stated that, at that time, all that could be done for a victim of hyaline membrane disease "is to monitor the infant's...