Kennedy granddaughter, great-grandson missing in Chesapeake Bay
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[April 04, 2020]
By Sharon Bernstein
(Reuters) - The granddaughter of the late
Robert F. Kennedy and her young son were missing on Friday after
drifting out into the Chesapeake Bay on a canoe, Maryland Governor Larry
Hogan said.
An intensive search continued for Maeve Fahey Townsend, and her son
Gideon, Hogan said.
Maeve Townsend is the daughter of former Maryland Lieutenant Governor
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and the granddaughter of Robert F. Kennedy,
who was assassinated while a candidate for the Democratic Party's
presidential nomination in 1968.
"I reached out to and spoke with Lieutenant Governor Townsend this
morning and on behalf of the people of Maryland I expressed our most
heartfelt sympathies," Hogan said in a briefing posted online.
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The Anne Arundel County Fire Department, one of the agencies
searching for Townsend and her son, said it had received a call on
Thursday at about 4:30 p.m. local time, reporting that two people in
a small canoe or kayak were drifting into Chesapeake Bay.
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Rescuers were sent to the area and a search began. At around 7 p.m.
local time the kayak and paddle were found, but not the missing
people, the department said.
(Reporting by Sharon Bernstein in Sacramento, California; Editing by
Sandra Maler)
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