John F. Fitzgerald him the nickname 'Honey Fitz'. His daughter Rose married Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., a son of his political rival P. J. Kennedy. In old age, Fitzgerald helped his grandson John F. Kennedy to win his first seat in congress. John Francis Fitzgerald was born in the North End of Boston, to Irish businessman/politician Thomas Fitzgerald of Bruff, County Limerick, and Rosanna Cox of County Cavan. He was the fourth of twelve children. Both of his sisters, Ellen and Mary, and his eldest brother, Michael, died in infancy. Fitzgerald's brother Joseph had severe brain damage from malaria and barely functioned. Only
Robert Scott (author) Robert Scott (author) Robert Scott (c. 1941 – January 9, 2015) was a "New York Times" best-selling American non-fiction author who wrote 20 true crime books. Scott attended Diablo Valley College. In the late 1990s, after reading newspaper accounts about a series of local murders, Scott, a delivery company driver at the time, began researching and writing a book about a couple, James Daveggio and Michelle Michaud, who committed murders in the county in which Scott lived. In 2001, Kensington Books, as a Pinnacle Books imprint, released his book about the couple's murderous crime spree, titled "Rope Burns". In November