Patrick Bouvier Kennedy it was necessary. On the morning of Wednesday, August 7, Jackie Kennedy took Caroline and John Jr for a pony ride in Osterville, Massachusetts. While the children were riding, Kennedy felt labor pains. Walsh was summoned, and they were taken by helicopter to the Otis Air Force Base. President Kennedy was at the White House at the time. August 7 was the 20-year anniversary of the day the Navy had rescued him in World War II after he had spent five days marooned on an island in the Pacific. Kennedy had been in command of Motor Torpedo Boat "PT-109" when
Caroline Spencer, Duchess of Marlborough Caroline Spencer, Duchess of Marlborough Caroline Spencer, Duchess of Marlborough (January 1743 – 26 November 1811), formerly Lady Caroline Russell, was the wife of George Spencer, 4th Duke of Marlborough. Caroline was the daughter of John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford, and his second wife, the former Gertrude Leveson-Gower. She married the duke on 23 August 1762 at Bedford House, Bloomsbury, London. Their children were: A letter survives from Caroline to Ozias Humphrey, which has been approximately dated to 1788. In it she refers to a portrait drawing of her husband by Thomas Gainsborough. Gainsborough having died in 1788, she