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Robert’s widow Ethel, 91, said the “world is a little less beautiful today” following her granddaughter’s sudden death. 

The night the light faded: Bobby Kennedy’s assassination changed history

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Georgia Engel, best known for her role as soft-voiced Georgette Franklin on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” died April 12  at age 70. Engel played the sweet, ever-so-innocent girlfriend and later wife of self-important TV anchor Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) on “Moore,” and later appeared on “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Coach,” the soap “Passions,” and, more recently, in “Hot in Cleveland.” Chris Pizzello, Invision/AP

Jan-Michael Vincent, star of the hit series “Airwolf” and ’80s hunk, died Feb. 10 in Asheville, N.C. He was 73. Vincent acted in a number of feature films, sharing the screen with the likes of John Wayne, Rock Hudson, and Charles Bronson, and appeared in episodes of iconic shows “Lassie,” “Bonanza” and “Gunsmoke.” He made headlines as the highest-paid American television actor, receiving $200,000 an episode during the filming of “Airwolf.”  Associated Press

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Although the political family’s statement did not list a cause of death, the New York Times and The Hyannis News report that Hill died of an apparent overdose. 

The Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office told the Times and People that Barnstable police responded to “a reported unattended death” Thursday afternoon.

“The matter remains under investigation by the Barnstable police as well as state police detectives assigned to the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office,” Assistant District Attorney Tara Miltimore said. 

The district attorney’s office did not immediately respond to USA TODAY’s request for comment.

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Hill was a member of Boston College’s class of 2020, the university confirmed to the Boston Globe. Before that, she attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts, where she opened up about her struggles with mental illness. 

“My depression took root in the beginning of my middle school years and will be with me for the rest of my life,” she wrote in a 2016 essay for the school’s student newspaper. “Although I was mostly a happy child, I suffered bouts of deep sadness that felt like a heavy boulder on my chest.”

Hill revealed that she “attempted to take my own life” two weeks before her junior year began and took a “medical leave” from school to receive treatment for depression. She said she returned to Deerfield Academy her senior year. 

“Just because the illness may not be outwardly visible doesn’t mean the person suffering from it isn’t struggling,” she wrote. “Let’s come together to make our community more inclusive and comfortable.”

Saoirse’s death adds to the compendium of tragedies that have befallen the Kennedy family, exemplifying the so-called “Kennedy curse.” Among such tragedies is the assassination of her grandfather, “Bobby” Kennedy, who was killed the same night he won the New York and California presidential primaries in the 1968 election. Bobby’s death was preceded by the assassination of his brother, former president Kennedy, in 1963. 

Other members of the Kennedy family have died from other causes, including plane crashes, World War II combat, alcohol and drug addiction, and various other accidents. Those individuals include a brother and sister of former president John and congressman Bobby, as well as the former president’s son, wife, and sister-in-law. 

Additionally, last month marked the 50th anniversary of the Chappaquiddick incident, in which Edward “Ted” Kennedy, then a senator, drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island in Martha’s Vineyard. Though he survived, his 28-year-old passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, was killed.

Saoirse’s uncle, David Anthony Kennedy, struggled with alcohol and drug addiction and was found dead in 1984 at a Palm Beach hotel, the Times reported. Thirty years afterward, Saoirse wrote an online message to her uncle, in which she called him a “kind and gentle spirit who went through unimaginable struggles” in his life, according to the Times.

Contributing: Associated Press

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Children of Sen. and Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy arrive, June 5, 1968 at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. near Washington, after an evening flight from Los Angeles where their father was shot earlier in the day. Coming down ramp of an Air Force plane are, from bottom, Kerry, 8 assisted by an unidentified aide; Michael, 10, Courtnay, 11, and David, 13. Others inside plane include Astronaut John Glenn, back to camera, assisting Christopher, 4. Charles Harrity, AP

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