BND - KYLE Kennedy, RFK's granddaughter, dies at 42

🗞️ Story file #703

KYLE Kennedy, RFK's granddaughter, dies at 42

Oct 20, 1 PM ET to Oct 20, 6 PM ET

14outlets carried it
🫏4 · 3 · 7🐘left · center · right
5 hourson the front pages
14front pages at once, at its peak

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 20, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Daily Beast
Oct 20, 6 PM ETpeak: on 14 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 20, 1 PM to Oct 20, 6 PM ET (peak 14), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

💬 quoted: “struggles”

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 spinal cord injury

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

New York Post (2 wordings): “Kyle Kennedy, RFK’s granddaughter dies at 42 — years after suffering tragic spinal cord injury” → “Years of 'struggles' Kyle Kennedy, RFK’s granddaughter dies at 42 — years after suffering tragic spinal cord injury”
Newsweek (2 wordings): “Who is Kyle Kennedy? Granddaughter of Bobby and Ethel Kennedy, Dies at 42” → “Who Was Kyle Kennedy? Granddaughter of Bobby and Ethel Kennedy Dies at 42”
The Gateway Pundit (2 wordings): “Robert Kennedy Sr’s Granddaughter Dead at 42” → “3 Robert Kennedy Sr’s Granddaughter Dead at 42”
The Sun (2 wordings): “GONE TOO SOON RFK's granddaughter dead at 42 six years after severe spinal cord injury KYLE Kennedy passed away peacefully at her Westwood, Massachusetts, home on September 21, according to her online obituary.” → “GONE TOO SOON RFK's granddaughter dead at 42 six years after severe spinal cord injury”
USA Today (2 wordings): “Robert F. Kennedy's granddaughter Kyle Kennedy dies at 42” → “Kyle Kennedy, RFK's granddaughter, dies at 42”

Every outlet's first headline (14), left to right by AllSides rating