Douglas Kennedy Fox News, Bio, Family, Wife, Child Abuse, Russia

Douglas Kennedy Biography

Douglas Kennedy, born Douglas Harriman Kennedy, is an American Journalist and is known for being the tenth son of the late Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy. Kennedy works for FOX News Channel as an investigative reporter and a correspondent (FNC). He covers economics, finance, and politics.

Douglas Kennedy Age

Douglas is 55 years old as of 2022. He was born on March 24, 1967, in Washington, D.C., the U.S. He celebrates his birthday on the 24th of March every year.

Douglas Kennedy Height

Kennedy stands at a height of 1.7 meters.

Douglas Kennedy Family

Douglas was born and raised in Washington, U.S. He was born a year before his father, Robert F . Kennedy was assassinated. His mother is Ethel Kennedy, an American human rights advocate. He has 10 siblings; Christopher G. Kennedy, Max Kennedy, Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, David Kennedy, Rory Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Courtney Kennedy Hill, Joseph P Kennedy II, and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Kennedy was named in adoration of W. Averell Harriman a former governor of New York City.

Douglas Kennedy Wife

Douglas is married to Molly Elizabeth Stark The two got married on August 22, 1998, in Nantucket, Massachusetts. Molly is the daughter of Sharon Ellen Wing and John Sherwood Stark. The two have been blessed with 5 children; Riley Elizabeth Kennedy born in August 1999, Mary McCauley Kennedy born in August 2001 Rowen Francis Kennedy born in February 2004, George Skakel Kennedy born in April 2007 and Anthony Boru Kennedy born in January 2012.

Douglas Kennedy Net worth

His estimated net worth is not revealed to the public. As much as he comes from the Kennedy family, he does not like to attract public attention by displaying his wealth.

Douglas Kennedy Salary

His salary ranges from $93,653 – $109,739, which is a general salary that Fox News Channel correspondents earn.

Douglas Kennedy Education

He attended his early education at Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, MD, and later attended Brown University.

Douglas Kennedy Career

He began his career as a print journalist with The Nantucket Beacon and later The New York Post after graduating from Brown University. Kennedy broke multiple health-care and metropolitan-area stories as an investigative reporter for the Post, including the initial interview with the officer who captured Oklahoma City bombing suspect Timothy McVeigh.

He presently works for FOX News Channel as a correspondent (FNC). He began working for the network in 1996 and is currently based in New York. Kennedy just gave an inside peek at some of the more than 16,000 volunteers from all over the world who signed up to help Ukraine after the Russian invasion in 2022, including two from the New York Tri-State area. He had previously conducted an interview with a refugee who had been able to depart Afghanistan with his family after spending a decade assisting the US troops in disarming IEDs.

Kennedy also covered the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy from Staten Island, New York. He has delivered live coverage of many high-profile news topics while at FNC, including every presidential election since the network’s debut in 1996, the Iraq War, the World Trade Center attack on September 11th, and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Kennedy was the first national reporter to link anti-depressant medicines to adolescent suicide and violence in 2007, prompting government hearings that led to the Food and Drug Administration issuing black box warnings.

Douglas Kennedy Accusations of Child Abuse

Kennedy was acquitted of misdemeanor physical harassment and child endangerment charges on November 20, 2012, in connection with a confrontation with two nurses at Northern Westchester Hospital in Mount Kisco, New York, on January 7, 2012, two days after his son, Anthony Boru, was born there.

Kennedy sought to take his infant outside the maternity unit for some fresh air, which two nurses claimed was against hospital protocol and that he assaulted them when they tried to stop him. Following the incident, Kennedy was investigated separately by New York child welfare officials, but social workers discovered no signs of child abuse in his household and deemed the charges false in March 2012.