It was the blood, which has attracted the attention of passersby, the tube that runs down the face of the woman a long red with tears, when he was trying to break the deadlock on the Beacon Street sidewalk. He seemed disoriented homeless man wandered in the back near the Bay, Boston Common. "He said it was okay, but it is not good," says Constance Bacon, a defenseless woman protected from the rain, waiting for the ambulance. "He was conscious. He had just hit his head pretty hard. He knew that he had fallen, and tried to get up and could not. So I waited until the ambulance came. I had no idea who it was that it was something special ".
It took a little over a day to Bacon and the rest of the world to discover that the woman she had helped him a household name in the world that this person was bloody and disheveled former model once nicknamed " dishes "by her brother. former President John F. Kennedy As with the other members of the Kennedy clan, has become famous not something new for her. His fall, causing a concussion and a fractured shoulder, was the latest incident in a long and very public battle Joan Bennett Kennedy has led to alcoholism.
"No, he did not seem drunk," Bacon said repeatedly in later. But a source close to Kennedy, Kennedy's three children, says the alcohol limit was clearly the legal limit when tested in the hospital the same evening. Limits its ability to take care of them had been passed, the fight scene worthy of any political or media skirmishes, in which Kennedy was involved in recent years.
JOAN KENNEDY began drinking secretly in the months before his accident, and his drug of choice was the mouthwash and vanilla extract. Both alcohol content sufficient to quench his thirst for the production of cruel rank smell of spirits. Janitorial complained that Kennedy, 68, had begun to lock him out of the Beacon Street apartment building, where time in-law of presidential life. (It also has a beach house in Hyannis Port.) Kennedy said the guardian of his son, Patrick, Rhode Island congressman, large amounts of vanilla extract, was to bring his mother home from the market. "He said, she started baking," says a friend of the Kennedy children. "He would say to the men of the house, they meet somewhere and not be seen. Aunt was trying to lose them."
Suspicious amounts of mouthwash has disappeared from the bathroom. And Kennedy had frequent absences from meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, which he attended during periods of sobriety. In the world of AA, identities are closely guarded, and a shapely woman in a baseball cap and gets expensive difference was not homeless, drunk alcohol, smoking still confused wandering in the Park Street T station, attracted by coffee and cookies. The meeting was not a Kennedy, but simply "Jeanne", an alcoholic with a destructive disease of the soul.
Liquor does not discriminate. Still, Kennedy had a lot of fooling people. It cleans well and has continued to travel in elite circles. In fact, his close friend, philanthropist Ann Gund, already requires that Kennedy had to stay sober. Kennedy's doctors did not agree. Vanilla mouthwash, and he apparently swallowed regularly enough to cause damage his kidneys, his sons, saying it was within a year requires dialysis to survive. This, and took a loss of Beacon Street, was much more than just embarrassing encounter with the bottle. Kidney problems, a concussion and broken shoulder lanes at Kennedy for theses children had for some time: their mother was not able to take care of themselves.