She was born in Washington , D.C. , six months after her father was assassinated . Her mother chose the name " Rory " after the last king of Ireland " Rory O'Conner who ruled in the 12th century . On December 19 , 1968 ( a week after Rory was born ) , her mother took her to her father 's grave at Arlington National Cemetery . Kennedy 's older brother Michael LeMoyne Kennedy was assigned as her godparent by their mother . Friends of the Kennedy family said the pair spoke almost every day of their lives . When Rory was a teenager , she was arrested during a protest outside the South African Embassy . When she was 15 , her brother David died from a drug overdose . Rory graduated from The Madeira School and then Brown University in Providence , Rhode Island . During her sophomore year there , she organized a rally in front of a Providence supermarket . In solidarity with migrant farm workers , she urged shoppers to boycott grapes
her father was assassinated
Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
Rory Kennedy