Kennedy was five days shy of her sixth birthday when her father was assassinated on November 22 , 1963 . The following year , Caroline , her mother , and brother John F. Kennedy Jr. settled on the Upper East Side of Manhattan , where she attended school . Kennedy graduated from Radcliffe College and worked at Manhattan 's Metropolitan Museum of Art , where she met her future husband , exhibit designer Edwin Schlossberg . She went on to receive a J.D. degree from Columbia Law School . Most of Kennedy 's professional life has spanned law and politics , as well as education reform and charitable work . She has also acted as a spokesperson for her family 's legacy and co-authored two books with Ellen Aldermanon on civil liberties
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