Following the assassination, the family continued with their plans for a birthday party to demonstrate that they would go on despite the death of the president.Leamer, p. 1. They moved to the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C. for a short time, and then to a luxury apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, where Kennedy grew up. In 1967 his mother took him and Caroline on a six-week "sentimental journey" to Ireland, where they met President Éamon de Valera and visited the Kennedy ancestral home in Dunganstown.Heymann, pp. 145–146.
Following the assassination, the family continued with their plans for a birthday party to demonstrate that they would go on despite the death of the president.Leamer p. 1. They moved to the Georgetown area of Washington, D.C. for a short time, and then to a luxury apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, where Kennedy grew up. In 1967 his mother took him and Caroline on a six-week "sentimental journey" to Ireland, where they met President Éamon de Valera and visited the Kennedy ancestral home in Dunganstown.Heymann, pp. 145–146.