Why is America’s near-mythic dynasty so nasty up close?

Frida Ghitis: JFK 's wife Jacqueline Kennedy 's stillbirth was stillborn in 1956 .

She says JFK 's vacation to the Riviera forced him to cut short his vacation after learning of the stillbirth.

Ghitis says Ethel Kennedy 's death has brought the Kennedy family back to the public eye.

She asks: Why is America ’s near-mythic dynasty so nasty up close?.

John Avlon : JFK 's sons, JFK Jr. , John Jr. and Ethel Kennedy's sister-in-law choked to death on meat at dinner party.

Avlon says the fates have in store for these people—it’s tragic, actually, actually. It's eerie, he says, that in 1967 , Joan Skakel choked on a piece of meat at a dinner party, and in 1999 , Anthony Radziwill , John F. Kennedy Jr. died of testicular cancer. Patrick Kennedy died of consumption on November 22 , a date “which is seen by some as significant as it is exactly 105 years to the day before John .

Frida Ghitis : RFK Jr. seems to have come by his acceptance of the family mythology respectably.

She says RFK , Jr. has drawn attention to the family for other reasons as an independent and as a Republican who has endorsed Trump , which is seen as a betrayal.

Ghitis says he is playing for the wrong team and doing so without being as slick about how he conducts himself as other Kennedys have been.