Inside Caroline Kennedy's Relationship With Her Dad

Caroline Kennedy was devastated by her father's death, but the Kennedy family is a large one, and there were relatives to step in as father figures for her and her brother, John F. Kennedy Jr. After the death of John F. Kennedy, his brother, Robert F. Kennedy, tried to fill the void he left behind. He spent a lot of time with Caroline and her brother and was fond of giving them piggyback rides. "He was very, very good to them," Kathy McKeon, Jackie Kennedy's assistant and author of the memoir "Jackie's Girl," told People. Caroline and her brother were crushed when faced with the early death of their uncle; she was just 10 years old when he was assassinated. "It was a very sad day, it was a sad day for everybody," said McKeon. 

Another Kennedy brother, Edward, did his best to look out for JFK's children. When Caroline Kennedy got married, it was her uncle who gave her away. "In our family, he has never missed a graduation, a first communion, or the chance to walk one of his nieces down the aisle," she said at the 2008 Democratic National Convention (via NCPR). "He has a special relationship with each of us, and his 60 great nieces and nephews all know that the best cookies and the best laughs are always found at Uncle Teddy's."