Article: Kennedy rushed to hospital after suffering a seizure

EDWARD KENNEDY, the veteran Democratic senator and patriarch of America's most famous political dynasty, was airlifted to hospital yesterday after suffering a seizure.

Mr Kennedy, 76, was flown by helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston after receiving initial treatment near the Kennedy family compound at Hyannisport, Cape Cod. He was due to undergo tests last night.

His Irish-American clan has been dogged by tragedy as well as clothed in political glory. Both of the senator's brothers, President John Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, were assassinated in the Sixties.

In an encouraging sign for his health, a spokeswoman for Mr Kennedy said later that he was "conscious, talking, ...

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