Caroline supported her son's political campaign on 'CBS News Sunday Morning' as Jack revealed the last words his older sister told him before her death
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- Caroline Kennedy made a rare TV appearance to support her son Jack Schlossberg’s bid to join the U.S. House of Representatives
- Caroline and her husband, Edwin Schlossberg, sat down for an interview for the March 1 episode of CBS News Sunday Morning, and endorsed their son
- The rare interview came two months after the death of the couple’s daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg, at age 35 following a diagnosis of acute myeloid leukemia
Caroline Kennedy voiced her support for her son Jack Schlossberg's political career in a rare TV appearance that aired two months after the death of her daughter, Tatiana Schlossberg.
The former United States Ambassador to Australia, 68, sat down for an interview on the March 1 episode of CBS News Sunday Morning alongside her husband, Edwin Schlossberg. Speaking with correspondent Mo Rocca, the parents both endorsed their 33-year-old son's bid to join the U.S. House of Representatives.
"I don't want to make any assumptions here, but there are about a dozen candidates running for the Democratic nomination. Who are you backing?" asked Rocca, prompting a smile and laugh from both Caroline and her artist husband, 80.
"Jack for New York 12. Believe in something again," said Caroline, as Edwin agreed, "Yes, Jack. My son."
The daughter of John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy shared more praise for her son, telling Rocca, "He's willing to take the consequences of what people think. And we need people who can reach a new generation. We're not doing it with just boring talking points."
Jack, Caroline continued, "has been able to connect with people. He's been able to show that he thinks for himself."
She also addressed the fact that Jack is running an unusual political campaign, electing not to run a formal campaign organization or hire a manager for it.
"Well, I really trust Jack. I trust his judgment. I mean, some of the other people have been preparing for this for years and years, but he came to this new. I mean, he's the outsider in this race, actually," she said, agreeing with Rocca that it's an "ironic" fact. "And I think, you know, people might laugh when they hear that, but it's actually true."
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"I think he'd be great at this," Caroline said elsewhere during the conversation of Jack, who has a bachelor's degree from Yale University and studied at Harvard Law and Business School for his M.B.A. and J.D. "I mean, we need people with that kind of education and we need people who are really informed and bring a set of values and have the courage to speak up. And I think Jack does all those things."
Plus, Jack's father added, he also has "a sense of humor."
The Sunday Morning interview in support of Jack was not just a rare TV appearance for both Caroline and her husband. It also marked their first since the death of their daughter Tatiana at age 35.
The middle child of Caroline and Edwin — who also share daughter Rose Schlossberg, 37 — died on Dec. 30, 2025, following a journey with acute myeloid leukemia.
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Her death was announced in a social media post from the JFK Library Foundation on behalf of her family. "Our beautiful Tatiana passed away this morning. She will always be in our hearts," read the post, signed by "George, Edwin and Josephine Moran, Ed, Caroline, Jack, Rose and Rory."
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Caroline did not discuss Tatiana in her interview with Sunday Morning, but Jack did in his own sit-down with Rocca. While speaking with the correspondent, the political candidate revealed that his late sister's final words to him were, "You better win."
"I can tell you now that she's still rooting for us," Jack said of his late sister, "and that the last thing that she said to me was, 'You better win.' … No one knew me better, and I knew no one better than her."
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Tatiana, a journalist, spent several years as a reporter with The New York Times, covering science and climate, after a stint at The Record in New Jersey. In November 2025, she wrote about her experience with cancer in an essay published by The New Yorker.
In it, Tatiana, who welcomed two kids — Edwin, 3, and Josephine, 1 — with husband George Moran, revealed that she was diagnosed immediately after Josephine's birth in 2024. "I had swum a mile in the pool the day before, nine months pregnant," she wrote in the essay. "I wasn’t sick. I didn’t feel sick. I was actually one of the healthiest people I knew."
Caroline was days from turning 6 years old when her father was assassinated on Nov. 22, 1963. Her brother, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in a plane crash in 1999.
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