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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (46115)	5/13/2004 3:26:30 PM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Background Czech Oy! Sen. John Kerry just found out that, despite his Irish-sounding name, his grandparents were Jewish. The Boston Globe recently commissioned a genealogist to delve into the past of the Democrat from Massachusetts. In a page out of former Secretary of State Madeline Albright's book, it turns out Kerry's grandfather, Frederick Kerry, was born Fritz Kohn in what is now the Czech Republic. Kohn left this world in 1921, when he shot himself in the men's room of Boston's Copley Plaza Hotel. Although it was front page news at the time, Kerry never knew the details of the suicide. He was shaken when shown a copy of the article last week. "This is incredible stuff," said the shocked senator. "It is more than interesting, it is a revelation." Kerry's mother, Rosemary, is a scion of the posh Forbes and Winthrop families, both Boston Brahmin clans. Kerry, who is a practicing Catholic, has often been identified in published reports as having an Irish background, but his spokeswoman insisted that he's tried to correct the error. Ironically, his brother, Boston lawyer Cameron Kerry, converted to Judaism upon marrying his Jewish wife in 1983. nydailynews.com