BOSTON — Joan B. Kennedy, the former wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy who endured a long and troubled marriage marked by family tragedies, her husband's infidelities and her own struggles with alcoholism and mental health, died on Wednesday. She was 89.

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The first wife of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, Joan Kennedy, died Wednesday at the age of 89

She endured the assassinations of two brothers-in-law and stood by her husband through the Chappaquiddick scandal as well as through his failed 1980 run for president

The couple divorced in 1982

She worked for the mentally challenged and other causes but also struggled with mental health issues and alcoholism herself for much of her life, including several drunken driving arrests

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