It's a Family Affair: JFK's Grandson Made His Acting Debut on Blue Bloods
It's said that everybody remembers where they were when JFK was shot.
But it's almost certain that very few people could tell you where they were or what they were doing when JFKs grandson made his acting debut.
Unless, of course, they're one of the 6 million viewers who were tuned into Blue Bloods when Jack Schlossberg – the only grandson of JFK – appeared in the final episode of season 8 as NYPD cop Jack Hammer.
Now a lawyer in the US, Schlossberg has just one acting credit to his name for his brief appearance on the popular police procedural.
He was only in one scene where he was seen chatting with Jamie (Will Estes) and Eddie (Vanessa Ray). But you can't take it away from him – Schlossberg played a role in Blue Bloods.
Prior to his small role in Blue Bloods, Schlossberg studied history at Yale before moving to Japan where he had several jobs and frequently accompanied his mother, Caroline Kennedy, who was US Ambassador to Japan from 2013 to 2017.
Caroline is the daughter and only surviving child of JFK. His son John F. Kennedy Jr. tragically died in a plane crash in 1999 aged 38.
The third child born to JFK and Jackie Kennedy (nee Bouvier), Patrick Kennedy, passed away at just 2 days old following his premature birth in 1963.
After spending some time in Japan, Schlossberg returned to the US where he attended Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School, graduating in 2022.
Despite a solitary acting role, though, he's still made numerous public appearances over the years.
In August 2020, he appeared alongside Caroline on the second night of the Democratic National Convention, where he gave a speech titled We Lead from the Oval Office.
In May 2014, the pair visited Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant three years after it suffered major damage following a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami.
While there, he said he hoped "my peers, my generation in the United States will keep Fukushima in mind" as he urged them to remember more work was required to repair the damage caused and help was still needed.
Always something of a philanthropist, while in eighth grade, he co-founded ReLight New York, a non-profit organisation that raised over $100,000 for the installation of compact fluorescent lights in low-income housing developments.
In 2012, when asked whether he was likely to follow in the family footsteps and enter the world of politics, he replied "Politics definitely interests me. I'm most interested in public service."
So, who knows what's next for JFKs only grandchild?