William Kennedy Smith
Dr. William Kennedy Smith
Born	September 4, 1960 (age 52) Brighton, Massachusetts, USA
Education	Duke University M.D. (Georgetown University School of Medicine)
Occupation	physician
Religion	Roman Catholic
Parents	Stephen Edward Smith Jean Ann Kennedy

William Kennedy Smith (born September 4, 1960) is an American physician whose work focuses on landmines and the rehabilitation of people disabled by them.^[1] He is a member of the prominent Kennedy family and is famous for a well-publicized 1991 rape trial in which he was acquitted.

Family
Main article: Kennedy family
Smith is the younger son of Stephen Edward Smith and Jean Kennedy Smith. His older brother is Stephen Edward Smith, Jr. Jean is the youngest daughter of Joseph Patrick "Joe" Kennedy, Sr. and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald. Stephen, Jr. and William are nephews of President John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy and Senators Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedyand Edward Moore "Ted" Kennedy. He is married to Anne Henry. In May 2012, a baby girl was born to the couple; India Rose Smith.^[2]

Education and career
He attended boarding school at Salisbury School in Salisbury, Connecticut. He then went on to receive his undergraduate degree from Duke University, completed premedical postbaccalaureate studies at Bryn Mawr College, and his M.D. degree from Georgetown University School of Medicine.^[3] He moved to Chicago and worked as a doctor, activist, and teaching physician at theNorthwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. He founded the Center for International Rehabilitation,(CIR) "a worldwide humanitarian network of individuals and organizations that promotes the full potential of people with disabilities....." ^[4] and the CIR program Physicians Against Land Mines (PALM).

Mug shot of Smith taken after his arrest in 1991.

1991 rape charge
In 1991, Smith was tried and acquitted on a charge of rape, represented by Miami-based criminal defense attorney Roy Black in a trial that attracted extensive media coverage.^[6]
The incident began on the evening of Good Friday, March 29, 1991, when Smith, then 30 years old, was in a bar (named Au Bar) in Palm Beach, Florida, with his uncle, Senator Ted Kennedy, and his cousin Patrick J. Kennedy. Smith met a 29-year-old woman and another young woman at the bar. The five then went to a nearby house owned by the Kennedy family. Smith and the 29-year-old woman walked along the beach. The woman alleged that Smith raped her; Smith testified that they had consensual sex. Although three women were willing to testify that Smith had sexually assaulted them in incidents in the 1980s that were not reported to the police, their testimony was excluded.^[7] Smith was acquitted of all charges.

2004 sexual assault civil charges
In 2004, a former employee of the Center for International Rehabilitation alleged that Smith had sexually assaulted her in 1999, and brought a civil action against him.^[8] Smith denied her charges, calling them "outrageous" and saying that "family and personal history have made me unusually vulnerable to these kinds of charges" and resigned from the CIR.^[9] On January 5, 2005, the court dismissed the employee's lawsuit.^[10]
Later in 2005, Smith settled with another employee over sexual harassment.