Susan Tannenbaum

Susan Tannenbaum is a retired lobbyist for the consumer activist group Common Cause in Washington, D.C. Her focus was the environment.

Tannenbaum was once a member of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy's 1968 presidential campaign staff until his assassination. She and others who also served RFK were present at the 1969 party from which Senator Edward Kennedy drove Mary Jo Kopechne to her death.

Susan Tannenbaum is the daughter of Greensboro, NC civic leaders, the late Leah Louise Baach Tannenbaum, a descendant of the German Jews who emigrated to the South in the 1800s, and the late Dr. A. Jack Tannenbaum, a physician in internal medicine.

Susan is married to David Osterhout, a Washington lawyer. They have two children, Jacob and Jenny. Susan has two sisters, Jeanne Tannenbaum, Retired, Greensboro, Nancy Tannenbaum, retired director of student services for the UNC Biology Department, of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and a brother, Dr. Sigmund Tannenbaum, urologist, Greensboro.

ee also

*Boiler Room Girls
**Esther Newberg
**Mary Jo Kopechne
**Nance Lyons

External links

* [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,901341-4,00.html Who's who at the Kennedy inquest] - time.com, September 5, 1969