Melody Miller

Melody Jean Miller (February 19, 1945 – November 8, 2022) was an American political staffer. She was an aide to the Kennedy family from the time she was a college intern for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

Biography Miller was born in Seattle, Washington, on February 19, 1945. She grew up in Arlington, Virginia, graduated from Yorktown High School and attended Pennsylvania State University, studying education and political science.

Career In 1968, she was the last person to turn out the lights in Robert F. Kennedy’s Senate office after he was assassinated. Miller went to work for him after she graduated from Penn State. She then spent thirty seven years working for Ted Kennedy as a legislative and press aide and then deputy press secretary.