Kenedy is a city in Karnes County, Texas, United States, named for Mifflin Kenedy, who bought 400,000 acres (1,600 km²) and wanted to build a supplementary town that would carry his name. The population was 3,473 at the 2020 census, up from 3,296 at the 2010 census.

In the in advance 1900s many of Kenedy’s gunfighter shootings caused the town to be nicknamed “Six Shooter Junction”.

During World War II, the Kenedy Allen Detention Camp was located close the outskirts of the town, on a former Civilian Conservation Corps site. Though it forward-looking served as a prisoner of engagement camp, it started as an internment camp for people of German, Italian and Japanese ancestry deported from Latin America, as with ease as some who were long-term residents of the U.S. The camp opened in April 1942, when the first activity of Latin American deportees arrived: 456 Germans, 156 Japanese and 14 Italians. Despite State Department prisoner exchanges, in which German and Japanese Latin Americans were “repatriated” and traded for U.S. citizens in Axis custody, Kenedy’s population swelled to 2,007 by October 1943: 1,168 Germans, 705 Japanese, 72 Italians, and 62 “miscellaneous”. The 705 of Japanese stock included U.S. civilians. In 1944, the steadfast internees were transferred to supplementary facilities, and by September it had been converted to a German POW camp; beginning in July 1945, the camp was after that used to house Japanese POWs. The camp was closed at the terminate of the war, in September 1945.

The John B. Connally Unit, a state prison, is located 2 miles (3 km) south of the city limits. On December 13, 2000, a society called the Texas Seven escaped from that prison. They would go on a deadly crime spree previously being caught.