Her husband and brother-in-law were shot, her parents had an accident, two sons were killed: Ethel Kennedy had to accept many blows of fate. She has now passed away aged 96.
Ethel Kennedy dead. The widow of former US Attorney General and Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot in 1968, has died after a stroke, her family said. Ethel Kennedy was 96 years old. “It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our wonderful grandmother,” wrote Joe Kennedy III. on X
Eleven children
Ethel raised their eleventh child after her husband was shot on June 5, 1968, shortly after her victory in the Democratic presidential primary in California. Her brother-in-law, then US President John F. Kennedy, was also assassinated less than five years earlier.
enough Fate strikes
Ethel Kennedy also had to accept many strokes of fate. Her parents died in a plane crash in 1955, and her brother died in an accident in 1966. Her son David Kennedy died of a drug overdose, son Michael Kennedy died in a skiing accident and nephew John F. Kennedy Jr. died in a plane crash. Ethel Kennedy was also preceded in death by her granddaughters Saorise and Maeve and two great-grandchildren.
Kennedy Ethel Skakel was born in Chicago on April 11, 1928, the sixth of seven children of coal magnate George Skakel and his wife Ann Brannack Skakel, a devout Catholic.
She grew up in a 31-room English country house in Connecticut. Robert Kennedy met her through his sister Jean, her roommate at Manhattanville College in New York. She was pregnant with her eleventh child when Kennedy was gunned down at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
For stricter gun laws
Among other things, Ethel Kennedy campaigned for human rights and stricter gun laws at the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, which she founded. Her voice still carried weight in the Democratic Party. In 2008, she endorsed Barack Obama and compared him to her late husband.
The Canadians were the most famous Democratic political dynasty in the USA for many years. Some of Ethel’s children and other relatives were also politically active. Her son Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently with the liberal family tradition. He ran as an independent candidate before the upcoming election in November, but then threw his support behind Republican Donald Trump.
