Ethel Kennedy, widow of Senator Bob Kennedy, was killed in an attack in 1968, mother of former United States presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and human rights activist, on Thursday in the United States at the age of 96. . Kennedy died of the effects of a heart attack: lo he expressed it her nephew Joe Kennedy, without giving details of where she died.
Because of her activism, in 2014 the President of the United States Barack Obama awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom, an honor intended for people who were considered particularly deserving for their commitment to the security and national interests of the United States, peace in the world , the spread of culture. or initiatives that are considered significant for some reason. That honor was established in 1963 by President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, brother-in-law of Ethel Kennedy, who was also killed in an attack in 1963.