Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy who raised their 11 children after he was assassinated and remained dedicated to social causes and the family’s legacy for decades thereafter, died on Thursday, her family said.
Ethel Kennedy , the widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, has died at 96, her family says. BOSTON, Mass. — She was 96.“It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our amazing grandmother,” Joe Kennedy III posted on X. “She died this morning from complications related to a stroke suffered last week.”
FILE— In this June 5, 2018 file photograph, Ethel Kennedy, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy who was assassinated during his 1968 presidential campaign, watches a video about her late husband during the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights awards ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington. Kennedy has died after suffering a stroke.
FILE - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, right, wife Ethel Kennedy, and children, from left, Bobby, Joseph, and Kathleen, second right, pose at Kennedy International Airport in New York, July 1, 1964, shortly after they returned from a one-week trip to West Germany and Poland. She founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights soon after husband’s death and advocated for causes including gun control and human rights. She rarely spoke about her husband’s assassination.
FILE - Sen. Edward Kennedy, from left, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Bill Clinton and Ethel Kennedy, right, listen to a remembrance delivered by Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II during a memorial Mass in honor of Robert F. Kennedy on the 25th anniversary of his death at the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., June 7, 1993. Her son Robert F. Kennedy Jr., also became a national figure, although not as a liberal in the family tradition.
FILE - President Barack Obama awards Ethel Kennedy the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. In February of that year, she accompanied her husband on a round-the-world goodwill tour, stopping in Japan, Hong Kong, Italy and other countries. She said it was important for Americans to meet ordinary people overseas.
Robert Kennedy became chief counsel to the Senate Select Committee in 1957. He later was appointed attorney general by his brother, the newly elected President Kennedy.
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