Ethel Kennedy, the family matriarch, founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights and advocated for many causes, including joining a hunger strike against then-President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, has died at 96, according to her family.Kennedy had been hospitalized after suffering a stroke in her sleep on Oct. 3, her family said."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.
Her brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, had been assassinated in Dallas less than five years earlier, the Associated Press reported. Ethel Kennedy founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights soon after her husband’s death and advocated for causes including gun control and human rights. The AP noted that she rarely discussed her husband’s assassination.
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