She enjoyed exuberant highs and endured heartbreaking losses.
Ethel Kennedy attends the 30th Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Awards Ceremony, on Capitol Hill, Nov. 21, 2013, in Washington. Ethel Kennedy , a matriarch of America's most celebrated political family who carried on her husband Robert F. Kennedy's fight for civil justice after witnessing his assassination on the night he won the 1968 California Democratic presidential primary, has died at the age of 96.
"For anyone to achieve something, he must have to show a little courage. You're only on this earth once. You must give it all you've got," she said following her husband's 1968 assassination. Though she was born in Illinois, she and the rest of the Skakel family relocated to New England during her childhood years as her father's energy business boomed. Growing up on a Greenwich, Connecticut, estate, Ethel Skakel led a life of privilege.
In 1960, JFK, her brother-in-law was elected president, and he picked his brother, Robert Kennedy, to be attorney general. Then on Nov. 22, 1963, the Kennedy family and the nation were shattered by President Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, Texas. "He wanted to end the war in Vietnam and bring people together to build a better, stronger country. More than anything, he wanted to be a good father and a loving husband," she further wrote. "Our family and our country suffered unspeakable loss due to the inhumanity of one man. We believe in the gentleness that spared his life, but in taming his act of violence, he should not have the opportunity to terrorize again.
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