Ethel Kennedy, widow of Bobby Kennedy, died on Thursday, October 10 at the age of 96 after suffering a stroke, her grandson, Joe Kennedy III, announced. “With hearts full of love we announce the death of our fantastic grandmother, Ethel Kennedy”announced on Day X the former elected official of Massachusetts, bastion of the Kennedy dynasty.
Ethel Kennedy was also the mother of Robert Kennedy Jr, a former independent candidate for the 2024 US presidential election who has since supported Donald Trump, much to the dismay of most of the Kennedy clan.
Ethel Kennedy, born in 1928 to a coal magnate father in Chicago, met her future husband, Robert, at age 17. In 1961, he became Attorney General for his brother, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK).
But in 1968, five years after JFK’s assassination, Bobby Kennedy was himself assassinated in Los Angeles, the night of a decisive victory in the Democratic primary. Robert Kennedy was then in an ideal position as a future Democratic candidate for the US presidential election, in which he was the favorite.
Presidential Medal of Freedom
Six months after her husband’s death, Ethel Kennedy gave birth to her eleventh child. He also founded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization, which works to promote freedom of expression and association around the world.
In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.
“In addition to a lifetime of work serving social justice and human rights, our mother leaves behind nine children, thirty-four grandchildren, and twenty-four great-grandchildren, as well as numerous nieces and nephews, all of whom love her. expensive”declared Joe Kennedy III in X, specifying that she would now join her husband and two of her children.
