Dead|Ethel Kennedy died of a stroke at the age of 96.
Ethel Kennedyan American politician by Robert F. Kennedy the widow is dead, says the US media CBS.
Kennedy suffered a stroke on October 3rd and died this Wednesday. Kennedy was 96 years old when he died.
Ethel Skakel Kennedy was born in Chicago in 1928 and grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. According to CBS, he was a passionate defender of social justice and human rights. Among other things, she founded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Foundation in 1968, just a few months after her husband’s assassination.
Ethel’s husband Robert “Bobby” Kennedy was the President of the United States John F. Kennedy brother and attorney general. Both brothers were murdered.
Ethel and Bobby were married on June 17, 1950. They had eleven children. Her youngest, Ethel, gave birth six months after her husband’s murder in 1968.
About the sons of the Kennedys Robert F. Kennedy Jr has competed as an unaffiliated candidate in the US presidential elections this year.
President Barack Obama awarded Ethel Kennedy the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014.
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