Ethel Kennedy, Social Activist And Wife Of Robert F. Kennedy, Dead At 96
Oct 10, 2024
FILE - Sen. Robert Kennedy poses with his wife Ethel outside the Senate Chamber on Oct. 13, 1965, in Washington. (AP Photo, File)BOSTON, Mass. (AP) — Ethel Kennedy, who lost her husband Robert F. Kennedy to assassination, has died.
She was 96.
She was by her husband’s side when the senator was killed while running for president in 1968.
She endured that tragedy and many others while raising their 11 children.
A millionaire’s daughter and family matriarch, she founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.
She advocated for many causes, demonstrating for farmworkers in Florida and joining a hunger strike against President Trump’s immigration policies.
She didn’t comment on her son Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign, which other family members denounced as going against the family’s Democratic values.