Source: USA Today
“Ethel Kennedy, a human rights advocate, widow of the late Democratic icon Robert F. Kennedy and matriarch of America’s most famous political family, died Thursday morning after complications from a stroke she suffered earlier in the week. She was 96. … Ethel Skakel became a Kennedy in 1950 when she married Robert F. Kennedy, who would go on to become U.S. attorney general in the administration of his brother, former President John F. Kennedy, and later a U.S. senator from New York. Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy had 11 children. … Divisions within the Kennedy family have been in the political spotlight this year after Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of Ethel Kennedy’s children, ran as an independent candidate for president before dropping out in August and supporting Republican nominee Donald Trump.” (10/10/24)