Mourning again in the Kennedy family. Ethel Kennedy, a longtime human rights lawyer who endured a series of tragedies that included the assassination of her husband, Robert F. Kennedy, and the untimely deaths of two of their 11 children, died Thursday at the age of 96. announced his nephew Joseph Kennedy III in a post on social networks.
“It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our wonderful grandmother, Ethel Kennedy. She died this morning from complications from a stroke she suffered last week,” Joseph Kennedy wrote in a post on the X social platform.
The wife of the president’s younger brother who was assassinated in October 1963, Ethel Kennedy is the mother of former independent presidential candidate and anti-vaccine lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who recently abandoned his family’s traditional Democratic affiliation to support Republican Donald Trump .
Nine months after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Ethel Kennedy’s husband, Robert F. Kennedy, resigned as Attorney General to run for the US Congress, becoming a senator.
In 1968, Robert F. Kennedy decided to try for the Democratic presidential nomination. After winning the Democratic primaries, he was shot dead in Los Angeles by a Jordanian-Palestinian, Sirhan Sirhan, who is still in prison today and motivated the assassination by Kennedy’s support for Israel.
Ethel Kennedy endured other family tragedies. Her parents died in a plane crash in 1955, and then she lost a brother also in a plane crash in 1966. Of her 11 children, David died of a drug overdose in 1984, and Michael died in a skiing accident in 1997.
She continued many causes championed by her husband, including the fight against poverty, social justice and environmental protection. In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Source: www.cotidianul.ro
