{"id":112731,"date":"2024-10-11T01:34:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112731"},"modified":"2024-10-11T01:34:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T18:34:53","slug":"ethel-kennedy-human-rights-activist-and-widow-of-robert-f-kennedy-dies-at-96","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=112731","title":{"rendered":"Ethel Kennedy, human rights activist and widow of Robert F. Kennedy, dies at 96"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23g9th7001llyqk790ke0jl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/01\/28\/us\/ethel-kennedy-fast-facts\/index.html\">Ethel Kennedy<\/a>, the widow of former US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and a longtime human rights activist, died Thursday, her family said. She was 96.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23gjahy000n3b6mc2y66fh2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Former Massachusetts Rep. Joe Kennedy III announced the news of his grandmother\u2019s passing on X. Ethel Kennedy was hospitalized after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/live-news\/trump-harris-election-10-08-24#cm214zda400003b6r7782otnn\">suffering a stroke<\/a> last week.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23gckw4000b3b6m76ujgy9o@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cAlong with a lifetime\u2019s work in social justice and human rights, our mother leaves behind nine children, 34 grandchildren, and 24 great-grandchildren, along with numerous nieces and nephews, all of whom love her dearly,\u201d the former congressman <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/joekennedy\/status\/1844396302886424963\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote in a post<\/a>. \u201cShe was a devout Catholic and a daily communicant, and we are comforted in knowing she is reunited with the love of her life, our father, Robert F. Kennedy; her children David and Michael; her daughter-in-law Mary; her grandchildren Maeve and Saoirse; and her great-grandchildren Gideon and Josie.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23gjahy000o3b6m537rdscx@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Marrying into one of the United States\u2019 most influential political families, Kennedy supported her husband through his successful Senate campaign and later through his 1968 presidential run, which ended with his assassination months into the campaign.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm23h4i5q00033b6m2mb45vha@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"shutterstock_editorial_11941672a.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6709732988802756\" data-original-height=\"1558\" data-original-width=\"2322\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/shutterstock-editorial-11941672a.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"1558\" width=\"2322\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/shutterstock-editorial-11941672a.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1558\" width=\"2322\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/shutterstock-editorial-11941672a.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1558\" width=\"2322\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/shutterstock-editorial-11941672a.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"1558\" width=\"2322\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/shutterstock-editorial-11941672a.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/shutterstock-editorial-11941672a.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Ethel Kennedy, right, stands with her husband Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at the Overseas Press Club in New York in 1968.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"1558\" width=\"2322\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23gjahy000p3b6m5xdf2f4e@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Her husband was tragically gunned down at a Los Angeles hotel just after winning California\u2019s Democratic primary. The attack, which came five years after Robert F. Kennedy\u2019s brother, former President John F. Kennedy, was shot and killed, left five others wounded and rattled a nation that had already been shaken from multiple assassinations; civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. had been killed roughly two months before. Photographs of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/interactive\/2018\/06\/politics\/robert-f-kennedy-assassination-cnnphotos\/\">shooting aftermath show Ethel Kennedy,<\/a> leaning over her husband with her hands over his chest as he bled onto the floor. She was three months pregnant with her youngest daughter, Rory, at the time.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23gjahy000q3b6m6u75kyah@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In the decades following her husband\u2019s death, Ethel Kennedy emerged as an environmental and human rights activist in her own right, founding the nonprofit organization Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights to champion the causes her late husband pushed for.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23gjahy000r3b6m2qsf1uxw@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Her activism took her across the country and around the world, from <a href=\"https:\/\/rfkhumanrights.org\/person\/mrs-robert-f-kennedy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marching with Cesar Chavez<\/a> in support of the Farm Workers movement to confronting Kenyan dictator Daniel Arap Moi with her daughter, Kerry, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1989\/04\/04\/world\/kenya-s-leader-attacks-visit-by-ethel-and-kerry-kennedy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">by her side in 1989<\/a>. She received the nation\u2019s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from President Barack Obama in 2014. Her activism continued well into the last decades of her life. In 2018, Kennedy <a href=\"https:\/\/rfkhumanrights.org\/our-voices\/ethel-kennedy-joins-hunger-strike-to-protest-trumps-immigration-policies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">joined a hunger strike<\/a> to protest the then-Trump administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/10\/07\/politics\/trump-family-separation\/index.html\">separation of families <\/a>at the US-Mexico border.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/cm23h40xj00013b6my7ituczl@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"GettyImages-459531288.jpg\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\" data-original-height=\"2568\" data-original-width=\"3852\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-459531288.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"2568\" width=\"3852\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-459531288.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2568\" width=\"3852\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-459531288.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2568\" width=\"3852\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-459531288.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2568\" width=\"3852\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-459531288.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/gettyimages-459531288.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"President Barack Obama presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Ethel Kennedy at the White House in November 2014.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"2568\" width=\"3852\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23gjahy000s3b6m56ss4q7i@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cGenerations of Americans did not toil and sacrifice to build a country where children and their parents are placed in cages to advance a cynical political agenda,\u201d she said in a statement at the time.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23gjahy000t3b6m0ib0bqv2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Most recently, Ethel Kennedy\u2019s family was caught in political strife, when her second-eldest son, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ran for president in 2024, initially as a Democrat and later as an independent. Members of the staunchly Democratic family shunned his campaign, calling it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2024\/03\/26\/rory-robert-f-kennedy-jr-presidential-run-biden-ebof-vpx.cnn\">\u201cdangerous\u201d<\/a> and noting their frustration, sadness. RFK Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/08\/23\/politics\/rfk-jr-suspends-campaign\/index.html\">suspended his campaign<\/a> in August and endorsed former President Donald Trump.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23gjahy000u3b6mav4cnrrz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Born to a large family in Chicago in 1928, Ethel Kennedy grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut. She met Robert F. Kennedy in 1945 through his sister, Jean Kennedy, on a ski trip. The couple married in 1950 and had 11 children.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23gjahy000v3b6mxwk3mwz6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Ethel Kennedy\u2019s life, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/03\/15\/us\/kennedy-family-curse\/index.html\">like that of many of her family members,<\/a> was marked by a series of tragedies. Her father, George Skakel, a wealthy coal magnate, and mother, Ann Skakel, were killed in an airplane accident in 1955. Her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1966\/09\/25\/archives\/ethel-kennedys-brother-killed-with-4-others-in-idaho-air-crash.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">brother died in a plane crash<\/a> in 1966. Her son David died in 1984 from an accidental drug overdose, and another son Michael died in a skiing accident in 1997. Her granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill died of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/11\/01\/politics\/saoirse-kennedy-hill-granddaughter-robert-kennedy-death-certificate\/index.html\">accidental overdose in 2019<\/a>, and another granddaughter, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, drowned with her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/04\/06\/us\/kennedy-body-found-chesapeake-bay\/index.html\">8-year old son in a canoe accident in 2020.\u00a0<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23lqe3c00003b6m3crj3r71@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In a statement, President Joe Biden called Kennedy an \u201cAmerican icon \u2014 a matriarch of optimism and moral courage, an emblem of resilience and service. Devoted to family and country, she had a spine of steel and a heart of gold that inspired millions of Americans, including me and Jill. We were blessed to call her a dear friend.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23g9ui100003b6mxy1qms88@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <em>CORRECTION: This story has been updated to reflect that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is the second-eldest son of Ethel and Robert F. Kennedy. It also has been updated with additional information and reaction.<\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph paragraph_contributors inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_contributors\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm23gjahy000w3b6m059l22jl@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <em>CNN\u2019s Paul LeBlanc and Tom Foreman contributed to this report.<\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/10\/politics\/ethel-kennedy-dies\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Ethel Kennedy, the widow of former US Attorney General Robert F. 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