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Ethel Kennedy widow Robert F. Kennedy killed in 1968, head of the family He died this Thursday at the age of 96. due to complications caused cerebral strokel., his relatives reported.

“With hearts full of love, we announce the passing of our wonderful grandmother Ethel Kennedy. In addition to the whole life works for social justice and human rightsShe leaves behind nine children, 34 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren, as well as numerous nieces and nephews who all love her dearly,” he said in a statement today. X his grandson Joe Kennedy III former Democratic congressman from Massachusetts.

Kennedy He emphasized that the deceased was “devout Catholic and daily communion”and stated that he was comforted “by the knowledge that he was reunited with the love of his life, Robert F. Kennedy.”

Behind him husband’s murder in 1968 when he was at the hotel Ethel devoted herself to caring for her eleven children. and founded Robert F. Kennedy Center for justice and human rights; In 2014, then-President Barack Obama awarded her with an order Presidential Medal of Freedom for his involvement in various social causes.

Ethel Skakel, her last name before her marriage to the politician, born April 11, 1928 in Chicago, and met the one who will be her future husband in 1945 at a ski resort, although the Democrat was dating his older sister at the time, Patriciaaccording to the official biography.

Nevertheless, Ethel and Bobby» They eventually got married in 1950. and a year later their first daughter was born, Kathleen.

Robert F. Kennedy was a senator from New York.and in 1968 he announced his candidacy for the presidential election, shortly before he was assassinated.

Ethel Kennedy dies about six weeks after giving birth to her third child. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put end his election campaign and will position himself in favor of the Republican candidate Donald Trump.

(EFE)