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Ethel Kennedy has died at the age of 96

Kennedy was a passionate defender of human rights and social justice.

American politician by Robert F. Kennedy widow Ethel Kennedy is dead, says the US media CBS.

Kennedy suffered a stroke on October 3rd and passed away on Wednesday, October 9th. He was 96 years old when he died.

Ethel Skakel Kennedy was born in Chicago in 1928 and grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut.

According to CBS, he was a passionate defender of human rights and social justice.

Ethel and Bobby were married on June 17, 1950.

Ethel Kennedy founded the Robert F. Kennedy Foundation for Human Rights in 1968, just a few months after her husband’s assassination and the birth of her child.

Kennedy’s husband, Robert “Bobby” Kennedy, was the President of the United States John F. Kennedy brother and attorney general. Both brothers were murdered.

About the couple’s children Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ran for president this year as an uncommitted candidate.

President Barack Obama awarded Ethel Kennedy the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014, the highest civilian honor in the United States.

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