Ethel Kennedy is an American human rights advocate.
23 Facts About Ethel Kennedy
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Ethel Kennedy is the widow of US Senator Robert F Kennedy, a sister-in-law of President John F Kennedy, and the sixth child of George Skakel and Ann Brannack.
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Shortly after her husband's 1968 assassination, Kennedy founded the Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, a non-profit charity working to reach his goal of a just and peaceful world.
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Ethel Kennedy's parents were killed in a 1955 plane crash.
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Ethel Kennedy is the third of four Skakel daughters and the sixth-born of seven.
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Ethel Kennedy attended the all-girls Greenwich Academy, and graduated from the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan in 1945.
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In September 1945, Ethel began her college education at Manhattanville College, where she was a classmate of her future sister-in-law Jean Kennedy.
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Ethel Kennedy campaigned for Robert's older brother John F Kennedy in his 1946 campaign for the United States Congress, and she wrote her college thesis on his book Why England Slept.
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Ethel Kennedy received a bachelor's degree from Manhattanville in 1949.
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Robert Kennedy and Ethel Skakel became engaged in February 1950 and were married on June 17,1950, at St Mary's Catholic Church in Greenwich.
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Robert and Ethel Kennedy held many gatherings at their home and were known for their impressive and eclectic guest lists.
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On November 22,1963, Ethel learned of President Kennedy's assassination from her husband.
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Ethel Kennedy had answered the phone, identified the caller as FBI director J Edgar Hoover and handed the phone over to Robert, who then informed her of the shooting.
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Ethel Kennedy was reportedly devastated by the assassination and worried for her niece and nephew.
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Ethel Kennedy urged her husband to enter the Democratic primary for the 1968 presidential election.
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Shortly after midnight on June 5,1968, Robert F Kennedy was mortally wounded by Sirhan Sirhan and died early the next day at the age of 42.
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Robert and Ethel Kennedy had 11 children over nearly 18 years of marriage: Kathleen, Joseph, Robert Jr.
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In February 2001, Ethel Kennedy visited Rodolfo Montiel and another peasant activist at their jail in Iguala, presenting Rodolfo with the Chico Mendes Award on behalf of American environmental group, the Sierra Club.
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In March 2016, Ethel Kennedy was among hundreds who marched near the home of Wendy's chairman Nelson Peltz in Palm Beach, Florida, as part of an effort by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a farm workers' group, to convince the company to pay an additional one cent per pound of tomatoes to increase the wages of field workers.
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Ethel Kennedy publicly supported and held fundraisers at Hickory Hill for numerous politicians that included Virginia gubernatorial candidate Brian Moran.
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Ethel Kennedy hosted a $6-million fundraising dinner for Obama at Hickory Hill in June 2008.
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In 2012, Ethel Kennedy appeared in a documentary about her life; the documentary was directed by her youngest child, daughter Rory.
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Obama declined to perform the fundraising stunt, but expressed appreciation to Ethel Kennedy and made a monetary donation to the cause.