Human rights activist Ethel Kennedy, who was the widow of assassinated senator Robert Kennedy, has died.
The 96-year-old died from “complications related to a stroke” suffered last week, according to her family.
In a statement, they said: “It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our amazing grandmother, Ethel Kennedy.
“Along with a lifetime’s 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.”
The Kennedy matriarch’s most known child is perhaps former US presidential candidate turned Donald Trump supporter Robert Kennedy Jr.
The statement announcing her death was shared by her grandson Joe Kennedy III on social media, who said she had enjoyed a “great summer and transition into fall” surrounded by family, before suffering a stroke in her sleep on 3 October.
Ms Kennedy founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights soon after her husband’s death in 1968 and advocated causes including gun control and human rights.
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The daughter of a millionaire, she married the future senator and attorney general Robert F. Kenndy in 1950.
Ms Kennedy had been by her husband’s side when he was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles on 5 June 1968, after he won the Democratic presidential primary in California.
Her brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, had been assassinated in Dallas less than five years earlier.
Her parents died in a plane crash in 1955 and her brother in a crash in 1966.
