00:00�Ethel Kennedy, wife of Robert F. Kennedy, dies at 96.
00:05Please keep our mother in your hearts and prayers,� her family urged.
00:09�Ethel Kennedy, the wife of the late Robert F. Kennedy, has died.
00:14She was 96.
00:16Ethel died on Thursday, Oct. 10, of complications after suffering a stroke the previous week.
00:23Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, the nonprofit she co-founded in 1968, confirmed the news
00:29of Ethel�s death in a Thursday statement.
00:32The organization also shared a compilation video containing snapshots, taken throughout
00:36Ethel�s lifetime on Instagram.
00:38�Along with a lifetime�s work in social justice and human rights, our mother leaves
00:43behind nine children, 30 for grandchildren and 20 for great-grandchildren, along with
00:49numerous nieces and nephews, all of whom love her dearly,� Ethel�s family said in a
00:54statement about her passing.
00:56�She was a devout Catholic and a daily communicant, and we are comforted in knowing
01:01she is reunited with the love of her life, our father, Robert F. Kennedy, her children
01:06David and Michael, her daughter-in-law Mary, her grandchildren Meve and Sowers, and her
01:13great-grandchildren Gideon and Josie,� the statement continued.
01:17�Please keep our mother in your hearts and prayers.�
01:20President Joe Biden also recognized the death of the American icon in a statement released
01:25by the White House.
01:27Devoted to family and country, she had a spine of steel and a heart of gold that inspired
01:31�millions of Americans, including me and Jill,� Biden said of Ethel.
01:36�We were blessed to call her a dear friend.�
01:39Ethel was born to George and Nskeka on April 11, 1928, in Chicago, Ill.
01:45She met the man who would later become her husband in 1945, and they were married five
01:50years later.
01:51The two had 11 children over the course of their marriage, which ended when Robert was
01:55assassinated in June 1968.
01:58While campaigning for president after winning the Democratic primary in California, Ethel
02:03first became involved in politics while campaigning for Robert�s older brother, John F. Kennedy,
02:09as he was running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1946.
02:15She later campaigned for John�s successful 1960 presidential campaign, and supported
02:21her husband in his own political pursuits after John was assassinated in 1963.
02:26In the decades that followed her husband�s death, Ethel remained active in public service
02:31through Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and other nonprofit organizations.
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