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Ethel Kennedy, human rights advocate and widow of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, died on Thursday after suffering a stroke last week and being hospitalized. She was 96.“It is with our hearts full of love that we announce the passing of our amazing grandmother, Ethel Kennedy. She died this morning from complications related to a stroke suffered last week.
Born Ethel Skakel on April 11, 1928, in Chicago, Kennedy’s life was marked by tragedy even before Sirhan Sirhan made her a widow in 1968 by gunning down her husband while he was running for president, NBC News Kennedy’s parents, coal magnate George Skakel and his wife, Ann Brannack Skakel, were both killed in a 1955 plane crash.
Her brother-in-law, President John F. Kennedy, had been assassinated in Dallas less than five years earlier.
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