Ethel Kennedy obituary

Widow of Bobby Kennedy who brought up 11 children after his 1968 assassination and later devoted herself to social causesEthel Kennedy, who has died aged 96, was one of the most active and best-known US political wives of the 20th century. As her husband, Robert F Kennedy, campaigned first for the Senate and then for the presidency, she supported him while also bringing up their children. The 11th and last of them, her daughter Rory, was born after Bobby was assassinated in 1968. From the 1970s