Ethel Kennedy Biography
Ethel Kennedy is an American human rights advocate. She is President John F. Kennedy’s sister-in-law and the widow of US Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Ethel founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, not long after his assassination in 1968 a non-profit organization working to realize her husband’s vision of a just and peaceful world. President Barack Obama presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014.
Ethel Kennedy Net Worth
Ethel Kennedy has a net worth of $50 Million according to Celebrity Net Worth.
She sold Hickory Hill for $8.25 million in December 2009.
Ethel Kennedy Age
Ethel Skakel was born on April 11, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. As of 2023 she is 95 years old.
Ethel Kennedy Family
Ethel’s parents were George Skakel and his ex-secretary Ann Brannack. In 1955 a plane crash led to thr death  of her parents. She is the third of the four daughters of Skakel and the sixth of the seven children.
Her five older siblings are Georgeann, James, George Jr., Rushton, and Patricia, and her younger sister is Ann.
In Greenwich, Connecticut, Ethel and her siblings received a Catholic upbringing. Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, which is now a division of SGLCarbon, was founded by George Skakel.
Ethel Kennedy Husband
During a ski trip to Quebec’s Mont Tremblant Resort in December 1945, Ethel had her first encounter with Robert F. Kennedy, the brother of Jean. Robert Kennedy started dating Patricia, Ethel’s older sister, during this trip, but they broke up and he started dating Ethel. She participated in John F. Kennedy‘s 1946 campaign for the US Congress in Boston. John F. Kennedy is Robert’s older brother.
Ethel Skakel and Robert Kennedy got engaged in February 1950Â and they wed at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Greenwich on June 17, 1950.
Ethel and Robert were given a 28-day goodwill tour of fourteen nations by President Kennedy in 1962. The hosts countries saw her and Robert as a substitute for the President and First Lady despite the fact that the trip was supposed to be informal.
Ethel encouraged her husband to run for president in the Democratic primary in 1968. She was described as RFK’s “most steadfast supporter of a race for the White House” by biographer Evan Thomas.
Ethel Kennedy publicly declared that she would never remarry after her husband was killed.
Ethel Kennedy Kids
Later the couple had eleven children seven sons and four daughters: Courtney Kennedy Hill, Max Kennedy, Michael LeMoyne Kennedy, Michael LeRoy Kennedy, Kathleen Kennedy, David Kennedy, Rory Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy II, Robert F. Kennedy Jr and Douglas Kennedy.
Douglas Kennedy is a Fox News Correspondent.
Ethel Kennedy Education
Ethel graduated in 1945 from the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan after attending the all-girls Greenwich Academy.
Ethel started attending Manhattanville College in September 1945, where she was a classmate of her future in-law Jean Kennedy. In 1949 she received a bachelor’s degree from Manhattanville.
Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights
In 1968 Ethel Kennedy founded the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights (now known as Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights)Â .
In February 2001, Kennedy visited Rodolfo Montiel and another peasant activist at their jail in Iguala, presenting Rodolfo with the Chico Mendes Award on behalf of the American environmental group, the Sierra Club. In March 2016, 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.
As of September 2018, Kennedy’s daughter Kerry Kennedy was president of the foundation.
Robert F. Kennedy Biography
Robert Francis Kennedy was an American politician and attorney. He is  also known by the initials RFK and the nickname Bobby.
From January 1961 to September 1964, he served as the 64th United States attorney general. From January 1965 to June 1968, when he was running for the Democratic presidential nomination, he served as a U.S. senator from New York. He was a well-known Democratic Party member and a symbol of contemporary American liberalism, much like his brothers John F. Kennedy and Ted Kennedy.
Robert F. Kennedy Family
He was the seventh child of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy. His parents were Massachusetts Democratic Party activists who came from two well-known Irish-American families. Kennedy’s four grandparents were all the offspring of Irish immigrants. Joseph Jr., John, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Jean, and Ted were his eight siblings.
