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  1. Ethel Kennedy. Ethel Kennedy ( née Skakel / ˈskeɪ.kəl / SKAY-kel born April 11, 1928) is an American human rights advocate. She is the widow of U.S. senator Robert F. Kennedy, a sister-in-law of President John F. Kennedy, and the sixth child of George and Ann (Brannack) Skakel. Shortly after her husband's assassination in 1968, Kennedy ...

  2. Apr 2, 2014 · Known as a political matriarch and the wife of U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy, Ethel Skakel was born in 1928, in Chicago, Illinois, to parents George and Ann Skakel. Her father had worked his way up ...

  3. Apr 12, 2024 · Boston Globe // Getty Images. Ethel Kennedy turned 96 yesterday! The Kennedy family matriarch—the widow of Robert F. Kennedy—was joined by her children and grandchildren on her birthday, as ...

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  5. Apr 7, 2024 · In 1945 Skakel, then 17 years old, met Robert Kennedy during a ski trip, but at the time he was seeing her elder sister Patricia Skakel. When that relationship ended, Ethel Skakel and Robert Kennedy began dating. But Robert wasn’t the only Kennedy who captured the imagination of Skakel; she campaigned for John Kennedy during his 1946 run for ...

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  6. Ethel Skakel Kennedy was born on April 11, 1928, in Chicago, Illinois to coal magnate George Skakel, a Protestant, and his devoutly Catholic wife, Ann Brannack Skakel. Ethel’s father, George Sr., started work as an eight dollars a week railroad clerk. He, along with some co-workers, built a small coal and coke business into a diversified privately owned enterprise, the Great Lakes Coal ...

  7. Ethel Skakel Kennedy was the sixth of seven children of George Skakel, head of the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, one of the largest privately owned businesses in the country, andAnn Brannack Skakel, a massive woman (over 200 pounds), whose world revolved around her social activities and the Catholic Church.

  8. Oct 17, 2012 · A Mother with Moxie: ... Before she became Mrs. Kennedy, Ethel was the athletic and puckish sixth child (of seven) in the Skakel family—who, like the Kennedys, were prosperous, Irish-American ...

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