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George Skakel (/ ˈ s k eɪ. k ə l / SKAY-kel; July 16, 1892 – October 3, 1955) was an American businessman. He founded the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, part of SGL Carbon, and was the father of Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert F. Kennedy.
Jul 17, 2006 · In 1938, George Skakel, a self-made millionaire and founder of the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, paid Frances Simmons $160,000, a sum equal to about $2 million today, for a parcel of her...
Nov 20, 2013 · The Skakel fortune goes back to Michael’s paternal grandparents, George and Ann Skakel, who died in 1957 in a plane crash, after George had built the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation into a...
Jan 7, 2003 · Rushton Skakel, whose son Michael was convicted last June of the 1975 killing of a neighbor, Martha Moxley, in Greenwich, Conn., died on Thursday in Hobe Sound, Fla. He was 79.
Jan 5, 2003 · Skakel, whose son Michael was convicted in June of a 1975 murder, died in Hobe Sound, Fla., Thursday after a long battle with a brain illness that led to frontal lobe dementia, his lawyer,...
Jun 12, 2012 · George Skakel, 61, who lives in Greenwich and is chief executive of a consumer finance company, is convinced his cousin would have fared better without the national and international fascination...
Jan 22, 2000 · On Wednesday, the Greenwich police charged Mr. Skakel, 39, with murder in the 1975 slaying of Martha Moxley, a 15-year-old girl who lived across the street from the Skakels in the exclusive...
All four occupants were killed, among them George Skakel Sr., founder of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation and his wife Ann. Probable cause: The probable cause of this accident was the loss of the aircraft's empennage as a result of an in-flight fuel explosion in the aft section of the fuselage.
George Skakel was an American businessman and the founder of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, currently part of SGL Carbon. Background. Skakel was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Grace Mary (Jordan) and James Curtis Skakel, who were of Dutch Protestant religion. Career.
Dec 31, 1976 · In 1955, George Skakel, Sr., Rushton’s father and the founder of Great Lakes Carbon, along with his wife Anne, took off from Bridgeport Airport in the company plane, a converted World War II bomber.
