October 10, 2024

PHOTO COLLECTION: Obit Ethel Kennedy

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FILE - Ethel Kennedy, widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, watches a video about her late husband during the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights awards ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 5, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - From left, Dolores Huerta, labor leader and civil rights activist, Ethel Kennedy, and civil rights leader Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., are applauded during the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award ceremony on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, June 5, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Navy Secretary Ray Mabus smiles with Ethel Kennedy, widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, at the naming of the Robert F. Kennedy Navy Ship at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, in Boston. Ships in this class are being named in honor of civil and human rights heroes. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Ethel Kennedy holds hands with grandson Joseph P. Kennedy III, left, while Navy Secretary Ray Mabus chats with her daughter Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, as they pose near a rendering of the Robert F. Kennedy Navy Ship named at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016, in Boston. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - President Barack Obama awards Ethel Kennedy the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Ethel Kennedy, left, and her daughter Kerry Kennedy attend the Robert F. Kennedy Ripple of Hope Award ceremony, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Egyptian human rights attorney and women's rights activist Ragia Omran, center, gets a kiss on the cheek from Robert F. Kennedy Center President Kerry Kennedy, right, accompanied by Ethel Kennedy, left, during the presentation of the RFK Human Rights Award, Nov. 21, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - From left, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ethel Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, and Mariah Kennedy Cuomo attend the Ripple of Hope Awards, Dec. 11, 2013, in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)Charles Sykes/Invision/AP

FILE - Ethel Kennedy, left, subject of the HBO documentary "Ethel," poses for a portrait with her daughter Rory Kennedy, the director of the film, Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012 in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)CHRIS PIZZELLO/INVISION/AP

FILE - U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., center, talks with those gathered, including Ethel Kennedy, center, and Rev. Jesse Jackson, on the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge during the 19th annual reenactment of the "Bloody Sunday" Selma to Montgomery civil rights march across the bridge in Selma, Ala., Sunday, March 4, 2012, 47 years after the historic march that led to the Voting Rights Act. (AP Photo/Kevin Glackmeyer, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Ethel Kennedy, from the film "Ethel," poses for a portrait during the 2012 Sundance Film Festival on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012, in Park City, Utah. (AP Photo/Victoria Will, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Sen. Edward Kennedy, from left, first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, President Bill Clinton and Ethel Kennedy, right, listen to a remembrance delivered by Rep. Joseph P. Kennedy II during a memorial Mass in honor of Robert F. Kennedy on the 25th anniversary of his death at the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va., June 7, 1993. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Members of the Kennedy family kneel at the grave site of the late President John F. Kennedy at Arlington National Cemetery after they visited the grave of the late Robert F. Kennedy nearby, on the anniversary of his death 16 years ago, June 6, 1984. From left: Emily and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.; Chris Kennedy; Ethel Kennedy; Michael Kennedy and Kathleen Kennedy, the wife and children of Robert Kennedy. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) stands at back. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Ethel Kennedy, widow of Sen. Robert Kennedy, ice skates with youngsters from Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn borough, at the eighth annual Kennedy skating party originated by the late senator at Rockefeller Center's skating rink on Dec. 16, 1972, in New York. (AP Photo, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Ethel Kennedy, wife of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, is shown July 27, 1970. (AP Photo/File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Sen. Edward Kennedy, back, stands behind the widow of former Senator Robert F. Kennedy, Mrs. Ethel Kennedy, second left, with her five children, and his wife Joan, right, as they pause at the grave of assassinated President John F. Kennedy in Arlington National Cemetery, Nov. 20, 1970, in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Mrs. Ethel Kennedy is escorted by her brother-in-law, Senator Edward Kennedy, to their pew in St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York for the funeral services of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, June 8, 1968. (AP Photo/File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Ethel Kennedy holds her new son, Douglas Harriman Kennedy, with two-year-old Christopher Kennedy, right, as they leave Georgetown University in Washington, April 13, 1967, for home. (AP Photo/Henry Burroughs, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Sen. Robert Kennedy poses with his wife Ethel outside the Senate Chamber on Oct. 13, 1965, in Washington. (AP Photo, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, right, wife Ethel Kennedy, and children, from left, Bobby, Joseph, and Kathleen, second right, pose at Kennedy International Airport in New York, July 1, 1964, shortly after they returned from a one-week trip to West Germany and Poland. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - U.S. Senator-elect Robert F. Kennedy is shown with his wife Ethel boarding plane, Nov. 4, 1964, in New York City at LaGuardia Airport for flight to Glens Falls, N.Y. (AP Photo/File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Children of three cabinet offices fill the foreground as President John Kennedy and Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy pose with guests at a White House reception in the East Room, Jan 21, 1961. The children are those of Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Postmaster General Edward Day, and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Seated on floor, from left: Joe Kennedy, 8, Jimmy Day, 12, Bobby Kennedy, 6, Scott Udall, II, Tommy Udall, 12, Michael Kennedy, 2, and David Kennedy, 5. Four girls at center, from left; Kathleen Kennedy, 9, Courtney Kennedy, 4, Lynn Udall, 10, and Lori Udall, 8. Back row: Robert Kennedy, his wife Ethel, Edward Day, Molly Day, 14, and Mrs. Day. Hidden: Geraldine Day, 17; Mrs. Irma Udall, the First Lady, the president, Vice President Johnson, Mrs. Lady Bird Johnson, Frederick Dutton of White House staff and Adlai Stevenson, ambassador to the United Nations. (AP Photo/William Allen, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Mrs. Ethel Kennedy gives a kiss to her brother-in-law, President-elect John Kennedy, at his Georgetown home, Nov. 27, 1960, in Washington. (AP Photo/Henry Griffin, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

FILE - Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, left, and Jean Kennedy, sister-in-law and sister, respectively of Patricia Kennedy, enter the Roman Catholic Church of St. Thomas More in New York, April 24, 1954, to attend Patricias wedding to actor Peter Lawford. Ethel Kennedy is at left. (AP Photo/Matty Zimmerman, File)ASSOCIATED PRESS

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