Ethel gave him unquestioning confidence, unquenchable admiration, unstinted love.”In 1964, Robert Kennedy was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York. In 1945, 17-year-old Ethel Skakel joined Jean Kennedy and other members of the Kennedy family, including Bobby, on a ski vacation in Quebec. By then, her sister had married another man, and Robert Kennedy was in law school at the University of Virginia. While Robert Kennedy was serving as attorney general, Mrs. Kennedy sometimes took her children to the FBI building to watch shooting practice. After the death in 1995 of Rose Kennedy, her husband’s mother, Mrs. Kennedy began to assume the role of family matriarch and keeper of the Kennedy flame.

Source: Washington Post October 11, 2024 09:43 UTC