Human rights advocate, widow of Robert F. Kennedy, died at age 96.
President Joe Biden offered one of several eulogies honoring the life and work of Ethel Kennedy at her memorial service Wednesday. He was joined by fellow former presidents, politicians, celebrities, and civil rights activists.
Ethel was the wife of Robert F. Kennedy, former senator and attorney general who was assassinated while seeking his party’s presidential nomination in 1968. Robert was the brother of President John F. Kennedy, who was also assassinated five years earlier.
Despite the tragedy throughout her life, Ethel Kennedy carried on the human rights work of her husband and brother-in-law, opening the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Center. She worked with minorities and civil rights movements around the world.
“Ethel was a hero in her own right,” President Biden said in his remarks at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, just blocks from the White House.
“She was a spitfire,” said former President Barack Obama, who awarded Kennedy the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014. “As serious as Ethel was about righting wrongs, she never seemed to take herself too seriously.”
As the Lord Leads, Pray with Us…
- For the president and administration officials as they commemorate the life of Ethel Kennedy.
- For the friends and family of Ethel Kennedy as they mourn her loss.
- For healing for the Kennedy family for all the tragedy that they have experienced.
Sources: Reuters, CNN
