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Ethel Kennedy, RFK’s Widow Who Raised 11 Kids After Assassination, Dies at 96

R.I.P.

The political matriarch, who was married to the senator for 18 years before his death, remained fiercely committed to the humanitarian values he espoused for the rest of her life.

Robert F. Kennedy and his wife, Ethel, wave from ramp of plane as they prepare to depart on a globe-circling, 26-day good-will tour to Japan, Indonesia, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, and West Berlin in 1962.
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