Ethel Kennedy

Ethel Skakel Kennedy is an American humanrights campaigner and widow of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was assassinated while running for nomination as Democratic presidential candidate in 1968.

Ethel Skakel was born in Chicago to businessman George Skakel and secretary Ann Brannack . She was the Skakels third daughter and sixth child, having five older siblings, Georgeann, James, George Jr., Rushton, and Patricia, and one younger sister, Ann. George was a Protestant of Dutch descent while Ann was a Catholic of Irish ancestry. Ethel and her siblings were raised Catholic in Greenwich, Connecticut. George Skakel was the founder of Great Lakes Carbon Corporation, now a division of SGLCarbon. She attended the allgirls Greenwich Academy in Greenwich, as well as the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Manhattan.

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