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 ...

And a granddaughter, Saoirse Kennedy Hill – a daughter of Paul Hill, one of the Guildford Four – died at 22 after an apparent overdose at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts ...

She was an enthusiastic backer of JFK’s 1960 run and during the Kennedy administration hosted some of the era’s most well-attended parties at their Hickory Hill estate in McLean, Virginia ...

Her granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill died of an accidental overdose in 2019, and another granddaughter, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean, drowned with her 8-year old son in a canoe accident in 2020.

Ethel Kennedy, who lost her husband Robert F. Kennedy to assassination, has died. She was 96. She was by her husband's side when the senator was killed while running for president in 1968. She ...

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 ...

Her nephew, John F. Kennedy Jr., died in a 1999 plane crash along with his wife, Carolyn Bessette, and sister-in-law. Granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill died of an apparent drug overdose in 2019.

Another granddaughter, 22-year-old Saoirse Kennedy Hill, died of a drug overdose in 2019. Survivors include nine children, 34 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren.

Hickory Hill was sold in 2009 for $8.25 million, and Ethel Kennedy divided her time between homes in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, and Palm Beach, Florida.

Ethel Kennedy, social activist and wife of Robert F. Kennedy, has died FILE – Sen. Robert Kennedy poses with his wife Ethel outside the Senate Chamber on Oct. 13, 1965, in Washington.

More recently, granddaughter Saoirse Kennedy Hill died of a drug overdose in August 2019 while on the Kennedy Compound in Hyannis Port. Decades earlier, both of Ethel’s parents were killed when ...