The Tragic Story Of Ethel Kennedy 

than SHE, grammatically.

A co-worker told me that Ethel was new money 💰 her father was a worker and raise from poverty and Jackie was old money because her mother married a Bouvier.

Not 😊😊

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It’s SO good!

With the Kennedys assassination democracy has disappeared. Nowadays Republicans and Democr. do not differ in US (anywhere in the world).There is none democracy neither such party as both parties are ruled by the same people /- corporations . It's time to wake up.

A recent report said that RFK Sr. was shot from the back. Sirhan was facing him. Sirhan was the scapegoat. Someone else took the Senator out.

Interesting that RFK Jr says Sirhan did not kill his father and should be released from prison.

I can certainly under her fear 😨 of flying considering losing her parents in an a plane crash. Also, she saw what happened in her husband's family due to plane crashes.😳 If I were Mrs. Ethel, I would not be comfortable flying either. She is truly a remarkable woman. ❤️ God Bless Ethel Kennedy and her loved ones.

Her parents, George and Ann Skakel had died in an air tragedy over Oklahoma in 1955. A few years later, in 1966, her brother, George Skakel, Jr., also died in a plane crash. Ted Kennedy was in a plane crash where he nearly died, not to mention his brother and sister, both of whom died in separate plane crashes. Later, JFK Jr., we know what happened to him.

@@travelseatsyellowlab I do remember Ted being in an accident but I had no idea about her parents. Very sad

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She didn’t want her grandchildren dating Taylor Swift because she thought Taylor was using them for publicity. Major mistake.

Great comment….And yet, despite bearing 11 children, enduring all that tragedy, somehow that myopic love and loyalty has seen her through to 95 and counting.

@@plantsoverpills1643 Yes, she has a spine of steel. When she dies, her epitaph should read "A life well-lived."

I'm just finishing Oppenheimer's unauthorized biography. I found it really odd that she "divorced" her own family I listened to an interview with RFK Jr. who said he'd never met his Skakel cousins until the Moxley trial, when he becaome involved to help his cousin.

She's still alive

She was inlove with bobby all through her life she went thru alot of tragedy but maintained her faith

My father told that Senator Kennedy the most younger what he did to that young woman who worked for him, when the accident that his car fell in the lake he runs and do nothing to save her. He doesn’t call the police after 20 hours after the accident and his wife divorce that he accused her to be alcoholic destroy the myth of Kennedy. 😡👿

And a granddaughter and great grandson.

​@@rhondabitler5474drugs?

@@edp3202 They drown trying to retrieve a ball.

@@rhondabitler5474 man. The Skakels and Kennedys

@@edp3202 One tragedy after the other.

“Maybe not a bad thing”? They destroyed our home in Aspen & refused to remunerate in full. Other owners eventually banned them from renting in many CO locations.

This is the Ethel Kennedy I read about. Every book and article painted her as a neglectful mother. Her ELEVEN children all had problems.

Sadly, this is typical for Ethel and the other Skakels. They have no regard for anyone whatsoever.@@J-Flo

They are a bit untamed in my view too. Very disrespectful.

Ethel kicked RFK Jr. out of the house because, as she said, "I'm Ethel Kennedy." She did not need a reason other than that of all her kids, she disliked RFK, Jr., and David. Her mother, Mrs. Ann Skakel, was exactly the same way. When one of Mrs. Ann Skakel's son's behavior erred beyond what she was willing to tolerate, she simply shipped ALL of her sons off to boarding schools and camps. Eventually, she tired of her daughters as well, and one by one, married them off or shipped them off to Catholic boarding schools so she could socialize and travel without responsibility. For the most part, Ethel's kids were never around the Skakels because RFK would take the liberty of taking one of the Great Lakes Carbon Corporation airplanes without the Skakels' permission. He had no respect for the Skakels, and they, in turn, did not like the Kennedys.

​@@travelseatsyellowlabThat's interesting. I have never heard this version before. Where did you learn about it. I would like to read the book if there is one.

@rhondabitler5474 there's a comprehensive biography of Mrs. Kennedy called "The Other Mrs. Kennedy," that lays everything out. Even in recent years, Mrs. Kennedy and Bobby have despised one another.

This is the honest account of Ethel that no one talks about.

How come explain

@rocketmom60: If you are crass enough to make a comment like you did, you should offer examples. If I say you aren’t the Angel your friends and family believe you to be, then I should be able to explain. However, she was perhaps not a strong parent to her sons after their father died based on the scandals and resulting deaths they were responsible for or the continued defense of her nephew over clubbing a neighbor to death.

@@johnpickford4222 I remember and the family of the victim claims that because he was a Kennedy he will be declare innocent. I never know that Ethel that she defended her nephew who kill a neighbor the way that pirates kill they enemies. The Kennedy’s always get out wait with murder.

Ethel employed a LOT of household help to keep house and raise her children, but after her husband’s assassination, her shortcomings as a mother became apparent. She could not and would not discuss their father’s death with her seven sons (the four daughters appeared less problematic), punished them severely for minor, attention-seeking infractions, and usually outsourced responsibility for her teen sons to boarding schools and other adults. Several sons suffered from drug addiction (including RFK Jr., whose last arrest for heroin occurred, IIRC, when he was thirty). Son David died of an overdose in 1984; son Michael, throwing around a football on skis, skied into a tree and was killed instantly in 1997. Michael also had been having sex with his family’s teenage babysitter for several years.

Rocketmom. I wholeheartedly agree . Indeed , a quite dreadful woman plus being a cruel and dreadful mother . Yes, this is just purple prose PR to support the myth .

Helen, I so agree.

I had forgotten about that.

Good Lord!

Her last surviving sibling also died recently at only 90.

It’s just statistics. They were wealthy so they flew way way more than the average person.

The Skakel family is notoriously reckless, and the plane crashes are just one of the kerfuffles they've been involved in.

Don't worry, God knows she's wonderful!

I find Ethel to be a better person than Rose Kennedy. Ethel deserves credit where due.

I do knows that who were them she had has 12 children.

Ethel had eleven children, one born five months after RFK’s death.

And the firstborn great-grandson

She also recently lost her youngest and last surviving sibling, who was just 90.

Yeah, that’s why her kids had so many issues (mostly the sons, not so much the daughters). Not to make a comparison, but she was not the mother Jackie was.

We must trust in God’s mercy. I pray for the Kennedy family, especially Robert, John, & their families.

They just suffered another tragedy with the death of Ethel's last surviving sibling.

Hmmm

This is about Ethel.

Ethel had nothing to do with that. That was old Joe.

That was Joe Kennedy. Ethel had nothing to do with Joe Kennedy Sr.

Not sure but I think that Michael Skakel was the son of one Ethel Kennedy's brothers.

@@michaelverbakel7632 I think it just said he was Ethel's son.

@@michaelverbakel7632 Or then you can be right.

@@michaelverbakel7632he was, though he went around calling himself a Kennedy.

Ethel's late brother, Rushton Skakel, Sr., was the father of her nephew, Michael Skakel. That's the relation.

Too many children

So Typically Catholic !

Though they're not as prominent as before, they are still powerful and influential enough that their opinion is heard on a national level.

Ethel is a devout Catholic, and, in those days, you just didn’t divorce.

There is no evidence of affairs with Robert. If you believe tabloid trash ok.

​@lisasharf1442 Actually, the infidelity of the KENNEDY family was so bad that Ethel's mother grew disillusioned by the public Kennedy image and wanted Ethel to divorce Bobby if the Kennedys couldn't keep her in the lifestyle she was accustomed to growing up.

She’s entitled

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She’s well into her 90’s. I saw a picture of her pretty recently, and she was this tiny, shrunken woman sitting in a lawn chair.

Even her youngest sibling recently beat Ethel to the grave, dying at only 90, compared to Ethel's 96.

So she was beaten , and crucified. What a ridiculous thing to say. She’s went through the same deaths and tragedy’s most of us have.

How is that her fault ??😊

Velika porodica I puno nesrece.

She was, notably. Apparently after Bobby died so did she, to her children’s detriment. According to John Jr, he and Caroline were shielded from her and Bobby’s kids because she let them run rampant. There are stories for miles of how she’d run up bills all over town and not pay them with a “you should be glad the Kennedy’s come to you for service.” I don’t get why people martyr mean people, even if they are dead.

Really? You see no depth?

@@marijasovljanski this probably helps explain RFK, Jr. That and he supposedly took a lot of drugs when he was younger. But yeah, Bobby Kennedy’s kids were never shown any boundaries while they were growing up. Completely the opposite of Jack’s kids, who were raised right, thanks to Jackie. That’s why Caroline and John Jr. were so normal. Jackie has been quoted as saying “if you fail at parenting, then nothing you do, no matter what, will ever make up for it.” She was right. Too bad she couldn’t have raised Bobby’s kids as well.

1. Her husband was assassinated. 2. Her parents died in a plane crash. 3. Her brother died in a plane crash. 4. Her sister-in-law choked to death. 5. Her sister-in-law died of brain cancer at only 41. 6. Her two sons died young. 7. Her two granddaughters died young. 8. Her two great-grandchildren died young. 9. Her last surviving sibling recently died at only 90.

Ethel Kennedy would've never been able to come close to Eleanor Roosevelt.

Speculate much? 😂

Really? Booleggers Joe?

@@chriscampbell9207 No big thing. Everybody was doing it.

Who cares

@@myahollandia3552 Apparently, I do care.

Deep in the heart of Texas

A Kennedy cannot be a republican, for Heaven's sake.

I wonder if the Kennedy clan voted for Biden. That tells you what they think of Biden

@@monichatwhy?

@@JudithSanchez-ht6jn It's not for me to say - do some research

@@monichat where I can find the information

@@adasteia6667 I had hard times before, especially from socalled Christians. I have the feeling that someone is afraid that Sirhan would start talking.

@@adasteia6667 You must be one of the fanatic ones. I can do without them.

@@adasteia6667 Sorry you got up on the wrong side of the bed and had a lousy day. I am and always was a citizen. Good God (yes god) what an over sensitive person. I hope you are able to sleep tonight. Have a nice day.

@@giselamarch1994 If only people knew that Sirhan WAS innocent and was unjustly imprisoned because the trial was unfair... maybe they'd change their tune... remember, if it could (and did happen to him) it COULD happen to you.

@@maryannec55 I appreciate your comment, and you are not alone with your statement There is someone on this exchange who will truly hate your opinion, maybe even trying to deport you because you do not agree with his opinion. It is laughable but he likes to threaten anyone who has a different opinion.

She is alleged to have had her own dalliances. Don't think she was a martyr in that sense.