The son known throughout the country while Bobby Kennedy married Ethel Skakel June 17, 1950.
They continued to have 11 children: Kathleen,, Joseph II,, Robert Jr.,, David,, Courtey,, Michael,, Kerry,, Christopher,, Maxwell,, Douglas And Rory.
Ethel was pregnant with Rory when Bobby was fatally shot dead on June 6, 1968, shortly after winning the Democrat primary in California.
David Kennedy died of a drug overdose on April 25, 1984, at the age of 28. Michael Kennedy was killed on December 31, 1997, when he struck a tree while he was on skis and simultaneously launched football during a family trip to Aspen, Colorado. Victoria Gifford.
Her husband died while their older child was only 16 years old, but Ethel Kennedy continued to be a 34-year-old grandmother. Two of his grandchildren died: Courtney and husband Paul Hilldaughter of Saoirse hill22 years old, in 2019 an accidental overdose of drugs and kathleen and husband David Townsenddaughter of Maeve Kennedy McKean40 years old, in a canoe accident in 2020.
