The Tragic Story Of Ethel Kennedy
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2023
- The life and death of Bobby Kennedy is one of the great legends of American political history - but who was the woman who stood by his side?
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Ethel Kennedy's last child, Rory, made a lovely documentary about her mother several years ago that can be found on CZcams. Although the documentary does show the painful losses that Mrs. Kennedy suffered, it really demonstrates much more about her resilience, grit and determination to give something back and to help people who are less fortunate than her.
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.
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It’s SO good!
Even though I am a Republican, that doesn't stop me from admiring Ethel Kennedy. She was a very strong woman who loved her husband and her children.She was strong in her faith and raised her 11 children in that manor. She was a fabulous mother and made their lives intertwined with their father's career. She was very creative and showed her children fun and creative things to do. She gave birth to their last child,Rory, a baby girl not long after Robert Kennedy's assignation. Rory was named after the last of the Irish Kings. Ethel is a great humanitarian in her own right by passing on the values and beliefs of her and her late husband. May God bless Ethel Kennedy and her family.
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.
Ethel is a dear lady. Sorry for all of the tragedies that has troubled her life. Justified in saying no to letting Sirhan out of prison.
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.
It's so good to see that she is still doing well.
I saw her a few times coming through Boston airport when I worked there years ago. She told me she was so afraid of flying, I felt bad for her.
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
I think Martin Lawrence said it best, "No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life." Amid all the trials and tribulations during her lifetime, Ethel Kennedy has remained a very strong woman, and has therefore made her contributions to the betterment of humanity. I wish both her and her family members nothing but the very best. Plus, I hope that Ethel is able to still enjoy life with however much longer she has to remain in this world.
I cannot imagine losing your husband while pregnant with your 11th child. It’s a horror that shouldn’t have ever befallen anyone.
Ethel Kennedy, you are a true testament to determination, strength, and courage. Thank you for continuing on through many trials.
That is just way too much pain to endure
Ethel Kennedy is not a tragic figure at all . Yes,.she has had tragedies happen to her....yet,. She is a strong person...has never given up either and kept on going. Strong like Rose and Jackie
What a wonderful woman to keep going after loosing so much she is very strong
I loved the Kennedy family
I've read at least 5 bios of Ethel Kennedy; not ONE of them portrays her as a tragic figure. She was and is, larger than life, a rapscallion in the best sense of the word, and if she had one failing, it was her myopic love for Bobby Kennedy. We have adages like "loyal to a fault" for a reason, and she fell into that category. For her, the Kennedys could do NO wrong, and no matter the transgression, the wagons had to be circled to protect the name.
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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 even lost her granddaughter Saoirse in 2019
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.
What a wonderful lady, with a beautiful heart!
She was big a mother, wife, daughter in law, human rights activist, Kennedy legacy deserves more than 5 minutes wow!!
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. 😡👿
They were the most powerful family …they are not anymore.
She was a totally nutty Mom and maybe not a bad thing but she did allow her children to be destructive. Some Hotels and Lodges in Colorado banned the family because the kids were allowed to run wild.
“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.
She lost it for years. Drug addicted kids, kids in boarding school, dogs pooing all over the house and a befudled Ethel coping on ...was it a lot of Gin ?! Oh ya, kudos to Ethel. Mother, Mother. Were all of you so F en clueless ?!
This is the honest account of Ethel that no one talks about.
When Bobby died her nuanced reaction was to throw her son RFKjr right out of the house. "Get out!" Why? I guess because he wasn't the one she wanted. No wonder he's so cold to women. But just think how that must have been for him. Suddenly, his father's been murdered. Suddenly his mother can't stand the sight of him. He moves in with the homosexual sidekick of his father's generation who had a crush on him. Weird but-- he's too young to be on his own. Very terrible start in life, let's face it. And she-- I'd say she's got a lot of shortcomings. Too much simplicity. I haven't read a biography of her, I haven't seen a film about her, but there just wasn't much parenting or making sure kids were safe among the Skakels, nor in that family, either. I bring this up on behalf of RFK jr only.
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.
Interesting and sad video at the same time
What a STRONG woman. Now, a woman gets wolf-whistled and has a nervous breakdown. Ethel was a hero!
So? Every woman now has to endure what she endured? She was indeed a strong woman but that doesnt make other women who go through less weaker.
Tragically, her final surviving sibling recently died at only 90.
This woman to me is amazing....Yes I think the "whole" Kennedy Family had more than their share of tragedy To have a large family back in the 50/60's was commend but to do this without a Father was not..RFK was also a leader in the civil rights movement and he took on the mob two things that no one else seem to address with the exception of Martin Luther King Jr. I think our Country would be a far better place today had he not been murdered, AND america is still being lied to about that
Helen, I so agree.
❤ poor lady😢
It’s very odd how many people in and around this family died in plane crashes. To know one person who died in a plane crash is fairly rare I can think of 6 that died in this family in a plane crash including Ethel’s parents.
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.
Ethel lost 2 granddaughters as well
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.
And a long line of scandal.
Let's be honest.
Ethel Skakel. That's how the Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel who killed Martha was related to them.
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.
I.. cant even grapple having so many of your family members die so tragically. There must be so much pain and trauma steeped in that family line for so many to have died from over doses as well. I dont believe in curses but... you have to wonder
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.
Ethel is an unsung hero. Rarely mentioned but present to her causes.❤
Don't worry, God knows she's wonderful!
I find Ethel to be a better person than Rose Kennedy. Ethel deserves credit where due.
Their wealth didn’t come only from politics….
I respect her for never remarrying. What a loyal, honorable woman! She spared her children a lot of heartache by accepting her fate and raising her children by herself. Being a young widow with eleven children, being in the public eye and losing the love of your life in such a horrible manner must have been a nightmare. Her resilience is admirable and remarkable.
Even if she had wanted to marry again - no man would have liked to have ELEVEN STEPCHILDREN.
So we're omitting the Kennedy's links to early organized crime and illegal alcohol transportation...got it, Carry on.
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.
I've read that Jackie did not want her kids to hang around with their cousins cause they were too wild.
Her faith is strong
I always wondered what happened to her
She was a lousy mother. And she pushed Bobby to run for president. She was nasty to Jackie and constantly berates all around .
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.
Maybe she was nasty to Jackie because Jackie and Bobby were having an affair. Everyone close to them knew about it.
Yes mme kennedy vous êtes forte ❤
This video skipped Ethel's brother, George Jr, who also was killed in a plane crash in 1966.
I have much respect for Ethel Kennedy and how much she has been through. Her unwaivering strenght and positive attitude. Blessings 🙏 to her and her family.
She's not the angel that this video makes her out to be.
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 .
She’s historical honestly we shall say thank you for spirit ♥️
This is incorrect. Robert Kennedy didn't win the senate seat in 1968, he won that in 1964. His run for the presidency was in 1968. Two completely separate events.
I would argue the Kennedy’s power and influence is largely past tense though.
Though they're not as prominent as before, they are still powerful and influential enough that their opinion is heard on a national level.
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You forgot the loss of her brother in a plane crash in 1965 also. A year later his widow choked to death.
I had forgotten about that.
Good Lord!
Her last surviving sibling also died recently at only 90.
Several assasins' bullets.
Tragic end? Why is it always a tragedy at the end of a famous person's life?
Probably not too bright to put up with all of Bobbies affairs?
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.
eleven!
Too many children
So Typically Catholic !
We shouldn’t idolize ppl or families. Ppl aren’t perfect.
I am about the same age as Ethal Kennedy. My most recent memory of her was when one of her children wanted to participate in some activity, but was not allowed by the person in charge because there was no more room for anyone else at the time. When this was reported to her, Ethel immediately confronted that person letting him know that her children were always entitled to special consideration because they were Kennedys, and should always be given first choice in the future!
She’s entitled
T heres a great Biography on her called The Other Mrs. Kennedy.
I feel bad for all Kennedy women,and associated women, however, they did have voices for all women when it was said and done. They had voices when even not speaking through alcoholism, suicide, and perseverance through the atrocities and degradation they endured. This would not work with today’s social media. Black Jack and Rose were a twisted and sick couple, there should be a 20/20 documentary on them.
Love
I can't believe this woman is still alive!
C L woo😊
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.
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Sweet lady
Family
Wow
Wonderful Catholic woman who understands pain and sorrow just like Jesus did.
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.
Het nephew killed his young teenage neighbor Martha Moxley for no reason
How is that her fault ??😊
She is and was a terrible human being. She neglected her children which is why so many of them turned out to be drunks, and druggies, and treated spouses atrociously. Her treatment of her deceased son David was particularly egregious
Robert Kennedy was full of life very impressed
Ethel always seemed like a sad baby making machine.
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.
Why tragic?
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.
Aske the people in Hyannis and Aspen what they think of Ethel and her brood. they have stiffed so many people... as for tragedy they brought most of them on themselves.....
I’ve read at least 10-12 books about the Kennedys, not ONE had anything good to say about Ethel. Read ‘The Other Mrs. Kennedy’, she was a horrid person.
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Merci la CIA ..
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Bobby Kennedy had a nasty habit of getting into it with people. He should have NEVER gotten into it with Jimmy Hoffa. Maybe Marilyn Monroe could tell you how "wonderful" Bobby and JFK were...if she could.
She has anacostia Tibet bridge in dc named after her it was to youngest kids wedding I. Sntuvkey jkks plane crashed
The kennedy family was always looked up to and we in are family always will
Really? Booleggers Joe?
@@chriscampbell9207 No big thing. Everybody was doing it.
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Super nanny USA thecporter family estchingvlizziecpulverizecherxyounger brother eith her right hand while holding him down with her left was painful
Deep in the heart of Texas
I genuinely believe had RFK lived and became president, Ethel would've become the most influential first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt
Ethel Kennedy would've never been able to come close to Eleanor Roosevelt.
Speculate much? 😂
I am not a fan of the Kennedy family 😒 ...
Who cares
@@myahollandia3552 Apparently, I do care.
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Ethel was a broodmare rah rah girl for the Kennedys.
The narrator is way has a weird way of speaking, almost like she is trying to be emotional. I prefer the voices of the men on this channel, they tell the story without this fake drama!!!!
A wonderful family - what would they make of the Bidens ?, I ask. Will RFK Jr. get the "democrat" nomination ? He should have gone Republican.
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
It is not christian-like to refuse Sirhans transfer to Jordan.
@@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.
I never cared for her. She wasn’t likable like Jacky was or as beautiful. I think that’s why most is didn’t blame him for having affairs.
She is alleged to have had her own dalliances. Don't think she was a martyr in that sense.
Ethel… What bothered me most is after JFK died…. You said to Jaclyn..it’s me and Bobby’s turn Now…. I’m the Massachusetts accent…. And You got your turn…didn’t you… We Reap what we
Sow… I’m Not a fan!
Why tragic?