The Tragic Story Of Ethel Kennedy

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  • Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
  • 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?
    #EthelKennedy #RFK #Tragedy
    Voiceover By: Stephanie Willing
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  • @brynnharris-hamm1321
    @brynnharris-hamm1321 10 месяцев назад +97

    I cannot imagine losing your husband while pregnant with your 11th child. It’s a horror that shouldn’t have ever befallen anyone.

  • @scottbrowning4553
    @scottbrowning4553 Год назад +89

    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.

  • @chnalvr
    @chnalvr Год назад +141

    Ethel Kennedy's last child, Rory, made a lovely documentary about her mother several years ago that can be found on RUclips. 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.

  • @lenevee4925
    @lenevee4925 Год назад +63

    It's so good to see that she is still doing well.

  • @alanstrong55
    @alanstrong55 Год назад +82

    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.

    • @CasuallyObservant
      @CasuallyObservant Год назад +6

      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.

    • @TheYellowrose21
      @TheYellowrose21 9 месяцев назад +4

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

    • @gemmster14
      @gemmster14 3 месяца назад

      @@TheYellowrose21 Who is this man? Go to the 3:30 minute mark in this video.
      Look at the hand gesture made by the man to the right of Bobby at the podium at the Ambassador Hotel. WTF ???

  • @michaelsadams524
    @michaelsadams524 Год назад +53

    Ethel Kennedy, you are a true testament to determination, strength, and courage. Thank you for continuing on through many trials.

  • @patriciawarner1274
    @patriciawarner1274 Год назад +46

    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.

    • @rmrjones8628
      @rmrjones8628 Год назад +8

      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.

    • @travelseatsyellowlab
      @travelseatsyellowlab Год назад +5

      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.

    • @patriciawarner1274
      @patriciawarner1274 Год назад +3

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

  • @donnabonnette-wakefield4356
    @donnabonnette-wakefield4356 Год назад +66

    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.

    • @incubator6916
      @incubator6916 10 месяцев назад +1

      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.

    • @ifchi7842
      @ifchi7842 Месяц назад +1

      Fabulous mother? Not at all.

  • @cherylbaker3353
    @cherylbaker3353 Год назад +27

    That is just way too much pain to endure

  • @DoloresOHalloran
    @DoloresOHalloran Год назад +27

    What a wonderful woman to keep going after loosing so much she is very strong
    I loved the Kennedy family

  • @dianeleake7365
    @dianeleake7365 Год назад +41

    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.

    • @J-Flo
      @J-Flo Год назад +20

      “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.

    • @queenofkingsbury
      @queenofkingsbury Год назад +13

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

    • @travelseatsyellowlab
      @travelseatsyellowlab Год назад +11

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

    • @rhondabitler5474
      @rhondabitler5474 9 месяцев назад +8

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

    • @ellengallagher5284
      @ellengallagher5284 6 месяцев назад

      @@J-Flo

  • @adellemery3336
    @adellemery3336 Год назад +156

    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.

    • @vernaroberts7031
      @vernaroberts7031 Год назад +3

      Neuropathy helps 4:57 4:57

    • @jw77019
      @jw77019 Год назад +10

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

    • @plantsoverpills1643
      @plantsoverpills1643 Год назад +14

      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.

    • @adellemery3336
      @adellemery3336 Год назад +14

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

    • @julieb7785
      @julieb7785 Год назад +10

      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.

  • @danaclark5070
    @danaclark5070 4 месяца назад +14

    She was not a fabulous mother. I just finished a biography of her. She was raised in a crazy household by derelict parents and lots of alcohol and she did the same in raising her kids. Before he died, David said his home, Hickory Hill was a dump it was so dirty. And his mother as just not around. Jackie and others raising children in that generation wouldn’t allow their children to be around Bobby’s kids after he died because it was so dysfunctional. I truly feel very sorry for David and his struggles with drugs and alcohol and his mother. That story broke my heart.

  • @eileenhudson4934
    @eileenhudson4934 Год назад +31

    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

    • @jimnfl7134
      @jimnfl7134 4 месяца назад

      more so, the people around her.

  • @fantasyprincessgirl
    @fantasyprincessgirl Год назад +47

    She even lost her granddaughter Saoirse in 2019

    • @rhondabitler5474
      @rhondabitler5474 Год назад +10

      And a granddaughter and great grandson.

    • @edp3202
      @edp3202 Год назад +3

      ​@@rhondabitler5474drugs?

    • @rhondabitler5474
      @rhondabitler5474 Год назад +8

      @@edp3202 They drown trying to retrieve a ball.

    • @edp3202
      @edp3202 Год назад +4

      @@rhondabitler5474 man. The Skakels and Kennedys

    • @rhondabitler5474
      @rhondabitler5474 Год назад +5

      @@edp3202 One tragedy after the other.

  • @kerryz966
    @kerryz966 9 месяцев назад +15

    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

    • @jillohara3121
      @jillohara3121 5 месяцев назад +4

      She also could not stand RFK JR.

    • @ritakennedy3138
      @ritakennedy3138 4 месяца назад +1

      @@jillohara3121 Nobody could!

    • @amberspaulding
      @amberspaulding Месяц назад

      Oh no. I wondered why his face looked stricken, all the time.

  • @ladonsewell4558
    @ladonsewell4558 Год назад +34

    She was big a mother, wife, daughter in law, human rights activist, Kennedy legacy deserves more than 5 minutes wow!!

    • @kamsi_ko
      @kamsi_ko Год назад +8

      She's still alive

    • @cynthiadavid5282
      @cynthiadavid5282 Год назад +9

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

    • @JudithSanchez-ht6jn
      @JudithSanchez-ht6jn Год назад

      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. 😡👿

    • @hb-dr
      @hb-dr День назад

      Human rights activist? 😀😀 Perhaps in front of cameras

  • @ravendixon1099
    @ravendixon1099 Год назад +28

    I've read that Jackie did not want her kids to hang around with their cousins cause they were too wild.

    • @jillohara3121
      @jillohara3121 5 месяцев назад +5

      I heard that too

    • @Kitty-v2i
      @Kitty-v2i Месяц назад

      I've heard that from more than one source.

  • @adasteia6667
    @adasteia6667 Год назад +33

    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 ?!

    • @texan903
      @texan903 8 месяцев назад +11

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

    • @unknown-lf6zx
      @unknown-lf6zx 4 месяца назад

      Can you blame her?

    • @discoblair938
      @discoblair938 4 месяца назад +3

      She used to come to the Shador Antiques Show at the DC Armory without her checkbook . Just bill me; she never paid.

    • @Kitty-v2i
      @Kitty-v2i Месяц назад

      @@discoblair938 I've heard many stories like that.

  • @tobiojo6469
    @tobiojo6469 Год назад +12

    Interesting and sad video at the same time

  • @brettmorones245
    @brettmorones245 Год назад +30

    And a long line of scandal.
    Let's be honest.

  • @diansbarrowcliff2939
    @diansbarrowcliff2939 Год назад +29

    She was a lousy mother. And she pushed Bobby to run for president. She was nasty to Jackie and constantly berates all around .

    • @kaymuldoon3575
      @kaymuldoon3575 Год назад +13

      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.

    • @Colorbrush21
      @Colorbrush21 7 месяцев назад +3

      Maybe she was nasty to Jackie because Jackie and Bobby were having an affair. Everyone close to them knew about it.

    • @marygersten862
      @marygersten862 3 месяца назад +3

      @@Colorbrush21 She made fun of Jackie before then, she and his sisters. Jackie's father was rich, but he was also a drunk loser. Jackie acted better than them, but wasn't competitive. They didn't consider Jackie on of them.

    • @mamanemcakesandtreats3974
      @mamanemcakesandtreats3974 3 месяца назад

      Where you there to witness all that?

    • @Kitty-v2i
      @Kitty-v2i Месяц назад

      @@mamanemcakesandtreats3974 That comes from several sources.

  • @corky_cork
    @corky_cork Год назад +30

    They were the most powerful family …they are not anymore.

    • @mamanemcakesandtreats3974
      @mamanemcakesandtreats3974 3 месяца назад

      You family never have and never will be, so why do it matter about her family?

  • @AbrahamsAnt
    @AbrahamsAnt 6 месяцев назад +13

    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.

    • @Magdalenkaization
      @Magdalenkaization 6 месяцев назад +6

      Even if she had wanted to marry again - no man would have liked to have ELEVEN STEPCHILDREN.

    • @faithwatkins7811
      @faithwatkins7811 5 месяцев назад +1

      I mean who would marry her with 11 kids and then who would follow Robert Kennedy? Whoever she would've been with would've been in her shadows

    • @marygersten862
      @marygersten862 3 месяца назад +2

      She abused her children, but let them run wild. Neighbors described them as holy terrors. She has at lot to atone for during her time in purgatory. She didn't teach her children well; thus, the horrible decisions they made. She bullied Jackie, along with Bobby's sisters. Not nice people.

    • @elizabethkettle2323
      @elizabethkettle2323 3 месяца назад +1

      Going through the humiliation of Robert's affairs and then experiencing such a loss while having 11 kids to raise must have been incredibly difficult. However, having a nice home, more than sufficient income, and staff to nanny the kids, clean up, cook, etc. does provide a very soft cushion that other moms throughout history who have experienced similar tragedies would have been most grateful for.

    • @AS-wj1du
      @AS-wj1du Месяц назад

      11 kids a lot. But many are saying she was awful to her kids so mistreated them

  • @helenmallory3002
    @helenmallory3002 Год назад +30

    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

    • @rmrjones8628
      @rmrjones8628 Год назад +2

      Helen, I so agree.

    • @amberspaulding
      @amberspaulding Месяц назад

      He was great, imho. When he was coming to my city, and I was volunteering on his campaign, a thuggish man asked me to be his companion in the car and so on. I said, 'sure' but, I had no idea what was going on. I feel positive this request came from the brain of the thug, not from Bobby. Because there wasn't anything like that, that I ever heard about him.

  • @rocketmom60
    @rocketmom60 Год назад +56

    She's not the angel that this video makes her out to be.

    • @JudithSanchez-ht6jn
      @JudithSanchez-ht6jn Год назад +1

      How come explain

    • @johnpickford4222
      @johnpickford4222 Год назад +11

      @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.

    • @JudithSanchez-ht6jn
      @JudithSanchez-ht6jn Год назад

      @@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.

    • @lesliegoodman-malamuth9796
      @lesliegoodman-malamuth9796 Год назад +12

      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.

    • @alexandradane3672
      @alexandradane3672 Год назад +9

      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 .

  • @susanb2015
    @susanb2015 Год назад +27

    Ethel Skakel. That's how the Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel who killed Martha was related to them.

    • @michaelverbakel7632
      @michaelverbakel7632 Год назад +6

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

    • @susanb2015
      @susanb2015 Год назад +1

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

    • @susanb2015
      @susanb2015 Год назад +1

      @@michaelverbakel7632 Or then you can be right.

    • @lisasharf1442
      @lisasharf1442 Год назад +1

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

    • @travelseatsyellowlab
      @travelseatsyellowlab Год назад +7

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

  • @A.Briggs628
    @A.Briggs628 Год назад +26

    What a wonderful lady, with a beautiful heart!

  • @pillsie
    @pillsie Год назад +7

    This video skipped Ethel's brother, George Jr, who also was killed in a plane crash in 1966.

  • @amberspaulding
    @amberspaulding Год назад +29

    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.

    • @travelseatsyellowlab
      @travelseatsyellowlab Год назад +9

      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.

    • @rhondabitler5474
      @rhondabitler5474 9 месяцев назад +3

      ​@@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.

    • @travelseatsyellowlab
      @travelseatsyellowlab 9 месяцев назад +3

      @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.

    • @getoverit2789
      @getoverit2789 5 месяцев назад

      I agree 💯 %.

    • @getoverit2789
      @getoverit2789 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@rhondabitler5474 Collier and Horowitz wrote a book called "The Kennedys." Read the section called "The Lost Boys." Quite eye-opening. Ethel's oldest boys (Joe, Bobby Jr, and David) were a mess after the assassination, as was their cousin Chris Lawford.

  • @johncarsone1579
    @johncarsone1579 Год назад +31

    Ethel is an unsung hero. Rarely mentioned but present to her causes.❤

    • @susiem44
      @susiem44 Год назад +1

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

    • @ReviewsChannel-e4r
      @ReviewsChannel-e4r Год назад +4

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

  • @cdennison5936
    @cdennison5936 Год назад +38

    So we're omitting the Kennedy's links to early organized crime and illegal alcohol transportation...got it, Carry on.

  • @anitamwd
    @anitamwd Год назад +15

    Their wealth didn’t come only from politics….

    • @gemmster14
      @gemmster14 3 месяца назад

      Ethel was born into wealth as her father was a railroad industrialist in Chicago.

  • @sally9287
    @sally9287 3 месяца назад +2

    She skated at Lloyd Center in Portland with her Husband before they headed to California...and his Death. She was very small, petite ,constantly smiling.... Didn't fall , He held her up.

  • @wildflowerwind6941
    @wildflowerwind6941 3 месяца назад +2

    Eleven children. Crazy. That in itself deserves a medal. And then to have the children grow up in the drug era. Ruined so many lives.

    • @elizabethkettle2323
      @elizabethkettle2323 3 месяца назад

      Eleven children is a lot, but the woman was not up all night with babies, feeding and diapering and bathing one after the other, while cleaning/cooking/etc.

    • @Kitty-v2i
      @Kitty-v2i Месяц назад

      The servants basically raised the children and some were sent to boarding schools.

    • @amberspaulding
      @amberspaulding Месяц назад

      She wanted to have even more children than Rose, and she did.

  • @Officialaaravd
    @Officialaaravd Год назад +17

    Ethel lost 2 granddaughters as well

  • @brynnharris-hamm1321
    @brynnharris-hamm1321 10 месяцев назад +3

    We shouldn’t idolize ppl or families. Ppl aren’t perfect.

  • @firstname__lastname
    @firstname__lastname Год назад +15

    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

    • @DebbieMendivil-d3d
      @DebbieMendivil-d3d Год назад +6

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

    • @travelseatsyellowlab
      @travelseatsyellowlab Год назад +4

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

    • @catherinebrau3523
      @catherinebrau3523 4 месяца назад

      🤣

    • @user-vf3zi6we3g
      @user-vf3zi6we3g 3 месяца назад +1

      @firstname_lastname so many died because they lived dangerously. Often alcohol or drugs were involved. Most of them were very impulsive people and didn't give others another thought. Horrible people.

    • @Kitty-v2i
      @Kitty-v2i Месяц назад +1

      They weren't cursed, they were reckless and careless, with their lives as well as others. One poor girl was paralyzed because of one of the boy's reckless driving.

  • @ProudKansan08
    @ProudKansan08 4 месяца назад +6

    She may be admirable for her devotion to her husband and family but when you are complicit in covering up murders and rape, that’s not an honorable or admirable trait to have. Anyway I don’t find the Kennedys as a great family. I consider them trash with loads of money. If it wasn’t for the money and intimidation, in other words a normal family, family protection services would have been called on them and many of them would be serving time or ex-cons. Sorry to be such a downer but they really are a horrible family with Joe sneaking in to his daughter’s room to have his way with the friends and purposely putting his oldest daughter in an institution because she might of had mental deficiencies and having her given a lobotomy that turned her into a vegetable for the rest of her life. And Rose was no better. She was a horrible mother, too. I am sorry but if I met a male Kennedy and he wanted to marry me I would run as fast as I could. I heard Caroline K. Schlossberg was just absolutely terrible to the Bessette family after the deaths.

    • @Kitty-v2i
      @Kitty-v2i Месяц назад

      @ProudKansan08 Caroline's husband was horrible to them also. The Kennedys think they are above the law and can do whatever they please. The lapdog media worships them and covers for them.

  • @travelseatsyellowlab
    @travelseatsyellowlab 8 месяцев назад +4

    Tragically, her final surviving sibling recently died at only 90.

  • @donnabaardsen5372
    @donnabaardsen5372 Год назад +6

    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.

  • @Isaac-d2f
    @Isaac-d2f Год назад +6

    ❤ poor lady😢

  • @marva2170
    @marva2170 Год назад +6

    You forgot the loss of her brother in a plane crash in 1965 also. A year later his widow choked to death.

  • @sharonmchugh7957
    @sharonmchugh7957 Год назад +8

    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.

    • @brynnharris-hamm1321
      @brynnharris-hamm1321 10 месяцев назад +3

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

    • @travelseatsyellowlab
      @travelseatsyellowlab 8 месяцев назад

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

    • @AG-iu9lv
      @AG-iu9lv 4 месяца назад

      Now it's rare, it wasn't so rare back in the day. The FAA didn't just spring from Zeus's forehead the day that planes were invented. JFK Jr and Kathleen were killed due to severe recklessness, no other pilots would take off in those storms except JFK Jr and Kathleen's husband.

  • @LeslieGMN
    @LeslieGMN 2 месяца назад +1

    The plane crashes that took the lives of Ethel’s parents and brother weren’t a matter of booking ill-fated commercial flights. Her father bought a badly maintained airplane, used it for business, and it crashed. Her brother forced the pilot of a chartered plane to fly INSIDE a canyon, and it crashed. Her alcoholic brothers also were extremely careless with cars, guns, and knives.

    • @Kitty-v2i
      @Kitty-v2i Месяц назад

      So true. It was said somebody smelled gas on her father's plane and they ignored it. Unbelievable.

  • @morganwhite2176
    @morganwhite2176 Год назад +25

    What a STRONG woman. Now, a woman gets wolf-whistled and has a nervous breakdown. Ethel was a hero!

    • @_chapternumberone_8782
      @_chapternumberone_8782 7 месяцев назад +2

      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.

  • @BrigitteBaranger
    @BrigitteBaranger Год назад +3

    Yes mme kennedy vous êtes forte ❤

  • @DorisChan-b3y
    @DorisChan-b3y 5 месяцев назад +2

    Praying that God Almighty guard, guide, promote n prosper all the Kennedys esp RFK Jr n loved ones. In Jesus's Name. Praying from Singapore

  • @christinamarti4441
    @christinamarti4441 Год назад +7

    She’s historical honestly we shall say thank you for spirit ♥️

  • @lesliegmn3927
    @lesliegmn3927 Месяц назад +2

    “Big Ann” Skakel appears at 1:50 .

  • @FrancineSmith-n5r
    @FrancineSmith-n5r 3 месяца назад

    What and amazing Lady, her Legacy is unbeatable, her Journey was long and well lived giving her best to all ❤️🇺🇲💙⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🇺🇲

  • @MG-jj3pn
    @MG-jj3pn Год назад +19

    Her faith is strong

    • @marygersten862
      @marygersten862 3 месяца назад

      Actually not. They only cared about not getting divorced - they cheated, lied, and stole. Even jackie lived with a married man.

  • @brynnharris-hamm1321
    @brynnharris-hamm1321 10 месяцев назад +4

    I would argue the Kennedy’s power and influence is largely past tense though.

    • @texan903
      @texan903 8 месяцев назад +4

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

  • @angelaolivieri4696
    @angelaolivieri4696 4 месяца назад +1

    Grazie Ethel...hai dimostrato a noi tutte di essere la vera donna degli anni 2000 che ha saputo traghettare tutte le vere donne verso gli anni 3000.💐❤️

  • @barbarawebb7185
    @barbarawebb7185 3 месяца назад +3

    It was just ridiculous having all those kids.

    • @elizabethkettle2323
      @elizabethkettle2323 3 месяца назад +2

      She had 11 kids in order to outdo Rose. Per Ethel herself. It was a status thing. And with household staff and nannies ...

    • @barbarawebb7185
      @barbarawebb7185 3 месяца назад

      @@elizabethkettle2323 silly waste of time and resources

    • @AngelicVirgo
      @AngelicVirgo 3 месяца назад +1

      There was a family that grew up down the road from my Nannie during her childhood. There were 19 children, three sets of actual twins and five sets of 'Irish' twins.

  • @reillymoore3257
    @reillymoore3257 3 месяца назад

    Here today, October 2024, the Kennedy family has announced that Ethel Kennedy passed away at the age of 96. Rest in Peace.

  • @SouthernNurseAndTheLaw
    @SouthernNurseAndTheLaw 4 месяца назад +2

    I think Bobby & Ethel truly loved each other . Were there flaws ? Absolutely ! Some due to certainly from all the tragedy and loss. With great wealth comes great responsibility and often a level of dysfunction.

    • @marygersten862
      @marygersten862 3 месяца назад +1

      Adultery is not love.

    • @SouthernNurseAndTheLaw
      @SouthernNurseAndTheLaw 3 месяца назад +1

      @@marygersten862 I’m sure you’re a big hit at parties. I never mentioned “adultery”.

    • @Kitty-v2i
      @Kitty-v2i Месяц назад

      @@SouthernNurseAndTheLaw He carried on one adulterous affair after another, like all the Kennedy men.

  • @michaelbuchta2367
    @michaelbuchta2367 3 месяца назад

    Ethel was a very determined, strong and giving woman despite all the tragedies she faced in her life. I am a proud republican and saying this

  • @user-vf3zi6we3g
    @user-vf3zi6we3g 3 месяца назад +1

    The only thing tragic about her is her terrible behaviour and poor parenting.

  • @cm9859
    @cm9859 Год назад +4

    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.

  • @BenRabinowitz-1
    @BenRabinowitz-1 7 месяцев назад +2

    Tragic end? Why is it always a tragedy at the end of a famous person's life?

  • @catherinebrau3523
    @catherinebrau3523 4 месяца назад +1

    So tragic living a lavish and idle lifestyle

  • @madelinemodrak7644
    @madelinemodrak7644 5 месяцев назад +3

    Bobby Jr never talks about her. I’m sure we don’t know the whole story

    • @amberspaulding
      @amberspaulding Месяц назад

      She abandoned him. Now he's just a miserable cuss. Probably never talks about things like that. But at one time he was like a saint. His entire environmental activist life. If you read a description it's almost unbelievable, what he achieved. He must have been a conventional science believer then. It's just too confusing.

  • @Honestfeedback1
    @Honestfeedback1 7 месяцев назад +2

    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.

  • @sandyfarley260
    @sandyfarley260 Год назад +8

    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!

    • @thehapagirl92
      @thehapagirl92 Год назад +3

      She’s entitled

    • @Kitty-v2i
      @Kitty-v2i Месяц назад

      I've heard many stories like that.

    • @amberspaulding
      @amberspaulding Месяц назад

      So that's probably why she never felt she had to pay for anything. So gross.

  • @gregturley35
    @gregturley35 3 месяца назад

    Rip Ethel you are now with Bobby again!!❤❤

  • @danastewart8709
    @danastewart8709 Год назад +13

    Het nephew killed his young teenage neighbor Martha Moxley for no reason

    • @myahollandia3552
      @myahollandia3552 Год назад +3

      How is that her fault ??😊

    • @elizabethkettle2323
      @elizabethkettle2323 3 месяца назад

      @@myahollandia3552 Not her fault, but the Kennedy's showing up en mass to support young men who kill and r-p- as if they were not already known for their own lousy treatment of women is not a good look.

  • @tennis5177
    @tennis5177 10 месяцев назад +3

    T heres a great Biography on her called The Other Mrs. Kennedy.

    • @Kitty-v2i
      @Kitty-v2i Месяц назад

      Yes, it really shows the dark side of the Kennedys and the Skakels.

  • @SusanCox-pl9qp
    @SusanCox-pl9qp Год назад +6

    I can't believe this woman is still alive!

    • @jostermer6693
      @jostermer6693 Год назад +1

      C L woo😊

    • @lisasharf1442
      @lisasharf1442 Год назад +4

      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.

    • @travelseatsyellowlab
      @travelseatsyellowlab 8 месяцев назад

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

  • @japanjack62
    @japanjack62 Год назад +9

    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.....

    • @yvonneholmes2990
      @yvonneholmes2990 5 месяцев назад

      Wasnt she an alcholic

    • @Kitty-v2i
      @Kitty-v2i Месяц назад

      They truly think they are better than everybody else. So unbelievably entitled. She stiffed many restaurants and stores.

  • @julietrask7497
    @julietrask7497 4 месяца назад +3

    Ethel is NO hero.

  • @Faithful10415
    @Faithful10415 2 месяца назад

    I am not sure what kind of spell the Kennedy dynasty cast upon the American public, because once you examine their lives for how they really lived them you see much to be desired in terms of moral integrity. As a former Catholic my family almost exalted this group to sainthood. We loved the idea of a Catholic president in office. Too bad that same “Catholic” president was a serial adulterer. And his brother was not high on the sainthood scale. Now I know we all have our moral failings but let’s be truthful about them and not paint the rosy picture it isn’t. For all her admirable qualities like loyalty, and zest for life Ethel could have been a better mother to her children. But she was raised the same way so it’s no wonder. One thing is for certain, for good or for bad the Kennedys left an indelible mark on our society and nation.

  • @lianefehrle9921
    @lianefehrle9921 Год назад +5

    I always wondered what happened to her

  • @osberswgaming
    @osberswgaming 3 месяца назад +1

    RIP Ethel Kennedy 1928-2024

  • @RolandoMojica-t8r
    @RolandoMojica-t8r 3 месяца назад

    Great and strong lady. Rest in peace

  • @thehair1474
    @thehair1474 Год назад +16

    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.

  • @catsnmi270
    @catsnmi270 3 месяца назад

    Neither Robert nor Ethel were exactly good lookers!

    • @hb-dr
      @hb-dr День назад

      Bobby was .

  • @DigitalLazarus
    @DigitalLazarus 3 месяца назад +1

    You forgot to mention Bootlegging during Prohibition.

  • @marthayampaglia8576
    @marthayampaglia8576 3 месяца назад

    May she rest in peace😢

  • @Sky-mk3lm
    @Sky-mk3lm 3 месяца назад

    I saw her once in the early seventies sitting on the lap of Andy Williams in the backseat of a convertible that was pulling out of her driveway at the Kennedy compound. A few other Kennedys were in the car. I think Patricia Lawford was in the backseat as well. I believe Ethel and Andy had a close friendship at the time.

  • @mosesmanaka8109
    @mosesmanaka8109 Год назад +11

    Wonderful Catholic woman who understands pain and sorrow just like Jesus did.

    • @dianakidd4219
      @dianakidd4219 Год назад +5

      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.

    • @yvonneholmes2990
      @yvonneholmes2990 5 месяцев назад

      FFs

    • @Kitty-v2i
      @Kitty-v2i Месяц назад

      🤣

  • @petrarassfeld7269
    @petrarassfeld7269 Год назад +4

    ❤❤❤

  • @emeraldforcier14
    @emeraldforcier14 Год назад +28

    Ethel always seemed like a sad baby making machine.

    • @marijasovljanski
      @marijasovljanski Год назад +2

      Velika porodica I puno nesrece.

    • @MummyBrown
      @MummyBrown Год назад +10

      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.

    • @ginnieliman9810
      @ginnieliman9810 Год назад +2

      Really? You see no depth?

    • @kaymuldoon3575
      @kaymuldoon3575 Год назад +5

      @@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.

  • @Barbara-u5h
    @Barbara-u5h 3 месяца назад

    Nothing tragic about Ethel. She was happily married had many wonderful life. Lived her life in Mc clean, va. Robert was gunned down and she survived. Ethel was a suvivor.😢😢😢❤❤❤

  • @veronicamunyon3530
    @veronicamunyon3530 6 месяцев назад

    Ethel Kennedy ❤lived the life of a Martyr on earth children some good not so good May her life on earth be a blessing ❤pass that blessings to people on earth in most need

  • @ericnqobilengwenya9460
    @ericnqobilengwenya9460 Год назад +2

    Robert Kennedy was full of life very impressed

  • @ΒασωΓεωργιοπουλου-ο3δ

    Μεταφραση στα ελληνικα??

  • @AnnmarieRobinson-m9l
    @AnnmarieRobinson-m9l 3 месяца назад

    They had to be saints to live with the Kennedy boys ✔️

  • @ethanbarc
    @ethanbarc 3 месяца назад

    Sad 😔

  • @pattyperkins5007
    @pattyperkins5007 4 месяца назад +1

    Dear Ethel has not had it easy but in no way is she a lady to be pittied.shes strong and gracious and we Americans love her.❤

  • @KelliMarieBriscoe-g4q
    @KelliMarieBriscoe-g4q 3 месяца назад

    William Smith's Auntie Ethel was my favorite Kennedy Aunt of his. She had a strong unbreakable faith and raised those kids all by herself herself all of her tribe of 11
    kids. She was one tough lady amongst a lot of tough ladies in that family of strong Irish Colonial immigrants. What they have been thru as a family and endured their strength is beyond any family I have ever met in my life. I admire their bravery, their ability to get on with life and their dedication to their country and global human rights. I am so privileged to have been in their world for a while and met them and this endearing strong woman named Ethel.

  • @kimbradley9595
    @kimbradley9595 3 месяца назад

    They all died tragically this family was tragic

  • @SB_41
    @SB_41 3 месяца назад

    RFK actually dated Ethel's sister first.

  • @NatashaMagalhaes1986
    @NatashaMagalhaes1986 6 месяцев назад +1

    Tragic?? Why??

  • @JohnKoziol-x7x
    @JohnKoziol-x7x 3 месяца назад +1

    After her son went over to support Donald “Chump”, I cant’ help but wonder if that was what contributed to her demise. I’m also surprised she didn’t leave her husband becaiuse of the Kennedy national pastime and I’m not taalking sailing or touch football. I’m, of course, talking about how Joe the fqther taught his sons well in the art of cheating on their wives. If the Kennedys were so gung-ho in regard to human rights then how come John wouldn’t allow Sammy Davis Jr. and his wife to attend the inaugural ball after Sammy campaigned so vigorously for him?! They talk about there being a “Kennedy Curse.”Gee, I wonder why the mentiong of one was done?!

  • @patrickstocks3576
    @patrickstocks3576 3 месяца назад

    RIP 🪦
    Ethel Kennedy
    11/4/1924-10/10/24
    Aged 96
    🙏✝️👼🏽🕊😇😥

  • @ZohrehSeyedian-qx9yg
    @ZohrehSeyedian-qx9yg 3 месяца назад

    Cheraa inaa enghadar dandoonaashoon bozorge?

  • @giselamarch1994
    @giselamarch1994 Год назад +9

    Probably not too bright to put up with all of Bobbies affairs?

    • @lisasharf1442
      @lisasharf1442 Год назад +5

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

    • @rhondabitler5474
      @rhondabitler5474 9 месяцев назад

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

    • @travelseatsyellowlab
      @travelseatsyellowlab 8 месяцев назад +1

      ​@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.

    • @marygersten862
      @marygersten862 3 месяца назад +3

      @@lisasharf1442 Devout Catholics don't commit adultery, lie, steal, abuse their children, etc.

    • @elizabethkettle2323
      @elizabethkettle2323 3 месяца назад

      @@lisasharf1442 Yes, but even Rose kicked Old Joe out of the bedroom when she learned of his dalliances. That's why Teddy was #9.

  • @curiousuranus810
    @curiousuranus810 Год назад +9

    eleven!

  • @jmcampbell05
    @jmcampbell05 5 месяцев назад +4

    Is she not the homliest woman? Why did he choose her?

    • @Kitty-v2i
      @Kitty-v2i Месяц назад

      Somebody said they looked alike, which is creepy.