The son identified familiarly to the entire nation as Bobby Kennedy married Ethel Skakel on June 17, 1950.

They went on to have 11 youngsters: Kathleen, Joseph II, Robert Jr., David, Courtney, Michael, Kerry, Christopher, Maxwell, Douglas and Rory.

Ethel was pregnant with Rory when Bobby was fatally shot on June 6, 1968, shortly after successful the California Democratic main.

David Kennedy died of a drug overdose on April 25, 1984, at the age of 28. Michael Kennedy was killed on Dec. 31, 1997, when he slammed right into a tree whereas on skis and concurrently tossing a soccer round throughout a household journey to Aspen, Colo. The 37-year-old shared three youngsters with spouse Victoria Gifford.

Her husband died when their eldest youngster was solely 16, however Ethel Kennedy went on to be a grandmother of 34. Two of her grandchildren have died: Courtney and husband Paul Hill‘s daughter Saoirse Hill, 22, in 2019 of an unintended drug overdose and Kathleen and husband David Townsend‘s daughter Maeve Kennedy McKean, 40, in a 2020 canoeing accident.