"My mom, Ethel Skakel Kennedy, passed peacefully into Heaven this morning," he began his tribute. "She was 96. She died in Boston surrounded by many of her nine surviving children and her friends.

For Robert Kennedy, their marriage “was the best ... Ethel Kennedy was asked to reflect on how she survived so many family traumas. “Nobody gets a free ride,” she said. “Everybody faces ...

At least he never bit Plimpton on the ankle, as Ethel once did. "The whole idea was to relax in a violent fashion," summed up Gerald Tremblay, a law school friend of Kennedy. Besides ...

(AP) — Ethel Kennedy ... Saoirse Kennedy Hill died of an apparent drug overdose. “One wonders how much this family must be expected to absorb,” family friend Philip Johnson, founder of ...