The
son
known
familiarly
to
the
whole
country
as
Bobby
Kennedy
married
Ethel
Skakel
on
June
17,
1950.
They
went
on
to
have
11
children:
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
winning
the
California
Democratic
primary.
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
into
a
tree
while
on
skis
and
simultaneously
tossing
a
football
around
during
a
family
trip
to
Aspen,
Colo.
The
37-year-old
shared
three
children
with
wife
Victoria
Gifford.
Her
husband
died
when
their
eldest
child
was
only
16,
but
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
accidental
drug
overdose
and
Kathleen
and
husband
David
Townsend‘s
daughter
Maeve
Kennedy
McKean,
40,
in
a
2020
canoeing
accident.
Celebrity Fails
