RFK Jr. reacts to his fearless mother Ethel s passing: Invented tough love | Fox News

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to social media on Thursday evening to honor his mother, Ethel Kennedy, after she died at the age of 96.

“My mom, Ethel Skakel Kennedy, passed peacefully into Heaven this morning. She was 96. She died in Boston surrounded by many of her nine surviving children and her friends,” RFK Jr. wrote on X.

His lengthy tribute had nearly 100,000 likes as of Thursday evening.

Ethel Kennedy had 11 children with her late husband, Robert F. Kennedy, before his assassination in 1968. She was pregnant at the time of his death with their 11th child, a daughter named Rory.

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She was one tough old broad. I remember moving furniture into the big house at the Kennedy compound one summer in 1981. I will leave to math experts figure out how long age that was. I was attached at the time to a member of the staff at friends of the Kennedys who lived next door, so obviously I was an important person. I did get to see the famous bust of JFK and the rest of the downstairs family room and kitchen, which looked like that of an old fraternity house. She was intense, frowning and not at all averse to bossing us around. We were volunteers of course. Being of tender feelings, I left feeling rather offended at my treatment. I would have made a terrible Roman slave, at least until I’d received a few good lashings, if I was lucky. Now that I’m older I can see she had to be this way, unless she was a saint, but then just about everyone in Massachusetts is this way, whether they have to be or not. I don’t envy St. Peter if he dares try to keep her out of heaven, where for better or worse I hope to meet RFK someday, God’s mercy being what it is. If he’s there, she will be too.