Ethel Kennedy, the 96-year-old widow of late U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy Sr., was hospitalized after suffering a stroke last week, her family said on Tuesday.
Her grandson, former Massachusetts congressman Joe Kennedy III, said the Kennedy matriarch suffered a stroke in her sleep on Oct. 3 and has been taken to the hospital for treatment.
“She is comfortable, she is getting the best care possible, and she is surrounded by family,” Joe Kennedy said in a statement posted on the social media platform X. “She is, as you may know, a strong woman who has led a remarkably fulfilling life. We are here looking after her.”…