RFK Jr. reacts to his ‘fearless’ mother Ethel’s passing: ‘Invented tough love’

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.