Ethel Kennedy, I remember you

Wife, mother, widowed from the assassinated presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, she had also been sister-in-law of John F. Kennedy, the assassinated president. Ethel Skakel Kennedy's passing triggered a rush of personal memories where she enabled me to gain unique access to the private retreat of her late husband's repository of works by Aeschylus and Sophocles, memories, and political impulses. It is known that Bobby agonized whether to carry the Camelot torch and brace for looming danger.

Scions of American political nobility, fame, wealth, power, connections at the highest levels, some of the Kennedy men left a trail of unsavory crumbs leading back to the patriarch. Amidst unspeakable privilege, there were scandals tainting (some say dooming) the carefully crafted handsome image of the perfect political family. The most recent stumbling, Bobby Jr's. Once a respected...