Famous people dying seems to come in three's.
Recently it was
John Amos (actor)
Kris Kristofferson (actor, singer, musician, and songwriter)
Ethel Kennedy (activist and widow of Robert Kennedy)
Amos and Kristofferson were in their 80s; Mrs. Kennedy was 96.
One of the news videos about Mrs. Kennedy said her husband was assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles in 1969.
It was 1968.
Another news story told something I did not know - that she dated the singer Andy Williams in the '70s.
Some of the videos featured members of the Kennedy family doing an "Ice Bucket Challenge" ten years ago.
To lobby then-President Obama to give attention to an issue they believed was important, they all stood in a row with buckets of ice and ice-water in front of each person. One at a time, they lifted the container and poured the contents over their heads - even Ethel! Splash, splash, splash.
It looked very cold.
News videos also said that Ethel participated in a hunger strike once, for a good cause, and also that she took up farm-workers' issues and marched with Cesar Chavez, in 1970.
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