Biden, dignitaries honor human rights champion Ethel Kennedy

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00:00She was unmistakably Camelot material and yet endured so many low points and tragedies in her

00:06life and still carried on the mission her husband left her over the last half century.

00:12Former Presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama joined POTUS Joe Biden in paying homage and

00:17delivering eulogies to honor Ethel Kennedy, human rights activist and widow of Robert F. Kennedy,

00:24who was assassinated in Los Angeles during his campaign for the presidency in 1968.

00:30Ethel Kennedy founded the Robert Kennedy Foundation for Justice and Human Rights

00:35organization right after her husband's death and picked up on his cause to include gun control

00:42but stamping her indelible mark on the country. U.S. President Joe Biden said in his eulogy she

00:48became the de facto matriarch of America's most prominent political family after Jackie Kennedy

00:55passed on in May 1994 and was the clan's face of resilience for having endured several deaths and

01:01tragedies in the family by the age 40. But in 2014, President Barack Obama bestowed on her

01:08the nation's highest award for civilians, the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her devotion

01:14and commitment to uphold human rights. Among those who paid their last respects and delivered

01:20eulogies included former House Speaker and Democratic Party stalwart Nancy Pelosi and

01:26the Martin Luther King III pop icon Stevie Wonder also spoke and sang as did sting in

01:32St. Matthew's Cathedral in Washington, D.C., where JFK was also eulogized in November of 1963.

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