エセル・ケネディさん追悼式典、歴代大統領３人参列

【ワシントンＡＦＰ＝時事】米国のロバート・Ｆ・ケネディ元司法長官の妻エセル・ケネディさんの追悼式典が１６日、首都ワシントンで催された。エセルさんは１０日、死去した。９６歳だった。（写真は、米首都ワシントンで催されたエセル・ケネディさんの追悼式典に参列したジョー・バイデン大統領、バラク・オバマ元大統領、ビル・クリントン元大統領）
　セント・マシューズ大聖堂で行われた式典には、ジョー・バイデン大統領とバラク・オバマ元大統領、ビル・クリントン元大統領が出席し、エセルさんの死去を悼んだ。この大聖堂では、ロバート氏の兄、ジョン・Ｆ・ケネディ元大統領の葬儀が６３年に執り行われている。
　バイデン氏は追悼演説で「ボビーの大義を引き継ぎ、国に自分の印を刻んだ」と述べた。
　人権擁護活動に従事したエセルさんは、１９６８年に暗殺されたロバート氏との間に子どもを１１人もうけた。
　式典には、ミュージシャンのスティービー・ワンダーさんやスティングさんらも参列し、歌や演奏を披露した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/10/17-16:57）

US presidents Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton were among the esteemed guests to pay their respects Wednesday at the funeral for Ethel Kennedy, who died aged 96 last week.
The human rights activist was the widow of former US senator Robert Bobby Kennedy, with whom she shared 11 children and 18 years of marriage before his assassination in 1968.
We saw how she picked up Bobby's cause and stamped her own mark on the country, said Biden during his eulogy for the matriarch and pillar of the powerful Kennedy family.
Obama and Clinton both spoke at the service as well, which was held at St Matthews Cathedral in Washington, the same location of the 1963 funeral service for Robert Kennedy's older brother, president John F. Kennedy.
The audience on Wednesday also included celebrities such as musicians Stevie Wonder and Sting.
Former US House speaker Nancy Pelosi also attended the event, marking the first time she crossed paths with Biden since she reportedly lobbied for him to withdraw from the US presidential race three months prior.
Ethel founded the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights organization after her husband's death.
Among her 11 children is Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who ran for president in 2024 as an independent candidate before dropping out and endorsing Republican Donald Trump, much to the dismay of his famously Democratic family.
Like other members of the Kennedy family, Ethel's resilience in the face of tragedy inspired many Americans.
In addition to her husband's murder on June 6, 1968 -- and the assassination of her brother-in-law in 1963 -- Ethel lost both of her parents in a plane crash, and two of her sons died unexpectedly, one from an overdose and another in a skiing accident.