Kyle Francis Kennedy, RFK's granddaughter, dies at 42

Kyle Francis Kennedy, granddaughter of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, died Sept. 21 at age 42 in Westwood, Massachusetts, with no cause of death announced. She was an education reform and disability rights advocate. Kennedy taught in New York City through Teach for America and later worked with technology companies on school curricula. After a 2020 spinal cord injury caused paralysis, she advocated for disability rights, testifying on health care discrimination before Massachusetts lawmakers. She was the niece of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Her father, Michael Kennedy, died in a 1997 skiing accident, and her grandfather was assassinated in 1968.