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

Kyle Francis Kennedy, granddaughter of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, has died at age 42 in Westwood, Massachusetts, where she lived. Her death occurred on Sept. 21, with no cause announced. Kennedy was an education reform and disability rights advocate. She taught in New York City through Teach for America and later worked with technology companies on school curricula. After a severe spinal cord injury in 2020 caused long-term paralysis, she testified before the Massachusetts legislature on health care discrimination. 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.