Ethel Kennedy answered a phone call from the FBI director that helped alter American history, then five years later was physically present at a second world-changing assassination. This deep dive asks how a person survives that level of compounding trauma and goes on to raise 11 children and become a global force for human rights into her 90s.

We follow her from a wealthy Chicago and Connecticut childhood into the Kennedy political machine, her role as strategist and campaigner, and her transformation of grief into action through the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights.

• Her insulated, intensely Catholic upbringing before marrying into the Kennedys
• Her behind-the-scenes political work, from tea parties to a global goodwill tour
• Present at the 1968 assassination while three months pregnant with her ...