Politics Kennedy Matriarch Ethel, 91, Leads Family in Annual Fourth of July Parade in Golf Cart The widow of Robert Kennedy posed with her daughters Kerry and Kathleen By Rachel DeSantis Rachel DeSantis Rachel DeSantis is a staff writer on the music team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2019, and her work has previously appeared in Entertainment Weekly and the New York Daily News. People Editorial Guidelines Published on July 4, 2019 04:52PM EDT Photo: Splash News Online Ethel Kennedy got into the Independence Day spirit on Thursday, taking in the annual Fourth of July parade in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, from a festive golf cart. The 91-year-old widow of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was photographed in the driver’s seat of the cart alongside members of her famous family, including daughter Kerry, 59, who sat on the back. Ethel was clad in a patriotic get-up, wearing a navy jacket with red sleeves and a white shirt, and her cart was decked out in America-themed tinsel, as well as a rainbow Pride flag. She also posed for a smiling snap with Kerry, who was previously married to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and eldest child Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, 68, who wore a red, white and blue-striped dress. Plenty of other prominent Kennedy family members were in town near the family’s famed compound on Cape Cod to celebrate the holiday, including Ethel’s son Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Ethel Kennedy and Kerry Kennedy. Splash News Online RFK Jr., 65, shared a slideshow of photos of a family barbecue on Thursday, with attendees including sons Conor Kennedy, 24, and Robert Kennedy III, 34. He also shared a photo of him and wife Cheryl Hines attending the parade. Ethel Kennedy, 90, Joins Alec Baldwin and More Stars in Hunger Strike Against Trump Immigration Policy Ethel’s attendance this year at the annual parade comes one year after she and other members of her family attended the fete wearing green jackets with the words “I really do care” written in white paint on the back. The outfits were a nod to First Lady Melania Trump, who had recently worn a controversial jacket that declared, “I Really Don’t Care, Do U” on her way to visit with migrant children separated from their parents in McAllen, Texas. Kennedy Family Members Wear ‘I Really Do Care’ Jackets for July 4th Parade to Protest Trump While President Donald Trump said she wore the jacket to protest the “fake news” media, her spokeswoman claimed there was no hidden meaning behind it. In June 2018, Ethel joined stars like Alec Baldwin, Evan Rachel Wood, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and nearly 50 members of her family in committing to a 24-hour hunger strike to protest President Trump’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy.