The New York Times
Tuesday, August 11, 2009 -- 6:17 AM ET
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Founder of Special Olympics, Is Dead at 88
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a member of one of the most prominent
families in American politics and a trailblazer in the effort
to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities
died Tuesday morning. She was 88.
A sister of President John F. Kennedy and Senators Robert F.
Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy and the mother-in-law of Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, Mrs. Shriver never held
elective office. Yet she was no stranger to Capitol Hill, and
some view her work on behalf of the mentally retarded,
including the founding of the Special Olympics, as the most
lasting of the Kennedy family's contributions.
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