eunice kennedy
August 11th, 2009
Eunice Kennedy Shriver has died at the age of 88 in a Cape Cod, Mass., hospital. Shriver founded the Special Olympics in 1968 and was. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, has died. She is survived by her husband, Sargent Shriver, five children and 19 grandchildren. Eunice Kennedy Shriver's speech at the 1987 Special Olympics World Games in South One of nine children born to Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., Eunice was born in Massachusetts in 1921. A graduate of Stanford University, the achievement she will perhaps be best remembered for was helping to found the national Special