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Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Eunice Kennedy Shriver 10 Jul 1921 - 11 Aug 2009

Born Brookline, Massachusetts

Eunice Kennedy Shriver was the creative force and organizer of Special Olympics, Inc., a nonprofit charitable organization that provides training and competition in Olympic sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. In 1957 Shriver became director of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, which was created to deal with issues of mental retardation, and several years later she established a summer day camp at her home that became the basis for Special Olympics. In 1968 the Kennedy Foundation, working with the Chicago Park District, organized the First International Special Olympics Summer Games. C...

2009
Oil and acrylic on canvas
91.8 x 178.4cm
NPG.2009.11
Image and text © National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2024

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