Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver was an American philanthropist and a member of the Kennedy family.
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29 Facts About Eunice Shriver
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Eunice Shriver's was the founder of the Special Olympics, a sports organization for persons with physical and intellectual disabilities.
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Eunice Shriver's was a sister of U S President John F Kennedy, U S Senators Robert F Kennedy and Edward Kennedy, Rosemary Kennedy, and U S Ambassador to Ireland Jean Kennedy Smith, as well as the sister-in-law of Jacqueline Kennedy.
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Eunice Shriver's was married to Sargent Shriver, who was the United States Ambassador to France and was the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1972.
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Eunice Shriver's was the fifth of nine children of Joseph P Kennedy, Sr.
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Eunice Shriver was educated at the Convent of The Sacred Heart, Roehampton, and Manhattanville College.
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Eunice Shriver's eventually moved to the U S Justice Department as executive secretary for a project dealing with juvenile delinquency.
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Eunice Shriver's shifted the organization's focus from Catholic charities to research on the causes of intellectual disabilities, and humane ways to treat them.
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Long-time advocate for children's health and disability issues, Eunice Shriver championed the creation of the President's Panel on Mental Retardation in 1961.
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Eunice Shriver was a key founder of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a part of the National Institutes of Health in 1962.
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Eunice Shriver's has helped to establish numerous other university programs, government initiatives, health-care facilities, and support service networks throughout the country.
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In 1962, Eunice Shriver founded Camp Eunice Shriver, a camp for children with special needs that was held on her Maryland farm.
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In 1969, Eunice Shriver moved to France and pursued her interest in intellectual disability there.
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Eunice Shriver's started organizing small activities with Paris organizations, mostly reaching out to families of kids who had special needs to provide activities for them, laying the foundation for a robust international expansion of the Special Olympics in the late 1970s and 1980s.
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In 1990 Eunice Shriver was awarded the Eagle Award from the United States Sports Academy.
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In 1992, Eunice Shriver received the Senator John Heinz Award for Greatest Public Service Benefiting the Disadvantaged, an award given out annually by Jefferson Awards.
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Eunice Shriver's is the second American and only woman to appear on a US coin while still living.
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In 1998, Eunice Shriver was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
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Eunice Shriver received the 2002 Theodore Roosevelt Award, an annual award given by the National Collegiate Athletic Association to a graduate from an NCAA member institution who earned a varsity letter in college for participation in intercollegiate athletics, and who ultimately became a distinguished citizen of national reputation based on outstanding life accomplishment.
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Eunice Shriver became involved with Dorothy Hamill's special skating program in the Special Olympics after Hamill's Olympic Games ice-skating win.
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In July 2017, Eunice Shriver posthumously received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2017 ESPY Awards.
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In 1990, Eunice Shriver wrote a letter to The New York Times denouncing a abortion rights group for having used a quotation of President Kennedy's words out of context in support of their position.
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Eunice Shriver had a close relationship with her sister Rosemary Kennedy, who was intellectually disabled and who became incapacitated due to a lobotomy.
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Eunice Shriver's died at the hospital the next day at the age of 88.
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Eunice Shriver's family issued a statement upon her death, reading in part:.
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Eunice Shriver's was a living prayer, a living advocate, a living center of power.
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Eunice Shriver's set out to change the world and to change us, and she did that and more.
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Eunice Shriver's founded the movement that became Special Olympics, the largest movement for acceptance and inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities in the history of the world.
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