Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 1921-2009
She died this morning at Cape Cod Hospital, near the Kennedy family’s traditional summer compound in Hyannis, Massachusetts.
Posts tagged: Special Olympics
A Cool Portrait of Eunice Kennedy Shriver
“Rare Halo Display,” this portrait of Eunice Kennedy Shriver by David Lenz, was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery and unveiled in May of this year.The artist’s son is a Special Olympics participant. Groovy backstory here.
Barack Obama Didn’t Insult Special Olympics Kids in Quite the Way You May Have Heard He Did
This week the New York Times repeated a common error about the bad Special Olympics joke Barack Obama made to Jay Leno on The Tonight Show in March of 2009.