Tributes for Eunice, the Quiet Heroine of the Kennedy Family Obama Leads Praise for Jfk's Sister

The HeraldAugust 12, 2009

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AND so one more part of the Camelot dream falls away.

Yesterday the troubled Kennedy dynasty lost another leading figure with the death of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, sister to JFK, who rose from within a powerful maledominated political family to become the maker of her own groundbreaking legacy.

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Tributes for Eunice, the Quiet Heroine of the Kennedy Family Obama Leads Praise for Jfk's Sister

Mrs Shriver died at a hospital in Massachusetts at 2am yesterday morning. She was the co-founder of the Special Olympics, set up in honour of her sister Rosemary who was born with a mental disability and who later, at the request of her father, underwent a failed lobotomy that left her unable to care for herself.

It was Mrs Shriv...

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