Eunice Shriver, advocate for disabled, dies at 88
Posted: August 12, 2009 at 6:05 a.m.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the presidential sister who founded the Special Olympics and helped demonstrate that the mentally disabled can lead productive lives outside institutions, died Tuesday at age 88.
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