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Eunice Kennedy Shriver and the Chicago Park District hold a news conference to announce plans for the first "Olympic" games for young people with intellectual disabilities. 20 July 1968 About 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities from the USA and Canada competed in the first Special Olympics International Summer Games in Chicago.
In Eunice Kennedy Shriver’s refusal to accept her physical limitations or her father’s limited expectations, the seeds of more than the Special Olympics were sown. The same willful determination would chart her course for a half-century on behalf of those with intellectual disabilities who were denied a place on the playing field, a chair ...
Aug 11, 2009 · Shriver—whose sister, Rosemary Kennedy, was mentally disabled—established the Special Olympics during a time when mentally retarded persons were kept out of the public eye, creating a forum ...
Eunice Kennedy Shriver reveals that her sister -- also U.S. President Kennedy’s sister -- has an intellectual disability, the first such public acknowledgement by the Kennedy family. The article in the popular “Saturday Evening Post” -- titled “Hope for the Retarded” -- becomes known as a "watershed in changing attitudes towards ...
Aug 19, 2011 · Eunice Kennedy Shriver died in August of two thousand nine after a series of strokes. Her daughter’s husband, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, said that she was the light of the family.
Aug 11, 2009 · Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the sister of President John F. Kennedy and a champion of the disabled who founded the Special Olympics, died Tuesday, the Special Olympics said. She was 88.
Feb 22, 2019 · In Eunice: The Kennedy Who Changed the World, biographer Eileen McNamara depicts Shriver—the daughter of Joseph and Rose Kennedy—as a savvy, complicated, tenacious woman who had devoted her life to several causes. Often remembered as an advocate for people with disabilities, Shriver has another great, often unsung legacy: the lifesaving ...
