EUNICE KENNEDY, JFK'S SISTER, BORN IN BROOKLINE
Boston, Massachusetts (JFK+50) On July 10, 1921, Eunice Mary Kennedy*, sister of future POTUS John F. Kennedy, was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was the fifth child of Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
Eunice was educated at the Convent of The Sacred Heart, Manhattanville College & Stanford University, 1943. She married Sargent Shriver in 1953 & became executive vice-president of the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation in 1957.
Upon her death in 2009, the Shriver family issued a statement which included these words...
"She set out to change the world and to change us, and she did that and more."
*Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver (1921-2009) founded the Special Olympics, a sports organization for persons with physical and intellectual disabilities.
In addition to many other awards, EMKS was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Ronald Reagan in 1984.
