Sad that it took her passing for me to learn that she founded the Special Olympics..
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who emerged from a powerful male-dominated political family to found the Special Olympics and become a leading advocate of the mentally disabled...
The genesis for the Special Olympics was the summer camps that Shriver put on herself for retarded children at her family's Maryland estate. In 1968 she opened the first U.S. Special Olympics games and 40 years later the event had grown to include 190 nations.
