Eunice Kennedy Shriver

She was 86 years old.

Sisters Jean, Eunice, and Patricia were at her bedside as she passed, along with her younger brother Ted.

She was laid to rest beside her parents at Holy Hood Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts, excluded in life but united in death.

Some credit her status and condition with being the inspiration for Eunice Kennedy Shriver to later found the Special Olympics, meaning that although her life was characterized by loneliness and familial exile, Rosemary's legacy is one of inclusion and opportunity for the most vulnerable members of our great society.

Allow me to tell you the story of the Winstead Carter family of Providence, Rhode Island, or more specifically, of their only son, Ephraim.

Ephraim Carter was born on October 30th of 1879 to George Austin Carter and Catherine Winstead.

She was 86 years old.

Sisters Jean, Eunice, and Patricia were at her bedside as she passed, along with her younger brother Ted.

She was laid to rest beside her parents at Holy Hood Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts, excluded in life but united in death.

Some credit her status and condition with being the inspiration for Eunice Kennedy Shriver to later found the Special Olympics, meaning that although her life was characterized by loneliness and familial exile, Rosemary's legacy is one of inclusion and opportunity for the most vulnerable members of our great society.

Allow me to tell you the story of the Winstead Carter family of Providence, Rhode Island, or more specifically, of their only son, Ephraim.

Ephraim Carter was born on October 30th of 1879 to George Austin Carter and Catherine Winstead.

She was 86 years old.

Sisters Jean, Eunice, and Patricia were at her bedside as she passed, along with her younger brother Ted.

She was laid to rest beside her parents at Holy Hood Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts, excluded in life, but united in death.

Some credit her status and condition with being the inspiration for Eunice Kennedy Shriver to later found the Special Olympics, meaning that although her life was characterized by loneliness and familial exile, Rosemary's legacy is one of inclusion and opportunity for the most vulnerable members of our great society.

Allow me to tell you the story of the Winstead Carter family of Providence, Rhode Island, or more specifically, of their only son, Ephraim.

Ephraim Carter was born on October 30th of 1879 to George Austin Carter and Catherine Winstead.

And I had to record all these songs.

And then I, yeah, then I went to the, Eunice Shriver had a huge special Olympics thing.

And we would float to Washington to sing for them and take pictures with them and do all that.

And all that was happening, still taking my acting.

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The grassroots effort, you know, Eunice Kennedy Shriver is one of my role models, and she started Special Olympics in her backyard.

And I had a friend who ran the New York City Marathon, and I thought, "Man, I, I, I don't think I could run a marathon, but what could I do that is marathon-like?" And I came up with this insane, crazy [laughs] idea.

And Barry Coates, the CEO of Special Olympics South Carolina, is one of the first people I called.

You know, that, that every child has, deserves to be challenged, deserves to become part of society and contribute in the way that they find most meaningful.

And so, um, some of this goes back to the Kennedy family, right? So we, we hear about, um, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her kind of decades of work to make people understand that every child needs to be included, and this was because of her personal experience with one of, uh, the Kennedy sisters who had intellectual disabilities-

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You're well-versed in politics as a key member of the extended Kennedy family.

You're the son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Sergeant Shriver.

We are living in a largely polarized country right now.

So many Americans are filled with anger.

Eunice.

So Eunice Kennedy is the one who died exactly two weeks before Ted Kennedy died.

So her funeral was like a practice Kennedy funeral for like the real Ted Kennedy funeral.

She was married to a man named Sergeant Shriver.

So that's significant.

Now we're going to talk about their children.

So this is Eunice Kennedy Shriver and Robert Shriver.

Not Robert Shriver.