Eunice Kennedy Shriver Dead at 88

Eunice Kennedy Shriver died this morning at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. Shriver, 88, founded the Special Olympics. She had been in the intensive care unit for the past week and was with her family when she died. In a statement released by the family, Shriver was described as "a living prayer, a living advocate, a living center of power. She set out to change the world and to change us, and she did that and more...Her work transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of people across the globe, and they in turn are her living legacy." President Barack Obama said she will be remembered for proving "that no physical or mental barrier can restrain the power of the human spirit." Tributes to Shriver can be read and posted at EuniceKennedyShriver.org.

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