Sargent Shriver, Founder of Peace Corps, Dead at 95

Sargent Shriver, a Kennedy in-law who was the first director of the Peace Corps, is dead at age 95, CNN reports. He had suffered from Alzheimer’s for years and had been hospitalized for the last several days. Shriver entered political life through his 1953 marriage to Eunice Kennedy after having…

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Sargent Shriver, Founder of Peace Corps, Dead at 95

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