called Camp Shriver, on her farm in Maryland. Her vision expanded over the years, and in July 1968 the first International Special Olympics Games were held in Chicago. She also assisted in the ...

In 1962, Eunice founded Camp Shriver ... to visit the Shriver family home — installing accessible equipment to help her get around — and founded the Special Olympics to help others who ...

Shriver emerged from the long shadow of siblings John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Sen. Edward Kennedy as the founder of the Special Olympics, which started as a summer day camp in her backyard in ...