page_title: Jean Kennedy Smith
hierarchical_section_title: Jean Kennedy Smith
caption_attribution_description: English: Jean Kennedy Smith and Vicki Kennedy, wife (now widow) of Senator Ted Kennedy, at a National Institutes of Health event honoring Eunice Shriver on March 21, 2008.
context_page_description: Jean Ann Kennedy Smith was an American diplomat. She was the Ambassador of Ireland from 1993 to 1998. She is the eighth of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.. and Rose Kennedy. She was their last surviving child. Her siblings include President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, longtime Senator Ted Kennedy, and Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
  In 2011, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, by President Barack Obama for her work with Very Special Arts and the disabled.
context_section_description: Jean Ann Kennedy Smith (February 20, 1928 – June 17, 2020) was an American diplomat. She was the Ambassador of Ireland from 1993 to 1998. She is the eighth of nine children born to Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.. and Rose Kennedy. She was their last surviving child. Her siblings include President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, longtime Senator Ted Kennedy, and Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver.
  In 2011, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, by President Barack Obama for her work with Very Special Arts and the disabled.
caption: Kennedy Smith with Vicki Kennedy in 2008
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